A whine, and a short term plan.

[sewaddicted]

I know, promised events pics have again failed to appear here.  I want to punch 2015 in the throat. Hard, like a contender. The last 4-6 weeks has included:  Food poisoning, bad-for-me food so it felt like poison-poisoning, really REALLY bad viral diarrhea and now the end of the remission for the HS. Which is autoimmune so there's no cure, and not

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[motorharp]

Ugh. Sorry to hear about all that. Plus, "disintegrating bathing suit" is one of my irrational fears.

I like the fabric combinations. How do you pipe with swimsuit fabrics - do you use cording, or just fold over a strip of fabric? I need to remake a swimsuit and I'm considering piping.

[sewaddicted]

It's not a fear that I've had before, but now I'll be much more cautious ;)

I'm just going to use a flat folded strip, rather than "proper" corded piping, though perhaps round elastic would work as piping for this. hmmmm, cos I swim in the ocean, not chlorine pools the elastics I use aren't an issue. I pretty much used anything I had on hand for both tankini sets, and it turns out the pretty fabric wore out before the notions.

The thing I love about the tankini sets is that my torso length difference to the pattern isn't really a problem