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		<title>More Shape Matters: Why the Same Waist Curve Doesn&#8217;t Work for Every Body</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2011/more-shape-matters-why-the-same-waist-curve-doesnt-work-for-every-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had this horrible, recurring experience with some of my oldest costumes: I&#8217;d put a zillion hours worth of work into making something, right, and lace myself into a corset to make me skinnier, and put on enormous skirts that should have dwarfed my waistline, and the bodice and the yadda yadda, and, like, fifty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adjusting the Basic Conic Block for an Athletic Shoulder or Curved Back</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/adjusting-the-basic-conic-block-for-an-athletic-shoulder-or-curved-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing some background work for a project, and I had to do up a Conic Block for Lizzle. Her body is a leeeetle bit stylized, and she&#8217;s particularly got a relatively wide shoulder and upper back (like a swimmer), and she has a distinct curve at her upper back (a swimmer who spends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renaissance Wench Pattern for Tyler</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/download/renaissance-wench-pattern-for-tyler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/download/renaissance-wench-pattern-for-tyler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ye Olde Ren Wench Garb]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chemise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doll Clothes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really, who doesn&#8217;t dress their dolls for a day at the ren faire? It can&#8217;t just be me&#8230; Well, ok, maybe it was just me, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be anymore &#8211; you too can have a copy of the pattern I used to make this little bit of cuteness!   The pattern includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sew Ye Olde Ren Wench Bodice</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-sew-ye-olde-ren-wench-bodice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-sew-ye-olde-ren-wench-bodice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;ve got a basic ren wench bodice pattern.  Yay! Now it&#8217;s time to pick some fabrics and sew it all up.  You&#8217;re going to need supplies: Outer Fabric Lining Fabric Interlining Fabric Boning Thread to match your Outer Fabric Scissors Something to cut the Boning Machine Needles Hand Needle Pins a Variety of Pokey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Draft Ye Olde Ren Wench Bodice</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-draft-ye-olde-ren-wench-bodice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/how-to-draft-ye-olde-ren-wench-bodice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember a while back, I posted directions for a Basic Conic Block draft? Everyone was sort of like, wow, missa, that&#8217;s great, it explains so much, but what do I do with it? Well, a basic block is used to develop other patterns in a big bad hurry, without all that annoying measuring and math. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printer Friendly Version of Basic Conical Draft directions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/printer-friendly-version-of-basic-conical-draft-directions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/printer-friendly-version-of-basic-conical-draft-directions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize that instructions are far more helpful when you can print them out and put them on the worktable while you&#8217;re using them.  I also realize that pages upon pages of full color photos do not a happy printer make.  I&#8217;ve made a not-so-chatty (yes, I actually can edit) PDF version of the Basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve got all the photography done, it&#8217;s time to pick up where we left off in The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 1).  We&#8217;re completing a basic torso block that we can use for the simplified, conical torsos popular in Renaissance, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Pompadour, Colonial, and all other eras between the Sixteenth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several hundred years, beginning where the High Middle Ages met the Renaissance and continuing through the eve of the French Revolution, fashion treated the female torso as something of an inconvenience.  The breasts were flattened, first by bands of wool or linen, later by corsetry and boned bodices. The sides of the body were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Front/Back Shoulder to Shoulder Width</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/measurement/measuring-the-frontback-shoulder-to-shoulder-width/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/measurement/measuring-the-frontback-shoulder-to-shoulder-width/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taking Measurements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shoulder to Shoulder width is crucial for making wide necklines that don&#8217;t fall off the shoulder.  It is also crucial for spacing the straps on corsets and bodices so that they stay on the shoulder and you don&#8217;t have to fuss with them all day. The Shoulder to Shoulder measurement is taken from shoulder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shape Matters: Why the ultra-basic corset draft doesn’t work for every body.</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/shape-matters-why-the-ultra-basic-corset-draft-dont-work-for-every-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/shape-matters-why-the-ultra-basic-corset-draft-dont-work-for-every-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made my first Elizabethan corset back in the dark ages of internet time, when it was still pretty common to ask Real Live Humans(tm) how to do things.  I got instructions that were relatively simple &#8211; a bust, a waist, divide by two, draw some lines, and presto-change-o, a corset pattern.  It&#8217;s the method [...]]]></description>
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