northanger abbey part 2!

[mlsdesigns]

wow! that was great! i really liked it :) i think i may even like it better than any other JA adaptation, shocking i know! i need to see it again though, you can never tell with only one viewing can you? i've seen at least one outfit i really want to recreate, i think my urge to make the regency wardrobe for the jane austen festival has just increased, 'an hundred fold' as jane would say. hee, i'm so excited, yay!!!!

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[my-stitching.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I forgot that was coming on tonight! Gah! I wonder if they will reshow it as they do with many programs. I'll have to search the listings for Sky. Sunday is my Lost night so I wasn't thinking about it, but I have the capability of recording two shows at once. Hopefully, I'll find it and I'll definitely mark it for Mansfield Park, which I have always loved.

I know what you mean about wanting a new wardrobe for the festival. I recently got a book of Ackermann prints and there are a couple of outfits I am dying to recreate. I keep looking at them and cooing over them. One is a lovely pelisse which would be perfect for the Promenade during the first weekend and the second is an evening gown which would be great for the second weekend.

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Apparently its already out on DVD.

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

it is indeed out on DVD, i started looking on amazon before it had even finished!

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

i hate to break it to you, but mansfield park was last week :( it's persuasion next sunday, with a documentary (on ITV3 i think) as well.
but if mansfield park is your favourite you would not have liked it anyway, in some ways it was a worse representation of the book than the 2000 film.
i don't need a new wardrobe, i need a first wardrobe, i've never been to the festival! and probably won't get there this year either, i expect all of the tickets for the ball have been sold already? i have that book too, it's wonderful, isn't it? but why do period dramas never have the neck ruffs and ruffles? they look so pretty :)

[my-stitching.livejournal.com]

I agree. I definitely want the neck ruffles under the pelisse. My situation is more of a first wardrobe as well. I really only have three day dresses though one of them is passable as a simple early Regency ball gown. I think they are probably a bit on the small side now too. I want to start sewing so badly, but I promised myself that I would inventory my huge fabric stash and completely unpack the room before I started doing projects. I know if I don't do it first, it will never get done.

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

by the looks of things with your inventory you're going to be atill at it this time next year!! if you use the fabric you posted about, and have ruffles your pelise will be great :)