Ive got my knitting tubbing all sorted! I now know that I want to use 6 loose stitches to create my knitting tubbing around the neck and over the hips.
I had a little trouble with the gathering at the centre front of the swimsuit. I would run a gathering stitch and gather up the front to the length that is needed. I would then overlock the edges to hold however, the overlocking was not able to keep the gathers in place and it would cause the front to stretch back out to its original form.
We tried a few technigues to try and get it right. The main problem was that because the fabric is so stretchy. If we were to keep the gathering stitch in it would just end up snapping the cotton and the gathers would un-do.
To over come this problem I gathered like normal. overlocked each edge and when sewing the 2 centre front pieces together I had to use a zig zag stitch and sew in a piece of Jelly Elastic to hold.
this worked and I was now able to start cutting and sewing my final swimsuit.
This is a photo of the Front piece which has been divided and extended to create gathering down the centre front of the swimsuit.
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