Corsetmaking #6
May. 8th, 2003 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinWe had the dealership look at the car yesterday, and made an appointment to get ripped off the bumper replaced, along with some overdue maintenance and the replacement of a recalled part. Even though it's broken the bumper stays put, though we used a bunch of packing tape to make sure it didn't move as well. Considering it was driveable I decided to go catch up on Tuesday's missed corset session... and traffic wasn't pure hell for once, around 6pm is quieter on the road than around 4-5pm.
After finishing the basting on the last piece when I got there, it was time for boning channels... and with the exception of 2 on each front panel in the silver fabric, we got them all done. It's amazing how much of a difference there is in the corset pieces with only the boning channels stitched in... all it is is a bunch of stitched lines, and it's already a lot stiffer and shaping on its own, without any bones yet/even. Kit commented that the pieces now are more stiff and shaped than on cheap and crappy fake corsets, and that's without any kind of boning at all, just channels.
The only real problem we encountered was the bonechannels in the middle of the fabric pieces (as opposed to those next to the seams of the individual pieces). The silk apparantly is too slippery for the sewing machine to get proper traction on and the little teeth under the foot would start to shred the bamboo pattern in the silk. So we had to come up with an alternative and the choice was between tissue paper (and having to pry tiny pieces out of tiny stitches later) or using a spiky tracewheel and tracing lines with wax paper... we settled for the latter on the black silk, as the wax came off if we carefully rubbed it with another piece of silk, not so with a different colour wax paper on the light silver, so a thin thread was carefully stitched through to mark one of the seams. We can do that as it's on a seam, but we couldn't actually baste the flat silk pieces, even with silk thread, as the lines would show up on the silk and you couldn't get rid of them after pressing the fabric... not even by extensively steaming and ironing. Damn silk for holding marks so well!
So now for friday a total of 4 more channels remain to be put in, of the ones we had drawn into the pattern anyway. Due to the way that fabric stretches and such we can probably fit a bunch more boning channels in a number of pieces, but we'll have to see. After boning channels it's onto busk I believe.
Pictures of this session and the previous 3 are all still forthcoming when my computer finally gets fixed and works again. The replacement motherboard has been sent back to be replaced again, and we sent the cpu back for good measure which will be replaced with a new one... not sure if the motherboard will be another refurbished one or a new one this time.
After finishing the basting on the last piece when I got there, it was time for boning channels... and with the exception of 2 on each front panel in the silver fabric, we got them all done. It's amazing how much of a difference there is in the corset pieces with only the boning channels stitched in... all it is is a bunch of stitched lines, and it's already a lot stiffer and shaping on its own, without any bones yet/even. Kit commented that the pieces now are more stiff and shaped than on cheap and crappy fake corsets, and that's without any kind of boning at all, just channels.
The only real problem we encountered was the bonechannels in the middle of the fabric pieces (as opposed to those next to the seams of the individual pieces). The silk apparantly is too slippery for the sewing machine to get proper traction on and the little teeth under the foot would start to shred the bamboo pattern in the silk. So we had to come up with an alternative and the choice was between tissue paper (and having to pry tiny pieces out of tiny stitches later) or using a spiky tracewheel and tracing lines with wax paper... we settled for the latter on the black silk, as the wax came off if we carefully rubbed it with another piece of silk, not so with a different colour wax paper on the light silver, so a thin thread was carefully stitched through to mark one of the seams. We can do that as it's on a seam, but we couldn't actually baste the flat silk pieces, even with silk thread, as the lines would show up on the silk and you couldn't get rid of them after pressing the fabric... not even by extensively steaming and ironing. Damn silk for holding marks so well!
So now for friday a total of 4 more channels remain to be put in, of the ones we had drawn into the pattern anyway. Due to the way that fabric stretches and such we can probably fit a bunch more boning channels in a number of pieces, but we'll have to see. After boning channels it's onto busk I believe.
Pictures of this session and the previous 3 are all still forthcoming when my computer finally gets fixed and works again. The replacement motherboard has been sent back to be replaced again, and we sent the cpu back for good measure which will be replaced with a new one... not sure if the motherboard will be another refurbished one or a new one this time.