"I only have strips of cabbage left over. Coleslaw, if you will." Bernadette, you're an absolute delight. Please, please never change. Your way with words and delivery are absolutely enchanting. 💕
This is so me. Often I won't use any pins at all. It always comes out crooked and I probably should just pin more, but I can't be bothered and the result is usually good enough for me. 😂
Yeah like eight years ago, when I was very small, I had an interest in sewing, I could possibly maybe sew something small, and might remember how to use a sewing machine...
It's honestly really refreshing to see you take on a more artistic project with a little less steadfast historical accuracy.Don't get me wrong, I loooove your thoroughly historical videos bit as someone who tends to do historical "inspired" costuming and less recreation its nice to be able to relate.
Been sewing for 50 years. You just taught me “pad stitching”. Thank you! Going to teach my young granddaughter to sew soon. She will know “pad stitching”.
I ordered her book as well as the Bertha Banner book just to learn fundamentals in serious fashion instead of "as i need them" as i have. They mght be a good companion to your tutelage.
You can tell we've been watching ssoooo much Bernadette when my girls start making petticoats out of their blankets and telling me to take pictures to send it to Ms. Bernadette!
Rand0m Pers0n as a fourteen year old young man I couldn’t agree more, got into her stuff when I was around your age and I’m thrilled to see that more people in my age range watch her content! Great taste.
I had the overwhelming urge to create fabric crimson flowers from the coleslaw scraps with black beaded centers....perhaps to sweet for red death. Stunning. Simply stunning.
"I keep forgetting that there probably isn't one person watching all these consecutively" I feel called out because... That's exactly what I've been doing for the last two days while I hand stitch approximately a million teddy bear pieces together
If I remember my American literature and historical poetry classes, the “red death” is tuberculosis, which was fitting to the age of Edgar Allen Poe; TB was common and very prevalent in his life, as most of his family had been taken by it. The mask of the red death is the personification of tuberculosis, claiming lives with blood and decay, seen as a faceless killer, one who seemingly preys at random. To encompass tuberculosis into a feminine persona rather than Edgar’s masculine one, I believe a red ball gown which is flowing, light, and thin is very fitting. Quick, like a mist of blood, there and gone again, leaving a wake of red in its path, much like a train to a ball gown. The black embellished collar is also fitting, as decay, hardened blood, and the color of funerals and death in general is black. The white undergarments that show through can be seen as innocence, life, but slated with black bones and covered in blood red fabric it shows the hopelessness and grief of disease. Its very symbolic. So even without knowing who Poe was talking about, you encapsulated it very well!
The Victorians were also fascinated with the symptoms TB brings... pale skin, feverish eyes and cheeks, which is reflected in their make-up. So dressing the Red Death in a beautiful gown which can be admired just as the Victorians did makes all the more sense. On a side note - there were recent cases of TB in Germany :(
Miss Peach yes I live in Germany, and it was all over the radio that TB was here recently. People speculating of immigrants and undocumented traveling, but fortunately there isn’t many cases and most of them were fixed quickly. It really caused a lot of political upset, and is making people rethink our immigration situation.
8:31 Bernadette: “Maybe you didn’t sit through 9 collective minutes of pad stitching for Lady Sherlock” Me: *literally just came from watching the entire lady Sherlock series*
I can’t believe how well your skin complements the color red. The medieval dress you created just looked so wonderful on you. The deeper red this dress has looks amazing too!
@@fainterocean I imagine it would be windswept and whimsical on you, fainterocean, standing on a rocky Irish cliff with the waves crashing beneath you and the lush green landscape stretching out behind you... In a flurry of crimson against the neverending blue-stretched sky.
I’m looking to get in to sewing, and google’s creepy so that’s how I found her. I also am a history NERD..... why is the world of the googles so creepy
*ding*................... "oh hi cathy" "Cathy knows what she's doing and says to do it this way, but I'm gonna do it my way" You're like a married couple
It's lovely to see a relationship of any kind where the people respect and genuinely care about each other. I particularly liked that you care about her knowledge and opinion, but also know your own mind. And the piece is just as you intended; evoking Poe without being too literal. In other words, a real costume.
Omg please please wear the dress with a mock hoop skirt so you can see the “hoops” or “boning” underneath. It would give it volume AND the skeletal effect you want!!!
I love how I can’t predict what she’s going to say. When she says “Okay, do you want to hear what a COMPLETE...” I thought she was going to say “Idiot” but then she finishes with “ FOOL I am!?” So much more elegant.
@@Pavelscribbles I'm so confused? Why are you so mad I wasn't trying to be rude by posting my comment or anything I was actually agreeing with the original comment
Did you just coin a phrase. I have never heard of small thin scraps referred to as coleslaw. I literally laughed out loud. I love your videos on so many levels.
I'm deathly afraid of poly organza 💀. Makes perhaps sense that it is the fabric for the red death. It has been a fun process to see! I especially like the draping bit!
Its terribly slippy and a pain to sew quickly. Pinning, pad stitching, and take.your.time. I made a pair of fairy wings with shot organza (blue/green, truly lovely colors) and I must admit and gave it a very light spritz of sizing just to tame it a mite.
@@jenniferfloyd2314 For my first fully completed corset I made myself I used a black organza with little flocked dots on it which I put on top of some skin-tone coutil so that when worn it would sort of look like just the organza doing the shaping if worn next to my skin. Seemed like a great idea at the time. It was so tricky to work with though and in hindsight I don't know what I was thinking attempting that as a first solo project! Turned out ok in the end though. Just a lot of work. I didn't even know what pad stitching was so I just went super slow with it....
Ah, Organza, Satan's most favored woven torture device alongside broken needles stuck in the bottom of one's feet and accidentally sewing your fingers together. Makes for pretty clothing though
I used to think that about about satin, because it's so slippery and slides so much. I've made 2 prom dresses and 2 Cocktail dresses out of pure satin.
I am not allowed to sew around my mom because I drop stuff sometimes, and never step on it. She could step on a needle i dropped 3 months ago. I don't understand it, but it always happens
Yeah, her inflection and general tone is so soothing to listening to. It’s more formal than you usually hear. But it’s not at all... awkward or put on feeling. She’d just lovely in general!
I did a semester at a theater costume department. I should have pursued that as i like to sew now. I was too young. I never knew when I was young, what I wanted as far as career goes.
Element Gypsy I’m a current high schooler looking to pursue theatrical costuming, but I haven’t come across many universities with a program in it. If you’re from the US and you don’t mind me asking, where did you take that semester?
@@ellawanless641 hi there. I went to a small alternative high school in New York City. The Equity Library Theatre was a small place on the upper west side. They arranged for students to help. I was basically an apprentice and i fulfilled high school art credit. There are some special high schools in some cities. NYC had many. HS of visual arts, HS of fashion Design, Performing Arts HS all need to take test, audition, have a portfolio. I didn't even know about those schools until it was too late to apply because we didn't move to NYC until 9th grade. So I went to the alternative school where 50% of my classes were apprentice, work study jobs. Do all you can to find out what schools you have. Ask all your teachers. If you know you like something, find out how to start it before college. Good luck. I struggled with a career because I didn't have a good school guidance counselor, and my parents didn't know. It was bot until after 2 years of college that I started to figure things out, then I couldn't afford to continue to go. Do it. I know that people do costuming for a living. Movies, opera, balet, theater. Go for it. ,
Ella W. I studied costume design at USC. It wasn’t great - I do not recommend, especially for the price. What I *do* recommend, however, is finding a regional theatre or opera in your area and doing an internship to get a feel for the industry and to see if it is a good fit for you. Personally, I found the personalities rife in the industry to be... challenging 😬 and I decided it wasn’t the career for me. If RUclips had been a thing back then (1997 😳 cheezus, I’m old...), I would have 💯 created a channel, gotten sponsors, and made a living that way, costuming my merry heart out doing projects I loved, on my terms, without any annoying, insufferable actors, directors, or lighting designers getting in my way. 😬😜😂 Please don’t hesitate to ask me any questions if you’d like. I was in the industry in some capacity for about 12 years.
I didn't have much experience in sewing and I made this only after a couple beginning projects. ruclips.net/video/NyUktOAc7bw/видео.html I have half a dozen new shorts. It's super easy after the first one. 8)
Please don't apologise for hand-sewing. I could honestly sit here for hours and watch you make teeny-tiny neat little felling stitches and enjoy every moment of it. This is the relaxing content I came here for.
"I literally hate every single thing on the face of the planet right now!" Yes, I've heard that is a common side effect of organza-nitis. :D That comment absolutely tickled me.
Oh Bernadette, you have somehow done it again! I bow to your ability to work with the ever hellish organza. I hope you have fantastic fun a time costume college.
It's nice to see my favorite author's story, _The Masque of the Red Death_ , was stunningly translated from words to a breathtaking garment. I wish that I could just be in the presence of this beauty. I could feel it echo the symbolism of the mysterious figure in the king's party, causing everyone to stop and look. The mysterious murder in the bone-chilling red room while near the gothic grandfather clock. I can feel how it shows the red death, as scarlet patches represent the blood that would eject from one infected fellow's pores. I see it, i sense it. edit: "Oh. Hi Cathy."
@@LizzieDeanMakes I went back and listened to it again and played it with cc and she says 'fight me', which I think is even funnier than 'bite me', it's more charming....in true Bernadette fashion :)
My eighth grade graduation dress was crepe overlaid with organza. My Mom taught me how to french seam the organza. Completing that gown earned me an A for Home Economics class. I should have followed your advice...
I love it! I would probably have made the skirt a little more full, and a cage crinoline of the correct shape underneath this would add to the 'bones' look, but given your time pressure I think you've done a wonderful job. I want to put that black beading on everything. :D
Oh my it's spectacular! I hope you feel so proud because it's sensational -- especially since it took approx. 11 days. Hope you're having the best time at CC.
I’ve been binge watching many of Bernadette’s videos this week and I have gained a new respect for a former fashion drawing teacher who would often critique a sketch by asking ‘but how does she put it on?’ .. learning the lesson of matching your closures and thinking about them *before* you start cutting your pieces was a valuable one I learned..
Connie Crawford, well known teacher and pattern designer for Butterick, told a class I was in that especially for sheer fabrics fashion houses put paper between the fabric layers to keep them from shifting. Newsprint worked well for me when I tried it. I can't wait to see your costume at Costume College. It looks great!
That's a very awesome vision you had there for such a character. Those skirt pleats are eye candy! Can't wait to see everyone's CC vlogs, and especially yours. :)
Oh, my heavens! I thought I was the queen of patience being a mother and grandmother and I’ve done a little sewing in my time. But, you have taken what was tedious and seemingly impossible, used your artistry and created a thing of beauty. Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed your video.
When it comes to cutting organza you can pin it on a wall and then your able to cut it easily and make better measurements and straighter lines! I found that this tactic works well for me and I hope it can help you!
I guess that pinning it to the wall takes advantage of gravity to set the grain of the fabric right?! I never heard of this technique before. I think it could even be better to fold the fabric and suspend it on a straight broomstick to really straighten it. Humm...but it could damage the wall trying to fix the broomstick to the wall....humm...Aha! take advantage of a curtain rod; fold the organza over it, place a alongside the floor beneath the window a cutting board and layer the organza over it. Now you have a surface to pin and cut. Yes it is a lot of trouble but it might give you precise cuts.
So I don't do historic recreations or sew, but I came across your channel and I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOU!!! You are so goofy and great and I watch you while I crochet. Keep being you beautiful!!!
The people that disliked this are just mad that they don’t get to slow motion run down a castle corridor while this skirt is flowing out behind them in all this red and black glory!!! 🖤🖤🖤
Just from my small experience in just beginning to sew garments, you make me realize that I can't skip over all the little things that I often do (and then wonder why it doesn't turn out as neatly as I would like). Thanks for making these videos. While I'll likely never make anything like this, the little tips and tricks will help me for, well forever.
Your voiceovers are seriously some of the best on RUclips. I laugh and stay interested no matter how long the video! Even my husband finds your diction relaxing. Have fun at Costume College!
I've always understood that couture means sewn by hand? But while I can follow a pattern and sew, it's not something I do very often. I'm truly enjoying (and learning from) Bernadette's videos.
Thanks to you, I hand stitched down all the seams on the very modern Star Wars print dress I made for my 6 year old daughter. Which was the first dress I’ve ever made, and you say this isn’t a tutorial channel. 😂
I've just learned how to sew and have made the genius decision to make my second dress ever with a sheer overlayer. I'm so glad I remembered your trials with organza, and I will learn from the troubles you faced! Thank you, Bernadette!!
Okay, I gotta say... I ADORE the dress. I love how it looks on you, you really just... carry it so beautifully. I'm not sure how to even put it. *non-native speaker issues* And I never realized how long your hair is, since you always keep it in a bun of sorts, but damn! That's gorgeous. I personally would have preferred a longer under-skirt, but that's just a me-thing, because I don't like seeing the hem of another dress under the skirt if that makes sense... But I totally get your choice on that, so still a win. Aaaah! Gosh. I need to shut up, but not before pointing out once more, that your work is amazing!
Dear Bernadette, as much as I enjoy your historical sewing projects (and hope to see even more of those in the future), as much I love watching your interpretations and inspired-by-creations. What a lovely, lovely dress... 💖
You are ahead of me, I understand less. Enjoyed and saved. (Also learned NOT to try working with organza...ever.) I thought I understood about cutting on the grain of the textile. Now I am not sure if I understood completely or at all... back to learning related definitions, terminology, and (importantly) WHY things are done a certain way. Learning sewing looks easy at times, and then it looks hard. I am still inspired to make a corset or several of my own later, though.
This is almost EXACTLY like what im wearing my wedding dress to look which i am crafting myself so this is beautiful and a great base to start on and try and figured out where i even want to start
I love how she makes the Audible sponsorship actually relevant. I've listened to Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets twice, and to hear her mention that, in no doubt, has made my evening a rather delightful one! :DD
Hello Cathy, love. We need more of your wisdoms even if Bernadette chooses forego them sometimes. It’s her prerogative as mini me but we still want to hear more!
Hello, watching and listening to you as you create this gorgeous red cloud of a dress, so reminds me of my Mother. She was a seamstress. She could walk past the dress shops, purchase fabric and notions and in a few days turn out the dress that was in the dress shop window. I was always in style at school. I was very proud of her. I can still hear her telling me not to fidget while I stood on a kitchen chair in my slip so she could hem the skirt of the dress. She talked around pins in her mouth and I feared she would swallow them with each word spoken. She was a whizz with her black and gold Singer machine. I so miss her. I don't sew anymore, I miss that too. I really love to watch your videos, they are mesmerizing. That Texas Gal !!!
"Bite me." --Very mature. The idea of leaving the wild and wiry basting stitches in place was inspired. You do look like someone different with your hair down!
It is gorgeous! I love it with your hair down like that. If you are open to suggestions - the length is great for the venue you made it for - since everyone at costume college is aware of how much work goes into a project like this, and won't step on your hem, but if you want to wear it somewhere else, add some pickups to the skirt to bring up the hem without having to re-hem the whole thing.
It would be wonderful to get a glimpse of your bookcase Bernadette! So curious as to what you read when you're not generously taking the time to make videos. Thank you for all you do!
I’m primarily a bag, tote and quilt maker (with dog toy making thrown in for fun and weirdness, lol) and I am in awe. Organza is not a fabric I use, although I have used a small amount on the occasional bag design...it was enough to give me nightmares for life. I rarely make clothes, and when I have they’ve just been super easy sundresses - most people don’t understand that what I do and what you do are worlds apart, but I sure do! Clothes and dressmakers are heroes to me; I am completely lacking that talent, but I can happily sit here and watch you create for hours. It’s glorious. Absolutely glorious. 😍
Bernadette: "...so maybe I will go ahead and just pin the pleats."
Me, don't have any idea what she's talking about: "Ah, yes. Let's go with that!"
Me, also completely ignorant: "Yes, this seems to be the most logical choice." *strokes goatee*
Also me knows nothing about sewing: good idea...
Me, who knows a little about sewing: what is going on. So you take the red stuff and stab it over and over again. Ok, got that.
I honestly watch this cause it's satisfying
I mean whatever youre doing sewing-wise, when confused- attack it with pins.
"I only have strips of cabbage left over. Coleslaw, if you will."
Bernadette, you're an absolute delight. Please, please never change. Your way with words and delivery are absolutely enchanting. 💕
You sitting down at the electric machine and whispering 'no' is honestly A Mood.
Big mood
I laught when she did that, it was so dramatic
I think she just remembered there was boning in the dress and accidentally sewing over boning is a surefire way to break a needle
11:33 :)
Biiig mood also love your pfp!
Bernadette Banner: uses a thousand pins before sewing
me, using maybe 5 pins to hold a hem together: I live *ON THE EDGE*
me
This is so me. Often I won't use any pins at all. It always comes out crooked and I probably should just pin more, but I can't be bothered and the result is usually good enough for me. 😂
I usually use one pin that I move around as I sew lol
You're literally so brave. I have to use approximately 1,385,932 pins before I can even CONSIDER sewing
ehehehehhehehe live on the EDGE.... sewing a HEM heheheheheh
Muscle: *twitches*
Organza: ok, bye *shifts to other side of room*
Daniela Ruiz Made my day xD
That's so true, it's painful 😂
😂😂😂
Accurate!
I've had the same problem with synthetic fabrics as well...
Me: * has no idea what's going on *
Me: yes, I love this
Sames
Yeah like eight years ago, when I was very small, I had an interest in sewing, I could possibly maybe sew something small, and might remember how to use a sewing machine...
Karen Krista Tulinius: Your eye makeup is gorgeous 😍
Hard same. ♥️
Same
She gives off proper vibes, but instead of ordering you to the dungeon, she just throws Jane Austen books at you
Sarah Chen Do you think, wouldn’t George Elliot be a bit weightier? 👍🏻🌹✌🏻✌🏻🇬🇧
I wouldn't mind that honestly
Northern Light If by dense, you’d be right! (I’m only joking of course. I’m unfamiliar with that one.)
Emma
@@scarletpimpernelagain9124 yes i suppose so. but jane austen works so well with her accent and enunciation.
It's honestly really refreshing to see you take on a more artistic project with a little less steadfast historical accuracy.Don't get me wrong, I loooove your thoroughly historical videos bit as someone who tends to do historical "inspired" costuming and less recreation its nice to be able to relate.
WAIT this comment was posted 21 hours ago??? The video was only posted within the last hour for me? What is this??
@@quixxovel she's probably a patron :)
@@xfrelinx ohhhhh that would make so much sense
Jennifer Godin the other person is correct lol. Patron ✨
What is a Patron, pray tell?
I can't sew and all I've learned is organza is a rude fabric
Hannah J. An important lesson
Lol when she said the fabric was rude I lost it. 😂💜
Then you have learned something very important. Organza and chiffon are the worst!
Positively foul mouthed m’dear....
And here i am, and the most complicated thing i have sewn was pajama pants
Been sewing for 50 years. You just taught me “pad stitching”. Thank you! Going to teach my young granddaughter to sew soon. She will know “pad stitching”.
I ordered her book as well as the Bertha Banner book just to learn fundamentals in serious fashion instead of "as i need them" as i have. They mght be a good companion to your tutelage.
You can tell we've been watching ssoooo much Bernadette when my girls start making petticoats out of their blankets and telling me to take pictures to send it to Ms. Bernadette!
aw thats so cute!
How Cute! You should make a family project
Elizabeth Cornelson that’s precious!
A young woman can never watch enough Bernadette Banner, I myself happen to be 12 years old!
Rand0m Pers0n as a fourteen year old young man I couldn’t agree more, got into her stuff when I was around your age and I’m thrilled to see that more people in my age range watch her content! Great taste.
Fabric leftovers = cabbage. Fabric scraps = coleslaw. You're hilarious :-). Costume looks lovely on you.
I loved this
@@quixxovel I have accepted this into my lexicon, and piles of small cabbage will be coleslaw evermore.
I had the overwhelming urge to create fabric crimson flowers from the coleslaw scraps with black beaded centers....perhaps to sweet for red death. Stunning. Simply stunning.
Does that mean vintage fabric scraps are sauerkraut?
@@annicat648 Yes
Bernadette Banner roasts organza for 24 minutes straight. Jk, she roasts organza on bias
Would you said she was perhaps... biased against organza?
Oof!
@@katelawnmower booo- no I can't do that in earnest, I live a good pun, and that was excellent.
"I keep forgetting that there probably isn't one person watching all these consecutively" I feel called out because... That's exactly what I've been doing for the last two days while I hand stitch approximately a million teddy bear pieces together
same, except I'm drafting patterns for a three piece women's tuxedo with tails
@@maevencrow1632 ooh!! How's that coming along, now? I bet it's fantastic!
I am also watching her videos in consecutively!
Opalescent artist
I'll be honest, it isn’t going all that well, but her videos are certainly making it easier
@@maevencrow1632 let me know how it turns out! If you had social media you would post stuff on I'd love to see that, too!!
Why does every sewing girl have a friend named Cathy? Is it the same Cathy?
TPotShax ~ I sew and have an aunt named Cathy if that counts, haha.
Seeing friend Cathy is more like a Nurse Joy or Officer Jenny
Driver Michael!!!
I think she might have been talking about Cathy Hay, who is a dress and garment historian, and I think she has mentioned that she is a friend.
My moms name is Cathy
If I remember my American literature and historical poetry classes, the “red death” is tuberculosis, which was fitting to the age of Edgar Allen Poe; TB was common and very prevalent in his life, as most of his family had been taken by it.
The mask of the red death is the personification of tuberculosis, claiming lives with blood and decay, seen as a faceless killer, one who seemingly preys at random.
To encompass tuberculosis into a feminine persona rather than Edgar’s masculine one, I believe a red ball gown which is flowing, light, and thin is very fitting. Quick, like a mist of blood, there and gone again, leaving a wake of red in its path, much like a train to a ball gown. The black embellished collar is also fitting, as decay, hardened blood, and the color of funerals and death in general is black. The white undergarments that show through can be seen as innocence, life, but slated with black bones and covered in blood red fabric it shows the hopelessness and grief of disease. Its very symbolic. So even without knowing who Poe was talking about, you encapsulated it very well!
Very well put, you have an excellent turn of phrase!
Marcelle Speake good to know my hours in poetry classes is useful for something! Thank you!
The Victorians were also fascinated with the symptoms TB brings... pale skin, feverish eyes and cheeks, which is reflected in their make-up. So dressing the Red Death in a beautiful gown which can be admired just as the Victorians did makes all the more sense. On a side note - there were recent cases of TB in Germany :(
Miss Peach yes I live in Germany, and it was all over the radio that TB was here recently. People speculating of immigrants and undocumented traveling, but fortunately there isn’t many cases and most of them were fixed quickly. It really caused a lot of political upset, and is making people rethink our immigration situation.
@@IAmNotYourProblem I was not expecting to read an upsetting comment like yours on a beautiful sewing video. Please consider working on your empathy.
i love the random meme language in between the fancy proper speach :P "fight me"
Bernadette is a master of living in two centuries at once.
"fancy" speech?
I thought she said "bite me"! Lol!!
@@alisonc4363
i did too ! shocking O Miss Banner ~~~
I love the way she talks #goals tbh
"Cathy knows things, but i'm going to do it my way"
Bernadette is channelling the younger sister refusing advice from the older sister vibes. :D
#LittleWomenvibes 😂
Me, who knows nothing about sewing:
Ah yes, excelent choice to do a... *checks smudged words on my hand* birthday collar.
LMAOO I cant with these comments 😂
Ah, yes. The *Birthday Collar* . A very traditional style of collar.
Lol
Ah yes...
8:31 Bernadette: “Maybe you didn’t sit through 9 collective minutes of pad stitching for Lady Sherlock”
Me: *literally just came from watching the entire lady Sherlock series*
Same here lol
MaryBeth Rodgers me too!
Me: planning to watch it next
Nah
Ikr
Bernadette: "okay, that sounds like a logical plan of action."
also Bernadette: "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT A COMPLETE FOOL I AM? :D"
"I don't know if I'm going to handstitch this"
Me : of course you're going to do it you fool
"I ended up handstitching it."
It ain't a Bernadette Banner sewing video if she didn't hand stitch/sew something
i think that this career was everybody's dream at one point
This is my dream
Yeah.... it was
livi it was,but then I realized No One in my family can sew well.
If you're talking about the mannequin, I wanted to become one.
Yes it was lol
I can’t believe how well your skin complements the color red. The medieval dress you created just looked so wonderful on you. The deeper red this dress has looks amazing too!
Agreed. As a fair skinned, ruddy completed woman of Scots-Irish descent, this world of red organza is a dream of mine.
@@fainterocean I imagine it would be windswept and whimsical on you, fainterocean, standing on a rocky Irish cliff with the waves crashing beneath you and the lush green landscape stretching out behind you... In a flurry of crimson against the neverending blue-stretched sky.
Phoenix DaVida lovely
Hi sorry to bother you but you have a very nice profile pic. That's all, have a lovely day.
@@8_tulip_8 Thanks dawg it’s my pride and joy
I am not a seamstress, and I'm not sure how you ended up in my recommended feed, but I'm in love! I wish I had your talent!
I’m looking to get in to sewing, and google’s creepy so that’s how I found her. I also am a history NERD..... why is the world of the googles so creepy
@@mothman-cj2yd Why is Google creepy?
Josephina Mungaray I think they are saying that google is creepy because you can find anything on there 😂
@@Ella-pr5tr it just threw this video at me, even though I had never even searched for it. It was a very strange experience! lol
Skill, not talent
*ding*................... "oh hi cathy"
"Cathy knows what she's doing and says to do it this way, but I'm gonna do it my way"
You're like a married couple
It's lovely to see a relationship of any kind where the people respect and genuinely care about each other. I particularly liked that you care about her knowledge and opinion, but also know your own mind.
And the piece is just as you intended; evoking Poe without being too literal. In other words, a real costume.
I thought that was her wife (new here 😂)
@@AvaLance No no honey 😂, there just besties (plus Cathy lives in England)
@@PigInATree Just the way she was like i am doing it my way sounds like a old couple
@@AvaLance good friendship
Omg please please wear the dress with a mock hoop skirt so you can see the “hoops” or “boning” underneath. It would give it volume AND the skeletal effect you want!!!
*boning* 👀👀
@@maplemation1564 yes but also no
IDK who would be willing to fight someone with the patience, determination and tools to hand sew 85% of a ball gown but it sure as hell won't be me
LMAOO
Sometimes I forget you actually own an electric machine
I thought she just had the singer machine
nonbinarypal me too!
angela li what is electric machine
Saisha heeru Heeru sewing i think
arxcylide ok
I love how I can’t predict what she’s going to say. When she says “Okay, do you want to hear what a COMPLETE...” I thought she was going to say “Idiot” but then she finishes with “ FOOL I am!?” So much more elegant.
I've kinda gotten used to her by now so I'm a bit better at guessing what she says
@@celene_moon who.. asked ,
@@Pavelscribbles I'm so confused? Why are you so mad I wasn't trying to be rude by posting my comment or anything I was actually agreeing with the original comment
@@celene_moon it was a joke 🧍♂️
Did you just coin a phrase. I have never heard of small thin scraps referred to as coleslaw. I literally laughed out loud. I love your videos on so many levels.
I did as well.
I genuinely wonder if she isn't independently reinventing 19th-century seamstresses' slang.
She calls her scraps "cabbage" so, little bits are automatically coleslaw I should think. She's an extremely talented super-cutie.
Adam Reynolds I've heard straw being used for term...as well as tears. One never knows! I ask too many questions to learn😆
the only other person I've heard mention small scraps as coleslaw was the Stitchess and that was in her expressing her distain for the term
"You will pry my historical lining methods from my cold, dead hands."
I love you.
I love to read out-of-context quotes in Bernadette's comments BEFORE watching the video, it's so much fun.
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I know, right?
I'm deathly afraid of poly organza 💀. Makes perhaps sense that it is the fabric for the red death. It has been a fun process to see! I especially like the draping bit!
Silk organza all the way for me but expensive!
Its terribly slippy and a pain to sew quickly. Pinning, pad stitching, and take.your.time. I made a pair of fairy wings with shot organza (blue/green, truly lovely colors) and I must admit and gave it a very light spritz of sizing just to tame it a mite.
@@jenniferfloyd2314 For my first fully completed corset I made myself I used a black organza with little flocked dots on it which I put on top of some skin-tone coutil so that when worn it would sort of look like just the organza doing the shaping if worn next to my skin. Seemed like a great idea at the time.
It was so tricky to work with though and in hindsight I don't know what I was thinking attempting that as a first solo project! Turned out ok in the end though. Just a lot of work. I didn't even know what pad stitching was so I just went super slow with it....
Omg literally laughed out loud at 11:35 when you went to got ready with the sewing machine and then from the depths of your soul just went “...NO!!!”
it really wasn't that crazy.
Ah, Organza, Satan's most favored woven torture device alongside broken needles stuck in the bottom of one's feet and accidentally sewing your fingers together. Makes for pretty clothing though
I like to use it as a feather-weight stabilizer
A Broken needle is a type of torture I wouldn’t wish on anyone
I used to think that about about satin, because it's so slippery and slides so much. I've made 2 prom dresses and 2 Cocktail dresses out of pure satin.
I am not allowed to sew around my mom because I drop stuff sometimes, and never step on it. She could step on a needle i dropped 3 months ago. I don't understand it, but it always happens
Ah yes broken needles. My brother has a deathly fear of them now cuz he stepped on one and needed 3 operations to get it out.
the soft 'no' when you took the boned bodice to the machine made me laugh out loud
"I literally hate every single thing on the face of the planet right now" - This is exactly how I feel during any attempt at sewing 😂
It's so reassuring to know that it's a universal thing
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@@spacewolfcub thanks
Same, but mostly because the sewing machine I use tends to act up... to be fair, it is older than my own self and in need of maintenance.
I love your voiceovers. They are hilarious while also somehow being the most relaxing things I've ever listened too.
Yes yes yes. This.
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Yeah, her inflection and general tone is so soothing to listening to. It’s more formal than you usually hear. But it’s not at all... awkward or put on feeling. She’d just lovely in general!
Turn on the captions. They are often funny as well !!! ;)
Not once in my days have I felt a compulsion to make my own garments...until this video. Absolutely stunning.
Had anyone told me historical costuming could be a career back in 1990-ish I would have chosen a whole different career path! You are amazing!
I did a semester at a theater costume department. I should have pursued that as i like to sew now. I was too young. I never knew when I was young, what I wanted as far as career goes.
Element Gypsy I’m a current high schooler looking to pursue theatrical costuming, but I haven’t come across many universities with a program in it. If you’re from the US and you don’t mind me asking, where did you take that semester?
@@ellawanless641 hi there. I went to a small alternative high school in New York City. The Equity Library Theatre was a small place on the upper west side. They arranged for students to help. I was basically an apprentice and i fulfilled high school art credit.
There are some special high schools in some cities. NYC had many. HS of visual arts, HS of fashion Design, Performing Arts HS all need to take test, audition, have a portfolio. I didn't even know about those schools until it was too late to apply because we didn't move to NYC until 9th grade. So I went to the alternative school where 50% of my classes were apprentice, work study jobs.
Do all you can to find out what schools you have. Ask all your teachers. If you know you like something, find out how to start it before college. Good luck. I struggled with a career because I didn't have a good school guidance counselor, and my parents didn't know. It was bot until after 2 years of college that I started to figure things out, then I couldn't afford to continue to go. Do it. I know that people do costuming for a living. Movies, opera, balet, theater. Go for it. ,
Element Gypsy thank you so much!! I really appreciate your help and advice.
Ella W. I studied costume design at USC. It wasn’t great - I do not recommend, especially for the price. What I *do* recommend, however, is finding a regional theatre or opera in your area and doing an internship to get a feel for the industry and to see if it is a good fit for you. Personally, I found the personalities rife in the industry to be... challenging 😬 and I decided it wasn’t the career for me. If RUclips had been a thing back then (1997 😳 cheezus, I’m old...), I would have 💯 created a channel, gotten sponsors, and made a living that way, costuming my merry heart out doing projects I loved, on my terms, without any annoying, insufferable actors, directors, or lighting designers getting in my way. 😬😜😂 Please don’t hesitate to ask me any questions if you’d like. I was in the industry in some capacity for about 12 years.
I've definitely watched all of the minutes of pad stitching and no I am not tired of it. Carry on thank you.
☝️☝️ this. All the pad stitching please!
Me too.
This. Also, I've been doing my own pad stitching while watching. So it's more like company.
Same
I thought I knew how to sew and then Bernadette mentioned different stitches and I was like “okay back to square one, was not prepared.”
I don't do sewing. I'm not interested in womens clothing. And then I enjoy your videos to the fullest, in tranquillity. It is so soothing.Thankyou.
This seems so terribly hard and frustrating but damn I want to make clothes too 🥺
Start with something simple! Jump in and start learning!
1920s fashion is a good place to start with sewing because everything is a boxy with some pleats or gores thrown in for PIZZAZZ
I didn't have much experience in sewing and I made this only after a couple beginning projects. ruclips.net/video/NyUktOAc7bw/видео.html
I have half a dozen new shorts. It's super easy after the first one. 8)
Wittmers sewing has some easy patterns
sameeeeeeeee
Please don't apologise for hand-sewing. I could honestly sit here for hours and watch you make teeny-tiny neat little felling stitches and enjoy every moment of it. This is the relaxing content I came here for.
"I literally hate every single thing on the face of the planet right now!" Yes, I've heard that is a common side effect of organza-nitis. :D That comment absolutely tickled me.
Oh Bernadette, you have somehow done it again! I bow to your ability to work with the ever hellish organza. I hope you have fantastic fun a time costume college.
I love how this turned out! Many many respects for pleating all that organza on the shoulder straps 😱
It's nice to see my favorite author's story, _The Masque of the Red Death_ , was stunningly translated from words to a breathtaking garment. I wish that I could just be in the presence of this beauty. I could feel it echo the symbolism of the mysterious figure in the king's party, causing everyone to stop and look. The mysterious murder in the bone-chilling red room while near the gothic grandfather clock. I can feel how it shows the red death, as scarlet patches represent the blood that would eject from one infected fellow's pores. I see it, i sense it.
edit: "Oh. Hi Cathy."
There is NO red room. The room colours are blue, green, white, orange, purple, black and violet.
Bernadette: I have 10 days to make this dress
Also Bernadette: so I went ahead and hand-stitched all the pleats
" fight me" ha ha, perhaps my favorite Bernadette quote of all time!
jan parkin I thought she said “bite me” 🧛♀️👂🏻
@@LizzieDeanMakes I went back and listened to it again and played it with cc and she says 'fight me', which I think is even funnier than 'bite me', it's more charming....in true Bernadette fashion :)
I loved it when you *almost* started machine basting the bodice, and then said “no” and hand stitched instead. Been there before!
Excuse me, Watching you pad stitch is a very worthwhile endeavour.
Yes, I watched all of the lady sherlock. multiple times
you know she's low on time when she busts out the electric machine
She mentioned organza and I could feel my brain screaming at her to put it away 😂
My eighth grade graduation dress was crepe overlaid with organza. My Mom taught me how to french seam the organza. Completing that gown earned me an A for Home Economics class. I should have followed your advice...
I love it! I would probably have made the skirt a little more full, and a cage crinoline of the correct shape underneath this would add to the 'bones' look, but given your time pressure I think you've done a wonderful job.
I want to put that black beading on everything. :D
Marie McGowan-Irving I’m hoping that she stills wears the cage crinoline! That would look fantastic
The cage Crinoline is actually an absolute fantastic idea! Would fit in very nicely with the showing dark boning of the bodice.
As an Edgar Allan Poe fan, you have no idea how much I love this project, and you look really beautiful
Oh my it's spectacular!
I hope you feel so proud because it's sensational -- especially since it took approx. 11 days.
Hope you're having the best time at CC.
I like to watch her hands when she pins or sews. They show how strong and capable she is. There's certainty in their movement.
I’ve been binge watching many of Bernadette’s videos this week and I have gained a new respect for a former fashion drawing teacher who would often critique a sketch by asking ‘but how does she put it on?’ .. learning the lesson of matching your closures and thinking about them *before* you start cutting your pieces was a valuable one I learned..
Connie Crawford, well known teacher and pattern designer for Butterick, told a class I was in that especially for sheer fabrics fashion houses put paper between the fabric layers to keep them from shifting. Newsprint worked well for me when I tried it.
I can't wait to see your costume at Costume College. It looks great!
That's a very awesome vision you had there for such a character. Those skirt pleats are eye candy!
Can't wait to see everyone's CC vlogs, and especially yours. :)
Bravo bravo, what a spectacular dress. You have brought Mr Poe's character to life.
Edgar Allen Poe was also a poet so that is serendipitous! Well done ye!
Oh, my heavens! I thought I was the queen of patience being a mother and grandmother and I’ve done a little sewing in my time. But, you have taken what was tedious and seemingly impossible, used your artistry and created a thing of beauty. Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed your video.
When it comes to cutting organza you can pin it on a wall and then your able to cut it easily and make better measurements and straighter lines! I found that this tactic works well for me and I hope it can help you!
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EW FOOKIN NOPE
@@mothman-cj2yd ???
@@myhlosic UnderTale reference I think
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I guess that pinning it to the wall takes advantage of gravity to set the grain of the fabric right?! I never heard of this technique before. I think it could even be better to fold the fabric and suspend it on a straight broomstick to really straighten it. Humm...but it could damage the wall trying to fix the broomstick to the wall....humm...Aha! take advantage of a curtain rod; fold the organza over it, place a alongside the floor beneath the window a cutting board and layer the organza over it. Now you have a surface to pin and cut. Yes it is a lot of trouble but it might give you precise cuts.
“Cathy actually knows things.”
*proceeds to ignore her advice anyway*
😂😂😂
So I don't do historic recreations or sew, but I came across your channel and I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOU!!! You are so goofy and great and I watch you while I crochet. Keep being you beautiful!!!
The people that disliked this are just mad that they don’t get to slow motion run down a castle corridor while this skirt is flowing out behind them in all this red and black glory!!! 🖤🖤🖤
Persephone Rose my goth heart has *stopped* just imagining that
You know I didn't dislike this video... and yet this still feels like I am being called out
Miguel Labrador honestly, XD stop exposing me
Yes! Like the slow mo run in Legend as Princess Lily runs through Darkness's castle in her ragged dress ♥.♥
Ahaha same
Minus the goth heart part. I have a steampunk heart :3
I made my wedding gown of silk and organza with ivory applique. I feel your experience through my memory. You make me proud to know I winged it right
Just from my small experience in just beginning to sew garments, you make me realize that I can't skip over all the little things that I often do (and then wonder why it doesn't turn out as neatly as I would like).
Thanks for making these videos. While I'll likely never make anything like this, the little tips and tricks will help me for, well forever.
I love modern fashion, but there is something so satisfying about watching you make these more historic pieces.
Your voiceovers are seriously some of the best on RUclips. I laugh and stay interested no matter how long the video! Even my husband finds your diction relaxing. Have fun at Costume College!
And once again I find myself in awe of your creations and your funny remarks.
The black beading is like a cross between Victorian jet mourning jewellery and woven hair jewellery. Very beautiful and mysterious costume Bernadette!
When she said "no" halfway through the video, I felt that.
One more thing. You’re wrong... that is couture! You look beautiful. Stunning!
I've always understood that couture means sewn by hand? But while I can follow a pattern and sew, it's not something I do very often.
I'm truly enjoying (and learning from) Bernadette's videos.
Bernadette: "...and proceeded to tack each pleat in place with a running stitch."
Me: "...oy."
The lengths people are willing to go to make their vision a reality. This was my first of her videos, does she always torture herself like this?
@@KnittingGirl28 Frequently!
@@ncblessingOOOOOUUUUUUUUCCCCHHHHHHH
@@KnittingGirl28 mhm, and it's almost always totally worth it!
I learned so much hand stitching techniques just by watching your videos. Thank you.
Me knowing absolutely nothing about sewing and dress making terminology but being extremely invested because it’s so relaxing: 👁👄👁
Watching this in may 2020 and hoping she wears that in isolation now.
Thanks to you, I hand stitched down all the seams on the very modern Star Wars print dress I made for my 6 year old daughter. Which was the first dress I’ve ever made, and you say this isn’t a tutorial channel. 😂
I love when the red fabric moves it kind of floats like a ghost would, really on brand
was counting the days for this ha, so beautiful!! goes so well with the story.
I've just learned how to sew and have made the genius decision to make my second dress ever with a sheer overlayer. I'm so glad I remembered your trials with organza, and I will learn from the troubles you faced! Thank you, Bernadette!!
That turned into a really beautiful dress 😍❤ I wish this was the modern fashion, I'd love to be dressed in such beautiful clothing 😊
Hege4318 to heck with what other people say is fashion! Wear what makes you feel beautiful.
@@annevoigt6653 exactly what i was going to say. where what you want and what you love. i know i always have. to hell with the looks.
Okay, I gotta say... I ADORE the dress. I love how it looks on you, you really just... carry it so beautifully. I'm not sure how to even put it. *non-native speaker issues*
And I never realized how long your hair is, since you always keep it in a bun of sorts, but damn! That's gorgeous.
I personally would have preferred a longer under-skirt, but that's just a me-thing, because I don't like seeing the hem of another dress under the skirt if that makes sense...
But I totally get your choice on that, so still a win.
Aaaah! Gosh. I need to shut up, but not before pointing out once more, that your work is amazing!
Exquisite ! The black , red and white were and unusual but yet perfect choice. The purity and fear of death combined!
Dear Bernadette, as much as I enjoy your historical sewing projects (and hope to see even more of those in the future), as much I love watching your interpretations and inspired-by-creations. What a lovely, lovely dress... 💖
I am a middle schooler that has taken one 2 week sewing class and I understand 1/3 of this... 😎
You are ahead of me, I understand less. Enjoyed and saved.
(Also learned NOT to try working with organza...ever.)
I thought I understood about cutting on the grain of the textile. Now I am not sure if I understood completely or at all... back to learning related definitions, terminology, and (importantly) WHY things are done a certain way.
Learning sewing looks easy at times, and then it looks hard.
I am still inspired to make a corset or several of my own later, though.
This is almost EXACTLY like what im wearing my wedding dress to look which i am crafting myself so this is beautiful and a great base to start on and try and figured out where i even want to start
I'd love to see her remake a Scarlet O'Hara dress. That would be amazing. 😁
Yuh
I love how she makes the Audible sponsorship actually relevant. I've listened to Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets twice, and to hear her mention that, in no doubt, has made my evening a rather delightful one! :DD
Hello Cathy, love. We need more of your wisdoms even if Bernadette chooses forego them sometimes. It’s her prerogative as mini me but we still want to hear more!
Hello, watching and listening to you as you create this gorgeous red cloud of a dress, so reminds me of my Mother. She was a seamstress. She could walk past the dress shops, purchase fabric and notions and in a few days turn out the dress that was in the dress shop window. I was always in style at school. I was very proud of her. I can still hear her telling me not to fidget while I stood on a kitchen chair in my slip so she could hem the skirt of the dress. She talked around pins in her mouth and I feared she would swallow them with each word spoken. She was a whizz with her black and gold Singer machine. I so miss her.
I don't sew anymore, I miss that too. I really love to watch your videos, they are mesmerizing.
That Texas Gal !!!
"Bite me." --Very mature.
The idea of leaving the wild and wiry basting stitches in place was inspired.
You do look like someone different with your hair down!
It is gorgeous! I love it with your hair down like that.
If you are open to suggestions - the length is great for the venue you made it for - since everyone at costume college is aware of how much work goes into a project like this, and won't step on your hem, but if you want to wear it somewhere else, add some pickups to the skirt to bring up the hem without having to re-hem the whole thing.
You are far too humble. You are so gifted. I wish there were more occasions where people would dress in such beautiful well tailored clothing.
Bernadette, Young Lady, I had goose bumps seeing that dress finally come to life . BRAVO !
It would be wonderful to get a glimpse of your bookcase Bernadette! So curious as to what you read when you're not generously taking the time to make videos.
Thank you for all you do!
I’m primarily a bag, tote and quilt maker (with dog toy making thrown in for fun and weirdness, lol) and I am in awe. Organza is not a fabric I use, although I have used a small amount on the occasional bag design...it was enough to give me nightmares for life. I rarely make clothes, and when I have they’ve just been super easy sundresses - most people don’t understand that what I do and what you do are worlds apart, but I sure do! Clothes and dressmakers are heroes to me; I am completely lacking that talent, but I can happily sit here and watch you create for hours.
It’s glorious. Absolutely glorious. 😍