I’ve been making good progress on the 1890s black silk corded corset. I got all the evil cording done. I chose to use black threads for the topstitching and bobbin stitching, so there are black cording seam lines all over the pink lining. They are a tiny bit irregular, but I’m letting go of the perfectionism and embracing the organic wobbliness and the graphic pattern they make.  It looks like art.  Perfect would just look like stitching lines. With the cording done, I needed to make sure the pattern pieces were still accurate, and hand’t changed too much with the cording.  You can see how there is white lining fabric showing around all the black pieces: this is because of how the cording ‘shrunk’ the pieces.  I trimmed all the white away and checked each piece against the pattern piece.  It turned out a little smaller than I had planned, but still fits perfectly (yay!) With all the pieces corded & checked, I sewed them together. The pieces get sewed wrong sides together, with the …