I decided last year to make a swimsuit with size 10 crochet thread, a size 7 steel hook, and a lot of bravado. I have exceptionally fair skin, but I tend to wear SPF 50 sunblock, and I rarely get sunburned, so I made a gorgeous little experiment that a friend of mine found a cheap replica of at Wal-Mart this summer. This is absolutely unacceptable! I must have the most unique swimsuit on the planet! I require it! (lol)
*I figure, if I’m gonna make something that the corporate telepaths are just going to duplicate, I’ll make it a hard game to play. Not that there are any corporate telepaths, but seriously, have you ever wondered why, when you get a great idea, within a year it’s on the shelf at the local store, and you still haven’t patented it? That’s what I mean.*
I will probably come up with more and more swimsuit patterns, as long as I can find a cheap knockoff a year after I make it. This year’s pattern is a little more difficult than last year’s, but this year’s is actually going on the site, since the first experiment was what I refer to as (tactfully) Epic Fail! It needs a lot of reworking, and the liner needs to be entirely redone. The liner in this year’s pattern is so much easier to deal with, and the whole swimsuit works better than the last one. If I ever manage to fix it, I’ll post the pattern, after it’s been pool-tested.