A pink challenge
Feb. 6th, 2014 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisThe theme for the third HSF challenge is pink. I still have some of the cotton/silk satin that I used for my 16th century dress from Lyon, that would be nice for some kind of more structured underwear, but with my not-yet-healed surgery would on my belly and, the inside being all swollen that really wasn't an option. I didn't want to buy new fabric either, but luckily I had a yard of silk jersey that I bought from Thai Silks nine years ago. So I went in the opposite direction and decided to make something very soft: a pair of '20s to '40s jersey bloomers. A little like these, which are from a Swedish mail order catalogue from 1941.
I cut a part a pair of long-legged panties I've had for years and used as a pattern, ending up with these pieces:
While my machine can sew more advanced (though not very) elastic seams, this is a historical project so I went to a 1940s sewing book to see how you should sew elastic fabrics:
First you sew the pieces togehter with a long straight stitch with loose tension. You can see it on the gusset, which is double and sewed together. Then you split the seam allowances and zig-zags over the seam and then cut away the seam allowances. I'm not very good at this as you can see from the photo of the seam from the inside.
I still need to make the channels and insert the elastic at the waist and legs, but that shouldn't take too much time.
I cut a part a pair of long-legged panties I've had for years and used as a pattern, ending up with these pieces:
While my machine can sew more advanced (though not very) elastic seams, this is a historical project so I went to a 1940s sewing book to see how you should sew elastic fabrics:
First you sew the pieces togehter with a long straight stitch with loose tension. You can see it on the gusset, which is double and sewed together. Then you split the seam allowances and zig-zags over the seam and then cut away the seam allowances. I'm not very good at this as you can see from the photo of the seam from the inside.
I still need to make the channels and insert the elastic at the waist and legs, but that shouldn't take too much time.