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Sep. 5th, 2015 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotThe one thing that was able to get me to sew in the sleeves on my black silk: treadle! In one sense it was terribly hard, as the machine is set into the table, but in another sense it was easier, as I could make it go much slower. Because I'm using black thread I got to wind another bobbin, WHAT FUN. I'm going to try to get the front edges finished so that I can fit and sew the darts because I don't have anything else right now to do on the treadle.
I'd like to be the kind of person who names things, I've wanted to ever since I read Anne of Green Gables, but I'm just not. If I were, I would call it "Ella" after my great-great-great-grandmother who was a dressmaker/dress saleswoman all her life and was probably using a V.S.2 just like this one.
(I am having one problem, which is that when I wind the long bobbin after a few passes it starts to throw the thread over the nub at the end. I'm going to have to try starting the winder at different places on the bobbin's shaft.)
After lunch, I went to see The Gift because it's been forever since I took in one of the cheaper matinees and there was nothing else that called out to me more due to Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall. (It has something like 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, too.) Most of the movie was great - I really appreciated that it was from Hall's perspective and a good part of the creeping horror was realizing that her husband was kind of a dick, rather than it just being some external force acting on the two of them - but I was REALLY disappointed in the ending. Not only did it suddenly switch to Bateman as the protagonist, Hall's character stops having lines, she may or may not have been raped by the villain (and still has no idea that there's even a possibility that she was raped) in order to get at her husband, and the whole horror at the end is what if the baby is the villain's and not Bateman's??? Like, the possible rape is secondary to this. So fucked-up and out of nowhere. But I was really impressed at how they costumed Rebecca Hall with high necklines and racerbacks and hideous sweaters that emphasize her broad shoulders and make her look thick-waisted, and give her this very '90s boyish haircut, in contrast to all the female characters with longer hair and cleavage and curves. There was a lot of effort put in there. Compare her in Parade's End with her in this.
Valor came yesterday! It's amazing! So beautiful! I'm very glad I backed the Kickstarter. There's a fantastic variety of art styles, story styles, and both f/f and m/f relationships (as well as some non-romantic stories). You should definitely try to get your hands on it.
I'd like to be the kind of person who names things, I've wanted to ever since I read Anne of Green Gables, but I'm just not. If I were, I would call it "Ella" after my great-great-great-grandmother who was a dressmaker/dress saleswoman all her life and was probably using a V.S.2 just like this one.
(I am having one problem, which is that when I wind the long bobbin after a few passes it starts to throw the thread over the nub at the end. I'm going to have to try starting the winder at different places on the bobbin's shaft.)
After lunch, I went to see The Gift because it's been forever since I took in one of the cheaper matinees and there was nothing else that called out to me more due to Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall. (It has something like 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, too.) Most of the movie was great - I really appreciated that it was from Hall's perspective and a good part of the creeping horror was realizing that her husband was kind of a dick, rather than it just being some external force acting on the two of them - but I was REALLY disappointed in the ending. Not only did it suddenly switch to Bateman as the protagonist, Hall's character stops having lines, she may or may not have been raped by the villain (and still has no idea that there's even a possibility that she was raped) in order to get at her husband, and the whole horror at the end is what if the baby is the villain's and not Bateman's??? Like, the possible rape is secondary to this. So fucked-up and out of nowhere. But I was really impressed at how they costumed Rebecca Hall with high necklines and racerbacks and hideous sweaters that emphasize her broad shoulders and make her look thick-waisted, and give her this very '90s boyish haircut, in contrast to all the female characters with longer hair and cleavage and curves. There was a lot of effort put in there. Compare her in Parade's End with her in this.
Valor came yesterday! It's amazing! So beautiful! I'm very glad I backed the Kickstarter. There's a fantastic variety of art styles, story styles, and both f/f and m/f relationships (as well as some non-romantic stories). You should definitely try to get your hands on it.
