Does anyone have any images of work they have made for the competition, so far?
I've made a few pieces, and have tried quite hard to get good images of them, as I feel my images let me down last year. I've shared pictures of a few of this years pieces on my blog and my fan page, but wanted to share with you this pretty gorgeous image I had back yesterday.
The corset pattern is very basic - the 1860s short corset from the Jean Hunissett book, adjusted to my size (not modeled by me here)
The construction is very basic - one layer of broche, one layer of dupion, one 7mm spiral at each seam, 7.5mm flat steels at either side of the eyelets.
I focused on ornamentation here - I have used a gold power mesh and black beaded lace, along with jet and hematite swarovski crystals. This was the second piece I made which I saw a huge improvement from my older work in. The first was the pink corset in my avatar.