Category: What I'm up to

1. Three corsets on the go

   Posted on 1:28pm Tuesday 4th Aug 2015

   I have been so busy working on an underbust commission, a corset for myself for my holiday, and the model corset that I am hoping to use for this year's shoot at the Oxford Conference of Corsetry. I intended to use the silk and leather plunge corset that I made a few months back on the lovely gingerface model however I was unhappy with the silhouette after trying it on her - it just didn't 'cinch' sufficiently. We are roughly the same size but Gingerface does cinch much more than me, so I have got to work on another one - this time a more simple affair but with some embelishment I think (either lace or sequins). Here's the original corset on me;

   

   Not much time to get mark 2 finished as I'm going on holiday next week, so no doubt I'll be sewing at the 11th hour at Oxford....

2. E-book

   Posted on 7:53am Friday 22nd May 2015

   I have been looking longingly at my Singer desperate to get cracking on my next project. I had a break to work on my e-book but now that's complete I can put the keyboard away for a while. I'm really happy with my book which is a selection of 4 patterns (2 historical, 2 modern). I've had my first sale so hopefully corsetierres, particularly those new to the art, will find them useful. My next corset is going to be another historical corset - a simple four-panel design but with 6 gores creating the curves. It's based on one of the Symington patterns - should be interesting!

   

    

3. The ballet pump pink corset and my patterns

   Posted on 12:51pm Friday 27th Mar 2015

   I haven't blogged for a while because I've been so busy working on my corset patterns. It has taken me about 6 months to refine them! Because I have included customisable options within the patterns themselves I haven't been able to include multiple sizes on each pattern so have had to do separate ones - it's taken much longer than I thought it would! I'm still going though even now - 'plus' size underbusts coming up!

   Promoting them is another matter though - they are on Etsy and I get quite a bit of traffic but nobody seems to want to commit to a purchase. I have had few but there are already tried and tested patterns on the market by brands that have been around a lot longer than I have. How to get going and win the trust of the corset and sewing community?? I figured the only way would be to recruit Morgana (Threnody in Velvet) and prove that my corset patterns do work. The end result was better than I expected - it fitted her so well just using her measurements - I didn't make up a toile although I have made a corset for her before so did have a good idea about her fit.

   I have had 60 new page likes in 6 days and my reach last night from posting her picture is up to nearly 1200. It just goes to show that people love a picture, especially of somebody who knows how to rock a corset!