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Feb. 1st, 2016 06:32 pmLast furniture purchases for, hopefully, a while: one of those 2x3 shelving units to put sewing stuff on, and this cart, which doubles my kitchen counter square footage - quadruples, if you count the two shelves. It's opposite the refrigerator, which is so small that I can still open the door fully.
Registered at the Sewing Academy again, because I stopped by and noticed that registration was open! I think I try once a year. There must be something wrong with me that I never get through.
My corset pattern is vexing me. It just looks so small. I know some of that is my short waist, and some of it is that I'm making this cut higher on the hips than my last one (because why not? it's going under a cage), but the waist also looks small. I don't get it! I have a 30-31" waist naturally. My old corset has a 26.5" waist and comes close to closing but has to be stretching or something because I'm sure my corseted measurements haven't been 27". (I can't check very well because I opened some of the seams to see how much ease I needed to add in the hips, and one of the seams has ripped practically up to the top by this point. Also my bustle gown is in the basement now so I can't measure it.) So I'm making this corset 12" on each side, so 24" total, which with a 3" gap should be able to bring me down to 27". Or am I being too ambitious? If you had or have my waist measurement, what waist measurement would or do you give your mid 19th century corsets?
Registered at the Sewing Academy again, because I stopped by and noticed that registration was open! I think I try once a year. There must be something wrong with me that I never get through.
My corset pattern is vexing me. It just looks so small. I know some of that is my short waist, and some of it is that I'm making this cut higher on the hips than my last one (because why not? it's going under a cage), but the waist also looks small. I don't get it! I have a 30-31" waist naturally. My old corset has a 26.5" waist and comes close to closing but has to be stretching or something because I'm sure my corseted measurements haven't been 27". (I can't check very well because I opened some of the seams to see how much ease I needed to add in the hips, and one of the seams has ripped practically up to the top by this point. Also my bustle gown is in the basement now so I can't measure it.) So I'm making this corset 12" on each side, so 24" total, which with a 3" gap should be able to bring me down to 27". Or am I being too ambitious? If you had or have my waist measurement, what waist measurement would or do you give your mid 19th century corsets?
