Jane Austen Festival KY 2017: Stays and Chemise
Jane Austen Festival 2017 After a grueling semester and a not so good grade in Physics I was looking for some kind of escape. I wanted to get more serious about sewing but I didn't know how to read a pattern or how to use my machine (honestly it used to hate me). I wanted to start with something simple but I didn't want to make a costume for no reason. Then I found the Jane Austen Festival in KY. The festival occurs in June and I found out about it at the start of May. So I only had a month to pull together a chemise, stays, and a drawstring gown. Note that I have never made any of these things, especially something that is corset like. So naturally I had to choose a pattern first. The most user friendly one that I found was The Elegant Ladies Closet Pattern and the Regency Underthings Pattern from Sense and Sensibility. I read all of the instructions (or so I thought) and then got started on the chemise. Patterns used I'm glad I started with the chemise b...