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!
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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 I've used spiral steel before and do put in like two flats per every "whalebone" corset, they're just visually thicker (I think the narrowest is 7mm and usually they're wider than that, you can get the whalebone in 3mm and 5mm and wider) and feel a bit different. The spiral steel is much grippier than the whalebone so it's harder on the hands if your boning channels are a bit snug? I've also done the big roll of steels, and while the cutting is possible with some decent hardware aisle cutters it's not so nice on the hands, and what I really struggled with was putting on the end caps nicely. There's a specific pliers for that you sometimes see sold, but that's even more tools. 😄
I wouldn't want to do it with a Karvinen in the space though, that's a lot of tiny metal bits for him to consume.
Sini Tuulia
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