A new sewing project

My new sewing project is a 19th century corset that I will wear on mynningsflamma's "Dirty Thirty" Burlesque themed party in the middle of October. It will be from silk dupioni in strong pink with details in a lighter pink and I plan to also make a short ruffly skirt in the same fabrics.
I tried on my old Foy corset to get something to start with, though this one won't have a basque but be unbroken to the hips. I will have to make it slightly bigger in the bust and over the ribcage, a little higher in front near the armpits so there isn't any "spillage", since I won't be wearing a shift and I will also have a modesty panel in back. Since the local haberdasher only has rather short busks I will lace it in the top and have the busk below the bust and downwards.
Of course none of this will happen unless I do some patterning, so off I go.

Not so much sewing

I didn't manage to sew that much - I made a new pattern based on my Foy-pattern and cut the pieces for a trial version, but then I got distracted by a sudden urge to purge our bookshelves. So now the ratio between fiction and fact books is even more skewed to the latter. I carried a heap of books by international writers like Dostojevskij and swedish popular writers to the entrance and put a note to my neighbours to take what they want - I just am a person who'd rather have "pulp" novels from the 1920s and latin editions of the visions of St.Bridget than "real literature" and we're really running out of space.
Oh, and I ditched Jane Eyre too - I tried to read it last summer, but didn't even get to when she meets Mr Rochester - unsympathetic heroine and all the neurotic antics you can expect from a novel from the romantic era - give me georgian any time please: wit and charm and some sense, at least some of the time.