How to sew a swimsuit?

Many women have been picking up a swimsuit for the beach season for a very long time. Not surprising, because choosing the perfect size and style has always been very difficult and long. To simplify their task, some girls decide to make it yourself. You will learn how to sew a swimsuit that is perfect for your figure, what it is best to make from and how to decorate it from this article.

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Choosing the right fabric

Nowadays, a huge number of all kinds of things for recreation, including swimwear, began to exist. Someone loves closed styles, and someone - on the contrary, those in which you can get the most even tan.

Of course, the beach set should be not only beautiful and durable, but also convenient for active work. For this reason, many needlewomen can not decide on many issues. The most common of them are:

• What fabric is better to sew a swimsuit from?
• How to do it right?
• How to sew a swimsuit?

You'll figure out the last two questions later, but you need to get familiar with the first first.

Most often, swimwear is made of such materials:

• Polyester
• Lycra.
• Tactel.
• Polyamide.
• Cotton.
• Nylon.
• Microfiber.

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Making push-up bikinis

To make such an attractive swimsuit, you need to acquire the following materials:

• Fabric, the dimensions of which are 50 by 150 cm.
• Cups for a push-up bra.
• Clasp - it can be borrowed from last year's swimsuit.
• Decorative elements.
• Threads matching the color of the material.
• Sewing machine.
• Elastic band for linen.
• Safety pins.
• Tracing paper.
• Tailor's chalk - can be replaced with a sharpened bar of soap.

Pattern of cups bra

In order to proceed to sewing a swimsuit with your own hands, the pattern should already be ready. Otherwise, you have to make it yourself:

• Take tracing paper, attach it to the inside of the push-up, evenly distributing it and jokes with English pins.
• Where slack appeared, a fold should be laid - it will play the role of a tuck.
• Cut tracing paper in the shape of a cup.
• Outline the tuck with a plain clerical pen.
• Carry out the same manipulations with the outside of the cup. Here, slack will not be a tuck, but a decorative assembly.
• Copy the resulting pattern onto the fabric, folding it in half with the wrong side facing out.
• Using safety pins, fix the patterns and circle the cooked flat chalk or remnant.
• For cuts of both the internal and external parts, an allowance of 10 mm must be left.

Important! The direction of the warp thread must be observed.

• Cut parts, taking into account the allowances left.
• Cut a tuck on the pattern, transfer it to the main part of the product.
• Cut the tuck on the base part, leaving small allowances for seaming edges. Transfer it to the second part using safety pins.

Making bra

To complete the procedure for making the upper part of the swimsuit with your own hands, you must follow this algorithm:

1. Start tucking one and the other part from the wrong side, using carpet.
2. Connect the external and internal parts (they must be folded with the wrong side out) along the upper cut. Chip them with safety pins and flash them on a sewing machine.
3. Connect the finished parts with the push-up cups in such a way that a roll of 5 mm inward along the edge is formed, sweep.
4. From the outside of the cup, you need to collect the slack in the assembly. Sweep the part with each other along the edge from the bottom of the cups - this is necessary so that no part moves out.

Now the matter remains small - it is necessary to cut and process the back of the swimsuit bra with your own hands. To do this, follow these steps:

• Fold the fabric twice inside out, draw a rectangle 8 cm wide. It is also worth leaving an allowance of 15 mm on one side.

Important! The length is determined by your clothing size.

• Draw the second side with an arcuate line and mark the thickness of the part near the bend. The center of the back will be exactly 5 cm.
• Cut the part, considering the allowances you have left.
• Treat the bottom cut with a seam in a hem with an elastic band to fix everything better.
• Bend the allowance to the side from the inside, hem the zigzag seam, slightly pulling the elastic in its direction.

Next, to sew a swimsuit with your own hands, you need to sew together and surround both parts of the upper element:

• Mark on the parts on both sides of the line along which they will connect with the cups.
• Cut off all excess, leave a 5 mm allowance.
• Bring the ends of the back of the bra to the cups, aligning the front sides.
• Cut a braid from the same fabric that can be used to turn the lower section of the bra cups.

Important! The width of such a braid should be 30 mm, and the length should coincide with the length of the lower cut of the cups.

• Stitch 1 edge of the prepared braid from the wrong surface of the cups along the bottom cut. While working on the typewriter, the material should be slightly attracted to its side.
• Bend the cut from the bottom with the same braid, bend its edge, and then lay the machine seam 10 mm from the fold. From the side of the face, it should be so that the braid covers the old line.
• Carry out the same manipulations with the upper cut of the swimsuit at the back.

The base of the bra is ready!

Now the matter remains small. It remains to sew the straps and decorate the bodice of the swimsuit with your own hands:

• Cut a 30-mm tape of the desired length and process it with a straight seam.
• Connect the straps to the bodice.

Important! To connect straps with a bodice, you can use rings for a decor or other elements to match the design of your bikini.

• Sew a clasp from the front of the accessory.

Production of swimming trunks

So, the upper part of the accessory is ready, but what about the bottom? In order to make the swimsuit ready for its use, it is necessary to make swimming trunks:

• Cut swimming trunks. Everything is much simpler here - you can take your old swimming trunks or underpants that sit well on you and remove the pattern from them.

Important! If the fabric is a little transparent, make the bottom of the bikini in two layers.

• Treat the cuts of the panties in the hem using an elastic band.
• To process the upper sections.
• Bend the ends along the edges from above and where there will be ties.
• Prepare ties of the desired length. They are made in the same way as the bodice ties.

Swimsuit is ready!

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Ways to decorate a swimsuit

There are many decorative elements, using which you can tastefully decorate a newly sewn swimsuit:

• Bows are a very cute and feminine accessory.
• Rosettes - adds volume to the product.
• Lace adds sophistication.
• Tape in the form of a wave attracts the enthusiastic looks of others.
• Ruffles visually enhance your shape.
• Beads, beads add luxury.

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The beach season is a great time to relax with family or friends. From this article, you learned about the original method by which it is possible to sew a swimsuit with your own hands.