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An 1830s corset - cording started

1/17/2012

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Updating as promised! This week, I turned the biro marked muslin into a pattern, tracing the lines onto wrapping paper and measuring to ensure that the spacing was regular where it should be. I also mad a guide piece for the front section, so that i could pin it in place and stitch along the folded/cut edges where needed.
I got one front piece corded, the longer peices were a bit of a struggle! Where all else failed, I poked holes in the coutil and pulled the cord to the outside, then started again through the same hole. This worked reasonably well, but you have to be careful not to get and kinks or twists in the cord or it won't go back through.
There seems to be a bit of uneven-ness between the cording and the seams, where the cording has shrunk some sections (I hope - otherwise its because I stitched uneven seams). I'm hoping that once I add the bust and hip gores the tension will be released.
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I figure I also better update you on dress progress, actually done last week but it got missed in that huge batch of updates! I started by pinning the fabric to the front of the bodice to figure out the placing of the pleats. I then took the bodice seams apart and sewed it together again with the overlay in place, including  flat pieces at the back.
I added a sleeve, unfortunately I cut the armband way too small so I couldn't actually get it on! I will fix this, and may need to make the armholes a little wider too since it had all that extra fabric gathered in!
Anyway, with the sleeve inI can drape the pattern for the petal like sections which go over the sleeves in the original.

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