Things Found On The Internet Whilst Sewing On A Zipper

It's apparently a day for my browser to pick up weird:

http://bakingbites.com/2007/08/baking-cookies-in-a-car/
http://bakingbites.com/2007/09/car-baked-chocolate-chip-cookies-step-by-step/

wow. http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/doortohell.htm

and just recently useful to me: http://www.fashion-incubator.com/mt/archives/shorten_a_separating_zipper.html

Purple Corset Result

Well, here's the result of the impulse corset I was talking about yesterday. No purple zippers were available, so I used black, and I ended up with cable ties as boning. However, the buckling at the back there suggests I need to rip off a little bit of binding and put some more boning and a couple of gussets in. I suspect the lack of adequate width at the back hip is why the lacing's uneven at the bottom, too. This pattern is very symmetrical, front to back, so that's not really surprising.

I may throw a few very light bones (smaller zip ties) in the front to take care of those horizontal wrinkling. Boning things on the seams, as is most common with corsetry, never seems to work for me. Wall to wall boning is clearly the way to go! Since this was made primarily as a functional corset, for back support, it takes next to nothing off my waist. I'm hovering around a 38" waist naturally, and measured somewhere around 37" with the corset on. I can reduce more than that by holding my breath :P

( pictures )

If folks are interested, I'll post instructions on how to put together one of these. They're relatively simple (no bust to deal with) and I use a different patterning method than most I've found online.