Tired of me yet? I’ve been posting like non-stop this week. Or, at least I feel like it. I had to just squeeze in one more thing before we leave tomorrow. Something for me!! I love making swimsuits. They are cheap, fast, and they FIT, unlike their retail cousins.
I made this using two of the pieces from the 3247 pattern. You’ve seen these bottoms before when I used them on this swimsuit. I cut them about the same. The top though, that’s different.
For the top, I used the gymnastics top View C. Originally, I made it just like the envelope except that I lowered the CF by about an inch. When I was done with it, it looked exactly like a sports bra. Hmmmm, not what I was looking for in a swimsuit. Then I tried to figure out what made it look so sports bra-ish. I decided that the 3/4” band on the bottom didn’t help and the straight-across-the boob-uniboob look wasn’t helping either. I pulled out the 3/4” elastic and put in 3/8” swimwear elastic instead. Then I created a gather just using a tube of self-fabric. So this is basically a sports bra that was altered to look like this. I really like how it turned out in the end.
I used this fabric before on one of my daughter’s suits. I really like the bias plaid and the color.
My favorite part of this top is the criss-cross back. I love that.
Because I gathered the top and pulled it down, I had to make the criss-cross straps in the back longer than I would normally. Luckily Jalie has you make them a little long in the beginning. If it’s one thing I hate, it’s turning tubes. Luckily, I only had to do it once.
I made view C (the black on upper left) and a shortened view E (the red and white shorts).
This baby is super hard to photograph on the ground.
I’m just glad that my miss turned into something I could change with minimal seam ripping. I really like it now. Here’s the little tube I turned and stitched together. The only downside is that it travels, so when I go to put it on, I have excessive fabric on one side and it’s all kinda wrong on the other side. It’s easy to fix though.
You won’t hear from me for a while. Keep sewing everyone!!! And do your Burda Challenges!!!
9 comments:
I love the criss cross back on the top! Great swimsuit!!
Turned out great! Jalie patterns always fit nice.
This is brilliant - I love it -- Congratulations on a great result!
Great save!! Looks fantastic. Have a wonderful trip!
Really nice swimsuit, it is really nice. Congratulations!
Kind regards from Spain.
Awesome bathing suit! and great job on adapting the pattern into something more beach than gym :) on a side note, I wanted to tell you how much you've inspired me to exercise. I had a knee injury a few months ago and I was procrastinating on doing my physio exercises, but then I discovered your blog, and was inspired to get moving and get fit (as well as get the knee thing under control) ! Also with all the blogs out there showing the same indie patterns over and over (I have nothing against indie patterns, there are quite a few that I love), but it's refreshing to see your sewing projects. So thank you :)
Yay! I'm glad I still entertain (and inspire, cool!!) after all these years blogging. :) Keep it up!!!
Great adaptation of this pattern as a swimsuit. Now I think I need this pattern as I also liked your long version of this top!
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