The Magic Begins

My dad bought me this Kenmore Ultra Stitch machine when I was in high school. Solid and durable, this lil' machine and I have produced many wonderful things together... and some not so wonderful.

I put the blue masking tape there to help me see where the 5/8 inch mark is on the presser plate.

I use the big paper clips to keep track of the "top" and "front" and "back" of the pieces. It makes them easy to unclip and move around, and I got the color ones to match up "left" and "right" sides of the corset.

Tonight was gym night, and there's other things going on in the house. Our refrigerator conked out and was leaking icky rust colored oily ooze, so we had to buy a new one that was delivered today. We're dealing with reorganizing and throwing out old jars that we forgot we had. (How old is that Madras curry paste?)  

I only had a little time to work on the corset this evening. I managed to stitch the boning channels on the Center Back pieces, though I'm still learning to make the lines exactly straight and 3/8 inch wide... not. 

And I stitched together the other 3 middle-ey pieces of the brocade. 

I'll do the middle bits of the coutil tomorrow. I hope to get to either the busk or pounding grommets this week. We'll see how it goes.