Over Thanksgiving break, @rwtrekker and I watched the new Beatles documentary mini-series on Disney+. As a costumer, I was amused how the random personal clothing choices of everyone ended up being "good costuming" so much of the time (behind the scenes footage like this doesn't have anyone planning what people wear).
I especially loved the combination of shirts on the day pictured below. One striped shirt, one with a print, two solids - one with and one without a collar. All in colors that look good together. It reminds me of the days I worked on Barney and Friends because we would purposely plan this kind of "random" (which isn't always easy to do!).
There was also a day that the guys all wore shirts in shades of green (one may have been in a white shirt, I don't remember for sure) and even the carpet at Apple Records was bright green. Ahh the late 1960s and early '70s! The clothing was just fun in this footage!
A few things that didn't surprise me: John wore the same thing a few days in a row. Ringo had the best printed shirts. And Paul had a very colorful closet (he still does from when I got to steam all his costumes once for a concert).
And all the fur coats! It was very Muppet-like! Which reminds me, I really need to get back to working on my hot pink faux fur coat!
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
