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Yesterday's sewing! A little corset cover with a bust ruffle, a sort of old-time type of padding to achieve that iconic Edwardian silhouette. But also because I was just curious about how it worked and had small scraps of this very thin and soft cotton laying about. Still needs a waistband and buttons, and for me to finish the basted hems by hand, later.

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A top down view of a half finished little top on a desk, next to a sewing machine. It's white and waist length only, and has two fairly voluminous short ruffles right at the bust line and down. There's machine felled teeny tiny seams and narrow hand turned hems on the neck and arm openings, which are basted on with pink basting thread. Sini's hand bracing on the desk at bottom of frame, with jacket sleeve and its black lace decoration.
Close up of the ruffles and where they get sandwiched into the side seam. The side seam has been finished by hand, and tiny little whipstitch backs show through to the right side. The fabric is sheer enough to see Sini's fingers through, and the ruffles are hemmed with a tidy machine stitch at a tiny length per stitch, and about a 5mm turn.
The centre back seam, with a tiny narrow machine felled seam, about half the width of a fingernail, or something like 5mm wide. This is because the fabric pieces were not large enough to cut on fold. The back neck opening hem basted on with big loose basting stitches.
The shoulder of the top, with another tiny little machine felled seam, flanked by two narrow hand basted hems. There's not a lot of fabric, and it's sheer enough to show through the shadow of Sini's fingers as she's holding up the garment part for the photo. This is a fine and not very useful fabric!
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in reply to Sini Tuulia

Sini Tuulia
Sini Tuulia
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I'm purposefully doing the hems and placket by hand so I have something to keep my hands occupied while I enjoy my shows, but that means I want to finish at least the button placket before I put on the waistband, so who knows what order I'm going to do things in, or when. But certainly I've got something to do when I do!
in reply to Sini Tuulia

Sini Tuulia
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Oh, I'm also experimenting with a travel bustle pad. Maria from Sew Through Time had one in a recent video, where it was a sort of flat plane with ruffles on it, that you then made into a more 3D shape when you pulled the drawstring and it looked like one could make it entirely out of cotton and wash and iron it without issue, which is not true of any of the padded pillow type bustle pads. We'll see!
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia uh! travel bustle pad that folds flat sounds like a really useful thing!

is it this video? youtube.com/watch?v=Zxs4qF8yyS…

/me adds it to the list of videos to watch

@Sini Tuulia
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Lauma Pret 🕸️
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@valhalla
I'm having entirely linen and washable pad, but different construction – it is approx. half circle with several lines of ruffles sewn on top. I brought it at Gibson Girl and changed the closure from quit thick waistband to a thin string so that I don't have a big knot bump in front. I really like it! But I would like to learn to starch it a bit.
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Sini Tuulia
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@laumapret @valhalla I've never really experimented with starch, it seems like I'd give myself even more work just to wear clothes!

There's the spray on kinds you can buy that apparently work, but it would seem silly to pay so much for something you can make at home

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in reply to Sini Tuulia

Lauma Pret 🕸️
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@valhalla
Also, the one I brought... contains this magically shaked bullshit water, and I'm much against perpetuating such nonsense! Even though I really like the mild rose and geranium aroma it has.
@Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Sini Tuulia
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@laumapret @valhalla It probably needs to have some kind of chemistry shenanigans to keep it shelf stable, too!
The internet has told me that it's possible to make starch with a teeny tiny amount of essential oils (making your own "dry clean" spray out of vodka and rosemary oil has intrigued me, also) but yeah, probably still a hassle.
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in reply to Sini Tuulia

Lauma Pret 🕸️
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@valhalla
For one item once in a year... I could bear the hassle. For every shirt ever? Nop, nop, nop.
@Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia @Lauma Pret 🕸️ my mother always had a bottle of spray starch to be carefully ignored while ironing clothing, so I have one too :D

lately when I want to feel fancy or I have to spend the whole day outside I've started to use it when ironing my linen shirts, and it does work in making them feel nice and crinkle less, but it doesn't make stuff significantly stiffer like I've seen in the videos and blog posts of people dipping garments in starch.

Maybe it's possible, if one uses *a lot*, but I'm not sure it's really designed for being used that way.

I'm not sure how much it costs, because I still have the bottle I stol… er, borrowed from my mother¹ a few years ago, since each shirt-ful takes very little, and I suspect that for this usecase it would actually cost less than making it at home from food-grade starch, as the latter needs to be made in a bigger batch (and it doesn't keep, not it's really safe to starch all of your clothing and store them starched long term, I believe).

I still want to try and make the liquid one to dip some collars and petticoats in, but there are only so many hours in the day, and starching looks like a couple days of commitment.

¹ we live close enough that she can easily take it back once ever couple years when she needs it :)

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in reply to Ailbhe

Sini Tuulia
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@artbyailbhe I do not require much padding on the caboose and yet I yearn for more padding on the caboose! I'd just like it to be more practical!
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Sini Tuulia @Ailbhe there is always room for more padding to the caboose!

and if there isn't, it means that the skirt isn't wide enough!

(maybe. I suspect that there is a practical limit, even for victorian skirts :D )

@Ailbhe @Sini Tuulia

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