Because I am being good and practical and doing mending instead of exciting historical sewing, I’ll show you more of Madame Ornata’s excellently interesting sewing. She is making a classic Victorian corset, but the gorgeous striped chocolate brown fabric gives it a bit of a steampunk twist. It’s lined with chocolate brown linen. Her sewing machine has beautiful finishing stitches, so she has used them on both back and front. Now I just have to convince her to ornament it with leather belting and big buckles! Or bright pink piping… Either is good. She used Buttericks stays/corset pattern It fits beautifully, but after closely inspecting some historical examples, and the corset as it fits, I helped her lay out an alternative boning pattern. We are basing it on this corset: The curving lines of bones should fit beautifully around the waist. Unlike the Butterick’s pattern AND the 1866 C&C corset, this one doesn’t have a front busk.  That was a purely practical decision on Madame O’s part – she didn’t have a busk and wanted …