Bikini sewing

I planned to sew my bikini for this summer for so long, but did wait to long to start and try it in real life. I often have this problem to stay to long in my mind with my ideas before taking the materials and plug in my sewing machine, because more often then not at the end the result is so different then I imagined. Fortunatly most of times in a good way.

I really love the look of my new bikini and I have already other ideas how to alternate the pattern I used. It is a burdastyle pattern from 6/2011, but instead cotton I used lycra strech fabric. For this first version I did not use my favourite fabric, I first wanted to try if the shape fits to my body, and he does and I like it a lot.

The panties is self constructed and fits perfectly, I make most of my undies out of the same pattern.

It is a very easy version, but perfectly like I love it, classy with some special details.

To sew a bikini is less difficult then one thinks, the sliding fabric is the biggest challenge and the rest isn't as complicated as one think. I used my serger, but you do it perfectly without having a serger, and then I passed all the seams with an elastic stitch from my very old sewing machine. The borders are underlined with an transparent elastic and sewed down with a little stretch and a elastic stitch to the borders.

Bikini sewing