Sewing Corsets: Essential Techniques
Discover the secrets for making a corset that’s beautiful and flattering. Learn how to use speciality fabric, build structure, add elegant details and…
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Discover the secrets for making a corset that’s beautiful and flattering. Learn how to use speciality fabric, build structure, add elegant details and more!
Corset Essentials
Meet Alison Smith, MBE, founder of the School of Sewing, author and pattern designer. In Alison’s expert hands, you’ll learn about the structure of a modern Victorian-style corset, the fabrics and patterns to use, and how to adjust your pattern for a full bust.
Cutting & Preparing Fabrics
The best fabric for a strong, secure corset is coutil. Alison guides you through cutting and marking your fabric with tips for handling coutil’s dense herringbone weave. If your corset will have a decorative fabric layer, you’ll learn to interface your fancy fabric or bond it to the coutil.
Seam Construction
Corsets are constructed with panels joined in off-grain seams that must be accurately stitched. You’ll learn to pin, ease and stitch your seams in your coutil layer, and manage the seams if you’re building your corset with multiple layers.
Corset Front & Busk
Get started with corset “hardware” as you learn about the busk, or center front metal closure. Learn to insert the left and right sides of the busk so they match up perfectly with no center front gap, and how to safely topstitch the center front of your corset to keep the busk in place.
Corset Back & Fitting
Make boning channels with center back facings and learn to install eyelets for a classic laced corset. With your eyelets complete, Alison shows how to lace ribbon or cord through them with “bunny loops” that will allow you to tighten your corset solo. Time for a fit check as it all comes together!
Channels, Casings & Boning
Alison shares her methods for felled-seam boning channels made with seam allowances and casings made from strips of fabric that can be decorative as well as functional. Bind your top edge, then learn about rigid and flexible steel bones and how to insert them safely and securely.
Finishing Details
Finish your corset with a neatly bound lower edge and learn how to add an optional modesty panel behind the back lace for skin coverage and comfort. Then, add final touches such as lace or ribbon trim to complete your sensational modern corset!
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