The stays!

The colors are off. It's a really pretty dark turquoise with a bright pink binding. But, you get the idea of what it looks like.

The inside of the stays. The stays are out of turquoise silk, an inner layer of cotton buckram, cable/duct ties, and muslin with silk binding. I need to clean the insides up a bit still but the stays look like stays finally! Woohoo!

All the binding is done by hand and I sewed the pieces together by hand but the channels are all machine stitched.