Stays Progress

[atherleisure]

I've had house guests the last week or so, which means I haven't been online much. I have been plugging away at my stays, though, and I'm moving along. I have half the tabs to bind on one side of the stays and the lining to put in, and I'll be finished.





Unfortunately, I ran out of binding halfway through the tabs on the second side. I guess these stays have a longer perimeter than the average pair of stays considered by Burnley and Trowbridge. If I had been smart, I'd have measured to make sure five yards was enough before ordering, but I wasn't so I didn't. Also if I had been smart, I'd have done the stomacher last instead of first so if something ended up different, it would be the part that's mostly covered.

The long and short of it is that I still need about a yard of binding to finish. Does anyone have a yard or so of leather stay binding that she'd like to sell me? I'm not that excited about ordering a whole second bundle since my fingers don't appreciate working with the leather. It's hard to sew!

Comments

[starlightmasque]

It looks amazing! Wow!

[atherleisure]

Thank you!

[koshka_the_cat]

These are beautiful!

I hope you can get another yard. So frustrating to run out!

[atherleisure]

Thanks. I hope so.

[mala_14]

Gorgeous! I love the red tape that you put on the seams. Sorry, can't help with the binding.

[atherleisure]

I can't wait to see them with the red front lacing as well.

[marianme]

So pretty. I very seldom bind the tabs if they do not show, so the amount you've done is still very impressive to me.

[atherleisure]

The boning channels come right up to the edges of the tabs so I think they'd start to pull apart from the stitching very quickly if I didn't bind them.

[theladyrebecca]

Wow, those are looking gorgeous!

[atherleisure]

Thank you.