It is too small!!!

[frualeydis]

I just tried on the fully boned corset and there's a 6 cm gap! And it's not exactly comfortable then either. I took the pattern from a too large corset, so I took it in a couple of centimetres. I didn't count on it being such a large difference between a fully boned corset and an only partially boned corset. When it's laced too tight to be comfortable, I'm still larger than when I'm wearing my green kirtle, so the boning definitely takes up space.
So now I have several options:

1. Take out half of the boning, either putting just one reed in every channel or having two reeds in every other channel, and see if that helps.

2. Make extra panels at the sides. That would look a little odd with the tabs and I have also run out of reeds.

3. Exchange the reed for something flatter, like plastic whalebone.

4. Finish it as it is and continue to loose weight.

5. Open it in the back and make it into a back- and frontlaced corset.

Of course number four is my favoured solution, but I'm not sure I would loose enough. Maybe taking out boning would be the best solution, because I may never be able to wear it comfortably with the Anthonis Mor dress, and that was sort of my idea.

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[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Done, and sort of working.

/Eva