Corset ready! After so much time, now not only it’s ready, it has also been tried on and worn for over two hours. I’m really happy to see that my efforts had such a great result, though, not perfect. The hooks and eyes in the front (didn’t know where to find a busk) didn’t stay the way I wanted them to – they keep on slipping out from them fabric, specially on the bust (don’t know how to fix that) –, the boning is the cheapest one – ‘cause that’s the only one I could find (though I know where to buy the metal one, the store is just too far away) –, the grommet’s machine almost f***ed up with my wrist (I had to hold the machine with one hand while pulling the lever with the other, and since it has a horizontal pull and no way to attach it to my table, I needed extra strength), pricked my fingertips with pins all the time when sewing the bone casings, forgot to buy the cord for lacing and had to use a pair of long shoelaces (still need the cord though). Good thing is it actually works. The interlining I bought is really good, it gave the fabric the necessary stiffness so the plastic bones don’t need to do much work – though it would still be more fitting with the metal ones. It fits the body well, and, being my first corset (real corset) looks just amazing. Sure it has its flaws, but they can be corrected for future corsets.
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Ready!
Corset ready! After so much time, now not only it’s ready, it has also been tried on and worn for over two hours. I’m really happy to see that my efforts had such a great result, though, not perfect. The hooks and eyes in the front (didn’t know where to find a busk) didn’t stay the way I wanted them to – they keep on slipping out from them fabric, specially on the bust (don’t know how to fix that) –, the boning is the cheapest one – ‘cause that’s the only one I could find (though I know where to buy the metal one, the store is just too far away) –, the grommet’s machine almost f***ed up with my wrist (I had to hold the machine with one hand while pulling the lever with the other, and since it has a horizontal pull and no way to attach it to my table, I needed extra strength), pricked my fingertips with pins all the time when sewing the bone casings, forgot to buy the cord for lacing and had to use a pair of long shoelaces (still need the cord though). Good thing is it actually works. The interlining I bought is really good, it gave the fabric the necessary stiffness so the plastic bones don’t need to do much work – though it would still be more fitting with the metal ones. It fits the body well, and, being my first corset (real corset) looks just amazing. Sure it has its flaws, but they can be corrected for future corsets.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Reasons...
I know I said that chapter 36 was on its way, and that might have felt as if I was going to update on Sunday (06). Well, chapter 36 is still on its way, and I have no idea of when I’m going to finish and post it. Most of you probably don’t care about reasons (to tell the truth, I don’t even know if this post will be read by anyone other than myself), but I do feel the need to justify my lapse and lateness. The thing is, I’ve been having ideas for years now, and those are not the writing kind, but rather the sewing kind. Those have been dorment on me for a while, but it all changed when I found an incredible blog, Bridges on the Body, where the blogger recreates classic corsets (and I have to say, they are just wonderful!). So, this brought back my own ideas of corset making. And, as anyone who read Forgotten Paradise had noticed, I have a great love/interest/addiction for corsets (probably not as great as Cait’s, for I only own one, self-made, that could be better). Back to the point, I’m having a big case of ‘I need to make a corset’ at the moment, and already have (almost) all I need to get one together (what I’m lacking here is steel boning, or simply spiral boning and busk, but those are really hard to get in my city and ordering from the internet would take too long of a time, and I’m quite eager here).
Anyway, what I really had to say is: as soon as my corset-making fever passes, I’ll be able to concentrate on the story and not get sidetracked like this again. Well, at least not until I have another fever like this.
P.S.: wish me luck, the only boning I can find in this corset-goddess-forsaken city is that plastic cheap thing that doesn’t really hold a thing (that’s why my first attempt could be better).
Anyway, what I really had to say is: as soon as my corset-making fever passes, I’ll be able to concentrate on the story and not get sidetracked like this again. Well, at least not until I have another fever like this.
P.S.: wish me luck, the only boning I can find in this corset-goddess-forsaken city is that plastic cheap thing that doesn’t really hold a thing (that’s why my first attempt could be better).
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Change!
I needed one. I was really bored, and thought that maybe if I started changing little things, than I would feel better. I hope it works. As you can see, I changed the colors and design here a bit (if you’ve ever came around here you may notice it, if you haven’t than never mind it), thinking that, maybe, it would get me a bit more inspired to blog about something, even if this something was the little change I was making here. Well, it did work, here I am, writing to blog.
And again, if you’ve ever been around here you will notice (or not, I know most people doesn’t) that there’s no counter anymore. That is mostly because it doesn’t matter if I write anything here or not, I always feel like I’m the only one visiting this blog (I can swear that, from the 128 visitors it had up until an hour ago, at least 100 were just me checking if the post had come out the way I wanted it to be, and that’s because my counter was cheap like that… I’m cheap like that… sometimes). So, I’m done with counting visits, it just makes me feel bad thinking that no one reads what I write. From now on, I won’t care about it anymore.
Also, there’s two new links here on the right side, beneath the labels and archive, mostly the labels. One of them, Wordplay, is K. M. Weiland’s blog. If you’re a writer - aspiring or not - if you want some pointers as to what path you should be taking, how to develop your ideas, how to start writing your book; summarizing, anything related to the whole process of writing, revising and editing your work, go there and pay her a visit. She’s just awesome!
The other link, {Courage 2 Create}, is Ollin Morales’s blog. He mostly rants about the downs and up of the whole process of writing and how life always seems to be throwing things his way to bring him down. Things, I’m sure, happen to all of us. If you’re a writer, having some problems writing, go there and read a few of his old posts, you might find out that he’s already been where you are and you can read how he managed the situation (may give you ideas to deal with what you’ve been going through right now). Of course, he also gives some advices on the process of writing. It’s really worth it!
Now, things I found out that are helping a lot on this little change I decided to make. The first one, how it all started, is Ollin’s blog (already gave you the heads up on that). The second is new music. Weezer may not be a new band, but it is new to me, and I’m right now enjoying it a bit while my mind winds down (this one I found out on Ollin’s blog). And there’s also The Frames, also enjoying it while relaxing (this one I just heard at the end of episode 13 of Castle’s 3rd season).
I don’t know where exactly I’m going with this, but if it helps a bit on the creative process it is worth it.
Feel like you need some change? Go for it!
And again, if you’ve ever been around here you will notice (or not, I know most people doesn’t) that there’s no counter anymore. That is mostly because it doesn’t matter if I write anything here or not, I always feel like I’m the only one visiting this blog (I can swear that, from the 128 visitors it had up until an hour ago, at least 100 were just me checking if the post had come out the way I wanted it to be, and that’s because my counter was cheap like that… I’m cheap like that… sometimes). So, I’m done with counting visits, it just makes me feel bad thinking that no one reads what I write. From now on, I won’t care about it anymore.
Also, there’s two new links here on the right side, beneath the labels and archive, mostly the labels. One of them, Wordplay, is K. M. Weiland’s blog. If you’re a writer - aspiring or not - if you want some pointers as to what path you should be taking, how to develop your ideas, how to start writing your book; summarizing, anything related to the whole process of writing, revising and editing your work, go there and pay her a visit. She’s just awesome!
The other link, {Courage 2 Create}, is Ollin Morales’s blog. He mostly rants about the downs and up of the whole process of writing and how life always seems to be throwing things his way to bring him down. Things, I’m sure, happen to all of us. If you’re a writer, having some problems writing, go there and read a few of his old posts, you might find out that he’s already been where you are and you can read how he managed the situation (may give you ideas to deal with what you’ve been going through right now). Of course, he also gives some advices on the process of writing. It’s really worth it!
Now, things I found out that are helping a lot on this little change I decided to make. The first one, how it all started, is Ollin’s blog (already gave you the heads up on that). The second is new music. Weezer may not be a new band, but it is new to me, and I’m right now enjoying it a bit while my mind winds down (this one I found out on Ollin’s blog). And there’s also The Frames, also enjoying it while relaxing (this one I just heard at the end of episode 13 of Castle’s 3rd season).
I don’t know where exactly I’m going with this, but if it helps a bit on the creative process it is worth it.
Feel like you need some change? Go for it!
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