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Ellie & Mac Feel Frisky panties - pattern review

I have been wearing my scrap panties for a while now and I have come to the conclusion that the leg elastic is often too tight so I decided I would experiment with using leg bands instead of elastic. I had a new pattern to test out too, the Ellie and Mac Feel Frisky Panties (Afflink).

Like the Megan Nielson Acacia pattern I made previously, they are a brief style panty. I haven't found a cheeky panty pattern but I have experimented a little with making my own, it still needs some fine tuning before I share it however.
Fabric was DBP from Cali Fabrics.
The Frisky panties come in 3 rises - low, medium and high. I made the low rise version.

 Alterations I made
The only thing I really changed was to use leg bands instead of leg elastic. I measured the leg holes to be 28" (size XL) and cut my bands at 27 x 1.5" (used .25" seam allowance to sew bands together). I serged the bands on and the coverstiched them. Next time around I might make the bands an inch shorter because it looks like they aren't laying quite flat, so maybe should be stretched a little more.

Pros of this pattern
  • I really like that this pattern has a big size range, often I am at the very top of the range for underwear, so I appreciate a panty pattern that allows for a little junk in the trunk. Ellie and Mac has very inclusive sizing. 
  • The lining piece is really long which makes these feel very luxurious.
  • I prefer the overall construction method to that for the Acacia panty. 
I coverstiched my elastic for the final finish.
Cons of this pattern
  • In the directions it refers to the "long side" of the lining piece being joined to the back piece, well both ends are almost the same length (at least for the size I cut) and I couldn't easily tell which was the long side. I am pretty sure I put my lining piece in backwards as a result, a notch or dot on one side would be really helpful to clearly indicate which side was which.
  • There are only directions for finishing the leg holes using elastic but if you have done other ways before you can easily apply them to this pattern. The Acacia panty offers several methods and it's a free pattern if you want to check it out. 
Can you spot my coverstitch mistake? :)
For my second version, I also color blocked the front of the panty because my scraps weren't quite wide enough to cut a full front piece. This can be an option if you don't have much fabric to work with. I made the bands on these a little wider than my first pair also.
Llama fabric is cotton lycra from Spotlight and the white is cotton knit from fabric.com
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