mala_14 | Done!

I seem to have forgotten to mention, my 1840 corset is done! As of Sunday. I have some pictures of it on before it's bound and I'll post those. All it needs is those extra grommets (more pics after that, whenever that is). But I've found a trick for making grommets easier to insert, so that shouldn't take too long. When I make the hole for the grommet half to go into, I use a knitting needle to stretch it out. Well, while the knitting needle is still through the fabric, I slip the male half of the grommet over the knitting needle and push the needle out at the same time and putting the grommet piece in. This makes is so much easier than trying to force that piece of the grommet through the hole. I find that the threads and stuff always catch on it, or the hole starts to close back up.

Here it is. There are some wrinkles. They're due to how I constructed the corset. I really should have sandwiched the gussets between the outer layers and the lining but instead I sewed the gussets into the outer layers and later cut the slits in the lining and sewed those in by hand. This didn't match up perfectly in all areas and, thus, wrinkles. Also, because the pattern is only four pieces, not including gussets, it was difficult to accommodate for my asymmetry, and so it sort of twists. You can see the busk is slanted like this / . But overall, it's alright. And I'm glad it's this much done. I just made up a simple chemise pattern and cut it out. So putting that together is next.