I did some research and found that sewing machines in the eighteen-sixties sewed a chain stitch. As my sewing machine does NOT sew a chain stitch, I thought it better to hand sew my corset. I am in the process of doing so, and put grommets on one side just today :) It's a lot fun, though with all the other projects I'm working on it's going rather slowly. If you look at the picture above you can see on the right my cane boning, which I cut, soaked in warm water, and set out to dry. Below are the original pattern pieces, above are my altered pattern pieces.
