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I need this but for males

I use soap bar scraps (like those bits that are skinny and sharp and you could just stick onto another bar) to mark my black and dark fabrics, just check if you/ the person you're sewing for isn't sensitive to soap. If you're not washing the sewing project, you may need to 'spot clean' if you have visible soap marks or lines

I don't really have the time or the economy for sewing my own clothes (especially since I don't currently have a sewing machine), but I'm going to imagine this as my fantasy to-do list. Though frankly, if I ever were to get to that point, I'd probably be more interested in masculine costuming for several if not most periods. Not that crew cut hair would be historically accurate for men either during most of history, but I'm way to butch to be comfortable with cleavage fashion.

A fellow south-paw sewist!? Excellent!

LOL I feel like you over explained why a fitting buddy is unnecessary to the verge of almost making them problematic and then to be trying to correct that perception XD when it was so simply "Only you know how you feel in it" XD LOL "on your third rodeo things were all things I got for my first corset and it turned out great but I did a TON of research and have a lot of transferable skills, so maybe I was just an odd duck. Totally agree with not using expensive fabrics where you're developing skills. I did get the anvil and setter (I believe that's what it's called) and I found it easy to use, the only thing I had a bit of trouble was working out how much force I needed as I was too careful at the start and had to realign it back to finish hammering it. I don't know how anything else than steel works for other people, my experience has always been they bend and start digging into my sides and I had them, I haven't made bodies but that's the only scenario I can imagine finding comfortable.

I want that lacing spacer, but Amped Atelier is all out of stock!

This was fun. I really love your take on things. I had the metal snap version of the pliers eventually they bent!!!! The banging things work much better. If I was still setting a million metal snaps I would have a press cause it’s cool and it could be a gift from everyone for everything if they wanted. Oh I found a button placement according ruler at a thrift shop. I’m sure I could make that work for eyelets. Or you know just wing it. Fitting partners take careful thought. My daughter is good but she is also opinionated and lives 6 hours away. Yes I did my best to raise a strong independent woman so I shouldn’t complain about that. lol. It was a great list. Some times you can find the expensive stuff in thrift shops. Took years but my pressing ham was 2 bucks! Same with the curved rulers

This was really insightful! Thank you!

The grommet cutter is useful for leather and bonded synthetic fabrics because an awl won't make nice holes in them

Another hardware store option: electrical tape can be used in place of plasti-dip for metal bones, and it's much cheaper.

The way I got SO EXCITED when you said you were left handed and gave scissor recommendations. The struggle is real sometimes being left handed and trying to find a good pair of scissors

Thank you for explaining the difference between metal eyelets and grommets! I had no idea.

There are a lot of ways to finish raw edges without a serger, but most of them are more time-intensive. I don’t own one, but I do borrow one from a friend when I know I will need to use one a lot.

Can you talk a bit more about using zipties? Where do you get yours and what kind do you get?

Oh this outfit and hair is giving Trunchbull

So glad you did this video. I was about to splash out and buy one of those grommet press machine thingies which I can't actually afford, but the grommet smasher thing I can definitely afford, plus the mallet. Also, handy tip on grommets VS eyelets. TYVM! ❤

A more general thing for lefties: Do you write with you hand twisted so that you write from above? If so, whoever taught you how to write didn't know how to teach lefties. Right handed people align the paper (or whatever they are writing on) with their right arm. Lefties! You need to align the thing you're writing on with your LEFT ARM! This will let you write from underneath, and you won't have to deal with getting ink or pencil lead on your hand EVER AGAIN. My aunt was a leftie, and she was taught this by her kindergarten teacher. She told me the story like a million times, and I've been sharing this with as many lefties as I can, as it can be a big quality of life improvement!

I am really enjoying this video. Thank you!

I thankfully have a local recraft store where I get all of my tools! I've made several stays just spending $6 on fabric, thread, boning, etc.

If you liked exploding kittens but found it traumatic, I recommend Unstable Unicorns. Also, my Pattern Master ruler/curve thingy has been going strong for years now. It combines the clear gridded ruler with a tailors curve but also include seam allowance guidance too.

are handworked eyelets easier to deal with than grommets ? probably yes. still didn't stop me from making mine soooo accidentally small when i made my first pair of stays that they are essentially unwearable lol. about to make my first 19th century corset and hoping it ends decently enough that i can at least get one wear out of it lol 🙏 great video!!! really enjoyed all of the tips and tricks and fully agree with all of your top rankings! truly where would we be without clear large marked rulers, the king of sewing supplies

To add further to the eyelet setting tool discourse... I bought a Prym Eyelet pliers from Vena Cava Design, for about £20, and it works really well. Sometimes brand names are worth the extra cost. I will also add that in the UK we mostly call them all eyelets, and they can come with or without washers, and again buy the Prym ones rather than cheap ones because they are definitely superior.

You'd think in the UK there would be so much for 17th century but it's all overshadowed by civil war events, No place for a high class lady costume 😅 I've spent many months on my 17th century dress but only now am I starting to assemble it because life and many many many breaks. But I have a new found love for boning, so satisfying.

I lucked out on Facebook Marketplace and got a Janome serger for $75 from a business owner who was upgrading. My boning strategy for Victorian/Edwardian corsets is flat steel in the front and back (Gold Star Tool has the best price I’ve seen, $30 for 10 yards of 3/8” width) and zip ties everywhere else. It was certainly an interesting time walking around Home Depot awkwardly carrying around zip ties that were taller than me (I got the 60” 3/8” wide ones because they didn’t have anything else longer than 14” ones).

fitting buddies to help you pin things behind your back may save time, but if you're introverted enough, determined enough, and have the patience, you can take it off, make alterations, put it back on, rinse and repeat until you have it right. I have never had a helper in my life and I still manage to make clothing, including corsets. And if you're plus size, don't even bother with advice from us skinnies unless your skinny in particular has experience fitting bigger bodies, because we don't know SH*T. Many of us will confidently give advice as though we have a clue. We do not, in fact, have a clue.

I have some limitations with my hands and my grommet press gets a workout. Yes i bought on the cheaper side but it works so much better.

For cheap coutil-adjacent fabric, I like thrifted curtains. Great video, thanks!

Heh, my solution to a dye or bleach splotch, is tie-dye :) Camouflage the blotch with more blotches! I even re-dyed the first RIT dye job I ever did. though honestly, it's really pretty wash stable, it's the UV exposure that faded the hell out of it (it's still pretty on the inside of the garment and inside the pockets).

I've used synthetic whalebone and I don't like it. I much prefer the industrial zipties from Home Depot. They're super easy to buy and way cheaper...and easy to file the ends smooth with a nail file or sandpaper!

I love your talk about sergers - I'm going to pick up a used one later today!

Hi, as a fellow zipties user, I've got a question for you, what do you think about metal zipties? Can they be used as a steelboning dupe or are they the spawn of satan? I am looking for an advice before I put them in.

Easy seam allowance tool you already have: your tape measure is 1/2"-5/8" wide! If you can find GOOD ticking or cotton twill it's held up pretty well and we used it quit a lot for corsets/underlining costumes (also a HA layer in some corsets/stays). Walmart sells a plain and some stripes for a very reasonable $5-6 a yard. I was told Jo-anns has gone down in quality. I rarely use canvas and duck and now use cotton twills over a plain weave since it's closest thing you can get to a cotil. But if a duck or canvas was in the shop or a friend is destashing and gives me some I will definitely use it!

Hope it’s a good idea to make my first stays from denim? My husband had some unfortunate early accidents with 3 jeans in the first few weeks so I saved those (stains like from bleach and tears from having caught on a nail and such) and it seems like they would work so well as (non-essential Historical accurate) stays to wear at home over my natural fibre clothing so I can finally stop reacting badly to those elastics used in bras and such. For my mock-up it certainly doesn’t matter that the colors don’t match. Fabric is both 100% cotton and seems the same weight and structure but I don’t have a microscope so I realize there might still be a slight difference. Just hope it’s not painstakingly significant in differences. Guess I’ll find out 😅 My body hates synthetics and I’m allergic to natural rubber/latex so I figured stays might be the way to go. My only experience in sewing garments though is a self drafted bath robe made from secondhand towels and a potato sack dress made from double gauze baby blankets or just altering ready-made or secondhand clothing. Have unbleached cotton canvas cloth (and textile paints lol) and lots of denim. Was gonna make something out of those but that need was gone before I could make it and now all that fabric is still unused and seems like they would work well for stays and such? I’d like anyone’s thoughts on the matter. Don’t want any other support or smoothing out except for my non-inflatable balloons to be supported against gravity, not in other places or compressed, just not sagging downwards. All the other regular woven and knitted cottons and other fabrics that would be breathable that I have all seem too light and thus prone to tearing or stretching or too soft to give support Love this video, gives a nice look into what to expect from another point of view instead of the regular tutorials or vlog-style type of “making stays or corset” (or other garments)

80 bucks for roll? That so cheap in whale terms Ps. Your comment about fully steel bodice being heavier than chainmail makes me want to make armour corset

❤ my press. I use it for studs and snaps too.

omg i bought one of those eyelet thingies when i was new to sewing and had the same issueee as youu!! Im glad ur shedding light on this eyelet stapler propaganda!!

I invested in a grommet setter. I could not live with out it. I purchssed a rotary tool that can cut spiral steels and round both regular plastic boning and zip ties. However, my favorite purchase was a cloth cutting bit that fits in a drill and cuts holes for the grommets. Yes, i cut my fabric, it has never created an issue for me. I wore waist reducing bodices for 5 years, 12 hours a day, for 16 weeks a year, and mever had a grommet pop. That was in the 90's and the bodices are still holding up.

I make metal armour and we use metal eyelets a lot there, they're for keeping your ties that hold your armour on from shredding on a drilled hole. That said, those eyelet setters ARE garbage, use the shaped percussive setter that comes in the package and a hammer, on a soft wood so you don't deform the pretty side. The ones we get for metal have stright bottoms unlike the last ones I bought at a fabric store which have rough bottoms so they theoretically mushroom more easily but in reality they make sharp bits on te insides of your clothes!! Do not recommend! That said, I will use the little eyelets sometimes where I expect to need to take the laces all the way out because I sometimes find shoelace aglets catch badly on my hand-stitched eyelets. I own some Frixion pens but they don't draw nicely on all fabrics and I wind up needing to iron things before I'm done with the marks a lot of the time so I just use chalk or watercolour pencils. I cut the seam allowances off every pattern I make for accuracy reasons (I need my stitch lines) so I just fudge it with the seam allowances and that hasn't failed me yet. Also because I know where my stitch lines ARE, I can get just a bit more out of my fabric by skimping on corners I was just going to cut off anyways. I often don't even draw them on, I just eyeball when I cut. My fitting buddy lives in a different city and we only see each other a few times a year, thankfully she actually KNOWS what she's talking about for fit (though perhaps not corsets) because weird body club, but they're still going to help me more than my "um, what?" experience. We've done a few fittings through video chat. "How should this feel" is a question I ask her often. And when me reaching to a place distorts the whole garmnt I'm trying to make, I've borrowed unskilled hands to good effect. I did multiple lacing holes on projects starting with a darning needle, working up to a nail, then a chopstick, then a bigger nail, then a pencil. I bought an awl and its slope is too steep at the larger size I need so it gets me up to the chopstick part in one go. If I don't go bigger than that, by the time I stitch my eyelets they've closed in enough that I have issues getting the lacing through. LEFT POWER!! My very first pair of Fiskars lefty scissors WERE HINGED RIGHTY and I had no idea until I hit a pin with them and dulled them during lockdowns when I couldn't get them sharpened and my friend (also my fitting buddy) ordered me a new pair that are hinged correctly for lefty use and suddenly I don't have to look over my scissors to the outside to see my cut line!!! (another reason why I mostly quit drawing in seam allowances). We had a great pair of steel cutters in the shop made by Knipex, dunno how much they cost (googled it, a lot, more than your $80 trap) but holy gods they'll darn near go through a combination lock if you have enough leverage and will happily snip rivets and bolts like butter. However, if you weren't literally cutting through a bolt or a rivet, the $15 Stanley end cutters I used when I was making chain mail links were fine for wire cutting. Well, until I broke them, but that was a lot of cutting (probably fifty pounds of steel wire in 14 and 16 ga in galvanized and stainless) and apparently I have a pretty strong grip strength, I didn't blame the tool, I think I replaced it with an identical one that I'm still using, though my wrists have decreed that I shall take on no more chain mail commissions. Around here a bolt cutter style cutter from Home Despot will still be about thirty bucks, but that's Canadian and our prices are weird.

i don't know what it is with me but for some reason when i'm making a project i simply can't watch anything related to that project, and i've been trying to make these pants for months now. so i'll have to come back to this video when i've made them!

Is it possible to reframe "American Civil War" era clothing as "The King & I" or "Australian Gold Rush" which are both roughly the same years?

This video is such a godsend! hope it’s not overstepping though to leave a surprisingly inexpensive coutil source! Coscraft in the UK (primarily a cosplay wig seller) also has some really cheap coutil compared to US prices, £11/meter, and weirdly affordable shipping rates… I like to track the exchange rate and order a few meters when it’s really in my favor

Grommet cutter saves a lot of time on mock-ups that you don't expect to last. You can even skip the gromets themselves if it's expected to wear once and revise.

Making my third corset as I watch you've just saved my project !!! I've always used grommet tape before but decided to do it myself for my third rodeo and I had no idea eyelets were different to grommets. Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge (and always making me laugh a lot)

I'm about to attempt my first corset, and I needed this video so much haha. Thank you for talking me down from fabric that I love and accepting that my first run at this will be a learning process :)

Instant follow! This channel is amazing - like intimidatingly you're amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom <3