You might remember a few months back that I babbled a while about making a tunic for LARP using a C13th-ish pattern, and some green cotton that me and cthulouis bought from allseeingeye23.

Well, after many hours of patient hand stitching, I've finally finished it.


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At last, I've completed the binding on the green satin waspie I began last weekend. And here it is...


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Behold! The fruits of cthulouis's labour!

The Mighty Dredd-O-Lantern!


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( Black velvet underbust corset with cream satin binding )

I made LARP armour. This was my first foray into the world of rivets.

I got to bash things with my hammer. Bashing things with my hammer is fun.

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black_faery came over this weekend, and I made her a corset.

This is the first overbust corset that I have ever drafted, and my icon says it all, really :P

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Yesterday, I drafted a pattern for an underbust corset for rhube, according to the method I blogged about a few weeks ago. I haven't made the toile yet, but I thought I'd post pictures of the pattern drafting process, as they'll probably be a bit more useful than my shoddy diagrams in the last post!

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This post concerns instructions to draft a pattern to make an underbust corset that looks like this: ( Piccie that most of you will have seen before )

I have completed phase 2 of the sugar scrub experiment.

Ingredients

A dessert bowl 3/4 full of sugar
Two tablespoons of olive oil
30ml glycerine
A few drops of Pear single note perfume oil by Isle of Eden.

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