After celebrating an excellent Fourth of July, both of my daughters realized the wisdom in my words "Reapply sunscreen!" My eldest had been complaining about her current rash guard being too small and didn't want to wear it. (tsk tsk)
I had her search through my spandex stash to find something she liked which I could make into a rash guard and bikini bottoms. She chose the red polka dots which I used for my most recent Jalie 3023:
The bottoms come in either a high or normal waist version. From previous experience I knew that the high waist version is quite high...about belly-button high. I cut the high waist anyway knowing that I could trim it down before adding the elastic. My eldest thought that the high waist was indeed too high and I trimmed it down 1.25" before adding the elastic. After finishing the briefs, I made a solid red rash guard for her from Jalie 2566 with a raised neckline and lengthened sleeves. I had enough polka dot scraps to make the neck band and sleeve bands (Renfrew-style) to up the style factor.
I had her search through my spandex stash to find something she liked which I could make into a rash guard and bikini bottoms. She chose the red polka dots which I used for my most recent Jalie 3023:
I had only purchased 1 yard of the polka dots so there wasn't enough to make an entire rash guard from it, but I was able to make the bottoms of Jalie 2447 in size M.
I topstitched the seam allowances down using a chain-stitch on my coverstitch machine.
So there you go...more red threads. If this keeps up I will soon need a new huge spool of red thread!
LOL red is not such a bad color :)
ReplyDeleteGreat job on these! They look awesome!