Lately the smalls drawer is just looking the epitome of prettiness! I’m totally enamoured with this new set… ivory bobbin lace on a deep blue-y charcoal background, with delicate little black ribbon bows. A little old Hollywood, scraps from the cutting room floor…
Patterns; bra is my favourite MakeBra 2610, and I’ve made two pairs of different knickers to match.
Below: cloth habit Watson briefs.
And further below is pictured the the MakeBra free hipster pattern, free to download here from their site. How do the knickers patterns compare? Well, I admit those hipsters do initially look like awfully big granny-knickers lain flat like that, but they’re actually rather cute on! believe it or not! Boy leg style, and medium rise, sitting right at mid-hip. I like them, a lot; even though my wearing preference lies with the more high cut bikini style of brief, like my old fave McCalls 2772, and the Watson. I love the Watson briefs, and they’ve become my knicker of choice, with the proviso of always modifying by eliminating that awful horizontal seam in front of the crotch. Sorry, but I just really do not like that seam! and don’t see the advantage of it. I prefer to cut the front in one piece, splicing the front and crotch pattern pieces together, and sewing the crotch lining in the same method as outlined in my McCalls 2772 pattern, my other go-to knickers pattern.
Actually, I did the exact same thing with the MakeBra hipster briefs, which also has that same horizontal front crotch seam. grrr. Both panty liners are of plain ivory cotton jersey.
Fabrics and other bits and bobs; charcoal stretch bought from Fabulous Fabrics, eons ago. I used this for my Pattern Magic spiral leggings, and still have quite a bit of leftovers. The ivory cotton bobbin lace trim is something that I’ve had for, like, ever. Underwires are recycled from older, also self-made bras that have worn out. I used several different types of elastics, all smaller leftover bits from the stash. Knicker leg elastic on both is a rather nice lacy elastic from Fabulous Fabrics, waist elastic is the plain picot lingerie elastic from Spotlight, bra elastics from variously the black and the ivory MakeBra basic kits. Actually, the entire set was put together entirely from my stash, I didn’t have to buy a single new thing. Awesome, no? #youknowyoumakealotoflingeriewhen
I feel so efficient and so damn scrap-busteringly virtuous. And I happen to have made something needed and useful and rather lovely too, imo. Triple win!
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