Par for the course of me never really liking the shows I've worked on. I admit I'm not easily impressed in general, but 1883 is just plan weird!
Disjointed story with no reason to latch onto any of the characters. Sloooow boring (often mumbled) conversations and lots of obvious CG effects (specifically fire). Bad blocking of background extras. Bizarre cinematography - it looked like reality TV! It was such a strange look for a period drama! Tons of scenic insert shots that wasted time and lasted long enough that I was bored of looking at empty fields or tree branches without anyone in the shot. The one flashback scene didn't even have any visual indication it was a flashback (like faded color or fuzzy edges) except for the date label at the beginning of the scene - it just looked the same as everything else. Lots of things bugged me about the costumes, which wasn't really a surprise.
I could go on, but if you still want to see for yourself what all the ridiculous hype is about (seriously, everywhere I look including my Roku homescreen, there's an ad for this show!), the first two episodes are available for free on Amazon Prime.
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.
