Not perfect by a mile, but relatively tidy, and that’s all I really wanted:
Ren corset, mark 3
Folded the corners a bit better than before, still a little clunky (esp. on the inner corners), but miles better than by machine.
Better binding
However, I’m glad I did do it twice, because the machine stitching is much stronger than my hand-stitching, and for a corset, that’s important. I don’t want bones poking thru at inopportune moments. I left the narrow machine-stitched binding in under there and just put the wider hand-sewn binding over it to look better and hold in the bits where the machine didn’t catch completely. So it’s doubly secure, and that makes me feel good.
Maybe tomorrow night I’ll put the bones in and sew the top edge (it’s just laid across in the top pic), which shouldn’t take anywhere as long as the bottom edge did. Then I’d be ready for grommet pounding, maybe on the weekend. Even though our house is detached, I feel bad hammering grommets at night. Our neighbors aren’t that far away, and it’d bug me if/when they did stuff like this.
Anyway, an accomplishment like this deserves another apple turnover and tea! Last one. But a homemade holiday fruitcake is winging its way to me from Virginia, so I’ll soon have another item in my baked-good incentive program for sewing.