Black silk knickers

This is pair of knickers number two – in plain black silk.

The silk satin’s very fine, and I’d been worried that the fabric might slip or fray. As it turned out, they were much easier to sew than I’d expected. I really like the lettuce edges, done on the overlocker, and the three-step zig-zag stitch looks nicely professional.

I still need to make some modifications for the pattern. It needs re-working slightly to work with a directional print, although that’s obviously not an issue with this pair! Starting to stitch down the ends of the elastic is a bit fiddly – the machine has a tendency to suck the fabric down into the feed dogs.

Once I’ve got these little bits and pieces sorted out, you can look forward to seeing a lot more of these!