Chasing Coco

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 short...

I have to admit, I was not on the “make your own underwear” bandwagon for a long time. With limited sewing time, there were just always other things I wanted to spend it on. However, I have totally changed course. One of my reasons for sewing my own clothes is definitely to have personalized fit and design options but I also have concerns about the social costs of clothing production (sweatshops) so to help meet this goal, sewing my own everything as much as possibly makes sense. What really changed my mind though, was seeing how easily I could re-purpose my knit scraps into self-made panties! There is always a little bit of fabric leftover at the end of a project and it’s always a challenge to think about what can be done with it! Especially when it’s really cute fabric. This is what turned around my view on making underwear more than anything else, it’s the perfect size project for knit scraps. It takes much less than half a yard and multiple pieces or even fabrics can be c...