Avengers! Continue to assemble...all the stuff you're making.

Work continues on the "Steampunk" Scarlet Witch!  I finished the skirt, and it was too big in the waist.  Either my measurements have changed since a month or so ago, or I stitched it together wrong, or what have you.  It's too big, though.  I choose to shed no tears and solve it with a clip to cinch it up.

So, let's take a look at the replay...

I stitched together the lining for the bustier, just to take a look at the fit on my dress dummy.  If the skirt turned out too big, even going by my most recent set of measurements, I wanted to make certain a piece like the bustier was altered to fit as close as possible.

Sure enough, there was way more overlap than there should have been.  Plan A?  Continue and pretend like this is not an issue until we get to the zipper.  This was a decent plan.

The main fabric and interfacing together, here.  Seams pressed and getting ready to add the boning.  Note:  I despise pressing curved seams flat.

The boning was just a pre-fab feather-weight with it's own sleeve.

I had to measure, cut, then remove the boning to leave just the sleeve, then stitch the sleeve down, centering it on the seams of the bodice.  Not difficult, but tedious and slow going, as I didn't want to end up with wavy seams.

Done and trying it on the dress dummy!  It fit!  I ended up taking about an extra 1.5 inches off each side of the back so I could lose the extra fabric.  I just lack the handwork and buttons on this piece!

So far, so good.  It's coming together, and I'm not quite as panicked about the amount of costume work I still have left to do.  It's going pretty quickly!