I followed you over from Foundations Revealed competition. I just finished a 1903 Edwardian s-bend corset using Truly Victorian's pattern, and was told it could be altered to make the longer underbust 1910 one. So I'm ready to do that now. I was planning a pretty pink one but after seeing yours, it inspired me to do a similar one. I've always loved shabby chic, and I think by flatlining the fabrics to coutil, it should work beautifully. Did you have to make much effort to have the lines of the fabric strips to match up at the seams? I'm trying to decide if I should flatline the fabric first to the coutil, then cut it, making sure they will line up. OR cut the corset pattern pieces out of coutil, THEN cut the sewn strips of shabby fabrics. Val http://timetravelingincostume.blogspot.com/ AKA Chloeandrudy on LJ.
Re: Shabby TitanicbeespokeFebruary 27 2012, 21:52:46 UTC
To make the strips, I actually cut the pieces that I had into squares first, then sewed them together to make the strips. That's what I was meaning about all of the seaming going on. It would be easy to get a seam from one of the squares at the very edge of the flatlined coutil, so if that were to happen, it would make for an extremely thick "bump" along the seam when joining the panels. Also, my main focus was to make sure that at front busk and rear lacing panels, those strips lined up perfectly.
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Did you have to make much effort to have the lines of the fabric strips to match up at the seams? I'm trying to decide if I should flatline the fabric first to the coutil, then cut it, making sure they will line up. OR cut the corset pattern pieces out of coutil, THEN cut the sewn strips of shabby fabrics.
Val http://timetravelingincostume.blogspot.com/ AKA Chloeandrudy on LJ.
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