Pictures, pictures, pictures.

[liadethornegge]

Well, there it is. Since I did not cut out all the lilac pieces at the same time the whole piece is listing a bit, narrower at the top than at the bottom. But not by very much. This picture was taken in daylight and shows the colours much better than the other photos did. Anyway, it now only needs a backside and stuffing. Dunno what I'll use, but I'm sure something will come to me.

Then there is the corset. I started on the back panel and I took a picture of that too, about a quarter of the way through stitching the channels on the back panel. The side showing here is the blue linen, which I may make the lining, because the lining side now looks pretty grotty with pencil marks all over it. I also went back and forth on which stitch to use, but came to the conclusion that backstitching looks way nicer on both sides than running stitch, which for some reason creates ripples in the fabric.

By the way, I managed to save me doing the channels at an angle, with a slight adjustment I could continue straight on so they are all parallell to the centre-back line. No diagonals on the back panel then. The revised pattern now still looks fairly large to me, but, measuring it at the waist makes it smaller than me. So I'm confident it won't be too large.