Okay, done being comatose.
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mandie_rwIt was very nice for a few days, but it's back to LJ the world now...these dresses won't sew themselves, you know! Actually, I have been sewing for the past couple days. For the cruise, which the mater, sister and I leave for on Jan. 9. Because I love dresses and I must have more of them. Yes. Anyhow.
Went toevil Jo-ann's and got fabric for 4 dresses (and a couple patterns, because they were on sale, and I'm totally in love with 50s dresses right now) two days ago, because both my mother and sister got a couple new dresses for the formal dinners on the ship (because who are we kidding, I never miss an opportunity to play dress-up), and I am too much of a snob an individual to buy a formal in a store. So my mom was lovely enough to pay for the fabric for said couple of dresses. Well, yes, four is more than a couple. Shhh.
So I got fabric for two Nice Dresses for Formal Dinners on Cruises or Whatever (that 1935 Vintage Vogue pattern I mentioned before will be one of them), and two more casual dresses. I'll take pictures as I finish them. (no, really. Really.) Meant to sew on one of them today, but I was out most of the day today, so zero sewing progress so far.
Other Winter Break Sewing: For the gift exchange with my TCNJ peeps, I was lucky enough to get the one who told me that as soon as she has money from Christmas, I can start helping her get into 18th-century costuming. However, little does she know, since we took measurements for stays for her about a month ago, she's going to get a pair of stays as a gift. And because I, oddly, really really like to make stays, this works out well for everyone.
Other than cruise-dress-sewing and cutting out the pieces for M.'s stays, I haven't been doing much, just kind of puttering around to various projects, sewing a little, then wandeing off to something else.
Oh, I know, though, I did come home and pet my taffeta and it is lovely and makes me far happier than any totally sane person would be about the appearence of fabric. I also got a yard of silk/cotton voile in the order, because I have vague plans for 18thc kerchiefs/caps/what-have-you, but it is so very nice that it is putting evil, evil plans in my head. These will be discussed at a later date, because my eyes are tired of looking at the computer screen (it took a while to catch up on 3+ days of not reading my f-list!).
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So I got fabric for two Nice Dresses for Formal Dinners on Cruises or Whatever (that 1935 Vintage Vogue pattern I mentioned before will be one of them), and two more casual dresses. I'll take pictures as I finish them. (no, really. Really.) Meant to sew on one of them today, but I was out most of the day today, so zero sewing progress so far.
Other Winter Break Sewing: For the gift exchange with my TCNJ peeps, I was lucky enough to get the one who told me that as soon as she has money from Christmas, I can start helping her get into 18th-century costuming. However, little does she know, since we took measurements for stays for her about a month ago, she's going to get a pair of stays as a gift. And because I, oddly, really really like to make stays, this works out well for everyone.
Other than cruise-dress-sewing and cutting out the pieces for M.'s stays, I haven't been doing much, just kind of puttering around to various projects, sewing a little, then wandeing off to something else.
Oh, I know, though, I did come home and pet my taffeta and it is lovely and makes me far happier than any totally sane person would be about the appearence of fabric. I also got a yard of silk/cotton voile in the order, because I have vague plans for 18thc kerchiefs/caps/what-have-you, but it is so very nice that it is putting evil, evil plans in my head. These will be discussed at a later date, because my eyes are tired of looking at the computer screen (it took a while to catch up on 3+ days of not reading my f-list!).
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Date: 2008-12-22 07:19 am (UTC)What KIND of cable ties do you use? I'm afraid they'll be just too flimsy to provide any real support.
Possibly more than you ever wanted to know about cable ties
Date: 2008-12-22 10:41 pm (UTC)The ties I use (which are sitting on my lap as a handy reference!) are the wider and thicker ones; I think they're usually black. They come in longer lengths, which is handy for corsets! The ones on my lap now are actually 48" long, which is the longest my local hardware store carries...but I was using these for boning for pocket hoops, actually. Generally I'd get the 24" ties. (Oh, hey, another fun fact...I was reading the label on these and apparently they're military approved. Isn't that nice.)
I was kind of unconvinced when I first heard about cable ties as corset boning, too, to be honest...but I'm a total convert now, hahaha! All my stays are half-boned and the cable ties work just fine.