A Corset Cover

Posted on September 2, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, period:edwardian, FreeSoftWear Many years ago, before I had my sewing pattern website, I made myself a simple corset cover according to the instructions on an Edwardian pattern drafting manual. It worked, I wore it. Years later I saw a blog post on Pour La Victoire on making a corset cover based on the same book, but with completely different results, and thought that it would have been nice to make another one to publish instructions for my take on it. However, I didn’t have any embroidery flouncing on hand, nor did I have a need for a new corset cover, and the project remained on the list, on low priority (although I did buy some beading lace for it, when I stumbled on it). Then, after finishing my vampire shirt, I noticed that I had just enough fabric left for a corset cover, and by just enough I really mean just enough, as I discovered when laying the pattern on the fabric. So I dug in my files to get the original…