“It’s such a wonderful feeling when you catch up with everything on your to-do list, and all you have to do is start a new project.” 😶😂🤣😂🤣 Yeah - NO idea what that’s like, but it’s nice to imagine! So happy for you tho!
Measuring how long a CosTuber's project takes by how fast chickens grow is my favourite way of measuring time. Amazing stays! You are tempting me into the 18th Century, damn you!
My cat was on my lap for the duration and greatly appreciated all of the chicken footage. These stays have me wanting to try my hand at drafting, they look sleek and supremely comfy!
Looks great. You are really getting that arch method down. Your understanding and manipulation of is has come a long way. Those garments are fitting better each time. What patients you have to teach yourself this technique of stay making. Bravo
My thoughts regarding chicken names: I love Wan Shi Tong, I vote you keep that name! After your mention of Hobbit-y names, I think Frodo for the Rhode Island Red; the color just reminds me of him. In the spirit (heh, accidental pun) of Avatar references, the Sapphire Gem/s could be Sapphire Fire, and maybe Wang Fire, if the second one gets to stay! If you like Star Wars, I think Amidala would be a great name for the Cinnamon Queen. Whatever you end up naming them, I hope we get to hear about it! Seeing your chickens made me smile today. We've had chickens for most of my life, and I can't help but have a soft spot for 'em, especially the babies.
With the plastic boning, you can get a curve on them by using your iron at a lowish temp, (with a barrier of baking parchment between the plastic and the iron, of course) to heat the plastic while slowly curving the flat into the desired curve. This occurred to me because of using the heating technique on plastics for other plastic form manipulations ( toys, figurines, putting an angle on old tooth brushes to use as tools, etc). If you are worried about handling the plastic while it may be hot, wear an oven mitt. ;)
One note: “selvedge” is not the same as “seam allowance”. The selvedge is the edge of the woven fabric, and often cut off because it is woven differently than the rest of the fabric.
"I don't feel like mowing today, so here we go" is such a mood :) Maybe Sybil for one of the reddish chicks? Pebble might be cute for one of the grey ones, but would depend on personality. Also, I've always thought the name Eliza suited a chicken, but I haven't actually used that one myself yet :)
This video made me realize why my 18th century pattern mock-up had so many problems. I have a long torso, but it wasn't until i saw this that I realized the space between my ribs and hip bone is actually quite small. I'm definitely using the arch method and this video for reference if I try again.
Been waiting for this - and it was amazing!!! The chicks were the cherry on top. About the names, I've wanted to name my pet Lady Macbeth. It's a bit sinister, but who doesn't love an evil queen?!
1: I’m obsessed with your patterning methods. 2: YOURE AN ATLA FAN?!?!? Ok the sapphires obviously have to be sapphire fire and wang fire. Highly support wan shi tong at the very least.
Wow, those turned out really nice! I've never made or worn 18th century stays, but those make me want to give them a try. Especially since you so generously shared the details about pattern drafting. That aspect has always completely stumped me, unlike with 19th century corsets, which I managed to successfully tackle even 'way back when', before there were internet communities for such things. But stays were always a complete mystery to me.
**me seeing this after buying an unnecessary amount of boning** God bless you, I love the way you sew and experiment. I didn't need this tempting video but I'm gonna watch it like I'll make it. 👀👀Though... I do need more tops and support garments that go better with all the historically inspired skirts I won't stop making myself. 👀👀👀
I'm always so excited when you post a new video! I can't wait to try the arc method and I'm thankful you showed the actual space between your hips and ribs. I'm about as short waisted as you are and seeing your beautiful results gives me hope I too will be able to achieve such a beautiful curvy shape if I persevere! Thank you!
Chickens are fun pets. Love introducing them to grass for the first time. They treat train faster then dogs! We easily taught ours to come to "chick chick!" with the reward of canned corn.
Silver laced Wyandotte needs to be named Wynette. Next time you get chickens, add some Oprpingtons to the group, they are great birds…. They love lap sitting for head scritches. Great stays! I’ll be making some for myself. Thanks!
I can so relate to your comment to your chicks about needing to put the lid on the box. We’ve had several batches of chicks that grew up to be chickens and live outside now. They’re so cute and fluffy as babies.
I did an experiment for keeping the wind from picking up your skirts. The trick is small glass or semi-precious Stone beads and sew them in intervals along the bottom hem. Small like half a piece of barley small.
Your end look had some definite Esmerelda/Traveler/Romani vibes going! Very beautiful & colorful, so fun for summer! Get yourself a tambourine & jam out!
This video is making me want to sew stays and I don’t even wear dresses AND i haven't made a whole garment myself since middle school. Hubris perhaps. Truly an inspiring piece
Your zipper stays are just such a great idea. I would love to try something like that with a victorian corset pattern but would have to thing about how to replace the rigidity a metal busk gives. Also for the chicken you should name the black one with all the white feathers mixed in Oreo 💕
I love the shepherdess/European Folk vibes of that outfit at the end--I know you're making these for historybounding underwear but they make such a good cottagecore statement piece as well!
I came for the stays, but I *stayed* for dad calling the grass traumatic to the baby chicks 🤣🤣 (If the pun gets me banned, I'll 100% back that decision 🤣) Srs though, the chicken saga is so cute and sweet, I'm glad it's included. Gives my brain time to process in-between bursts of learning and they're adorable!!
I've stated to make my first pair of stays! Your patterning video has been invaluable as your method just intuitively makes sense. I have finished the pattern and I am waiting for boning to arrive in the mail so I can start making my first mockup. I also like the idea of tab-less stays as to me it merges the best parts of corsets and stays into one garment; so it's definitely a future project goal. Thanks for sharing!!!
I am always blown away by your creativity with pattern experimentation! I had been wondering what stays like these (18th century but without tabs) would look like in real life because in the webcomic I'm creating, it is set in a fantasy world where they have something similar to this but with front lacing, optional straps, and more coverage over the hips like a Victorian corset. As someone who hasn't sewn much, I wasn't sure if it would work in real life, but clearly you've made something similar to what I had in mind and it's functional!
I love that you're addressing the issues to figure out with curved seams/boning channels (bones not laying flat and clipping) because it's one thing I've been wondering about while starting to pattern my own future pair of stays and not seen addressed in a lot of places (then again I still have time to research that more in depth).
I always learn from your videos, and I loved the bonus chicky footage! My kitty girl wasn't too interested in the sewing project parts tho... just the chickens. No, she wouldn't hurt them irl, she'd run away and hide. "They're bigger than my head! Why are they bigger?? ..... maybe they're friends... brother will like that." Seriously, her brother would love little buddies!
I named our Silver laced Wyndot Checkers because once fully grown she looked like a checkerboard soo pretty. But great video :) thank you for the good content.
I don't have specific name recommendations but I love either very long silly names, or for chickens specifically old timey names that aren't really used anymore
You are so inspiering, I'm going to start my first pair of stays soon and you are the number one influence that has led me to it. You have added something meaningful to the world by sharing all of these adventures with us :)
The shape of these looks SO nice! I already loved your other stays but it's interesting how small changes can have such a big effect - the neckline looks so much better on this one, and I hadn't even realized it could! This is a great follow up project, improving things you learned from your previous piece. Thanks for bringing us along!
Just found you via RU-vid suggestion. Subscribed because you are relatable, you teach well, and you didn’t ignore your baby chickies for the video. AND you showed some chick entertainment (ba-dum-bum). Can’t wait to get the the videos I’ve not seen!
So glad you went this direction with thd stays. The tabs are the main drawback for me and I wasn't sure what changes had to happen to eliminate them. Looking forward to your update once you've worn them a while.
Seeing the process from start to finish is so satisfiying! And the end result is super flattering on you! Silver Laced Wyandotte: I don't know why, but it looks like an Oreo to me? Rhode Island Red: Ember Phoenix? Sapphire Jem: something precious stone related Sapphire Jem (potential rooster): Bringer of Chaos!
It's really nice to see that you use so much seam allowance for mockups and stuff, I mean when you think about it, it's the most logical way to allow for the most adjustment within a single mockup, hopefully reducing the number of mock-ups from like 4 to 2. It just feels like ''extra seam allowance'' is always added to 'beginner' patterns, making it seem as though wide seam allowances are for amateurs. I feel encouraged to add massive seam allowances to all of my mock-ups now. The only problem is I now definitely can't get away with not marking my seams on the fabric, and may even have to threadmark all of them so they're visible from both sides. 😅 Thank you again for another wonderful video on exactly the topic relevant to my current projects! (Well, I am not doing tabless stays, just stays, but the mockuping and more arch patterning was still very helpful) Ps, I am the one who commented on Instagram about this basically being recreating an Edwardian straight front corset with an 18th century stay pattern as the base, thank you for liking it! Ds. ☺️
The shape looks so good! And I've also been wanting to do tabless stays to get a smoother line - eerie timing. (Or, you know, a modernizing 18th c problem. One of those things.)
My mom had a Rhode Island Red that thought she was a rooster. We just called her "Red" because she was so vibrant. We had 4 lovely ladies, but 2 of them had been attacked by other critters. They ended up in a coop that was built like a fortress, but we had to give them to our cousin when it cost too much to keep them safe. We named the other three, but Red had the most personality and her name stuck with me. She defended and bullied the other three, and I was sad to see her go. One of yours looks like an eagle or hawk, so why not name her after "Lady Hawk". Its a movie that I watched waaaay to much as a young teen, but it was amazing. I might have memorized the lines... Can't remember them now though.
They look SO GOOD! it’s cool to watch your improvement on each pair of stays you make. I can’t wait to see the full 18th century capsule wardrobe and all the options you come up with. The chicks are cute too, lovely wing patterns 💕 I’m working on a pair of regency short stays... first pair of stays so far so good!
I’m beginning to realise that I’m very short-waisted...and this may be why I have issues with boning in my corsets. I might just go ahead and make my own, since I want them longer both top and bottom, and I really need to research how bone position was decided.
What a perfect mix of corset and stays. A corstay, perhaps? As for the chickens, once they are fully grown, I always tend to think of them as old ladies- biddies, even. And so I like old lady names. Like Iris, Wynnie, Glenda, Gladys, Agatha, Morag (which always seems like an old lady name to me), Rhoda (which is a very predictable name for a Rhode Island Red, so I’d actually use the name for a different type of chicken, because I’m contrary that way).
I have been struggling with patterning a recreation leather armor for myself, but I feel like I could use these methods to finally figure the thing out...
What about Pepper for the Silver Laced Wyandotte? She reminds me of salt and pepper :) Also these stays are beautiful! I'm dying to make my own based on your patterning methods!
