Sewing: New stays
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mandie_rwSo, the whole "taking a break from sewing" thing lasted less than five days, if you wanted to know.
Last year I decided I needed new stays, to wear with my cranberry wool gown (possibly will get finished someday. Possibly). Yes, I made that pair of 1780s stays last summer, and I am still quite happy with them! But, gee, they're 1780s, and I'm planning on making a 1770s polonaise to wear for a Nice Dress at CosCon. And no, I could not wear the 1780s stays! Look, the 18th century's my pet costume-making century, what can I say.
When I get around to the Pompadour dress (c.1758-60) I'll have to make new stays for that too. I'm a pain in my own ass when it comes to costuming for the 18thc! But I kind of like making stays, so that's okay. Making stays is one thing I'm fairly confident I can do properly by now!
And I already had a pattern for these, I just had to make it a titch smaller. Not having to draft a pattern out is a nice time-saver! Also a sign I have made too many pairs of stays.
These are half-boned, and are based on the Diderot stays in Corsets and Crinolines. I learned a while back, though, to cut down on the number of tabs on stays, for a couple reasons. One, fewer tabs to bind, hello. Binding tabs on stays still sucks, no matter how much I've done it! And two, on stays this size, using the larger cable ties, if I make more tabs, I can't fit a tie into each one, and then the unboned ones flop around uselessly when it's on. So -- consolidation!
And they're going to lace at both front and back. I like being able to get dressed without wrestling with my corsets if at all possible! *gives a Look to 1844 corset*
Not that the tabs are cut yet anyway. I've learned that the hard way as well!
I did put in the horizontal boning like the Stays in The Book have, though I thought about how I could make it easy on myself, and so just made another two layers of interlining for that area to make boning channels, and then tacked it down where I could by machine. And called it Good Enough. I always machine-sew the guts of my stays; don't currently have the fortitude to hand-sew boning channels no one will see!
...Not that people usually see my stays anyway. Except that I show them off here.
The shell is leftover silk from my gaulle, and the lining is a white linen/cotton blend. All from the scrap bin, naturally...I don't think I've yet made a pair of stays that wasn't made of fabric from the scrap bin! I know I've never bought fabric specifically for stays, anyway. I'm probably going to bind them in the white linen/cotton as well, but am not 100% on that...we'll see.
Not like I have to worry about that yet anyway; I've got 46 eyelets to sew first! YAY.
And I've got other bits of small projects strewn about the room currently, so don't be surprised when I get tired of sewing eyelets and wander off to something else. Like I've said -- attention span of a grape.
Last year I decided I needed new stays, to wear with my cranberry wool gown (possibly will get finished someday. Possibly). Yes, I made that pair of 1780s stays last summer, and I am still quite happy with them! But, gee, they're 1780s, and I'm planning on making a 1770s polonaise to wear for a Nice Dress at CosCon. And no, I could not wear the 1780s stays! Look, the 18th century's my pet costume-making century, what can I say.
When I get around to the Pompadour dress (c.1758-60) I'll have to make new stays for that too. I'm a pain in my own ass when it comes to costuming for the 18thc! But I kind of like making stays, so that's okay. Making stays is one thing I'm fairly confident I can do properly by now!
And I already had a pattern for these, I just had to make it a titch smaller. Not having to draft a pattern out is a nice time-saver! Also a sign I have made too many pairs of stays.
These are half-boned, and are based on the Diderot stays in Corsets and Crinolines. I learned a while back, though, to cut down on the number of tabs on stays, for a couple reasons. One, fewer tabs to bind, hello. Binding tabs on stays still sucks, no matter how much I've done it! And two, on stays this size, using the larger cable ties, if I make more tabs, I can't fit a tie into each one, and then the unboned ones flop around uselessly when it's on. So -- consolidation!
And they're going to lace at both front and back. I like being able to get dressed without wrestling with my corsets if at all possible! *gives a Look to 1844 corset*
Not that the tabs are cut yet anyway. I've learned that the hard way as well!
I did put in the horizontal boning like the Stays in The Book have, though I thought about how I could make it easy on myself, and so just made another two layers of interlining for that area to make boning channels, and then tacked it down where I could by machine. And called it Good Enough. I always machine-sew the guts of my stays; don't currently have the fortitude to hand-sew boning channels no one will see!
...Not that people usually see my stays anyway. Except that I show them off here.
The shell is leftover silk from my gaulle, and the lining is a white linen/cotton blend. All from the scrap bin, naturally...I don't think I've yet made a pair of stays that wasn't made of fabric from the scrap bin! I know I've never bought fabric specifically for stays, anyway. I'm probably going to bind them in the white linen/cotton as well, but am not 100% on that...we'll see.
Not like I have to worry about that yet anyway; I've got 46 eyelets to sew first! YAY.
And I've got other bits of small projects strewn about the room currently, so don't be surprised when I get tired of sewing eyelets and wander off to something else. Like I've said -- attention span of a grape.
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