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I started this as a little experiment in anxiety management. Mostly for fun, but hoping that it would work for my Civil War reenacting next year and one more event this year. This in it's current form will not work. I'm not happy with being out of the pattern sizing, and this is the largest one. Time to scale it up some more I suppose. Also, I
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Totally gorgeous! This corset's making me go weak in the knees.
Love the colors, the lines, the construction, everything. Wow.
Of course you must make "a next one" for yourself! And a next one after that, and then yet another next one! How could you not? A girl needs fabulously beautiful foundations and a fabulously beautiful wardrobe, too.
Besides, you wouldn't want to deprive your adoring fans of the eye candy, now, would you? (Sure hoping the answer to that question is, "Of course I wouldn't deprive my adoring fans of such delectable eye candy!")
My corset-making is nowhere near so advanced. I'm not understanding about the "traditional seam" versus the top-stitching for the gores. Is this something I'll grasp "one day, when [I] have had enough experience?"
Meanwhile.... WOW!
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A gore set into the ground of the fabric is usually sewn like that :
http://sylphecorsets.livejournal.com/3772.html
But making it meet at the tip if it fails the first time will mean hand repairs at the base. Not that I care, because if it's really bad I'll slap an applique onto it it, indeed have done. :D
Thank you very much for the encouragement. I have a couple pieces already cut, and I have my eye on some measurements I took last year. Wow. Where does the time go?
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