#augustastays

Finally, finally starting on my stays! The cardboard and poster board mockups I made for my #augustastays didn't have enough flex, so I made these from scrap fabric, and I think they look good enough to go ahead with the actual fabric! #sewing #stays #staymaking #scrooppatterns #18thcenturyfashion #18thcentury #1700s (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CArfzOpD-8f/?igshid=1hxuh5rfkhi5t

Well that took forever, but all the eyelets on my #augustastays are done now! I machine-sewed the boning channels because that path leads to madness when sewing through canvas and silk, but from how the mock-up fought me when I assembled it, if I'm seaming the panels together with the boning in, it'll have to be by hand so they don't stab me in the face! 😄 #sewing #handsewing #scrooppatterns #virgilsfinegoods #stays #staymaking #18thcenturyfashion #1700s #silk #silkdupioni #eyelets #18thcentury (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA6oUxlD7ps/?igshid=50pkdvmsmbf4

And my contribution to the #cocovid #sundayundies feat my #augustastays ! #cocovid #cocovidsundayundies #sewing #historical #historicalsewing #18thcenturyfashion (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDaT49SDdZv/?igshid=1ap6a4khb6jko

SOON. I've been busy sewing all the things, but now that my stockings by @burnleyandtrowbridge have arrived, I'm just a cap short of my full underpinnings! (There's only one pocket done so far, but I'm going to eventually embroider another one also using the design @vamuseum has released based on an unfinished extant set that I used for the first one) Aside from the stockings and the boning channels on the stays (stays are the #augustastays ) everything is hand sewn, and I used an old throw pillow dug out of storage to stuff my bumroll! 😆 It feels like I've been working on this forever, and I'm finally near the end! Then I can start on my gown, which will be a whole new challenge, but I'll have a full set of underthings already there to build over. #sewing #historicalsewing #18thcenturyfashion #18thcentury #18thcenturystays #stays #staymaking #historicalsewing #historicalfashion #historicalcostuming #handsewing #handmade #staymaker #bumroll #fichu #somuchsewing (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBwo7bMDlN_/?igshid=1hp0e15rzgj2y