Underbust corset (no busk)

I tried my hand at an underbust corset. So let's look at how I made it :)

Okay, first of all, the pattern (you can find it here):

http://www.kyriascloset.com/english/gothicdiy/corset.html

(this pattern is © to Kyria, she made this lovely pattern, thank you!)

Now, because I don't have a busk at the moment, I closed the corset in the front. The next one I'm going to make, I'll add a busk. That way it'll be easier to put your corset on yourself.

First of all, you're going to have to make it twice, Use some cheap fabric, leftover pieces so you can make a mock-up. This is the best way, if you mess up, you won't have waisted your beautiful fabrics. A corset is pretty hard to make.

Maybe make a drawing about how the corset is going to look like. That'll always come in handy.

Take your measurements as you find them on the website and draw the pieces like you see below.

Mark the pattern pieces with the correct numbers (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Also mark the middle back and middle front seam, and the top of the pattern pieces (above lines A)

them to your fabric and cut it out twice for the sturdy fabric and twice for the fashion fabric. For the middle front part I just put the two halves together to create one broad middle part (you see it here on the left). This you have to cut out only once per fabric.




Next thing you do is sew all the parts together. I put always one on the backside and one on the good side so that way you sew them all in one go.

When you are done with that. Add boning to the back side, put the eyelets next to it (the more you add the better you can close your corset) and another bone next to that. That way you have a very sturdy back when you have to pull your corset close.

Now add the rest of the boning. I added one everywhere a seam is.
When you are done with that just sew the top part close with some ribbon as well as the bottom part.

And your corset should be finished.

In the end I realised that metal boning is much better, the plastic ones just bend.