Bright linen striped corset

I had this old linen dress that I cut up back in 2006 to make this corset. I’m going to finish it up now so it will be done and out of my “to do” pile. I have a couple projects that have just lingered around because I started them on a whim but they were just for fun. So here it is:

And the rest of the scraps from the dress it was cut from:

I had cut out bias strips of linen in the yellow and green to bind it but then I decided it would look more polished and clean if I did them in black coutil. The back panels a different color are a bit quirky but I like it.