swimsuit refashion

dear moms.

i know you are going to profess your love for me after this tutorial. but SAVE the proposals...

i'm married. pretty happily.

I don't mind hearing that you love me though...cause I love you too.

love,
agaagg.



my daughter is SUPER TALL for her age. and SUPER SKINNY (agaagg genes...yes...i just called myself super skinny. no. i'm not super skinny. but it's my blog and I will drop myself fake compliments if I want to.

so the swimsuits that are her size have a tendency to do this...

WEDGIE. very super comfortable.

(i so hope in ten years she comes back and reads this and gets all embarrassed.) 

and I was going to sign her up for swim lessons which are 4 times a week. so she NEEDED a new swimsuit. and I got on my favorite online stores (old navy and target)

and I found nothing I loved.

I wanted a two piece (let's face it....it's easier to pee)

and I wanted the top to be a tankini.

and i wanted it cute.

really? i mean it wasn't like the weirdest requests.

but I found zip.

nada.

nothing.

and then BAM.

lightning rod.

 how about I cut her one piece...and make a two piecer.

and it's about the easiest thing EVER!

 THE BEFORE:

I had to dig it out of "the save for my next daughter" box.....it's oshkosh and I got it at ross for two dollars. she wore it last year...and by the end of the summer...I knew it wouldn't see another summer.

the back view:

NOW...a word:

if your swimsuit that you are modifying has a low back...(like where my finger is in the picture below)

the basic instructions won't work....your top will just have a front and no back...(which you can get totally creative and make some straps to tie around) but keep that in mind before you start hacking into your swimsuits!

this particular swimsuit had a little ribbon detail on the side so I made sure i cut above that...

and I literally cut it into two..(you can use some underwear as a guide to make sure your bottoms aren't to small--or your bum crack will be showing)

then I just folded the raw edge under and pinned

(I didn't even finish the edge...it didn't fray so I thought why waste the time?)

then I sewed...

now....for the bottoms:

the bottoms fit. quite well. but I had a fear of them getting wet and falling down.

and she's seven..and that kinda thing would scar her for life if we were in public. (and plus...she would never where anything i made her ever ever again.)

so I took a strip of elastic and pinned it at the back of the bottoms (along the top)

and I sewed it by pulling the elastic as I sewed...

it made a slight little ruffle at the back of the bottoms....

but once on....it's hardly noticeable...and i love that extra security.

(p.s. if they are really loose.....you can do another elastic in the front the same way..

or just two on each side.)

it took ten minutes..tops...(well, actually it took longer cause I had to wait for my daughter to try it on and the change and then change back until she finally told me "find someone else my size to try it on".)

wish my bum was this cute....

oh to be 7.

running off to pee..

okay...not really...but if she was it would be super easy!