Voodoo Lily Lulu

_delicateterror, posting in corsetmakers @ 8:32am: Thoughts...?
The word I was going for to describe the coutil wasn't thick. It was dense or stiff. *hangs head in shame...again.*

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ghost_ofa_rose, posting in rococo_fetish @ 3:23pm: ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

hrhlaura, posting in corsetmakers @ 11:00am: Corset contracts

 I had problems recently with a customer who didn't like the price I charged her for making a corset and she wasn't going to pay. Unfortunately I was stupid and had already delivered the corset... There was a post mentioned a while ago on making customers sign a contract. Can someone direct me to it?

Also I would love your input on what to put into the contract. A 50% deposit upfront is a definite, but what else? Extra trims to be charged extra... Help 

dougygyro @ 12:03am: Signal vs. Noise
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savagelove @ 12:00am: Features: Savage Love:November 11, 2009

http://www.avclub.com/articles/november-11-2009,35160/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=type_savage-love

I am a 30-year-old woman, married for five years to a man eight years my senior. Lately I have become more aware that I am turned on by the idea of bondage, specifically men locked up in chastity devices. I am ashamed of myself, because it seems, well, pretty perverse and disturbed.
My husband is a pretty dominant alpha-male type. I am a relatively dominant personality, but I’m a bit submissive around him in order to keep the peace, as he will not tolerate any disagreement in certain situations. So I am wondering: Is this new fetish springing from ...

sidneyeileen, posting in corsetmakers @ 11:08pm: Reversible Edwardian Waist Cincher
My latest commissioned corset is a fully reversible waist cincher, with red satin on one side and black satin on the other. The core is two layers of coutil, boned with 1/2" flats except for either side of the grommets, which is 1/4" flats. Piecing is seven panels per side, for greater stability despite the hourglass figure. When drafting, I try not to create panels that are more than 2.5" inches wider than the hip than waistline, because that creates too much bias and makes the pattern more prone to turning out larger at the hip than intended.

I have found satin to be unforgiving when added as a cover layer at the end, so I treated each cover panel and its corresponding core panel as a single layer when assembling the panels. The stitches are made with buttonhole thread from the red side, on the assumption that if the black side is not precisely lined up with the red side, any slight variations in stitch position relative to seam will be hidden by black-on-black.





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_delicateterror, posting in corsetmakers @ 10:26pm: Help please!
I was about to floss the back of the corset when I thought the distance from the edge of the corset looked odd. I measured, no, it's fine. Then realized that the front was measured wrong.
Sigh...

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_tia_marie_ @ 6:55pm: They do the most creative things...
I don't know if anyone reading this is commuting on BART- but this gentleman is one of my favorites to watch do his thing. I would LOVE to know if you see him.


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"Bartle B. Best" on BART
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Returning with expanded coverage will be BART. More posters on over 100 trains, double the shuttles from last year. (and yes, Virginia, there will be a handicapped shuttle). Just in: Will Wood, portraying "Bartle B. Best" will be riding the "Silver Serpent" selected weekdays during commute hours to extend his "Very Very Own" personal invitation. Perhaps a ticket or two will be offered to those clever and caffeinated souls who can answer a question or two such as "Who wrote Dickens A Christmas Carol"?

yetra @ 8:36am: Crock Pot Newbie
I finally bought a slow cooker/crock pot after years of intending to do so (this baby - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AO2PXK/ref=ox_ya_oh_product).

I am WAY out of the habit of cooking. Would love it if all y'all crock pot masters would give me your top 2-3 recipes to help inspire me to get started.

puppylove104104, posting in corsetmakers @ 12:59pm: Help with threads
 Well, hello everyone *waves*, I'm pretty new to this community lurking wise, first time posting.

I was wondering what kind of thread you use and where do you get it. I live in country that is practically illiterate when it comes to true sewing notions, especially threads. There's mostly cheap polyester crap, a few heavy duty cottons (in, like, a five color range, cause they're only used for jeans) and two stores (yep, in the whole country) that sell Gutterman's silk thread for its weight in gold (on second thought, I'm not sure gold costs that much). So I'm desperate.
On top of the no-stock issue, there's no one to ask which thread is used where. I've read somewhere that the thread should match the fiber content of the fabric, and that there are different weights, but that's all I know.

So - what do you use, and which online/mail order place do you get it from (If you get it by mail order/online)?
Oh, and I'm not talking about flossing thread, I'm talking the regular get-two-fabrics-together thread. If you do top-stitching with another thread, I would love to know it, also.

*EDIT: Meh, I'm illiterate. Edited all the typos.*

jayodee @ 11:24pm: How to Tie a Single-Strand Ringbolt Hitch by TIAT

_delicateterror, posting in corsetmakers @ 2:14am: Coutil
I am looking for a good place to buy coutil. I called a local store and they no longer carry it and contacted Farthingales who do not have the right colour (cream) in the weight I want. I have a sample of the semi-stiff coutil and it seems way too thin.

I have emailed the following companies asking for samples and have yet to hear back from them.
http://www.corsetmaking.com
www.lostcoasthistpatterns.com/cocofa10cowi.html

I have ordered samples from the following but worry a little about shipping costs:
www.whaleys-bradford.ltd.uk

So far, www.richardthethread.com has the best prices as far as I can tell. Has anyone used their coutil? I emailed them for swatches as well.

Is there anywhere else I should be looking? I checked the memories for fabric here. That is where I got the Whaley's site address from.
I'm in Canada so places in the USA would probably be best.


Thank-you!

odin_za_vseh, posting in rococo_fetish @ 11:30pm: L'Eventail
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angel_boi @ 3:54pm: Pixies roll call
anyone else going tonight?
were going to try catch dinner in chinatown at 6:15ish
will probably shoot to be at the center front rail of the 2nd lowest/ closes section of the floor

lauchlen, posting in corsetmakers @ 4:11pm: Holy questions, batman! Seriously though, help please for a first timer?
Hello everyone,

I'm a first time corset maker and I'm thinking about making a cincher from this tutorial. Last week I purchased a fair bit of the Vintage Vogue patterns and in order to get the correct shape beneath them I'll need something that creates a smooth line from underbust to hip and nips in my waist.

The tutorial states I only need underbust, waist and hip measurements, which, yes, not enough. These are the measurements I think I'll need in order to have the corset fit me proper.

- underbust to waist @ side, front and back
- waist to lower edge of corset @ side, front and back

I reckon with those measurements, some paper and a pencil, if I mark them all then connect the 'dots' I'll get smooth curves that fit me fairly well.
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angel_boi @ 12:30pm: ..how joan of arc felt?
not quite, but gettign closer!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1226147/Morrissey-storms-stage-bottle-thrown-concert-goer-hits-eye.html
*snicker*
next time fill it with petrol, parafin and a rag alight

eac @ 10:28am: Head's up, parents with little ones.
MacLaren Stroller Recall: http://bit.ly/2hi4Kf

mooflyfoof @ 10:25am: No words.
And here we have a koala and Edward Cullen gettin' jiggy wit it in their natural San Francisco habitat.


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tielke, posting in corsetmakers @ 9:18am: Edwardian boning
hello everyone, me again and yet again it's about edwardians. I'm finally working on a real edwardian corset, not mocking up and it's nearly finished: I'm putting the boning in. And that's where I ran into problems. I know edwardians are boned parallel to the busk and in pairs, and that's exactly what I did: I lay the fabric flat, and measured the same amount from the busk at different heights, made a mark, and then pinned the boning tape in. So that should be parallel, right? The trouble is, instead of reducing wrinkles, the corset looks A LOT more wrinkly with the boning IN, which is very annoying! It does straighten out into just acceptable wrinkly-ness when you lace it on and there's pressure on it, but really, I had my hopes up for something that would look a little more neat...So, does anyone know what went wrong? Could it be the bust/hip-waist spring? Or do you know what I can do about it?

I want to get the boning done this morning so i'm not sure whether I'll have time to take your comments into account, however if I'll settle with the wrinkly thing (it's underwear, so no real drama if it doesn't look as pretty as I wanted it to be) I at least want to know what I have done wrong. :S

thanks a lot already :)

dougygyro @ 12:02am: Signal vs. Noise
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ioerror @ 10:45pm: Making high speed video
This weekend has been quite the awesome weekend. 3ric brought a high speed camera (7000 frames per second at full resolution) and we made a few videos together. I've uploaded a couple of videos. Here's a high speed video of me using mentholated eye drops. And here's what happens when Eric, 3ric, Kelly and I get soy milk, a belt and a high speed camera. Go Vegan. Or something.

For the high speed video of soy milk on youtube:

gleamnight, posting in corsetmakers @ 9:46am: The courtesan
Model: Julianna Kir
Photo: Diana Katz
Hairdress and make-up: Gleamnight
Style: Gleamnight fashion-studio

fairyarmadillo @ 7:33pm: More update
Looks like the hard drive is just fried and compy won't be coming back soon. This is seriously cramping my style. My computer is downstairs with all my crafting stuff, it has all my music on it and it has the internets which I use to look things up and chat with people while I'm crafting. And Photoshop, and the few games I like to play, and all my bookmarks, and the list I keep of the movies I watch. Not having my regular computer has been really depressing. Sure, I could bring the lappy downstairs but it's not the same. It's clunky and can hardly stream last.fm. It's uncomfortable to type on and I hate the track pad. Bitch bitch bitch. Whine whine whine.

I saw An Education today with the mom and the Josh and the Emily. It was good. The end got a little bit twee for me. Once the montage started I knew a turn had been taken but it was still enjoyable. Then we had Thai food. Mom gave me a purse with sparkly bees and octopus plates because that's the kind of awesome mom she is. She also brought a bunch of our childhood books. Be jealous of my Serendipity books!

Tomorrow I'm seeing the Pixies with Josie.

I'm still not very hungry. People keep telling me that's totally normal. If you're one of those people I probably think you have food issues. Not wanting to eat is not normal.

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_delicateterror, posting in corsetmakers @ 8:46pm: Flossing attempt
I'm always a little intimidated to post here but I am rather happy with my first flossing experience even though it isn't 100% perfect. How do you all get your flossing so even?! Must be practice. Tell me it's practice...
I made 6 very small samples to show my client then once she chose her favourite, I drew a little sketch of what it would look like mirrored.
My first attempt wasn't as even as I wanted which turned out to be a good thing as while redoing the pattern, I decided to make it taller and have more strands going up the one side, 5 instead of the original three.
I am using 3 strands of embroidery floss but next time I'd like to try something with a sheen to it next time.

I took the photo on macro so you could actually see something instead of little blobs. It looks more even in person from about 2 feet away.
The black parts in the grey silk and the macro setting make the machine stitching look so very crooked! It's not perfectly straight/even (I usually have no issues with that, hangs head in shame) but it isn't that bad in person, I swear!

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