Corset Finished

I finished trimming my 1910's corset last night. If I get all my work done today, I'll try to get pictures of it, but first there's laundry and dusting and dishes and whatever else I think of.

In the meantime, I did snap a picture of it laid flat - er, as flat as it gets, that is.



I've also been doing a couple of knitting tests. I played with knitting with beads, which turns out to be much easier than I feared it would, and I tested a pattern for openwork stockings. I wasn't sure how it would look from reading the pattern so I tried it out. It turns out to look like a random array of eyelets. That's really not my thing so I need to try another pattern.



The openwork stocking idea isn't really exciting me right now so that one might get pushed off. Size 30 cotton knits up into a very stiff fabric so I might want to go with wool on these for comfort. I don't want to make more stockings out of the laceweight merino I've been using because I know it really won't hold up in the long term. I might test a couple more patterns, but right now I'm really attracted by the idea of a pineapple reticule, if I like knitting the miser's purse or long purse, whichever term you prefer. The beading cord (thanks, koshka_the_cat, for recommending it as a substitute for purse twist) is on its way so I'll probably get to start that this week. I guess I should figure out what pattern I'm going to use...