I’ve been busy working on the corded corset the past couple weeks, and am taking a breather to post the WIP photos here. It’s almost finished.
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Apparently I had not gotten around to posting all the WIP images from July to this blog.  My apologies for that.  I have not actually worked on the hybrid style fully corded corset in nearly two months, but here are a couple more images of the progress I did make at that time. Project: Fully Corded Hybrid
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Brief recap of NACLS 2015 (North American Corsetry and Lingerie Symposium), and my interview from Lucy Corsetry.
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The last few days I have been working on my hybrid style fully corded corset. Â The first step is to fully cord all the panels and gores. Â The strength layer is coutil, with thin cotton rope for cording, and black linen for the cover material. Â I couldn’t find yellow buttonhole thread, so I am using
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In more exciting news, for the first time in a little over three years I am working on a corset. It is a bastard hybrid of stays with stomacher, and a Victorian corset. It will be fully corded to imitate the look of fully boned stays, and I am planning for it to machine washable.
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In 2014 this corset ended up with a broken busk, so I decided to repair the corset by creating an entirely different closure, steampunk inspired.
Read MoreDate: May 24, 2015, 3-6pm Location: San Jose, CA, USA Event name: Corset Pattern Alteration Workshop at Clockwork Alchemy Further info: http://www.clockworkalchemy.com/ The workshop is free for anyone attending the Clockwork Alchemy or Fanime conventions. You must have a convention pass valid on Sunday to attend. Clockwork Alchemy is a steampunk themed portion of the
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The drab green silk overbust corset needed a new busk and closure. I entirely used materials I had on hand. It has a new brass “busk” piece. It is secured into a leather strip with rivets and leather pockets on the top and bottom. The leather is secured to the corset with more rivets. It will spiral lace closed, via the D-rings on the other side.
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Pink cotton eyelet fabric kimono, and pink cotton velvet corselet, both of which I sewed back in 2011 for an Asian-themed steampunk event.
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A friend recently made her first self-patterned corset, and was asking me about how to avoid those pesky little wrinkles the happen at the hip and bust. In brief, they are usually caused by bias or poor fit.
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