Someone tried to go fast and it slowed them down.

Someone tried to go fast and it slowed them down. It was me.
The wrinkled panels on the right were not pinned correctly before sewing, and I had to redo my work a couple times, and it still turned out wrinkly.
I will never learn.

Things are starting to look corset-like!
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I ended up getting far enough to know I will need another full day to finish it.

Second coffee has been acquired. Time to negotiate with canvas and taffeta.

I have achieved hip spring
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Two of them!

I want a nap now.
What should have been quick took forever, and I’m not sure how I’m going to finish the bottom edge.* I’m not following a commercial pattern for this, and that’s starting to show.

*not a request for help. There’s a complicated order of operations problem that I introduced by the way I inserted the hip panels. I will solve it be being a little messy.

Body is assembled!
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Today I have to insert the cups. And I’m dreading it. This is just an under-layer. It’s fine. It does not have to be perfect, but my brain wants to start over.

Ok, time to try again. I do not know why that did not work the first time.

Pinned in, this is an extremely odd object.

Still a very funny object. Right side is fully sewn down and underwired, left is just clipped in. I think if I knew what I know now, I would have made a regular over-bust corset.
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Only thing left to do is bind the hem and hammer in grommets. This thing took at least three times my initial time estimate, but it is looking like a thing someone made on purpose, so that’s good.

Time to see if this fits.

Bones need to be bent, and the cups need to be taken in a little. I think i can do that. The body of the corset ends up contributing to that part of the fit, so I just need to compensate for that.
Not bad.

And done

Butt pad has been added. It is not fancy, but it exists.

I have entered the ruffle zone.

12 yards of organza hemmed and trimmed. Now to wipe off chalk marks and figure out the next step.

Time to sew these two guys together, this project is a thread monster.
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