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

New Cat Hat!

New

Black Visual Kei Cat Hat

With its Shiny Glory

This is literally my latest project!

Got right out of my chair, sat on my bed, took the photo, and now its on my blog for all to see!

It took a little under 50 minuets,

It was a quickie for an occasion for tomorrows hang out with friends!

This hat includes 

Red fishnet ears

5 safety pins

A broken zipper decoration on front

 A zip head on the ear

A chain that falls from the ear to the zippers

This was a hat made for myself, because sometimes I need to make myself something nice

Cause every time I make something for my shop, it is more difficult to send away because I get too atathed to my crafts 

T^T

BUT

If you would like to order a hat like mine...

Message me at Etsy.com

(click on banner to access my shop)

Thanks for reading!

o^._.^o

nyans and meows