New day, even more topstitching.
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New day, even more topstitching. All the boning channel tapes are attached and properly sewn on two sides, and some of them are also sewn in the middle, thus creating two channels for the tiny little narrow synthetic whalebone.
Next: Unpicking all the bits I had to redo because it's kind of hard to tidily sew through so many layers of coutil and the thick tape, and also the basting threads. -
New day, even more topstitching. All the boning channel tapes are attached and properly sewn on two sides, and some of them are also sewn in the middle, thus creating two channels for the tiny little narrow synthetic whalebone.
Next: Unpicking all the bits I had to redo because it's kind of hard to tidily sew through so many layers of coutil and the thick tape, and also the basting threads.Currently containing the urge to make every single boning channel appear symmetrical from the right side. We'll see if I give into it once all the boning channels are actually on, certainly I could have them all done before making decisions about even more tactical unpicking!
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Currently containing the urge to make every single boning channel appear symmetrical from the right side. We'll see if I give into it once all the boning channels are actually on, certainly I could have them all done before making decisions about even more tactical unpicking!
An ode to petersham binding instead of bias binding! Not only can you get petersham in almost any fibre you like, it's also much thinner and quite malleable, so you can stretch and squish it together like bias binding without all the bulk. This viscose one I'm using is also very pretty and you don't need to pin it to sew it on, at all. Just keep one edge on a line of stay-stitching or drawn line a distance from the raw edge, flip, stitch again, done!
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An ode to petersham binding instead of bias binding! Not only can you get petersham in almost any fibre you like, it's also much thinner and quite malleable, so you can stretch and squish it together like bias binding without all the bulk. This viscose one I'm using is also very pretty and you don't need to pin it to sew it on, at all. Just keep one edge on a line of stay-stitching or drawn line a distance from the raw edge, flip, stitch again, done!
In any case, the top binding of the corset is in place, and I just need to finish a couple of the thread ends while I further procrastinate on preparing and putting in any of the boning. Not today!
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In any case, the top binding of the corset is in place, and I just need to finish a couple of the thread ends while I further procrastinate on preparing and putting in any of the boning. Not today!
I have put in the boning! Honestly I hate this step, persuading the bones into the very tight channels always hurts my hands and I hate trying to contain the plastic prubble (plastic crud pulver crumble) created by the filing down of the sharp edges, wrestling the big roll of it and... Ugh.
But yeah! Measured shorter than the finished channel, slipped into the boning tape, jiggled into place. Done. -
I have put in the boning! Honestly I hate this step, persuading the bones into the very tight channels always hurts my hands and I hate trying to contain the plastic prubble (plastic crud pulver crumble) created by the filing down of the sharp edges, wrestling the big roll of it and... Ugh.
But yeah! Measured shorter than the finished channel, slipped into the boning tape, jiggled into place. Done.Oh yeah. And guess how many metres of boning I had to put into this very short corset for a rather small person, which is myself? Fucking almost five metres. Fucking hell. Corsets, not even once, unless you have 11 million moneys to pay someone else to do it!
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