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This is the story of the part time course I do not really talk about very much. The course from the local harrow college, which is used as a social club by some very friendly grandmothers.
As part of my new intented learning, I went for this cheap course as well as for an expensive one.(St Martins)
This course is for very very very very slow learning people or for people who want to do sewing very very very very well.
Here you will learn all you want and don't want to know about everything relating to patchwork, embroidery, quilting but also pattern cutting (we mean John Lewis's pattern cuttings, nothing too fancy) and the rest.
To cut the long story short, I wanted to learn something worthwhile,(not just get a pattern about some silly skirt or something) and difficult. So I went and got some corset patterns, which I always wanted to do. The teacher said it was a bit too difficult for a beguinner and I may not have it finished by christmas(the course was 3 month) but she let me start on it.
By the third course I was just about allowed to cut the fabric after having put thousands pins in the paper pattern , and done dozens other preliminaries that this good teacher wanted to teach us.
As the Erotica show got closer and closer, and my other project with the other course(a very complicated silk period dress) wasn't going to be ready, I thought that maybe I'd go a bit faster and get on with my corset at home, without authorisation. Which I did. But by the time I d worked out how to close the corset, added fabric, taken some off, taken some in, the corset was opening on the side of the front (it was supposed to be the front, not the side of the front) and bits were not in front of the others. To make it better, I sewed some beads to emphasize the middle of the top (trompe l'oeil) and added a very pretty beaded rubbon along the edges. Sod the course, by the week of the 5th course the corset was finished enough for me, and I though I might as well not go back to the course because she would tell me off for having it finished and not having done it properly. So I didn't (Sorry Lyn!)(I loved you really)
The skirt was next: a tight miniskirt, to which I added same fabric layuers, lace,and more lace. Worn on a petitcoat, it looks wonders. And who cares if the 2 left sides of the corset are 2 milimetres too far. Not me! Lets get on with it!

 

 

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