Setback

Yet more patterns...

Oh bugger.

Sewing the inner layer

I lined all the freshly cut pieces up and carefully sewed them all together, starting at the centre and working out.  It's important to sew down the seams from the top every time in order to make sure there is no odd matching which can occur (not such an issue on coutil, which is a pleasure to sew).

I very carefully pressed the seams towards the front of the corset (for the inner layer, the outer will be pressed to the back), remembering my new pressing cloth only after getting a few shiny patches. Oh well, it is the inner layer.

After it was all together I asked Mr Icy to hold it tight around my body and realised that the two side pieces were totally wrong in the bust.  Not sure how that happened, but I did read an article about how there can be a significant difference in how a mockup fabric might react compared to the much stiffer coutil.  I'm assuming that's it.

Fixing the pattern

So I pinned the corset inner to the dressmaking form and set too with my masking tape*, carefully outlining where the top line should actually come to.  I marked where the fabric was underneath the tape, and where the seam would be if it continued and then "tried" it on again. This time it was much better.

I carefully removed the tape addition and then attached it on the matching bits of pattern**, where it appeared to line up nicely. Then it was just cutting out again, marking up again, unpicking the wrong bits, and sewing in the new ones. Only an extra 2 hours or so, and 1/2 a metre of material...

But it looks like it will be OK. And hopefully I haven't completely wasted the four cut pieces of coutil.  The other corset pattern is shorter than this one, so it's possible I might be able to fit the changes into the existing bit of fabric.  If not, I can probably use them to make boning channels or something similar.

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* This TOTALLY worked as a technique. I was really quite chuffed.
** I'll draw these up properly later, along with the B corset.  I wouldn't want to put in a bunch more effort only to find it wasn't right (again).

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