Celebrity match

Yesterday I was doing nothing late at night (alright, around midnight), surfing the internet instead of going to bed as I should. So after I while I went to Ninya Mikhaila's site, thinking there might some new wonderful costumes to look at. So I looked around for a while and found the news page. First I saw that Perry Miniatures had made some elizabethan 40mm figures and thought that was pretty cool. You see, the Perry brothers are among the real stars in the miniature figures world. Then I scrolled further down and saw that Ninya and Michael Perry were married! So a star of the costuming world and a star of the figure world are married. Maybe not surprising, but it was sort of funny that mine and Rickard's interest spheres met there.

Bad corset!

The corset turned out horrible. I managed to to break the busk while trying it on, or actually not break, but one of the "buttons" you put the hook around just popped out! I had decided to put in the cording from the original design, but didn't manage to get the cording channels even so it looks like %&@¤%!!. And I also placed the boning channels wrong, on top of the seams and it looks stupid. Since the top fabric was extremely gorgeous 45$/metre silk taffeta I really feel I've screwed up. Unpicking seams is very hard to do in this material without leaving too much traces. AAARRGGHH!!!
So I have decided not even to try to salvage this corset and instead start on a new after the weekend. I may do the same model, with some corrections (the basque that was to small suddenly became too wide) or go for the "all-purpose-19th century"-corset from Hunnisett. I wish I had some sturdy cotton satin as top layer. But I can't buy new fabric now. Anyway, I don't have to order a new busk, because I can buy Anna's, since she's not planning to use it in the near future and I'm considering using the pink/lilac cross-dyed dupioni I bought for a Maja-dress, there should be enough for both projects. This time I think I will make it with only two layers, and tapes to hold the bones that aren't encased in an extra wide seam allowance.