A holiday lingerie set

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This year we have decided to go ALL IN on Christmas – not just the lights and decorations, but also holiday music and films, and cook all the fabulous festive foods, too in order to cheer ourselves up to the maximum. And I think this festive spirit must’ve also crept into my sewing plans, because I found myself clicking the Buy button on this fabulous holiday-themed critter cotton jersey from Like Sew Amazing (now sold out). I mean – they had me at the festive swan!!

I only bought a half metre but that was plenty to cut out another Sophie Hines Axis Tank, plus a pair of thong panties (from our Threshold Shorts pattern), a small gift I can’t mention yet, and frankly, there’s still enough leftover for a second pair of panties too if I get my act together before the 25th!

I’ve kinda lost count, but this must be my 5th or 6th time making the Axis Tank pattern, but this time around I decided to make a slight change to it and used 1.5cm (3/4in) elastic instead of the underbust band to give it a little bit more structure and also make it a little less long in the body. I rather like it this way now, and might do this again in future!

As I’ve got my Kylie and the Machine advent calendar giving me a steady stream of novelty labels on the daily, I added one of these into this tank! The rest of the calendar should keep my makes busy for the rest of the year since I’m getting 3 labels each day…

These Threshold Shorts “runderwear” thong panties are definitely my TNT – they are cut in exactly the way I like them! Sometimes I go off and sew others (not always blogging, to be honest!) but I always end up coming back to these in the end. This pair I finished off with some black picot-edge elastic from my stash.

All in all, this is a fun set purely for me to be amused by during the holidays (and maybe beyond, who cares??)

Since I was on a panty sewing kick and I had just rummaged in my lingerie sewing stash to find the black panty eastic, I also cut another pair of Threshold Shorts thong panties using some lovely paisley mesh gifted to me all the way from Australia by my friend Susan!

I had multiple options for the elastic but ultimately decided on this teal satin-edged elastic to bring out the blue in the design.

They’re absolutely lovely, but I realised when I tried them on that the stretch mesh isn’t as stretchy as most jerseys so these are a bit too tight to wear (until I lose some of this pandemic weight!). So it’s a good thing I’ve got plenty of fabric and elastic leftover to sew these again in the next larger size!

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    Patricia ONeill

    From talking to people (female at least) quite a lot of people have been wearing crop tops sports bras even for ‘normal’ wear during periods of working from home because they are comfortable. This antique lass won’t be wearing thongs anytime soon. That said I’m not the fashion police so if younger ladies (or even ones the same as age as me) want to wear thongs it’s their choice if course. It’s just I like a ‘seat’ to my undies. The fabric is nice and the garments nicely finished. I have made some during lockdown but some of my bras are showing signs of wear and tear so it wouldn’t hurt if I made some attire in that department. Happy xmas/new year and happy sewing.

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