If you have already visited my previous posts then you are all ready and set to start sewing you own underwear. Not got the free panties pattern yet?
Download the pattern from this post – Free Multi-size pattern to make your own undies
And take a look here for how to put your pattern together (important) – Making up the pattern
Once you are all set, you will need the following materials:
- Stretch lace with a finished edge on both sides – recommended 4 to 6.5 inches wide with a good amount of stretch (recommended suppliers Deb’s Lace and Trims and Sew Sassy)
- Matching regular thread
- Piece of cotton jersey – new or recycled
- Sewing machine
- Recommended – Overcasting foot
An overcasting foot is recommended for sewing with stretch lace to get a really nice narrow finished seam and edge inside. Along with the special stitch on your sewing machine, you will get an all-in-one stitch, which sews the seam, allows for stretch and neatens the raw edges all in one go. If you don’t have the overcasting stitch or the overcasting foot, you can just use a regular foot and a zig-zag stitch sewing close to the edge, or a triple stretch stitch if your machine has one.
Let’s get started…
1. Lay your lace out flat with the right side facing up. Place your pattern on the top, lining up the long bottom edge of the pattern with one edge of your lace. You might just peak the edge of the lace a fraction out from under the pattern so you can see it is flat and straight. Cut one piece.
2. Take your cut piece and lay it face down on the remaining lace so that both right sides are together. If you have a large pattern repeat or a distinctive pattern in your lace, you might try to mirror the pattern so the finished undies look symmetrical Use the first lace piece you have cut as a pattern to cut the piece for the other side. By placing the fabric right sides together, you make sure that you have two mirror pieces.
3. Use the small liner pattern piece to cut a piece of cotton jersey.
4. Match your lace piece right sides together and pin the two pieces along the curved seams. Match the edge of the lace carefully and then sew, overcast or serge along the two curved seams using a stitch that will stretch. (Stretch overcasting, triple stretch or zig-zag stitch.) Do this for both sides.
5. Keep your fabric right sides together and match up the two squared ends, matching the center seams and lace edges carefully. Sew along this seam.
6. You can now turn your undies the right side out and try them on for fit. If you find them a little loose, you can sew again just inside the existing seams and then trim away any excess.
7. Now pin the cotton liner over the center of the 4-way seam in the crotch. The lining piece is slightly more curved at the front edge, flatter at the back. In case you can’t recognise the front and back of your undies, the back will have a longer seam from the center because it has to go over your rounder part (your bum) at the back. I like to use plenty of pins to hold it in place.
8. Sewing along each long edge with a zig-zag or a triple zig zag stitch. Sewing the front and back seams are optional.
9. Trim any threads and your are done. Parade around the house in your new undies with pride!
I got all over excited and made several pairs. Here are a few photos of my undies.
And to finish – a view of my new undies and the view from my sewing room window. What else does a person need to be inspired every day.
Enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful ? – please Share and Pin using the Social buttons at the bottom of the post. I want everyone to see my undies – er, you know what I mean !
Authored by: Deby at So Sew Easy
I was just thinking last night that aI wanted to make some panties. Thanks for the tutorial.
What a great tutorial! And the panties are so cute and look so easy! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Deby,
These are so cute.
Debi
yay cant wait to make my own!!
thanks for showing
Really cute- I’m going to have to try this! Stopping by from Look What I Made link party. Have a good rest of your week!
wow- those are so cute- I always wondered if people made their own underwear? I am also glad you used a model for the underwear so I did not see bottoms at 9 am! these are really great.
Umm, yes, I might ‘only’ be a medium, but at my age, even a small bottom isn’t too pert any more.
These are very racy for me – I tend more toward the cotton ones. Sexy in the red lace!
I’ll be working on another pattern in the future – more of a traditional brief that can be made from regular cotton jersey and trimmed with elastic or stretch lace trim. Stay tuned!
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Great!
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Cute, sexy, simple!!! Pinned:) http://www.sewsweetvintage.com/2013/03/brilliant-2013.html
wow oh wow!!! I was JUST thinking that I needed to figure out how to make these because they’re my favorite but I hate spending $7 or even more for a single pair…Pinning and plan to make! THANK YOU!!
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Helen
Blue Eyed Beauty Blog
You are great! I just love reading your blog and living vicariously through your living in the Cayman Islands! Inspiration galore!! Thank you much for the easy panty tute and pattern. I just ordered some lace from one of the stores you recommended…cheap prices. I blog as well although quite a newbie, but having fun with it. Come see, I welcome any feedback too.
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They turned out really cute!
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Leslie
So pretty!
Thank you for partying with the Wildly Original Crowd.
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If I had a room with a view like that I might take up sewing!
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Great tutorial – can’t wait to try it out! Thanks.
Great tutorial! Thank you for linking up at Fluster’s Creative Muster.
Robin @ Fluster Buster
These are so pretty and feminine. They look like some I purchased from a store and paid $5.00 each. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for linking up on Tutorial Thursdays, hope to see you again this week
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Natalie
http://www.marigoldsloft.blogspot.com
Thanks for the Tutorial! I need to make some of these one of these days! Thanks for sharing it at Monday Funday!
Great. Wearing my first pair right now. Sexy, cheap, comfy – I didn’t know you could have all three in one pair!
Great! So glad you like them.
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Can’t wait to make these! I love lacy panties, I just can never find a pair that fits just right! Running to the fabric store today!
Thank you for sharing this!
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? Question, the paper patern is hanging off the material so does that get filled in or does that make them shorter or low rise and not fit properly. I thought it was first rule of sewing to have material cover the entire patern
The pattern is made deliberately large so then it will accommodate whatever width of lace that you are working with. I suggest a 5 to 6 inch width would suit most people, but if you want a larger (belly covering) pair, then you can use wider lace say 10 inches wide and the pattern can be used on this size lace too. If you wanted something much lower rise, on the hips, then you use a narrower lace. Its entirely up to you and what you prefer. So in this case, its OK to have the pattern wider than the lace.
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