Corset making??

...Best advice I can give is to use the mesh boning. You can sew through it. Round off the cut ends to prevent them from piercing the fabric and/or stabbing into you. ...Reinforce eyelet for lacing with a strip of "Style-A-Shade" interfacing. It is the heaviest interfacing available. Metal eyelets will pull out, so I just sew them in. ...Corsets are no more difficult than a tailored jacket. Go slow. I chalk mark the top of my corset pieces, because sometimes they can be switched around. ...Do you have a pattern you are using? ...Good luck with this. Peace be with you. =(^;^)= Della

I'm no seamstress myself, but I am a corset wearer. I hope one day to learn to make them myself. I've heard from people that have made them that they aren't that difficult an item to make, so long as you can sew in a straight line.

I would suggest to get a corset pattern from simplicity, butterick or another well known brand name. It will guide you through one step at a time, give hints and tips for materials and they will also tell you how easy to use that specific pattern is. I have imported corset patterns but it's a little harder for me as I don't know the English words for a lot of the things needed. English is one thing but they refer to such specific things that I don't know in English because I never talk about them in English. So I'll need to put my dictonairy next to the sewing machine. Corsets can be a pain to make but very rewarding if it's a nice piece!

I made a corset once last year, I used pink chinease satin with cold accents. I found that the material was very difficult to work with as it frayed even when I zigzaged the edges it still unraveled alot. I definatly do not reccomend this type of material to a newbie corset maker. It was a chalenging project to sew. I used hook and eye tape to close the front of the corset and found that was practically impossible to attatch to the corset with a sewing machine. I broke approximatly three needles while in the process of sewing it on. It was pretty time consuming but well worth the time. Make sure you remember to put a lining inside the corset on the outside of where the boning is placed as the boning holders (?) cut my skin the first time I wore the corset.

It would be easier if you were using a pattern because there will be instructions and the shapes so all you need to do is sew in straight lines. That's all I can say. Good luck with it!

i also love to sew but i do not have the time to dedicate to it to get really great at it i also learn reather quickly but i do not have all that much patience unfortunately i think making a corset would be awesome i have looked at them in the stores around where i live and all of them are so expensive and the chest never fits quite like i want it to i do not think making a corset would any more time consuming that making any other article of clothing but it does seem like it would be difficult especially since corsets are usually really tight

Oh wow! That sounds really hard!! I've never made one or even thought about making one! But I would say patience and practice will be major key factors...I suppose that's a given though. I really just wanted to wish you good luck!

When I was learning to handle knit fabrics so I could teach sewing knits to my customers, one of the lessons was making bras. The fabric was hard to source (even harder now)and there was not a lot of choice. I found the quality of the lycras and banding for straps etc was inferior. It was fiddly and time consuming work and difficult to correct any fitting errors made. I didn't proceed with it and my students were not interested.