Stays mock-up

[robinsnest]

I have a stays mock-up! I started wit koshka_the_cat's lovely pattern on her website and enlarged it to make it more rotund girl sized. Then I had to move around my bust gores as my first eyeballing made them too wide...and they're only about 1" wide but that still looks TOO big up top. I do so hate making stays because it's hard to have a good idea what they're REALLY going to behave like with with stiff fabric and a busk etc etc. And it's practically impossible to fit them on me so I have to do it on my dressform which has boobs in a totally different place...so while it gapes like the dickens now perhaps I'll NEED more than 1" in gores later. 

*sigh* I don't mind sewing when it's things that don't have to fit. But dammit I hate fitting! 

Comments

[heidilea.livejournal.com]

Wow...I had glanced at that tutorial once before, but I had no idea they were so....tiny. I wonder if the originals were for a teenage girl, or something. I think very few adult women are actually that small.

I mean, crap. I'm pretty small now, but my waist measurement is larger than that hip measurement. And my thighs are certainly the size of that waist....

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

Oh hey I just remembered I haven't scanned that other pattern for you - you still want it?

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

yes please! I want to reference something in a larger size...I don't trust my proportions on this at all.

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

I just sent it - let me know if you don't get it... :>