Doll corset

Once you have turned your corset inside out, tack(baste) all around the edges, so that it's all nice and flat. Give it a decent press. Mark where you want your eyelets to go with a pacer style pencil, and then using an awl, (or perhaps a metal kitchen skewer might work) make holes where your pencil marks are. Push your eyelets onto the awl and carefully work it down into the hole and then take the awl out. This bit is a little fiddly to start, but you'll get there. Use eyelet tools to fix…

As a long time consumer of fancy French lingerie, I now fully understand why something with such little fabric costs so much. Drafting, cutting, manipulating and sewing together tiny pattern pieces is not only labor intensive, it calls for nimble fingers and a lot of patience. For months after spotting a photo of a pretty doll in a corset dress, I was determined to create an real, old fashioned corset for my dolls. The style featured in this post is called "the merry widow," which dates back…

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