The orange dress nightmare is over! In all truth, it wasn't a nightmare, but I am very glad to be done with all of the orange. Everything turned out splendidly last night, I even got the awfully slippy skirt fabric for the Shakespeare in Love dress beautifully pressed before I passed out at a remarkably reasonable hour.
This weekend, between orange-themed receptions and a potential cast party, I plan to tackle corset making for Madame X and the new teens dress and round one of pattern wrangling for the cheongsam. We'll see how that goes. I have to make an early trip to Britex on Saturday to pick up silk for the cheongsam bindings, and possibly some corset fabric. I think I have enough suitable corset fabric though. For the teens corset (which will actually be done with a slightly more Edwardian line, I like it better and it will work) I think I'm going to use some of the left over blue and yellow satin backed tafetta from one of the SASS dresses I did in December. Blue with yellow binding will be fun. The corset for Madame X needs to be obnoxious. I have some good red brocade I might use, but I might go with scraps of a scary raspberry and black spotted tafetta from yet another SASS dress. The raspberry with black bindings sounds like more fun at this point. I've ordered some white cotton sateen for the Regency corset, so I won't get distracted by that project in a significant way for a few days yet.
I think I need a couple of busks though. I might cannibalize my gold corset for Madame X (it's a little too small through the bust line), but that will still leave me a busk short for the Edwardian corset. Oh what to do! Hedgehog Handworks has the best prices on busks (and hoop wire) that I've found anywhere, but I have no idea at this stage when length I'm going to need. So, if I can get the patterns more or less figured out this weekend I can order however many busks I need and they will be here by the time I need to start on the corsets in earnest. How's that for planning!
Corset making benders are so much fun!
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