Here I am again, with the second post on my part of the Canada Cups blog tour, this time featuring my review of the Craftsy class featuring corset maker Linda Sparks, Custom Corsets: Bones, Casings and Busks. I was rather excited about this class, for 2 reasons in particular: 1. Linda is from Ontario, Canada and it's great when I see instructors from my adopted country being represented. 2. I was hoping it would give me the design freedom that the Essential Techniques class didn't get to cover. For this review, I decided to make an underbust corset and incorporate some of Linda's techniques. For this I decided to totally trash the free T-Shirt that the lovely folks at Craftsy had sent me for
This year I was invited to be part of a blog tour of Canadian sewing bloggers - The Canada Cups Relay. It's incredible to see the sewing talent in this country, so I was very flattered to be asked to join - after all, I'm not really Canadian! On this blog tour, all the participants are reviewing Craftsy's lingerie, bra and corset making classes to help you decide which one you'd like to try. The Craftsy Bit I love Craftsy classes - they provide a great starting point in any new crafting venture and you get to learn from some really great teachers without having to get on a plane! It's also really helpful that you can rewind the tough bits again, and again until you get it - and if you still
This coming week the Canadian blogosphere is going to go boudoir-batty and corset-crazy as the Canada Cups Blog Tour kicks off. This year, a group of talented Canadian sewing bloggers will be grabbing their seam rippers and sharpening their pencils in an effort to review all of Craftsy's lingerie, bra and corset classes! Marsha Lawrence is the powerhouse behind the Canada Cups Relay. She has herded wayward bloggers away from their sewing machines to write their posts, cajoled the IT-illiterate into embracing widgets and generally ensured that everything got done! She is also the lady who convinced Craftsy to donate a prize for the Giveaway in the Canada Cups Tour - a bundle of 3 classes from
