Striped Gauze Lingerie Shorts!

I finished my shorts! I don’t know if I am more suprised that it took me only 2.5 hours to complete them or that the pretty striped gauze did not wrinkle, fray, pucker or bunch up even once. Nor did the fabric catch on anything! I think the woven in stripes stabilized it. I did lose a pin, but found it before my foot did.

These shorts are truly beautiful and I think I spent more time trimming seams and finessing the hems than I did actually constructing the shorts. I decided I did not want to see the elastic showing through the fabric, so I found a more opaque white fabric (a white on white leno stripe that does not show in any of my photos) for the casing and put it on the outside of the garment to hide the elastic. Yes, you can do that…it’s perfectly alright. I do have this thing that if I am going to make something I want it to be pretty, even if it is not for public view. Well, except for this one time.

Tomorrow, I will start the top and maybe even finish it the same day since there really are only two seams, a facing and hems. I don’t think the straps are going to take up much time, either.