and then my life went to hell...
so i haven't posted again. but i have done a bit in the meantime, so i'll try to work my way back to caught up, and i'll start with the corset.
i decided i wanted to trace the mockup back onto paper so that i could adjust the seam lines. because i felled the seams to make the boning channels i had to increase them.
then i drew all the pieces onto the fabric.
because this was intended to be a quick-and-dirty corset i used some pretty grey duck rather than coutil. it's a good, sturdy fabric, but i suspect it will give a little, so i'm planning to add a waist tape, which i do not usually do.
please enjoy a picture of my inability to sew straight lines:
for some reason i spontaneously started quilting the gussets. it does make the fabric stiffer, but only a very small amount stiffer since it's a single layer of fabric. it's mostly aesthetics at this point i suppose, which is stupid anyway because my machine needs servicing and the tension is waaaaay screwed up.
i used german plastic boning for this, mostly because i apparently have zero flat steel bones, but german plastic boning is my favorite. unfortunately, i ran out half way through, farthingales is out of the width i'm using, and i haven't gotten around to finding it somewhere else yet. thus my corset is half boned. i took the opportunity to put grommets in a few days ago (interrupted by hospital visit number 2). i had absolutely no intention of putting them in with a hammer, so i had to use a size larger than i wanted, but that was the die i had for my hand press (buying more dies are on my list of corset-making acquisitions as well). i felled the seams of the gusset because instead of sewing them like seams i turned under the corset seams and top-stitched them to the gusset. please enjoy pictures of my terrible hand sewing:
i decided i wanted to trace the mockup back onto paper so that i could adjust the seam lines. because i felled the seams to make the boning channels i had to increase them.
then i drew all the pieces onto the fabric.
because this was intended to be a quick-and-dirty corset i used some pretty grey duck rather than coutil. it's a good, sturdy fabric, but i suspect it will give a little, so i'm planning to add a waist tape, which i do not usually do.
please enjoy a picture of my inability to sew straight lines:
for some reason i spontaneously started quilting the gussets. it does make the fabric stiffer, but only a very small amount stiffer since it's a single layer of fabric. it's mostly aesthetics at this point i suppose, which is stupid anyway because my machine needs servicing and the tension is waaaaay screwed up.
i used german plastic boning for this, mostly because i apparently have zero flat steel bones, but german plastic boning is my favorite. unfortunately, i ran out half way through, farthingales is out of the width i'm using, and i haven't gotten around to finding it somewhere else yet. thus my corset is half boned. i took the opportunity to put grommets in a few days ago (interrupted by hospital visit number 2). i had absolutely no intention of putting them in with a hammer, so i had to use a size larger than i wanted, but that was the die i had for my hand press (buying more dies are on my list of corset-making acquisitions as well). i felled the seams of the gusset because instead of sewing them like seams i turned under the corset seams and top-stitched them to the gusset. please enjoy pictures of my terrible hand sewing: