Sewing in elastic materials

[frualeydis]

I'm just about to cut my bathing suit in two and add a piece of similar fabric to make it fit over my belly. My experiences with elastic materials are not good, my old battered machine hates them.
Wish me luck!

Comments

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

You are sewing a bathing suit?! That really sounds difficult.

According to my dad, my grandmother (who was a tailor) knitted herself a bikini, or two part bathing suit of wool back in the sixties... apparently it wasn't a big success, as wool get awfully heavy when wet.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I'm not sewing a bathing suit, I'm just inserting some extra fabric in the front so that my growing belly gets some space.

I have two knitting patterns for wool bathing suits for women, and several for children, all from the 40s, and I would really like to make me a wool bathing suit, but I don't knit that well.

Eva