my hands hurt

[miss_philomena]

I spent somewhere between six and seven hours stuffing bones into my stays today, and I'm still not done. Of course it's my own fault for deciding to make a fully boned pair that has 12 pieces. :x But I took a picture of what's done so far!



I'm going to do the eyelets before I bone the center back pieces, so those haven't been touched yet, and I have most of the left side back panel to bone still as well, but I was tired and my hands were getting pretty sore at that point. I'm using 1/4" cane for my boning, except for the channels on either side of the eyelets, which will be steel bones. And I might put a busk in as well, but I might wait until I wear them to decide.

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[miss-philomena.livejournal.com]

This is just how I'm opting to do it, as it's far easier to work with smaller pieces when wresting stuff into the channels, and there are a couple that will be entirely enclosed if I pieced it all together before boning. Plus I'm less likely to accidentally sew into one of the edge channels if the bone is already in them.

And these will mainly be for use at Pennsbury Manor, because looking back at pictures my mantua looks horrible with nothing under it. :x