On Not Panicking
Apr. 11th, 2011 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Still haven't quite finished ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stitchy's costume... mainly due to running out of the gold thread for the appliques at 10:30pm on Friday. I ended up switching gears instead and starting in on my own costume.
And no, I did not have a panicked wakeup Sunday morning, realizing that I only have two and a half weeks left to do it....
The corset is, mmm, 75% done? One side just needs the boning, the other side needs the boning channels sewn in and the boning done as well. I'm not 100% happy with it, but given that this is the first time I've made a Victorian corset, I'm pleased enough. In pulling out the pattern (Simplicity 7215) I discovered the size I wanted was missing, and I vaguely remembered having cut it out at some point in the past. So I dragged out my WIP box, dug in, and found not only the interlining all cut, but also a second copy of the pattern, one size smaller, cut out of lining fabric. So I saved a little on digging through my shelves there, and will call that two WIPs down. :)
Today on my way home I'll be stopping to get more gold thread (yay, 50% off!). Noting that Joanns also has McCalls and Vogue patterns on sale at the moment, I browsed through both of their websites. Looks like the 80s are back in style, going by McCalls. And of course going through the Vogue site I ended up with a very, very long list of patterns that appealed to me...
stitchy's costume... mainly due to running out of the gold thread for the appliques at 10:30pm on Friday. I ended up switching gears instead and starting in on my own costume.And no, I did not have a panicked wakeup Sunday morning, realizing that I only have two and a half weeks left to do it....
The corset is, mmm, 75% done? One side just needs the boning, the other side needs the boning channels sewn in and the boning done as well. I'm not 100% happy with it, but given that this is the first time I've made a Victorian corset, I'm pleased enough. In pulling out the pattern (Simplicity 7215) I discovered the size I wanted was missing, and I vaguely remembered having cut it out at some point in the past. So I dragged out my WIP box, dug in, and found not only the interlining all cut, but also a second copy of the pattern, one size smaller, cut out of lining fabric. So I saved a little on digging through my shelves there, and will call that two WIPs down. :)
Today on my way home I'll be stopping to get more gold thread (yay, 50% off!). Noting that Joanns also has McCalls and Vogue patterns on sale at the moment, I browsed through both of their websites. Looks like the 80s are back in style, going by McCalls. And of course going through the Vogue site I ended up with a very, very long list of patterns that appealed to me...
