bathers

We’ve just come back from our beach holiday. The sun and warm weather were noticeably absent, but we still had a fun time in a small coastal town.

I made the girls some bather pants to go with their rashies rather than wearing one-piece bathers underneath. They only managed 4 wears over the holiday.

The hats are adult sized to get a larger brim. There’s a piece of grosgrain ribbon inside the hat that I sewed down to make a casing for some elastic. They stayed firmly on the girls heads – until out on a boat when in a really strong gust of wind Amelia’s blew off! I’ll get her another this week and am looking for a red hat for Lachlan – made it so easy to spot the girls on the beach!

I doubt there’ll be any more of these bathers. After cutting up a pair of undies, tidying them up as a paper pattern then messing about with how much elastic to use….. but I would like to make some old fashioned cotton bathers with elastic casings like this