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cpsoufflegirl in corsetmakers

Pattern Pieces Not Matching Up

May 23, 2018 12:41

Hello! I am very new here and I don't know if I'm putting this post in the right place but hopefully it works out.

I'm working on my first corset using TV110. I don't have a lot of sewing experience at all so this is a bit of an adventure for me. I've made one mock-up which fit quite well and was comfortable, but I wasn't satisfied with how well I ( Read more... )

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virginiadear May 23 2018, 18:22:06 UTC

Welcome! :^)

I'm not in charge here but I'd say you're in the right place.

Congratulations on making an ambitious and courageous early project! Never be intimidated by mere fabric and patterns. You can do this. A human being designed this pattern and hundreds of thousands of women before you have learned to sew and even have mastered the art of sewing (I'm not a master and probably never will be but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying what I do at the sewing machine) and a number of them became respectable corsetieres (corsetmakers ( ... )

cpsoufflegirl May 23 2018, 19:55:06 UTC

Yes, I realized that if the mock-up wasn't right because my pattern wasn't right, the final product would share the same flaws. Hence my executive decision to make a second mock-up and try to be more precise with it ( ... )

virginiadear May 23 2018, 20:21:51 UTC

I'm not following you as precisely as I need to, and I know it, but something here sounds off ( ... )

geminiwench May 23 2018, 21:50:27 UTC

I am seconding VirginiaDear's comments. If you can give me a visual about what pieces #4 and #5 look like, we can maybe give a better idea about what may be going wrong ( ... )

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starrynight May 23 2018, 23:07:03 UTC

sometimes you have to ease the pattern pieces if they're curved, how far off are they?

cpsoufflegirl May 23 2018, 23:12:08 UTC

About a fourth of an inch.

virginiadear May 24 2018, 01:00:41 UTC

No; they look fine. This, though, is what geminiwench and I meant by the lines not necessarily matching on paper or when you cut out the pieces of the corset, but when you sew them, they will mateSomething else which may help you is to make sure you've pressed the pattern tissue, both the printed pattern paper and the tissue or other paper onto which you're transferring the pattern, with a dry iron: steam settings may cause the paper to warp and buckle. Press the fabric on the hottest setting the fabric can take, and use steam or a hand-held mister/spray bottle: you want the fabric damp but not sopping wet. "Press" means you put the soleplate of the iron onto the fabric, apply a bit of pressure, then lift the iron and move it to an adjacent area to press ( ... )