Final photos have been added to the gallery finally:) Here is a shot of the high-backed underbust along with the other two corsets made in the same fabrics in the past year. Look at what different results you can get using the same colors and fabrics in different combinations:

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Features a high back, spoonbusk, and exterior boning channels.

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Busk inserted and constructing the body of the corset:

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Yep the bias coutil boning channels make me happy. Can’t wait to actually make the real corset.

It was hard to stuff it evenly, so I can’t wait to see what actually happens on the body this is meant for. More photos:
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This project is turning out to be impossible to photograph. But the first person to see it in person said they wanted it So at least it looks good in person! The trim is this lovely stuff I picked up outside of Moro Bay in this neat little trim shop. The shop owner said she imported it years ago from France. I hope to have enough to do along the top and bottom and maybe a few garters…

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I cut this out almost 2 years ago as a sample to test out a La Mode Illustree pattern. I made the mock-up and fit it to one of my friends at the time & now it is finally actually made!!!

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Construction continues…

Curvy enough at the bust that it can’t lay flat anymore:
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Not much progress but I hope to work more on this sample this week

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I ended up having to redo one seam to get the stripes to be more similar from side to side I’m happy with the end results, quite a tedious but wonderful project Using the same patterning techniques, the wider stripes of this fabric were actually a lot harder to match up then the smaller sets of stripes on the black & white corset I finished last year.

More inprogress photos below:
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