I've already done several corset making classes this year including
corset making for beginners,
intermediate corset making, and
how to make a corset pattern from scratch. Most of my girls this year have been two or three times which is lovely because instead of a bunch of lessons, it feels like a nice sewing circle/social!
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| Erica, Emily, Tamina and Michele learning how to flat pattern a corset from scratch |
One of the girls who came along, lets call her "Erica, Queen of Sewing Gadgets" had the most superb sewing machine, which I had been lusting over for a while before Erica brought hers to class. Upon seeing it's performance, I was immediately smitten, and I decided I had to have one! I wrote to the nice people at Janome, and they sent me one on loan for a year in exchange for me saying nice things about her. Well that isn't hard because she is utterly Fabulous!
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| She's ARRIVED!!! Glee! |
And.. here she is:
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| My new Janome 1600P - she is fast.... very very fast |
I immediately set to work on the wedding dress commission I have to finish by the end of this week, while my friend Izabela who had joined me for the day, worked on a very complicated corset drafted from an 1884 patent.
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| Scaling the pattern |
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| Working out the stitching methods .. |
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| et Voila! An 1884 pregnancy corset (no she isnt!) come to life, with 'steam punk' customisation in process |
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| The lining of my wedding skirt |
