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Posted on December 26, 2006 by Trystan
Ren corset, mark 3

I boned and bound the corset, gotta go pound grommets. If I’m very, very lucky, I might get to the farthingale tonight. Though I might risk it, skip that, and go straight to the sleeves, since I still need to tweak that pattern. Really, I can wing the skirts without the farthingale, even though it’s wrong to make an outside piece before an inside. But the skirt width is going to be as much as the fabric allows plus how much will fit on my waist, not truly based on the farthingale, and I’ve got a lot of fabric/waist. Anyway, I’ll feel better if I get going on the sleeve pattern and maybe cut out the bodice itself. But it’s so much easier to sit here and type about it than actually, y’know, sew!

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