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Although I'd already started marking and sewing the stays, I ordered a blue chalk Chaco liner pen from Joann on Super Bowl Sunday. (They had a nearly-free shipping deal. I also got a small leather thimble, too, because the medium was almost unusable and apparently small-fingered-people don't shop at brick and mortar stores.)
It finally came today and I just tried it out. It's amazing!! Finer lines than I can get even with the sharpest chalk pen. And because it's a combination of powder and wheel, there's no drag even on my somewhat fuzzy flannel.
I highly recommend!
Now, if only I can figure out the best way to cross-hatch the tab and main body boning so I can finish the side front piece. I like the symmetry of bringing the tab channels up to the cross pieces (3 tab channels, 3 body channels, etc), but then that makes that last set of tab channels really long (over 6"). I'm not sure if that's a good idea structurally.
(The extra blue on that tab results from the usual difficulty of figuring out exactly where to start the first line. There are multiple fine lines close to each other, though, not a big wide messy one.)
The side back pieces, which I did first. The left one is the very first, hence the visibly wider channels and the resultingly taller center tab channels. I don't know if it will bother me enough to redo; I suspect that, although it's fun to do this, I will be totally over it by the time I finish the eighth piece and in no mood to redo #1. Plus that long center channel is IMPOSSIBLE to center perfectly.
It finally came today and I just tried it out. It's amazing!! Finer lines than I can get even with the sharpest chalk pen. And because it's a combination of powder and wheel, there's no drag even on my somewhat fuzzy flannel.
I highly recommend!
Now, if only I can figure out the best way to cross-hatch the tab and main body boning so I can finish the side front piece. I like the symmetry of bringing the tab channels up to the cross pieces (3 tab channels, 3 body channels, etc), but then that makes that last set of tab channels really long (over 6"). I'm not sure if that's a good idea structurally.
(The extra blue on that tab results from the usual difficulty of figuring out exactly where to start the first line. There are multiple fine lines close to each other, though, not a big wide messy one.)
The side back pieces, which I did first. The left one is the very first, hence the visibly wider channels and the resultingly taller center tab channels. I don't know if it will bother me enough to redo; I suspect that, although it's fun to do this, I will be totally over it by the time I finish the eighth piece and in no mood to redo #1. Plus that long center channel is IMPOSSIBLE to center perfectly.
