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about bridges on the body
I'm sewing my way through every corset pattern in Norah Waugh's book, Corsets and Crinolines. When I complete this challenge I hope to be able to say, "yeah, I can sew," and "yeah, I know a bit about corsets." Here's how the project began, and here are the ground rules.
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- 1911 - waist tape
- 1911 - the last work on the pattern, really.
- corset nerves
- a patterning and construction nightmare
- 1911 - two kinds of seams
- 1911 - flat felled
- 1911 - plain and stay stitched
- what keeps you motivated?
- 1911 - tracing the pattern to fabric
- 1911 - fabric prep
- 1911 - patterning the back facing
- 1911 - patterning the front facing
- 1911 - fitting notes
- fashion from 100 years ago today
- 1911 - fabric decided
- 1911 - the center back and bottom edge
- 1911 - transferring alterations to the pattern
- 1911 - correct corseting
- 1911 - fitting the mock-up
- 1911 - world's best corsets
- 1911 - adding lacing strips and boning
- 1911 - making lacing strips
- 1911 - sewing the mock-up
- 1911 - sewing the gores
- 1911 - comfort in brassieres
- 1911 - tracing the pattern to muslin
- corset saves a life
- 1991 - notching the pattern and adding length
- 1911 - checking in
- 1911 - drafting new seam lines
- 1911 - the hips
- 1911 - slashing and spreading the pattern
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