Once the front and back elastic lines are sewn, fold your cover up in half wrong sides together, matching the elastic lines. Stitch on these lines with the elastic thread in your bobbin, sewing through only one layer of fabric at a time. Make sure that there is at least 5 inches between the ends of the lines and the edge of your fabric. These lines should be centered on your fabric at your marked waist level, and they should be 1/2 your waist measurement + 3-4 inches long. Then open it up flat and mark three lines on the right side of the front and the back with something that will wash out. First, try the cover up on and mark where you want the waist to sit. The last step is to sew the waist elastic. There are pictures of this in the pom pom shorts post I wrote. Then flip the trim to the wrong side, so the poms point away from the edge, and stitch again. Sew the pom pom trim all around the front of the fabric, with the poms facing away from the edge. Then finish the neckline with the bias tape, as I show in the Blanc T-shirt video. Line up the triangle piece from the knot shirt with the center front, right sides together, and stitch, then cut out, then wrap around the the back side to create the facing as shown in that tutorial. Mark the center front and then open the fabric out flat. On the diagonal corner which should be all fabric raw edges and no folds, round off the corner. In the upper corner that is folded edges of fabric only, cut out a 3 inch circle for the neckline. If you’re doing a trapezoidal shape, fold your fabric like I show below in the first step before cutting, then cut with your fabric folded so that it’s narrower at the fold and wider at the opposite end, which will be the hem.įold your fabric as shown below, once horizontally and then once vertically so that you have 4 layers of fabric. Double your length, then cut a piece of fabric that is your width by length. Again, I was working with limited fabric, so I could only make mine 27 inches long. Now that we’ve done that math, also measure from the base of your neck to however long you want the cover up to be. But if you have narrow shoulders in proportion to your waist, you may need to make your piece kind of trapezoid shaped, getting wider at the bottom, than the rectangle I used. Half my waist is 13.5 inches, so 36-13.5= 22.5, which is bigger than 13 inches so this works for me. So for example, my shoulders are 16 inches wide, so I added 20 inches to get 36. Take your shoulder width and add 20 inches, then make sure that measurement is at least 13 inches bigger than half your waist measurement. Start by measuring both your waist and the width of your shoulders. The triangular cutout piece and instructions from this post.About a yard of single fold bias tape – make your own with this post.Elastic thread ( affiliate link) Learn more about sewing with elastic thread in this post.About 2 yards of fabric, depending on your size and how long you want your cover to be.Want to make your own cover like this? You’ll need: It was amazing and beautiful and I want to go back. We had a charter boat and spent the day on it and stopping to check out different beaches, snorkel and swim. We stopped on this beach in the Phi Phi islands as part of a day long trip around them. This was one of the best trips of my life and I can’t thank Susan and Stacey enough for all they did to make that true. I also can’t write this post without thanking the lovely Susan who not only took these pictures but also was the impetus behind this whole trip and planned and led us on the perfect itinerary. But I used every last bit of this fabric that I had left, so this is a win in terms of using my stash to sew! It just barely covers my suit, and that’s OK with me but if I had the choice I would have made it a teeny bit longer. This particular cover also got worn as a blouse one night on my Thailand trip. So today’s project is a beach cover up, because it seems that everywhere I travel there’s at least a pool or hot tub and so the swimsuit and a cover hop into my suitcase. starts soon, and so this month will also be packed with tips and projects to help you travel smart and handmade. So this month’s theme is partially my way of making myself edit and post photos from that trip. Hey y’all, welcome to Travel month on the blog! As many of you who follow on Instagram know, I travelled to Thailand earlier this year.
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