More importantly, this season (by season I mean fall/winter/spring) is already looking quite busy. There is School, Halloween, Jane Austen's birthday, Christmas, Titanic Centennial, and a Regency ball to sew for.
I'm already feeling concerned, last year I was so busy with school, there was no time for personal sewing and I desperately want to commemorate the Titanic centennial by dressing up (it's not like there will be another one any time soon) I really want to go to the Regency Ball, which will be my first ever! Halloween, of course speaks for itself, and finally Jane Austen's birthday. A very important event with JASNA, I will be giving a presentation on what the Dashwood's would wear, and I need to sew for that...*phew*
So, I had better get busy.
I am totally in awe, and inspired by this lady's work. http://bridgesonthebody.blogspot.com/ I want to try that kind of project! And I really want to say a big thank you to her, she gave me the answer my teacher could not. How to scale patterns up from a book if it's not on a graph and you don't want to free hand it. I knew I could use a projector, but there had to be something easier, I thought of scaling up at a copier but staples wouldn't do it and said they couldn't, but she mentions way at the beginning that she scaled it up 200% at a photo copier, then another 200% of that!
Mwahaha.
I did it today, and it was so perfect. I cut the pieces out individually after copying them the 200% and angled them to fit on the one 11X17 piece of paper. All in all, including many trial and errors, I paid only $1.68. Not bad, not bad.
So, first corset will be...
(Picture from Dreamstress's blog)
I tried this corset once already, it turned out okay, a bit big, and I didn't really finish it neatly, or use the right fabric, or anything like that. The silhouette was right though! That's all that really matters.
But now, I know more! Round two, begin!
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