Confessions of a procrastinator

So my lovely stripey corset is sitting in pieces, I totally ran out of time to finish it for the party I was supposed to attend, so now I'm going to take my time and be careful and finish it properly. In my mad rush to pull a costume together for the party that never happened I did finish the black under-bust. I have to admit its a shoddy piece of work. The lining 'just' fit and is very tight one side.

The reason for this post is not to talk about current projects but the loads of unfinished, half started things I have tried to make or the wonderful ideas I was going to give a go! Looking back through my blog, the wonderful rubbish bin of thoughts I'm shocked by my lack of finished garments. I do work full time now but back then I had no excuse, where does my drive go? I hope I'm not the only one who suffers from this!

For a while a big factor of producing things was money but now I have a little to spend I actually think my utter lack of confidence in my own skills might be more to blame. Yes I can sew but is that all you really need, it might sound strange but most of the time I get frustrated because I don't understand some basic steps. I think the things I make are too 'unfinished' to be worthy of wearing!...My big question is where do people learn how to sew like professionals?

After the stripey corset is finished to best of my abilities, my next project is to make a dress with a corset foundation as a true test of what I can do....So fingers crossed something doesn't come along and derail me back to the road of procrastination!

Yet another corset 'in progress' shot

The front of my uber stripey corset, lets hope this doesn't become another UFO!!
I'm seriously in love with the stripey!! (Quiet proud of my matching too!)

Obsessions

Everyone already knows I'm quiet utterly obsessed with Doctor Who, I think some of the costume designs are amazing on the budget they have to work with. Now lovely, beautiful Idris who becomes embodied with the 'spirit' of the TARDIS was dressed in mildly Victorian garb and I really love the use of subtle colour. I even re-watched the episode a few times, not only for the fantastic story but for the costumes too. Her skirt is a pretty multi layered mis match of colours with some stripes in there too. This is one I really would like to re-create!

Corset progress

So here's the nearly finished underbust corset and boy this baby has been through some rough stuff!

First I thought it would be a FANtastic! idea to draw all over it with a pen that was supposed to disappear...fail! I washed this baby 3 times to get the marks out and then had to dye it black again as the washing had removed some of the colour from the coutil. So learning lessons as I go!

Below is before the wash, the inside shots are showing how I'm boning this thing, two either side of a seam and a shot of the awful pen but the nice lines it can make.....

The corset is going slowly as cutting and tipping bones kills my hands!....but loooook its getting there!!!