ahh friends

[robinsnest]

I had more fun today then I think is legal. hiraimi and mandie_rw came over and we had a sewing day. We watched the first season of Outlander and snarked at all the poor charater choices, costumes, and questionable plot developments. We had five pots of tea (I think I peed 7 times), a box of cookies and ordered chinese food!

I did make SOME actual progress too. I made my fourth and final mock up, cut out my bodice in silk and linen and got the back and one side seam finished. I'm using the lapped seam/whipped in lining techinque from costume closeup. hiraimi Ran out of things to do so she whipped down my pocket slits and sewed my petticoat side seams. VERY nice of her.

So not as much done as if I'd actually sewed alone for a day...but way more than if we'd ended up at the ren faire! And I had a wonderful day laughing till tea almost came out my nose. 

Comments

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

DEFINITELY more fun than is legal! I haven't laughed that hard in a while. And I have decided that that is the ideal way to watch Outlander, and it will definitely have to happen again at the end of the next season! Now you understand why we like it so much!

Well...why I like it, and why Alice likes it. I'm pretty sure they're different reasons. xD

Now keep sewing!

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great day.

[blackcat452.livejournal.com]

Sounds like lots of fun

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Outlander - have you read the books? Or just seen the TV show? (I'm always curious how it reads to someone who hasn't read the books over and over again...)

Sewing day sounds like it was a lot of fun!

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

no I had never read the books, I did skim one of them afterwards...I have to say I got up to the part were she had to be disciplined by her husband and stopped reading. I spent too long studying domestic violence this month to not curl my toes.

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen a lot of angst over that scene over on Tumblr. Honestly, it's not one that had stuck with me, and I had to go back and re-read it to see what all the fuss was about.

So, does the show make sense for someone who hasn't read the books? I sometimes feel like I'm filling in the blanks with all the backstory that I know from the books. I think it makes sense, especially a few of the changes they've made for storytelling purposes, but it's hard to tell, because I know these characters so very well.