It is just a strip of fabric with the edges folded under. I make casings using bias strips of coutil because I've found the bias makes the casings lie smoother against the curves of the body, but you can cut them on the grain too. Either way will work. If you will be making casings you'll need coutil, a ruler, a pencil, scissors, and an iron. Start by drawing a line 45 degrees to the grain of the fabric.
If you don't have a triangle you can measure from a corner along the selvedge, mark the same distance on the cross grain, then connect the points. Cut strips of fabric 1 7/8 inch wide. The casing needs to run the length of the corset so make sure the strips are long enough. If you have a 25mm bias tape folder you can pull the fabric through.
If not just fold the edges so they barely meet in the middle and press.
That's it! If you need bias trim to finish the top and bottom edges you'll make it the exact same way. Tomorrow we'll stitch the casings to the corset and Friday we'll attach the back facing.
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I'm not in the sew along, but I recently finished my corset using your post-Edwardian pattern. It was a breeze to put together. (Aside from my difficulties with my boning casings, probably due to the fact that I was doing single boning instead of double along the seams.) Thanks so much for making the pattern available! Your Foundations Revealed article was also incredibly informative. I've also been following along with the sew along and have been finding it a great source of information and inspiration. If you'd like, you can see my finished corset here:
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It's beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with me!
DeleteSlowly catching up with the sew-along. I'm wondering about which fabric I should make my bone casings. I don't want to use coutil, because where I live it's really hard to get and quite expensive too. Could I use just ordinary cotton bias tape or make my own from ordinary cotton fabric? Or is it too light?
ReplyDeleteOrdinary bias will be too thin. The first corset I made had casing of just bias and the bones poked through almost instantly. You can lay a strip of coutil or canvas in a cotton bias if you like, or just make the whole casing from from a tightly woven canvas. Yea! Glad to hear you're still sewing!
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