So I’ve been helping my friend Sara Mueller sew a Victorian bustle gown. And now, of course, I’ve decided I have to have a new project of my own because, Jesus Christ, it’s like inviting an alcoholic to a liquor party when you put a needle and thread into my hands.

I’m finally going to start a long-promised project for the daughter, with the hopes of having it done in time for Orycon. I’m going to make her a new corset (with an incredible blue, white, and black plaid satin that we found about five yards of at Goodwill), a ruffly white taffeta skirt (I’m going to use TV’s Bustle Petticoat pattern, but modify it so it doesn’t have a big honkin’ placket right down the front), a little bolero jacket, and possibly a hat. She really wants me to make her the TV Polonaise, (which I do have the pattern for, and actually I have a muslin of it already made up) but I think that’s just a mite ambitious given the time allotment.

Anyway, the corset has to come first. I’ve ordered busks & boning & such from Richard the Thread and, Lord Love Me, I’ve ordered a few yards of white coutil. I’m going to try using down-free ticking to interline the corset. Also, even though I have about a zillion corset patterns now, I’m going to try my hand at drafting the pattern for this one. Super happy funtimes!

Pictures as they become available.