Someone tried to go fast and it slowed them down.

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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Next step is to portion out the ruffles, iron them, flip the french seam, and then sew down the French seam.

It’s frothy.

OK, the showy ruffles are ruffled, and now I have to ruffle the support ruffles. I have to figure out how much this is and go from there.
Goal is to have all the ruffles sewn to the netting by the end of the day.

I did not finish ruffle hell yesterday. Best estimate is this is another day of work.

I’m assuming that other people would be faster at this.
The first four rows are sewed on, and the fifth is pinned on. The top row is three layers, every other tier is two ruffle strips, one of two layers and the other a single. I’m lining up their hems the best I can as I go.
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I am not going rip out the ruffle that is slightly off, but I really want to.

Ruffles are attached. Going to finish the mesh skirt they’re part of, and then contemplate my next move

Next move is the train, and the train has lace fig leaves on it. So I need to make lace fig leaves. These are also going to take forever.

OK, I’ve been dealing with being almost sick for several days, but it is time to cut the good fabric.

This is one of those colors that is really hard to photograph, but I’m very excited by this matching situation between the organza and taffeta.
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I am a ridiculous human.

@Apiary looks pretty restrained to me

(maybe I've been looking at historical clothing too much :D )