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		<title>The Secret of the Single Layer Corset</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-secret-of-the-single-layer-corset/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-secret-of-the-single-layer-corset/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie's Early Bustle Gown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the Victorian era, people started coming up with ideas for making corsets more comfortable to wear. Gigglishiously ironical though that may sound, some great innovations came out of it. One of my favs is the single layer corset &#8211; no lining, no interlining, just a base layer of fabric and some boning. If [...]]]></description>
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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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Individual Garments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ye Olde Ren Wench Garb]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Character]]></category>
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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>Make Quickie, Removable Aiglette</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/make-quickie-removable-aiglette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accessories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewelry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aiglettes are a great way to give a renaissance costume a very finished look (and keep your points from flopping about and untying).  But why would you possibly want a removable aiglette?  Laundry.  It&#8217;s nice to be able to take all the metal bits off before things go into the wash&#8230; This is a pretty [...]]]></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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		<title>You say &#8220;yard waste&#8221;, I say &#8220;free, eco-friendly corset boning&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/you-say-yard-waste-i-say-free-eco-friendly-corset-boning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/you-say-yard-waste-i-say-free-eco-friendly-corset-boning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was out trimming the privet hedge the other day, like you do (she says, sounding perfectly British about the whole thing) when I stopped to think, &#8220;Gee, I wonder if I could bone a corset with some of these clippings?  I should give that a try&#8230;&#8221;  So I did. Now, it&#8217;s worth noting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recreating the Alcega Farthingale for Modern Bodies</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/recreating-the-alcega-farthingale-for-modern-bodies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/recreating-the-alcega-farthingale-for-modern-bodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The surviving pattern published in Juan de Alcega&#8217;s &#8216;Libro de Geometria, Practica y Traca&#8217;(1589) represents almost everything we know about the farthingale. Most articles on recreating the Alcega farthingale focus on faithfully reproducing the pattern based on fabric widths. Honestly, though, calling this a &#8220;pattern&#8221; is a bit of an overstatement: the book was more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Reblock a Straw Hat</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/how-to-reblock-a-straw-hat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/how-to-reblock-a-straw-hat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Millinery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hat Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Cheap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remake]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sempstress.org/?p=2574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of straw hats. They are almost never the size and shape you&#8217;d like them to be. (That&#8217;s a known effect of the Law of Universal Irony, along with how the thread already in the needle is never a color that will work for your current purposes.) Fortunately, reblocking a straw hat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparison of Different Boning Materials for Use in Sixteenth Century Corsetry</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/comparison-of-boning-materials-16t/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/comparison-of-boning-materials-16t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[File this one under &#8220;possibly useful to some one, at some time, somehow&#8221;: this is a series of pictures of corsets I&#8217;ve made over the last several years. Each one shows me standing in profile, next to my dress dummy. This makes the changes in my shape imposed by each corset fairly obvious, and the [...]]]></description>
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