School ick

I think I've come up with a cording pattern and figured out the boning thing. I'm thinking flat steels centre back and spiral on the side seam, busk in front (I was iffy about that one for awhile since you don't really see corsets from that time with cording and a busk, but decided that I really wanna try it out), and then cording on the front (with some diagonal lines in the stomach area) and around each gusset and doing the diagonal lines on the back by the shoulder blades. I may put another steel on a slant from the outside of the bust to the bottom of the front or do that with several rows of cording instead. I don't really need tons of support and I think the cording would be enough. Did I mention before that I took apart the whole front of my mock-up because I decided I wanted to make a couple more minor changes in terms of fit? Becasue I did. I made the line for the front hip gusset deeper. I was getting a bit of a wrinkle at the waist because I think it was too long waisted for me. I also wanted to fiddle around with the bust gussets more, making them a bit closer together at a slightly different angle and a little deeper. I've got all the adjustments made to a new front and it's cut out, but I haven't really had time to sew it together yet. Why?

School. Blah. It's the end of term and I have two final exams and three papers/projects. And after that a wedding shower to help put together. So I am pretty busy with those things. I'm often sitting in front of this computer (not unlike now) trying to write about labour relations in Canada or working on a case about TiVo while thinking about my corsets: both the 1840 one and the 1860 one (which I haven't gotten around to cutting out a new mock-up for yet, obviously). School work at the moment is really less than thrilling. Ick! !ck, I say!