Sigh...

[sublimatedangel]

I suck!
I have made yet another corset that is somehow too big. Maybe I am screwing up my seam allowances or something? I have no idea... Amy is very discouraged girl. I mean, I will get this someday, I really will, but I am a bit frustrated right now.

Later, we will figure out how to fix it.

Maybe I should finish the kimono instead for a while, hmm? The kimono can be too big and that will be just fine.

Comments

[ex-nicevenn.livejournal.com]

HI!
I want to see pictures of your corset process! so far i have made 3 muslin mock-ups of the McCalls civil war corset pattern trying to get the right fit...ohh to have a dress form!! Are you using a pattern or did you create your own?

~shannon

[sublimatedangel]

Hi Shannon -

I don't have any pics of the process, even though I should - I just never remember to take them. The first corset I made was using the effigy pattern... more info can be found at http://www.dnaco.net/~aleed/corsets/effigy.htm for that one. It's an elizabethan style I made for renaissance faire going. It is slightly too big - meaning I can close it all the way down, and it doesn't gape open but I can move around inside it easily and I get no cinching.

The one I'm complaining about in this particular post is more of a victorian style from a pattern a friend of mine made up for me. It is even bigger. I wish I could say this meant I'm losing weight, but unfortunately that's not the case - I think I'm just giving myself too much seam allowance when I cut out the pieces, and not using it all up. So now I need to take it apart and take in all the seams a little bit. I think I want to change to spiral steels anyway, so I'm trying not to be too disappointed about it.

Personally, I have a dress-form, and it is *no help at all* because you can't cinch the dressform, and also, it's not shaped quite right for an hourglass kind of garment. The corsets look terribly ill-fitting on it, when actually they fit just fine, they just need to be a few inches smaller. I've heard they do have compressible dress-forms though, and that might work.

What problems are you having? I'm obviously not an expert, but I'll help if I can. Also, if you're in the SF bay area, we in darkthreads usually have a sewing circle on Sundays, and the girls are *very* knowledgable and friendly.