The corset is finished!

My grommets came today!  YAY!!  I ordered them off Ebay from Faire Lady Designs.  I've ordered stuff from her before and really like the quality.  I highly recommend her to everyone who works with grommets. I ordered the black ones as I'm mainly using them for corsets and bodices. 

I was able to finish the binding on the corset without too much trouble.  Just broke two needles, which is better than the last time.  Once the binding was finished it was on to measuring where to place the grommets.  Most sites will tell you to use the rule of thumb, which means using your thumb as a measure guide for where to place your grommets.  I like mine closer so I used my seam gauge and placed them 1 1/2" apart.  Once that was done, I held both sides together to make sure the holes would line up, and when I was satisfied I got out my grommet setter.

Please ignore the mess in my sewing area.  If you saw it in real life, you'd FREAK, but I do know where everything is!

If you don't have a grommet setter and do a lot with them, I highly recommend one.  Not only will your grommets not pull out, but it sure saves a lot of labor in putting them in.

With the grommet setter, I punched the holes and put in the grommets. I forget sometimes as to which way the grommets are suppose to go in, so I often use a scrap of fabric to set one to make sure I do it correctly on the item I'm working on.  Better to screw up on a scrap fo fabric than on the real thing! Kinda like measure twice and cut once.

Once the grommets were in, the finished product looks like this

I don't bind my grommets on my corsets.  Most sites will tell you that's the historically corect thing to do, and it is, but hey, no one but me is going to see it, right? The lacing isn't in becasue it was easier to photograph it without.