Hello Hive

Its needlework o'clock and I am excited see the beautiful hand works and crafts flooding the community already. Dropping this and sticking around makes every Mondays a complete fun for me. It is usually like a family reunion where everyone comes together to admires each others work and inspirations.
If your Mondays are getting dull, feeding your eyes on something blue-ri-ful here might cheer you up.

Shout out to all the Needleworkers who are putting in their best effort making sacrifices daily to improve on their skills and fanning the flames of their career and passion.
We celebrate your every win and hope to hear more testimonies of progress from everyone..

I come here today on a light note having done some more experiments on my corset pattern dress. I feel like after getting a design wrong for the first time we are meant to encourage ourselves rather than feel sad that something didn't come out well.

• Mistakes are meant to help us improve rather than tear us down.

Are you the type that trust online tutorials
Usually I don't but when I find some new patterns I like to try them out.
I have sewn some very well fitted corset corsets in the past but after finding a new method online i decided to try this and it didn't go as I desire.

After attempting a fast sewing approach from my post here I realized that there's no shortcut to getting this done appropriately and while learning a thing we must pay attention to details. loosing the stitches is a boring task to do but I desire to get this right and that didn't bother me so much.
How I have added the necessary stays and coupled the corset back together here

It looks better but not without some mistakes that can be adjusted easily compared to the one that almost ruined my mood.
This is simple for goodness sake how could I have gotten it wrong, this is not my first time of sewing a corset.

The cup is fitted already but desired that I still take in more of the seem

My machine gave way yesterday was working, sewing this outfits. It needs servicing after about 6 years it has been working constantly.
I usually did the servicing myself, loosening the bolts, cleaning and oiling it. But I think it needs a professional servicing this time around.

It was hence time for some old method of slow fashion, I started stitching the seams by hands.
Just look at the funny effect the hand stitch gave to the side seams 😂😀😀.
Too much use of a machine has made me forget how to do this properly

I do hope I can get a machine engineer today since yesterday was a resting day and no one will come out to work.

In the mean time I liked out the corset turned and with some finishing touches this is near perfection.