Now the last step is to finish the edges. A while back, when I made my first attempt at a corset, it took some adjusting to the idea of how different it is from your ordinary dress bodice with a lining. You're not sewing the two halves with "right sides together" and flipping them around to make a clean edge. No, you sew them with "wrong sides together" and the raw edges are raw.
Instead, I'm using packaged bias tape to sew onto the raw edge. OK, they do make a thinner size, but it wasn't at my nearby JoAnn's in brown. I wanted brown! My daughter is skeptical, but it syncs with the overall steampunk theme, and it picks up the brown highlights in the brocade. I just trim down the excess.
So, despite the many interruptions, it looks like I'll have the edges finished today! Great excitement here. But I'll have to wait a couple weeks until I can try fitting it on my friend. Oh, I'll just have to do other projects in the meantime.
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