Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "V. Birchwood" channel.

  1. 2 WEEKS AGO I BOUGHT LINEN FABRIC to make bed sheets and duvet covers from - 2.4m wide - it cost me MORE per linear meter than your sponsor is selling sheets at... THANKS LIFE
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  2. I HAVE SOME VICTORIAN PATTERN MENS SHIRTS I often wear them as night shirts when my PJ's are i the wash... They have separate collars you attach with shirt studs so with no collar they are very soft - they are usually off white or cream - the collars are starched white
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  3. Im currently bine watching a channel called "Objectivity" - its all about the items in the "The Royal Society" archives - a scientific institute in London. What you forget is that everything we "know" had to be figured out. We know why the tides of the sea happen - someone very clever had to WORK THAT OUT. Adn the great thing about these videos is you see the people working the things out; what you also see if that people 100, 200, 500 years ago were REALLY INTELEGENT.
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  4. I MADE A NIGHT CAP - you know the "Wee Willy Winky" ones - and actually, like almost everything I make from the past I find out they are GREAT - realy GRAT. You would THINK th e long triangle that flops down would get tangled and be a pain the a****. Nope. You lay down ad pull it over your EAR and put the end under your arm. It keeps your ear warm [I don't heat my house] and its really quiet, cos there are fewer noises distracting your sleep you move less. They really are the perfect solution to sleeping in a cold room...
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  5. WHEN YOU WEAR RED your eyes look to be on fire, like smouldering embers at the end of a bonfire...
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  6.  @user-sg4ov7ng4h  - It was -11C here this morning and I was absolutely fine in several layers of wool. Its when it gets to -25C in my experience and you suddenly get into really scary territory - unless you are used to it
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  7. YOUR CLOTHING must bring SO MUCH joy to the people you meet and those who see you each day...!!!
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  8. And the north of England - its our word for hopes and dreams...
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  9. YOU SEEM happier and more relaxed every video - I hope you are having as much fun making them as I watching them
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  10. YEP - I need this right now, something pleasant and relaxing, tough day.
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  11.  @angela_merkeI  You said mundane stuff was not written about cos materials were expensive when the contrary is true. Materials were cheap and mundane stuff most certainly was written about "he best-known document is perhaps Tablet 291, written around 100 by Claudia Severa,[17] the wife of the commander of a nearby fort, to Sulpicia Lepidina, inviting her to a birthday party. The invitation is one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman"
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  12.  @angela_merkeI  "Ancient Romans/Greeks didn't write about most parts of everyday life as writing was a costly affair" Thats what you said. "because everyone was a woman or knew/grew up with/around women so it wasn't anything to waste ink and parchment on." thats what you said. "The Romans wrote on thin slivers of wood or bark. It was dirt cheap. " Thats what I responded" "Claudia Severa,[17] the wife of the commander of a nearby fort, to Sulpicia Lepidina, inviting her to a birthday party. The invitation is one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman"". Thats the example i gave. The Romans wrote day to day stuff all the time on low cost media. Just drop it.
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  13. I HAVE BEEN TAILORING men's historical clothing for 2 years now - these are MY top tips. 1) Buy a vintage SINGER STRAIGHT LINE SEWING MACHINE pref 201k if you can but any solid metal - NO ZIG ZAG - NO FEATURES. Get it professionally serviced. The difference between this machine and even a 1980's metal Singer zig zag machine is night and day - it will transform your LIFE. 2) Buy a cheap "disposable" plastic modern machine for button holes [though you can get a button hole attachment for the singer], overlocking, zig zag, decorative stitches etc 3) Buy multiple colours of quality chalk 4) Buy an INCH and a CM tape measure - when drafting you put the NUMBER on your mark - you stretch the tape out and you mark AT THE METAL END i.e 14" to 0" mark at zero 5) Buy either an old heavy vintage steam iron that weighs 1.5kg the Bakelite and metal ones OR just bite the bullet and buy a professional tailors iron 6) Buy / make pressing weights - when you PRESS a seam you then need a heavy metal plate to hold it in place whilst the fabric cools and dries - this is incredibly important 7) Old electric cooker cast iron hot plates make AMAZING pattern weights, look out at the council recycling place for an old hob 8) The "closing seam" is the last seam on a garment to be sewn up - many vintage drafting instructions will mention this but Google has no idea 9) A "scky" is an arm hole 10) Tailoring is a series of separate jobs. Making a jacket is a massive task, but actually, it is about 50 small separate tasks, you don't need to be good at making a jacket. You just need to practice the tasks. So cut out the patter, do the bits you can do. When you get to doing a "welted pocket" - just watch a Youtube video on making a welted pocket and practice 4 or 5 times on scraps of fabric, then do your welted pockets. Move on. DONT BE scared of large projects. 11) there is ALWAYS a great YouTube video telling you exactly how to do each step - even if you THINK you know, watch a video...
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  14.  @shishunya_  I literally said " [Im sure the genuine polar gear is fine]"
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  15.  @elisabethm9655  - I lost mine in a badly executed house move :-(
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  16.  @zoolkhan  QUOTE "EDIT: controversy in the comments - this was 1995, Im sure modern Genuine Polar gear is now better than my expensive pseudo polar gear was 30 years ago...!!!"
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  17.  @jeweledsnail  THAT might explain why they can make them for 1/3rd the price I can buy the fabric...
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  18. I have been on with this for 30 minutes now trying to give you the information but YT comments just deletes everything I put that would be helpful - sorry people - I tried.
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  19. I HAVE A BRAND NEW PAIR OF LEATHER SHOES that are incredibly uncomfortable and not yet worn in - ergo ALL shoes are uncomfortable and no one should ever wear shoes...!!!
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  20.  @wadeevans4355  - you dont know how the world works.
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  21.  @angela_merkeI  The Romans wrote on thin slivers of wood or bark. It was dirt cheap. There are thousands of them found in the UK about day to day gossip.
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  22.  @angela_merkeI  OK fine drop it.
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  23.  @stevezytveld6585  - You are very welcome. Most modern garments usually have about 20% synthetic in them and this is to prevent the stretching / shrinkage problem. 100% wool can change shape a LOT if its like 1m or 1.5 in length - especially if it get rained on.
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  24.  @jodywarren54  - YOu are very welcome - I just unpicked about 3.5m - 10 feet of hem I hand stitched a week ago LOL
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  25. I WORKED WITH ABUSE VICTIMS FOR 8 YEARS you always had the shell-shocked look in your eye, the one that says "there is a pane of bulletproof glass between me and the world" and you are right, it has gone this year, I have commented upon your eyes in the last few videos. EDIT - im super pleased your life is coming together.
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  26. NOT WORN MODERN CLOTHES for 6 years now and I can NOT imagine doing so, clothes that dont fit, that make you sweat, that restricts your movement, that are too cold or too hot...
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  27.  @VBirchwood  - Well I actually live in one of the Soviet era apartment blocks; not I have no idea what they are like in Russia, but in Bulgaria, they are built SO WELL. I LOVE living in it, but the corridor is a little bit dirty - so I take my shoes off just inside the door - put my "pantoffi" пантофи i.e. slippers on and then put the shoes outside the door.
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  28. I GET UP AT SUNRISE EVERY MORNING so every single day of the year my wake-up time is different on the clock - tomorrow it will be 6.13 am the day after 6.11 am It is impossible to explain how natural this is to me now and how completely weird YOUR life that revolves around mechanical time is to me YOU guys get up at a different time every day. Humans are mammals and mammals get up [mostly] at sunrise and my morning is the SAME every day - the sun is common up over the sea as I exercise on the balcony EVERY morning. ---> I started this just as an experiment like you did this Medieval mattress - and I am fortunate that I don't have to do a 9 to 5 job so I am free.
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  29. M[i]s BIRCH WOOD sits under an oak tree...??? Sounds kinda tree-sonous to me Forsaking the one that named you For a rhyming couplet, or three
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  30.  @VBirchwood  - You make me smile, thank you.
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  31.  @olgahein4384  I did say " [Im sure the genuine polar gear is fine]". Im talking about the stuff like the £650 coat I bought that says Polar on the tags but they never believe you are actually going to test that.
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  32.  @christiankirkenes5922  Well lots of people in the comments told me I am wrong and you don't need fur with modern synthetics and down - and Im just not qualified to argue one way or another. But down is natural...! I was out in -10C a couple of days ago and I was toasty warm in my layers of wool - BUT I was wearing 8kg of clothing - I got weighed. Thats a lot.
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  33. IF YOU ARE MACHINE SEWING ACCURATELY there is very little difference in the speed of hand sewing to machine sewing... By the time you have trademarked both pieces, sewn 4cm, stopped to check alignment, sewn 4cm stopped again, finished, and pulled out all the thread marking, its almost the same as just hand sewing the seam in the first place. And one of the biggest jumps in your sewing professionalism is STOPPING sewing to seam allowance and start sewing to thread marking...!!!
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  34. IS NO ONE GOING TO MENTION the horrific haunted dog skeleton in the corner...???
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  35. JEANS SUCK like you I was unaware how much jeans sucked cos I wore them all the time. Then I made a bespoke pair of trousers and I have NOT put on a pair of jeans since that moment 5 years ago. I didn't know clothes were not supposed to be uncomfortable, cold, damp in wet weather, etc
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  36. THE NEXT TIME you do a large standing collar - you need to back BOTH pieces of fabric with heavy linen canvas, excluding the hemming, fold over the canvas and sew. If you want it to be very compliant and malleable - you need to pad stitch the canvas to the collar - you can also create shape this way - pad stitching is way easier and quicker than you think
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  37. INTERESTING FACT the identical civilian outfits of communist China and USSR were NOT, as we are led to believe, communist mind control tactics removing peoples individualism... They are TO ELIMINATE THE MOST WASTEFUL INDUSTRY THERE IS - FASHION...!
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  38. CONGRATULATIONS...!!!
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  39. I AM LITERALLY about to start darning my socks...
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  40. I want a bed in a box like the medieval people had - maybe because I am autistic, I like controlled spaces Im about to re model the house and I might have one made into the bedroom
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  41.  @angelaclements1244  OK - Im not here to argue with you.
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  42.  @emilysmith2784  - Maybe there is regionality to it..??? I come from the working class region of the North and you would definitely take working boots off, but almost no one took shes off. My guess is that the perception would historically be that by comparison - shoes were clean compared to boots worn down a mine or in an iron foundry...?? This is my guess...???
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  43. A PLEA TO HOBBYISTS Please, once you get competent, do not go onto Etsy and sell your labour for pennies on the pound £ You are putting guys like this out of business I know it can be incredibly tempting to just make a few ££ or $$ and just cover the fabric and material cost of your hobby; but I assure you - you are doing NO ONE any favours. You WILL start to get requests and suddenly the £40 for a skirt you charged is now £240 because you are now costing the fabric and your time at minimum wage and your client thinks you are conning them >>> And you are distorting the market for the people who are actually making a living, paying a mortgage, feeding their family off the proceeds of their labour. Never charge less than $15 / £15 / €15 an hour for your work. If its not good enough to charge that - then keep practising until it is, don't sell crap.
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  44. OH WOW - YOU HAVE 40.1K SUBSCRIBERS...! the last time I looked you had 1,300 CONGRATULATIONS
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  45. WHEN I PUT ON my first pair of bespoke fish-backed trousers - my comment was "OH SH!T" They were SO comfortable I knew I could never wear commercially made trousers again... I knew at that moment that I would NEVER wear a pair of jeans again, off-the-peg trousers again. And I have not since that day 4 years ago. I make all my own clothes now, they are infinitely more comfortable.
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  46.  @lalaithan  😀
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  47.  @Mycopoks  Мисля че е.
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  48. ​ @andrem7718  You are most welcome to it.
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  49.  @DonnaHawkTx  Yeah - I also lost all my ties, braces / suspenders, scarves. Packed them at one end - and unpacked at the other and they were not there. I have literally no idea what happened to them. Its not like I used a removal company.
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  50. THAT BLUE is just stunning...
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