Although the pork ramen I had on Saturday in Seattle was delicious, it was very fatty, plus I was not drinking enough water throughout the day, and I was up way too late. The upshot was, I woke up yesterday (Sunday) feeling kind of yucky. It wasn't awful, not food poisoning or anything, just tummy troubles that could have made it fairly miserable to be at work all day. So I ended up calling in sick, and I just drank a ton of water and got some more sleep (thank you Eamon for hanging out with Ziva!!) and finally started to feel better. Eamon and I kind of tag-teamed the rest of the day with Z so he also got to sleep a bit more, and I was able to dedicate some real time to the stays. It was very productive, except for the part where Ziva decided that I couldn't cut out my fabric until she got a chance to wear it!
She looked very regal, no?
When Her Majesty was done parading around, I got the fronts and backs of the stays cut out. It was really hard to get my phone to take accurate pictures of the color - it looks darker in the picture above than it actually is, and it looks lighter and more yellow toned in the pictures below than it actually is!! In any case, I'm pretty pleased with how the pattern came out. I didn't try to match it up, I just put the pattern piece down over the folded fabric and hoped for the best. It's not a directional pattern that only works if the fabric is pointing the same way, it's just kind of a nice scrolling design.
The two fronts placed side by side, and the two backs.
Slightly more accurate depiction of the color. It's really hard!
It's always cool when you discover you already have matching thread for a project!! I might have to get more, with all of those boning channels to sew, but this is a good start!
Here's when I had one half of the corset (coutil and brocade) stitched together along the two sides, turned and pressed.
And here's the whole thing! The white showing around the edges doesn't matter that much because it's all going to be bound with binding tape (provided I can find a nice match...or I might go with something contrasting depending on what's available).
Here's the same thing turned around to the coutil side.
Slightly closer up showing the red dotted lines (applied with chalk tracing paper) indicating where the boning will go and where the cuts form the tabs at the waist. If you really look closely you might see a tiny dot at the top of that rounded part, which is where there will be an eyelet. The strap, which will also have an eyelet, will come over from the back and get tied in place with a ribbon or cord. I'd like to find matching binding and ribbon, if I can. Oh, and I intend to do the eyelets by hand.
Tomorrow I will stitch the boning channels, and if the cable ties and sandpaper arrive like they're supposed to, I might even get to start inserting them! That would be over a week of work on the stays, and I will need to move much more quickly than that on everything else if it's all going to be finished by the first week of November. Motivation, I've got. But I've always been terrible at just buckling down and working on something until it's done. I'm always bouncing up and getting distracted by something after completing a step. I'm just going to have to get better!
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