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Summary: How to choose fabrics and patterns for making a custom bikini; get professional tips and advice on how to design and make your own custom swimwear in this free fashion video.
Jennifer Crow has been owner, operator, and designer for Wedgie Wear for many years. She started the company in Texas and later moved it to Nashville, TN. Her suits are sold in...read more
"JENNIFER CROW: Hi, this is Jennifer and I'm the owner of wedgiewear.com, and we're here with Expert Village. The next part that you want to talk about then is once you get your pattern is to actually cut it out into your actual design. Your pattern that you've drawn out on the fabric that you like, again it needs to be a stretch material that stretches two or four ways, just depending on how you like it, and just put your pattern down. You can do this a lot by using pins to secure it down, or once you've been doing it a while, you can just basically cut over the top of it. So you just want to start, and again, you don't have to follow the line precisely. You do want make it a little bit larger. It's going to look like this. And that's the triangle top from the pattern that we just saw."
eHow Article: Fabrics & Patterns for Making a Custom Bikini