Sewing

Putting it together

Onwards!

The outside

So, after the inside it was time to put the outside together.  I modified the process slighting to speed things up, sewing the pieces together in pairs, ironing the seams, then sewing the pairs together and ironing the seams.

For the outside, I'm sewing just to the outside of the pencil seam mark, where the inside was sewn just to the inside of the mark. This is to take account of the shift in material as it rolls around the body and hopefully to get the seams to line up.

The next step was pinning the inside and outside to the dressmaking form and checking if the seams did line up. Mostly they were OK, but I did have to spend a few hours pinning and checking and moving seams by one to two millimetres.  Was this really necessary? Maybe not, especially as I don't actually plan to sew the whole corset together down each seam, but I'm doing it properly anyway*.

What else to do

I've put together a little list. It's just a small one. Just a couple of more things to do...

Boning channels

I figured they'd be next on my list.  So it spent hours trying and retrying methods of putting invisible channels down the front inside panel. I sewed and re-sewed that bugger 4 times before I was satisfied.  Then, I thought to myself* "I think I like the look of no visible boning channels at all" so I had to then modify a bunch of things so I could now just put the channels on the inside layer, not the outside.  This meant a lot of rework (of course) and a day without much visible progress.  I think I'm back on track though.

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* Because I'm an idiot.

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