500 follower celebration giveaway winner

Thanks again to all of you who took the time to comment and enter the giveaway. And the winner, drawn from a hat by my sister is...

Comment number 24, Aija! Congratulations Aija! Please send me your email address (the link is at the right side bar) by Monday, Decemeber 26, 11:59pm EST so I can mail the coutil and shuriken off to you!

I'll be back next week and we'll scale up the pattern for the sew along. Happy Holidays!

500 followers!

Time to celebrate! To thank all of you for following my corseting adventure I have giveaway.

Coutil! Brocade coutil at that. The lucky winner will receive 1/2 yard of 54 inch wide brocade coutil. It's a cotton/viscose blend, subdued cornflower blue with darker shiny blue bells. Perfect if you're participating in the 1911 sew along. But wait, there's more!

A tailor's shuriken! Have I mentioned how handy this tool is? Now one can be yours.

You must be a follower of this blog to enter the giveaway. It's your comments, questions, advice, and encouragement that help keep this project going and I want to thank you. If you regularly check in but are not yet an official follower now is the time to join! Then, simply leave a comment on this post by Wednesday, December 21, 11:59 PM EST. Tell me about your next planned foundation garment or costume project, or just say hello. Either way I look forward to reading your comments. I'll announce the winner Friday, December 23.

If you are lucky winner you must send me your mailing address within three days, otherwise another winner will be chosen. I want to send the coutil and shuriken off quickly in case it is destined to be a 1911 corset! And I'll ship anywhere in the world.

Thank you for reading!

and the shuriken goes to...

Abby! Congratulations! Abby, if you email me your mailing address, the link is on the left, I'll ship the tailor's shuriken off to you. Happy measuring!

Thanks to everyone who entered! When I thought of the giveaway, lurking in the back of my mind was, "What if only three people enter?" So thank you so much for taking the time to stop by. Your comments are so appreciated!

And here is shuriken information for everyone else who would like one. It turns out, sadly, there is a real name, it's called a UMD Measuring Disc. Boring. If the bin I pulled it from had been so labeled I never would have come up with a much more fun name, so I'm glad it wasn't. 

Alright then, back to work. I have hooks & eyes to show you. They'll be up next. Soon to be followed by boning across the stomach.

closer to reality

A week and a half ago I wrote about what I aspire to. This is my reality, after tidying and make up.

Hunkered down over the machine, glasses on, hair pulled back, and yes, that is a bicycle in the background. My workspace doubles as a garage. A washer and dryer are close to my left, and the camera is propped on the ironing board which sits directly in front of the Singer. All in all, not a bad set up, it could be much worse. The first corset I ever sewed was done with a portable machine sitting on the floor. This workspace is a dream compared to that. There is a window above the washer and dryer so I do get daylight, and wait, I hear birds chirping in the distance. Not a bad set up at all.

The tailor's shuriken drawing entry cut off is midnight tonight. There is still time to participate. Just leave a comment on the original post and your name will be in the mix.

marking hook & eye placement

The hook & eyes have to meet right where the seam line would be if the front and side were sewn together. So I can line up the tapes perfectly I thought I'd mark the placement by basting a line of thread on the meeting point of both pieces. 

Taking no chances, I measured the seam line/meeting point with the shuriken so the basting would be accurate. I basted one line three times because I forgot to knot the end of the thread and pulled it out. Twice.

 

And yea! 100 followers! There is still time to add your name to the list for the tailor's shurkien drawing. Just leave a comment on the original post by midnight, pacific standard time, Thursday February 4th, and you're in.

shuriken celebration

I had been thinking of way to celebrate the day Bridges on the Body has 100 followers, and just yesterday while purchasing hook & eye tape I made a stop at Ace Sewing to pick up a tailor's shuriken as a future thanks-for-reading giveaway. Thank goodness because it looks like that day is here. Or will be super soon. Hooray! And a big thanks to Brookelynn at craftzine.com for featuring this blog. I love craftzine!

So, if you'd like your name to go in the hat for a drawing for a tailor's shuriken just post a comment below by midnight pacific standard time on Thursday, February 4th. I'll have my boy pull the winner on Friday, February 5th. Here's a image of the exact shuriken being raffled.

This tool is quite handy. I use mine all time. In fact, you'll see it action again in tomorrow's post. 

Thank you for all the kind comments. It's so fun knowing there are so many of you out there along for the ride. Thanks for reading!