Binding

[mala_14]

Got the binding sewn on to the corset. It was a total PITA to hand sew the wrong side down. The coutil was just murder on my fingertips, which are now all red and have a new hole or two in them. I ended up using a metal thimble on my index finger and masking tape padding my thumb. Of course, then I was less dextrous so it took longer to sew. It's all done now though, which is the important thing!

I started on the flossing, doing a couple of bones to give my fingers a break from the binding. I'm using pearl cotton because I can't seem to find silk floss anywhere locally. It ends up looking like period examples to me. My design is an X with a little bar across the middle and a stem with a sort of wheat-y flower. Sort of like a combination of the bottom front of this corset from Jill Salen's Corsets book and the barred X's from this Met corset.

The only other thing I might add to this corset is some lace at the top. But I'm counting it as finished now! Tomorrow will be a new ruffled bustle. I found a really neat ad for an 1882 ruffled bustle pad thingie. I'm thinking something like No.1 out of hair canvas.

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CoCo is a good motivator!