Finally started!

[neonduchess]

Hooray!

This week I finally found some time (in amongst planning Christmas and all it brings with 3 kids and a husband!) to make a start on my final corset for the DPP 2011. February seems somehow ages away and terrifyingly soon all at once. The Christmas school holidays will be a blissful blur after which I have only a few weeks to finish. Given I

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[sewcurvy]

I would interface it with woven cotton fusible, and then flat line it to coutil. I would not bond to twill, then flatline because I think the layers will become very un manageable - too stiff. Or bond/flatline it to the coutil and leave the twill out. It depends how stiff you want the finished product to be. If you bond it, you run the risk of making it so stiff that you will get nasty cardboardy crease marks which you wont be able to get rid of. In a corset this wouldnt happen because it's small and has lots of bones, but because your's is longer and with no bones, and you've engineered it so you can move, the cardboard effect may happen.. Hope that helps :)

[neonduchess]

Wonderful! Thanks for taking the time to give me such helpful advice. I will try the interfacing and then flatline it straight onto the coutil.

Corsetry newbie lifesaver again Julia!

Have a nice weekend :0)

[sewcurvy]

Make sure you do a test first. If you have enough scraps to cut 2 pretend corset panels try that. :)

[sewcurvy]

Oh. Have you read the stuff on corset makers about 'turn of cloth' or roll pinning?