Long time readers may remember that last summer I made two pairs of stays. The nicer of the two sets turned out way too small, and so I s...

I say of doom because I started sewing these at the end of summer and I just now finished, but also because they have some issues. I fina...

After I finished sewing all of the many many boning channels I began to cut my heavy duty zip-ties to size and sand down the corners. Thi...

The strapless stays are coming along swimmingly but I ran out of boning after finishing off an entire package of heavy duty zip ties in j...

I have decided to take my trusty old stays pattern and make a quick pair of fully boned strapless stays. I need a stiffer more coni...

So the stays are finished, but they are too small! The mock up fit fine but wasn't fully boned and somewhere along the way these ende...

The stays are looking a lot more like stays at this point! I ended up being lazy and just machine stitching them together at the side se...

After making a quick mock-up of my first pattern using a thick fabric, my on hand lacing strips and masking taped on boning I could pla...

I started my experiment with modifying the strapless stays pattern from this generator  (and also sorta  this tutorial ) into new stays l...