I want to do something fun!
Feb. 5th, 2007 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisSo, I want to do something fun, i.e. sew something. But I don't know what. I have cut and partly sewn a pair of sleeves for my peasant kirtle, but my hands are hurting so much that I doubt more hand sewing is a good idea. And they're not exactly fun.
I don't have any fulled wool I want to use for my warm sleeves to wear with the red sixteenth century gown. And that would also mean more hand sewing.
I think I need a new effigy corset. The comfy corset fits me nicely, but I need a corset that compresses my bust more, since otherwise my old dresses won't fit and I would also like to have a corset with tabs. But there's a problem: I can either start on my planned all hand sewn effigy corset, from hand woven linen and boned with reeds, but that would be bad for my hands. It's also not ideal to start such an ambitious project when I'm in the process of loosing weight. Or I could make a machine sewn corset quick and easy. The problem here is that I would love to use plastic whalebone then, which I don't have and which isn't sold in Sweden. So I would have to order it from England.
So instead I waste time on LJ and wander around the flat aimlessly.
I don't have any fulled wool I want to use for my warm sleeves to wear with the red sixteenth century gown. And that would also mean more hand sewing.
I think I need a new effigy corset. The comfy corset fits me nicely, but I need a corset that compresses my bust more, since otherwise my old dresses won't fit and I would also like to have a corset with tabs. But there's a problem: I can either start on my planned all hand sewn effigy corset, from hand woven linen and boned with reeds, but that would be bad for my hands. It's also not ideal to start such an ambitious project when I'm in the process of loosing weight. Or I could make a machine sewn corset quick and easy. The problem here is that I would love to use plastic whalebone then, which I don't have and which isn't sold in Sweden. So I would have to order it from England.
So instead I waste time on LJ and wander around the flat aimlessly.
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To add to the list of suppliers?
Date: 2007-02-05 04:12 pm (UTC)Re: To add to the list of suppliers?
Date: 2007-02-05 04:16 pm (UTC)/Eva
Re: To add to the list of suppliers?
Date: 2007-02-05 04:38 pm (UTC)I'll keep looking,
but thanks.
Re: To add to the list of suppliers?
Date: 2007-02-05 04:41 pm (UTC)/Eva
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Date: 2007-02-05 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-05 09:37 pm (UTC)I've bought plastic boning from there, thought I'd use it in the 18th c corset that I'm trying to put together. The shop is in Stockholm.
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Date: 2007-02-05 09:56 pm (UTC)Their shipping fees are horrible I recall, but may be better than shipping from England. I'm checking out a corset shop here in town on thursday too. Not that I need the boning right now, as you can see from my latest post.
/Eva
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Date: 2007-02-05 10:56 pm (UTC)If the corset shop in Gbg seems good, please give me the address!
If you are ever in København, there is a shop called "Handler" at Vingårdstræde 19 that might be worth a visit.
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Date: 2007-02-05 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-05 05:23 pm (UTC)/Eva