Portfolio Submition: Review for Yourself!

Hey guys!

 

It has been quite a while since I have been posting updates.

 

I am sorry for that! I have just been working hard on starting college as a freshman.

 I have been doing more than just sewing in the past few months. I now have to draw, paint, and create works of art on picture plains, instead of human bodies. I will have to post my past semester's work!

I have so much to show you!

:D

 

But for now, I am posting a quick review of my past works that are within this portfolio. I had to submit this for a different college (not the one I am in today) for a scholarship.

I got $26,000 worth of scholarship from this school, but it wasn't enough to attend to, sadly.

But my other school offered me much more.

I just had to take that!

:3

 

Anyway, here ya go and I hope you enjoy.

 

Photo by Kat

 

Photo by Kat

 

 

 

Photo by Kat

 

 

Photo by Kat

 

Photo by Kat

Photo by Kat

 

 

I am truly sorry for not making any posts on my blog. I will make sure to keep updating this for now on!

:3

 

Happy Holidays!

 

 



The Shiny Corset

Here is a corset I finished last week, before I started on the Steampunk Victorian dress

A Shiny Red Corset with Steel Boning and Busk

It's sort of a little waist clincher

The material I used for this is kind of a plastic

The fabric itself was almost like a sheet of just red plastic

I would show you the back to show the ribbon ties,

but then I would be making you through up

Other words, it's really gross to look at

;^^; ;

This has a four clasp steel busk and 16 steel rods/boning

This has a 2"-4" back gap and, in this photo, gives me a 24"or 22" (I'm not completely sure) waist line

This is a huge accomplishment to me, cause my waist line (which I will not reveal) is...well...not very tiny like 24" or 22"

Now I have a nice little corset training...corset!

Or even a nice raving/ clubbing garment

Although, I do need advice for some issues

Such as when I start to loose circulation in my right leg

^^;

Heres a better picture of the curve of the waist with a white background

Now I would like to share some interesting construction info that I did

You might have noticed that there is not bias tape

That's because I used a different method of corset construction

A method that most people don't do for corsets using steel boning

What I did instead was first add the busk,

Then I sewed the top hem (under bust) and bottom hem (hip) together

Leaving the horizontal back seem open

Then turned the whole thing inside out

And what a job that was

After many minuets of poking and clipping corners,

I added the bones

Now how I did that was that I left the sandwich channels, at the bottom hem (hip) open,

To allow myself to simply slip the bones right in their appropriate spaces

Then I toped stitched everything, including the back seem together

Then finished off the corset with adding 5 eyelets to each side of the back

This was a pretty good result

I was expecting a frustrating mess

or just a sewing disaster

But it isn't!

:D

o^._.^o