Stay frustration

Straps are on with seam allowances sewn down. That was done yesterday. Today I started binding. And I was binding and it was going well. I'm using a white poly ribbon. (If I haven't said it before, I'm saying it now: These stays are like practice. They will be wearable, but I am definitely making new ones later this year. New and better ones. From a different pattern. That fit better. More reasoning for this ahead.) And I was binding the straps when I realized, "Hey genius, you haven't measured how long the straps need to be". So, I had to get the contraption on and figure it out. In trying the thing on I realize (once again) that the front is not wide enough, and it affects the fit of the whole thing. Bah! So the straps fit kinda wonky in the shoulder area, and I'm rather squished in front from lacing the stays so that the shoulder blade area fits alright. The only fix for this would be opening up the front area and binding that (the fashion fabric was cut with the front in one piece, but the lining is in two pieces. Maybe I was on something while making this decision?) and making more eyelets. No thank you. I am willing to settle on these as they are my first try and all. So once I decided that, there was still strap length to decide. And I realize that I have bound past the point of ideal strap length. This results in taking out my nice whipstitches and then cutting the straps to the right length. Which somehow resulted in my cutting off the nice tail of thread I left so that I could continue whipstitching. Which resulted in having to take out even MORE stitches and then ending that thread. Phooey! Umm yeah, but one day there will be pictures. And it will actually be done. I promise. ;)

Of course, after all this I decided I needed a break. I think I will put Persuasion (which I got from the library) in the DVD player and make some chocolate chip cookies. Mmmm... cookies.