Swiss Waist Fake

 A proper Swiss waist has hand-worked eyelets, not metal.

I said, pfft, we know me, I don't do hand sewing, so I will finally make something like a Swiss waist, and I will use the grommet machine to apply metal eyelets.

And then I did not heed a friend's advice to punch the holes with the smaller die size, and, while that was not a problem for 7/8 of the eyelets, it was very much a problem for that last one.

How did I solve that problem?

...by hand-sewing over all of the eyelets, making sure to catch the edges that didn't get trapped in that one eyelet, and just covering all the others.

 

 (yes, the recalcitrant eyelet is marked by an overly exuberant amount of Fray Check that did not dry clear.)

I initially went over each eyelet with a blanket/buttonhole stitch (whichever one it was, I made it kinda backwards, I think), but that left a lot of metal visible, so I went back around with a whip stitch to fill in the gaps.

 After the whip stitching on the left, before on the right

 The backs of the stitches are horrible, of course--I mean, the fronts aren't great, either, but you know the refrain: no-one will ever get close enough to see

 

There is Fray Check on every knot.

The lining is from a recent dress experiment, and the fashion fabric is left over from a project few years ago, and also made an appearance in a zipped not-quite-waist-cincher from last year.  And a hat.  (There's still a little left.)  There's a pseudo-strength layer made from a synthetic twill.

I also finally took all the plastic wrap off of the hank of plastic boning, making this the first project like this where I didn't use cable ties.

And that's almost the end of the black bias tape I'd made, so I should make more of that for general use sometime.

This is a modified modification of Simplicity 5006, which I may or may not further attempt to modify into something with a front busk and back lacing (it's gonna take some math to end up with something that forms an even opening on the back...possibly so much math that it'd be just as easy to follow corset-drafting tutorials to make a pattern from scratch...)

Anyway!  I was inspired to make this to go with the previous project

 It should be warm enough next week to wear.