swimsuit elastic band

Once it's cooked to the fabric, that latex type swimsuit tensioning tape it's almost impossible to remove! ARGH! What a horrid job! Only worth the hours if it was a very expensive designer type swimsuit! My personal take is that if this was a cheap and cheerful chainstore cozzy, ditch it and replace: you time and good temper are worth more! If it was an expensive cozzy, it may be worth saving, and you are on the right track with your scraping job: just be VERY CAREFUL not to nick the fabric with the razor blade!

swimsuit elastic band Suzan, try sticking the bathing suit in the freezer for a bit. (You can put it into a plastic bag first), The elastic ought to get brittle enough so you can pick it off easily, but this type of gum removal does take time. Cea

P.S. If you give up on the booger pickin', save the bathing suit and make a pattern from it. Cea

idd, this was my first idea, make a new bathing suit, using this pattern and make a new first the pattern than a nice black bathing suit, the fabric from a pile in my cabinet is waiting for 2 years now. The blue one was not expensive, but I see it like a challenge, if there will be any damage using the razor blade, than there is not much disaster at all , I wouldn't regret. Only the time I spend on it that is the time I had to spend with my quilting or something else i.e. reading your messages and that keeps me going.

Thanks everyone. I will first try the fridge. have a nice day it's 6.30 am here now and your day just begins.

Suzan from Amsterdam

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." Jerome K. Jerome

If you copy this suit, make sure your new fabric has the same stretch as the old fabric. Or you might have to alter the pattern to make it fit right.

liz young

Pampeliska wrote:

Right Elisabeth, I will look out how is the stretch in both fabrics.