Stays! Pictures! More Exclaiming!
So here are various pictures, just because I was in the mood to take some and say, "Here. Look. I'm sewing things!" These are the pictures of the stays-in-progress. :)
First the mock-up. No boning in this one, just canvas, and you can tell it works because it's pretty much doing its job even without the boning (well, disregarding the wrinkles and the tabs doing a weird winging out thing). It was just a tad too big, so I took out a little at the sides. I also figured that putting in boning would also make it smaller. And sewing the seams.
The silk side of the stays all plummy and nice.
The lining side of the stays. Oddly wrinkly after the panels were sewn together even though the lining was the same size as the fashion fabric when the individual panels were sewn, I guess because all the tension is on the outside layer and the lining is in a smaller space. Does this happen to anyone else?
Picture of the seam at the meeting point of where it's whipstitched and where it's just machine sewn.
Up next is undoing the front seam. (There won't be any seams in this thing left un-redone after I'm through with it.) I decided the "right sides together then flipping" resulted in a not good result, as in the lining will be a little visible later. So I now need to sew the outer fashion fabric layer over the edge, but not a big deal.
First the mock-up. No boning in this one, just canvas, and you can tell it works because it's pretty much doing its job even without the boning (well, disregarding the wrinkles and the tabs doing a weird winging out thing). It was just a tad too big, so I took out a little at the sides. I also figured that putting in boning would also make it smaller. And sewing the seams.
The silk side of the stays all plummy and nice.
The lining side of the stays. Oddly wrinkly after the panels were sewn together even though the lining was the same size as the fashion fabric when the individual panels were sewn, I guess because all the tension is on the outside layer and the lining is in a smaller space. Does this happen to anyone else?
Picture of the seam at the meeting point of where it's whipstitched and where it's just machine sewn.
Up next is undoing the front seam. (There won't be any seams in this thing left un-redone after I'm through with it.) I decided the "right sides together then flipping" resulted in a not good result, as in the lining will be a little visible later. So I now need to sew the outer fashion fabric layer over the edge, but not a big deal.