blue and green should never be seen

I almost called this new lingerie set “frozen”; which to be honest is more like an accurate description of me, actually, while disrobing for the purposes of trying it on, haha.  #comeonsummer  But finally, today the last day of winter YAY!!!  Around this time is typically a low time of the year for me, when I’m really flagging and running low on zip and zoom, just banking on the promise of warmer weather appearing, any minute now.  I know I know; our winters are so mild, what have I got to complain about? Nothing really.  And yet…? I do.  Sad to say, I do.  But I shall stop now.  Becaaaaause… *pauses for dramatic effect*   I have some new pretties!!!!

It’s a bit embarrassing actually, since this lingerie set has been all cut out, elastics and all the other bits and bobs present and accounted for, and the whole lot merely awaiting the sewing together bit for…. *mumble mumble* months now.  Actually I believe I mentioned it the last time I presented a set of underwear, here on ye olde blog.  I did a bit of a cleanup of my sewing space (Tim Gunn voice, there) and the pieces of this set got “tidied” away into my laundry cupboard, out of sight and out of mind.  SAAAAD!!   Anyway, it’s made now.

I’m very happy with this new set… I really love to have matching sets, and it’s even more pleasing if I can make the two sets of undies quite different from each other, and at the same time match each other, and the bra.  Tick!!

Patterns:

Bra, or more accurately “bralette” I suppose, since it’s a fripperous little thing with no underwires or anything serious like that; it’s basically my own design, the same design I used to make this neon yellow one here.  I draped the lace onto Bessie and cut and pinned and tried on here and there… and ta da!

The two sets of matching undies are made using:

1. the Watson briefs, which I’ve used a million times before.  Not even exaggerating there.  Oh, ok, maybe a little then  😉  And

2. the Tanga lace panties pattern a free pattern available on Burda style here.  I’ve made this pattern up three times before; here, here and here.  They look absolutely adorable while you’re wearing them, but the design is just not my favourite… the sides are completely unsupported and so have a tendency to slowly slide down your hips; meaning I’ve never felt 100%  secure in them.  But they really are soooo cuuuute! so here we go again… this time I downsized from a medium to a small,  because it occurred to me, that maybe the medium is simply too big.  I cut out a medium first – this lace is not cheap!! – but pinned the small on me, to see; and yep, small fits just fine.  Got high hopes for these ones!!!

Oh, and I also did my usual, and very essential, crotch fix as described here.

Materials;  Blue lace from Homecraft Textiles, green silk jersey was a hand-me-down scrap from Mum.  Bralette is lined with a light peach-coloured swimwear lining fabric from the Fabric Store ( I have quite a lot of this)  Elastics and all other findings from Homecraft Textiles.  The blue fold-over elastic on the green watson undies was leftover from a previous project, this set.  The lace knickers have a green panty liner, because it shows through the lace obviously! whereas the green undies have a white liner, because not enough fabric!