In knitting, particularly colorwork, there's a trick if you screw up and use the wrong colors in the pattern. You simply make the same mistake for the rest of the project, and then it's no longer wrong but an 'interpretation of the pattern.' In sewing, some trim or decorative embroidery turns a flaw into a 'design feature.' I didn't like the space between my busk and the first bone. (About 1/8th of an inch.) I seemed a tip off that it was my first corset. But now?
Herringbone stitch down the length of the corset and it's a pretty design element.
Even though I said this corset was more me than my character, I couldn't help doing a little Supernatural-theme flossing.
D.W. on the inside lacing bones (My character is Dean Winchester.) The Aquarian Star, symbol of the Men of Letters, and a pentagram.
The little triangles on all of the other bones were inspired by the center of this sigil:
used to open Purgatory.
And for those of you reading this who don't watch the show and are wondering about the strange symbols and giving me suspicious glances,
I don't have a good answer.
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