encouraging

[chocolatepot]

I've sewn both side-back seams on my 1811 bodice, and pinned the rest of it together to check it - I cut the CF way too long just to make sure it would fit, but apart from that it's just right. The neckline - despite all my alteration in the pattern - is still kind of wide: not for my body, but for the stays. Although I've found that I was pulling the stays too tight earlier and the straps don't need to cross so high up in the back, they're still peeping out the sides of the neckline. I'm just going to have to make a chemisette, I guess, and someday a corset with wider-set straps.

But it fits! I'm doing really well! Yay!

I just hope adding the sleeves doesn't screw everything up in some way.