How to Draft Gathered and Circular Ruffles on your Pattern

In this video Meg Healy will show you how to sew a bikini top AND bottom in under an hour using our Jessica Bikini sewing pattern. Don’t be intimidated by sewing spandex fabrics and swimwear; it is fast and easy to do at home with your machines, and will look fabulous! This bikini pattern is a classic string style and will result in a project that does not look homemade. Meg will take you through step-by-step how to sew this bikini together and offer tips and tricks to sewing spandex along the way.

What You’ll Learn:

• The types of fabrics and notions best suited for this pattern
• Making the bikini strings for the ties
• Assembling the bikini top, stitching the string casings and inserting the ties
• Assembling the bikini bottoms and inserting the gussest
• Elasticizing the leg hole openings and finishing

• You are new to sewing swimwear
• You want to learn about sewing spandex
• You want a custom fit bikini for yourself in a fabric that you want