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HSF and stays
Jan. 12th, 2014 04:38 pmI am trying to get my stays done in time for the first HSF challenge. (Just a reminder that these are the Jean Stays c. 1790 from Jill Salen's Corset book.) It seems doable if I continue to make progress and refusing to let myself procrastinate. In the past few days I have finished the eyelets on the front (Huzzah! Eyelets are always what keep me from working on stays.), marked and sewn all the boning channels, and cut and finished and inserted all the boning. I also did a preliminary try-on and they fit!
I whipstitched the seams together by hand last year and took some close-ups of the outside and inside:
I hadn't marked the channels before, which I probably should have done, so I had to be a bit creative in figuring out how to do that. I wanted to make sure that both sides were symmetrical. So what I ended up doing was drawing the lines in chalk on one side (the outer layer is dark so the white chalk showed well) then folding the stays in half, right sides together, and rubbing to transfer the chalk lines to the other side. I chose chalk so that it would remove easily. It worked really well, although my two sides were probably not a perfect match since I can tell that the channels themselves are slightly off. It's not too noticeable though and doesn't bother me. I'm just glad to have these so close to being finished.
Before and after pictures:
Up next is sewing on the straps and machine sewing on the twill tape for binding. All the HSF challenges are now up and I am excited to see that several of them will be good opportunities to make some of the garments on my wish list.
I whipstitched the seams together by hand last year and took some close-ups of the outside and inside:
I hadn't marked the channels before, which I probably should have done, so I had to be a bit creative in figuring out how to do that. I wanted to make sure that both sides were symmetrical. So what I ended up doing was drawing the lines in chalk on one side (the outer layer is dark so the white chalk showed well) then folding the stays in half, right sides together, and rubbing to transfer the chalk lines to the other side. I chose chalk so that it would remove easily. It worked really well, although my two sides were probably not a perfect match since I can tell that the channels themselves are slightly off. It's not too noticeable though and doesn't bother me. I'm just glad to have these so close to being finished.
Before and after pictures:
Up next is sewing on the straps and machine sewing on the twill tape for binding. All the HSF challenges are now up and I am excited to see that several of them will be good opportunities to make some of the garments on my wish list.
