New day, even more topstitching. All the boning channel tapes are attached and properly sewn on two sides, and some of them are also sewn in the middle, thus creating two channels for the tiny little narrow synthetic whalebone.
Next: Unpicking all the bits I had to redo because it's kind of hard to tidily sew through so many layers of coutil and the thick tape, and also the basting threads.
An ode to petersham binding instead of bias binding! Not only can you get petersham in almost any fibre you like, it's also much thinner and quite malleable, so you can stretch and squish it together like bias binding without all the bulk. This viscose one I'm using is also very pretty and you don't need to pin it to sew it on, at all. Just keep one edge on a line of stay-stitching or drawn line a distance from the raw edge, flip, stitch again, done!
In any case, the top binding of the corset is in place, and I just need to finish a couple of the thread ends while I further procrastinate on preparing and putting in any of the boning. Not today!
@sinituulia
I mean, she is a pro + she works in a big sewing supply shop, why not?
Well... those cutters didn't not work! She went to sharpen them and the person sharpening them explained that no, it is not gonna work ever. Because random craft store cutters are softer than stainless steel corset bones. I'm not sure how she did it, but I'm planning to take leftover boning and visit a shop where construction tools are sold to buy myself a proper steel cutters.
Honesty found it delightful.
@laumapret @sinituulia I've bought some cheap cutters from the hardware store designed to cut steel wire, and they make a big difference in how easy dealing with spiral steel boning is, even if they are very much not top of the line tools or anything.
for flat steels I still tend to use a dremel-like power tool (or ideally, get somebody else to use a dremel for me :D ) to cut and sand down the edges, but that's helped by the fact that we do have such a tool at home for various other reasons
I'm still using the two regular pliers and lots of cursing (the latter is an integral part of the procedure, right?) for the end caps, because being multicraftual (in a multicraftual household) means that we have lots of multipurpose tools, but I don't do enough corsets to justify yet another single purpose one.
@laumapret @sinituulia not a real dremel, a dremel-like tool (bought for 25 € :) ), which arount here gets used mostly to cut various things for creative or repair purposes (PCBs, tubes and strips of plastic and metal, etc.)
but if you can get access to a shared real dremel that's even better!
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