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My corset is done! Ok, not really, I have to cover all the little eyelet things, which I had to put in because the fabric wasn't giving enough to do a proper metalless eyelet and still get a lace through them. Anyway. So now I have to cover the silver with black thread. Yes, it's a black corset, No I really don't know whether those are period, and I quite frankly don't care. It's pretty. There is a baby callous on the middle fonger of my right hand from sewing through three layers of canvas and linen. It should be a full-grown callous by the time I get around to sewing over the eyelets. Assuming I do. It's already not really period, being lined and interlined with cotton, and having bones made out of cable ties. This was someone else's suggestion for when you don't want to do Rigilene, can't afford steel, don't feel like splitting reeds, but really want a nice stiff corset. There were 24 ties at 30"x1/2" for five dollars. And the stiffness is pretty good, even compared to the steels I have. I'm decently impressed. I'd actually reccomend it. All the simplicity of rigilene though it does require heavier scissors like kitchen weight or something, the strength of steel, and cheaper than either. You cannot sew through it though. Machines will bitch a lot.

Sooner or later Remy will stop blowing things up and I can find out whether or not it fits.

Sarah, your muslin is almost underway.

And we just tried lacing. Twill tape is not strong enough, as probably anyone could have told me. I was hoping. It was there. So we try it in the morning. It might fit. Remy says it looks like it will, tightly. Though I think I may have made the front too long, and I really don't want to re-do that. I's a pain. But if nothing else, I can out it on a dress form when I make a better one and use it to make dresses on in the right shape.

I can wear it under the wool dress, and not have to bone it.