Panties

Step 6 Finishing

Sew the last side seam. Take the thread ends and fold them along the seam, then fold the seam to one side over the thread ends. Topstitch through the three layers (top and two seam allowances) just over the elastic bit, to hold it firmly and finish off the seam ends. Do this on both waist and leg elastic of the side you just sewed, and on the leg elastic of the other side (the waist elastic is unbroken on that side).

The last thing is to trim any edges that stick out past the elastic, being careful not to cut the elastic of course.

Once you've made a pair or two, you'll find that they go very quickly. You can make several pairs in an afternoon, they'll be completely unique and fit like they were made for you!

Comments

[usbmod]

yeah tha'd be nice

[Goodhart]

ack ! Am I that old and out of the loop? Don't they have a half year of Home Ecc in schools anymore for the guys?

[Bad Maxx]

For the guys?? Erm yeah perhaps you are out of the loop.. I know most teenagers (more so it seems the girls than boys!) have no clue how to cook anything that doesn't go in the microwave and no desire to learn how! I'm not sure what state you are in, but most schools no longer have Home Economics. It is really a disservice to both boy and girls. Just what it is imagined this will do for nutrition for not only themselves but their unfortunate children is beyond me. I had it in 8th grade and again in High School, and darned glad I did as I do the cooking for the most part in this household. (Unfortunately I'm "too picky" to eat what would be passed off as a home cooked meal around here if I did not.)

[etw]

when i was in my senior year I wanted to do home economics, but I was not allowed to 'coz i was a guy' (this was mid 70-s. It did not really matter coz I learned cooking from my mother, just by watching how. I can cook pretty well now. Better than most of my (usually younger) girlfriends. When I met a lovely girl who also could cook pretty good, I married her right away ;-)

[Bad Maxx]

Sorry it took me a month+ to reply but read your last post and had to say: Right On! Marrying a lovely girl, let alone one that can cook!?! That sounds like the path I should have followed!

[Goodhart]

I enjoyed Home Ecc. as much as I did Shop class (and didn't break as much in Home Ecc either LOL )

[Ieatbabiez]

We don't even have Home Ecc in our school...Or wood shop...Or metal shop....

[ktalex]

ur school must be poorn.

[Bad Maxx]

I live in a definitely not poor school district! And have the same thing to say as leatbabiez, (although I'm far from school age!) the school here has none of the life-skills classes Home Ecc, Woodshop, Metal Shop all gone.. We had all of these and optional small engine class, as well as electronics class. Now they have a huge indoor/outdoor pool at the middle school and three gymnasiums at the senior high but none of the aforementioned classes.

[Ieatbabiez]

My school is extremely poor...But we're the 3rd ranked school in our state :P

[Saturn V]

My school doesn't have wood or metal shop, probably because they don't trust a bunch of teenagers with a blowtorch.

[Goodhart]

Reaaly ? In middle school metal shop I was building a radiation cloud chamber.....those were the days

[ktalex]

wow i just noticed i almost typed porn.. Damn im actually surprised of the maturity here thats nice. :) Being mature FTW

[Goodhart]

Well that is a bummer.

[maxpower49]

in my school we have a full year of home ec that you have to take in 8 th grade and we still have wood shop but no metal working but you can take a extra thing with metal working or allot of other stuff but that is only in 11th and 12th grade

[Goodhart]

That's good. I had 1/2 year of wood shop after 1/2 year of Home Ecc. and metal shop came in one of the subsequent years.

[maxpower49]

i have had a year of wood shop and a year on home ec this year i'm taking a year of heave equipment at boces

[Clayton H.]

At my school we have home ecc. 4 years of woodshop and a metalshop that is used for the graffics class.

[D.L.H.]

No cooking is not mandtiory at all at my school i wsih they still had wood and metal shop oh we also do not have sewing. But congrats on the nice designs Rachel.

[=!snap!=]

Not any more, when you get to highschool most schools have stuff were you can take astuff like that though

[Goodhart]

That saddens me....

[kissiltur]

I'd put money on not, although I don't know enough about the US school system yet to be sure (my boys aren't old enough to be in school yet). I know the home ec stuff in Britain has been trimmed drastically, though, along with metalwork, woodwork, or indeed anything which isn't on the core curriculum.

[Goodhart]

That's just plain sad, really. I had had 1/2 year of cooking and sewing, etc. I am GLAD I have those skills, they have made life so much easier....

[kissiltur]

Yes, me too. It was a regular part of the school year for me in middle school - I had options for it at grammar school (what my high school was called) which I didn't take, but knowing how to use a sewing machine has been an invaluable skill. If Instructables had been around in the 90s I would have posted something about the superhero costumes I made. Not doing that stuff is very sad. There's a whole discussion to be had about the direction that education has taken both in the US and the UK, but probably not here.

[Saturn V]

apperently the schoolboards just want us to know about science, math, english, and history we'll never use. Cooking, sewing, woodworking, and metalworking are a few valuable skills. Much more useul than Ancient Rome or diagramming sentences.

[_soapy_]

That's a broad generalisation, and it does people a disservice.

Many people will need to use cooking skills, others will need to use maths, others still will use neither, and a few will be Heston Blumenthal. (If you don't know, he does mad cooking with science and maths - think deep fat frying a frozen chicken to get a sunday roast, or using a pure essence as flavouring)

The disservice is the "one size fits all" 'comprehensive' education system, where competition isn't allowed, and everyone has to come first, and all must do the same things and thinking.

Bring back the two tier system - polytechnics and universities. Then add a third tier for the useless stuff like "American studies" and other 'fries with that' degree courses.

[Goodhart]

Yes, sadly the One size fits all actually fits the fewest number of people "best". If I'd been given more Geo-trig while in high school and less algebra, I would have graduated with math honors. When the teacher couldn't explain quadratic equations to me, I was pretty much at a loss. . .

[Foxxglove]

Lovely tutorial. I have a load of scraps from old t-shirts (that got used for other DIY projects) that are now calling to me.

[hjwright]

I've just finished high school in the U.K. and 'home ec' lessons were mandatory in year 7, 8 and 9 (equivalent to US grade 6, 7 and 8) with the option to continue all the way up to age 18. But it wasn't called home ec, it was split into 'food technology', 'textiles' and 'resistant materials' (basically wood shop and metal working) and we had at least an hour a week of each. But my school was a state school in London (not a grammar school like the person below mentioned they went to) so it was less academically driven and a bit more vocational so that may be why. But as far as I know, home ec type subjects are still widely taught in the U.K. (in London state schools at least). And I hope it stays that way, I loved all these subjects!