Musings and progress from Caroline - projects she's working on, tips and tricks, and thoughts on corsetry
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I wanted a segmented hood to complete the 'cocoon' theme of my Foundations Revealed competition entry and was surprised at how much I enjoyed making something different. Maybe I need to branch out my patterning to other garments? I feel I can only do panelled things though - I just can't get away from the corset thing!
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I've done quite a few designs now so have sorted them into a sort of taxonomy - I woke up dreaming of putting them into a flow chart. So here it is!
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I love integrated corsetry and how a dress looks on the body when corseted. The corset is always the centre of attention I think and I like to build the dress around it. When I have created a vertically pannelled corset dress I have often had issues with the boned coutil strength layer showing uderneath the fashion fabric - there can be a distinct unsightly line. By constructing the panels in a horizontal manner this doesn't happen - the concentric skirt panels fall away from the corseted section beautifully. It is difficult to attain too much reduction constructing the corset in this way but the smooth silhouette obtained more than makes up for it I think.