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

[wengeue.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

I love sewing stretchy materials. I've made a couple of skating dresses and the material is so forgiving (as long as it's not ultra-slippery or something). I think the suit will come out fine.

[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

Alert!

[marymont.livejournal.com]

When sewing in the insert, use your serger. If you don't have a serger, use a zigzag or other stretch stitch. Otherwise, it will pop stitches every time you put it on.

Best of luck.

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

Best of luck. I like stretch stuff - as long as I have a stitch that can cope with ti, it is lovely forgiving stuff.

Teddy
(now to big to wear sprayed-on-lycra-body-suits)