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Mocking Up
Mar. 28th, 2010 05:34 pmI have been working on my 1840 corset this weekend. The pattern is the one in the Jill Salen book. I enlarged the pattern and made a few adjustments on paper, to get it to be around my measurements. (Well not actually. Because I made that other corset mock-up before, I have a bit of an idea of my corset measurements, which is what I changed the pattern to. It takes into account my squish and lacing gap and such.) It's two big pieces with two bust gores and hip gores front and back. Using ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
koshka_the_cat 's instructions for putting in gores made that part really easy. Then it was time to sew the side seams which was a bit difficult because the front piece has a really oddly shaped side that curves out around the ribs to the top. So that was interesting. I made channels with the huge seam allowances and stuck 1/2" cable ties in them for boning, threw on my lacing strips (which I also made this weekend) and tried it on.
( How it went )
koshka_the_cat 's instructions for putting in gores made that part really easy. Then it was time to sew the side seams which was a bit difficult because the front piece has a really oddly shaped side that curves out around the ribs to the top. So that was interesting. I made channels with the huge seam allowances and stuck 1/2" cable ties in them for boning, threw on my lacing strips (which I also made this weekend) and tried it on.( How it went )
