How to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands?

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What is necessary for the job?
Interesting ideas for a swimsuit
Designing a swimsuit for gymnastics

In summer, every woman loves to show off on the beach in a spectacular swimsuit. In order not to buy every season a new set of underwear for swimming, you can transform your favorite bathing suit in original ways. And, many materials for the creative process may be available, and you even did not guess how effectively they can be applied. There are enough ways how to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands. Let's learn more about them, because it's so exciting to make a beautiful and stylish thing yourself.

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What is necessary for the job?

To begin with, we will designate the materials and tools that may be needed during the decorating process. Prepare in advance such items:

Sharp scissors. It is best if it is a cutting tool.
Threads in the tone of a swimsuit, or decorative trim.
Needles, pins.
Measuring tape.

In addition, depending on the method of decoration, can come in handy:

Iron.
Sewing machine.
Adhesive or glue tape in the form of a spider web.

Materials can be very diverse:

Fabric.
Decorative items: crystals, beads,
Paints.
Tapes, a variety of braid.

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Interesting ideas for swimsuit

Ideas how to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands are very diverse, and from such a wide list you can definitely choose the most original, spectacular version.

Beautiful bow

Bows are one of the most popular elements of clothing, these details always look elegant, elegant. Suits for swimming, of course, are no exception.

Options for the location of the bow

You can decorate a swimsuit with the help of lovely, feminine bows in such ways:

Decorate with a neat and small element of melting. You can place it in the middle closer to the top edge or more coquettishly aside. Also, two symmetrical bows on the sides will look pretty.

Important! Complement the composition of the same decor on the top of the suit. It is best to attach the bow to the center between the elements of the bodice.

Another way is to decorate the bodice with a large bow. Now such swimsuits are at the height of popularity, and they look just great.

Bows can be made of fabric, and also tied from ribbons or braid, you can use lace. Finished parts are attached to the bathing suit.

We make a bow with our own hands

How to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands with a large, stylish bow? For this purpose, you need to purchase a suitable fabric.

Important! Pay attention to the drawing, the coloring of the material, so that they are in harmony with the kit.

You can make a bow as follows:

Determine the size of the element, its length, width. Depends only on your preferences. Multiply the original data by two.
Cut a rectangle of the desired dimensions from the fabric.
Fold the piece in half along the length of the fabric.
Sew on the sewing machine on the side seams from the wrong side. Leave one edge not sewn to turn the product on the front side.
Turn out the fabric, stitch the last side seam. As a result - you will get a rectangle of the desired width, but longer than twice. Therefore, fold it in half in width, grasp the edges between each other.
The seam is placed in the middle, we make an assembly in this place.
We cut another element of a bow from the fabric - a rectangle measuring approximately 3 by 12 cm.
Folds in length, sewed from the wrong side. We turn out the fabric.
Turn around the center of our bow this strip, the edges of which we sew on the other side.
We fix on the bodice of the leotard.

So, your new and stylish swimsuit is ready!

Brilliant elements

Now let's learn how to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands with the help of small, but bright details. For these purposes, most often use different sequins, beads, beads and, of course, rhinestones.

Colorful sequins

They are sequins in the form of small scales, which are attached to the fabric with a needle and thread one after another. As a result - it turns out a very beautiful, bright ornament, which overflows in the sun. To decorate your swimsuit with such details, think over the pattern that you want to embody on the fabric. After that, buy the sequins of the desired colors, the main thing is that they are in harmony with the material.

Important! It is very convenient and quick to decorate the costume with a band of sequins.

Luxurious crystals

Shiny rhinestones will give the swimming costume brightness and radiance. To decorate your swimsuit with stones, it is necessary, first of all, to think over the composition or pattern with which you will design this wardrobe article.

Important! Ideas can be very different: chaotic arrangement, abstract pattern, drawing, for example, on the sea theme.

Select the decorative details you need for these parameters:

Size. Stones should not be too large or small. It is most optimal to purchase an average size.
Color. The shade of crystals should be selected not faded, but saturated and close in tone to the swimsuit. It's best to take a suit with you, apply the stones to the material to determine the best option.
Fastening method. Rhinestones can be attached to the material of a swimming suit by different methods - sewn or glued. Depending on the chosen method, purchase the appropriate type of stones. Sew rhinestones have neat holes and are fastened by means of a needle with a thread. Adhesive crystals are attached with a special glue.

Important! But the most convenient and fastest way is to use thermostrases, which are fastened to the bathing suit with iron.

Beads and beads

If you have items from old beads at home, we will tell you how to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands with their help. Beads and beads are perfect for this purpose.

The design of the costume with such details is almost the same as the sequins and sequins:

Identify the decoration ornament.
Choose the color and size of beads or beads.

Important! These decorative elements are also diverse in form, which only increases the field for your imagination.

After that we begin to decorate the swimsuit. Use thin threads and a needle.

Sewing beads and beads - very laborious work, but the result is worth it!

Important! Periodically, in the process of fastening, tie from the wrong side of the nodule, so you protect the composition from spreading if the thread breaks.

Decoration of a swimsuit can not be limited to just one kind and shape of beads, you can combine different details, thereby complicating the ornament and making it more refined.

Important! Bold and unusual decoration can serve as decorative metal spikes or other catchy elements.

Elegant Roses

Roses are always popular with lovely ladies, and in any interpretation, whether it's a live bouquet of flowers or a beautiful figure on a dress, an original brooch or any other stylish accessory in the form of a luxurious flower. Therefore, it is worth considering how to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands with such floral details.

Important! Best of all, this method of decoration is suitable for the upper part of the costume - the bodice. Thanks to this decor, your swimsuit will play with bright colors, and besides it will add the volume of the chest.

You can offer two options:

Buy ready items in the store.
Make roses yourself from satin ribbons. It's quite simple: cut the ribbon in equal lengths, fold in half lengthwise, twist the type of roses with a roll, fix the lower edge with threads.

Sewing small roses is best done manually, as it is very unreliable to "plant" them on the glue. Densely place the details on the swimsuit, and put them all over the top of the swimming suit.

Important! Very bright and effective is the use of several shades.

Delicate lace

A light guipure will give your appearance romanticism and sensuality. To decorate a swimsuit, lace in the form of ribbons is perfect.

Important! It is best to decorate with a lace material a single-colored bathing suit that harmonizes with it in a shade, or - on the contrary, contrasts.

The upper part of the swimsuit can be decorated in such a way:

Attach the tape along the bottom of the bodice along the entire length of the bodyside.
Decorate only the inner edges of the cups along the contour, that is, the cutout.
Decorate cup of swimsuit on the inside and outside.

On the swimming trunks make a lace edging in this way:

Only on the front.
Both in front and behind.
The edging can only be on the top edge.
On the top and sides.

Decoration is an individual character, and you decide how to do it.

How to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands lace ribbons? The sequence of operations is as follows:

Remove the measurements and cut off the strips of the required length.
Lock the lace on the swimsuit with pins.
Attach the lace to the costume. You can sew the stripes manually with neat stitches, use adhesive tape, the so-called "spiderweb".You can buy it at any clothing store.
Remove the pins and your swimsuit is ready.

Wavy ribbon

This type of braid is sold in many fabric stores and sewing departments. The effective wavy strip has a rich choice of colors, and you can easily choose the most suitable for a swimsuit. Optimal to choose it in the color of the suit. Well, the process of design - simple and fast: sew the braids around the edge of the trunks and cups of the bodice. That's all!

Curved smooth lines will transform the swimsuit, make it more elegant and original.

Flirty ruffles

Beautiful frills will certainly come to your liking, in addition, they have a visual effect and increase the volume of the chest.

Important! The only nuance - do not use them, if you are the owner of luxurious and magnificent forms.

How to decorate a swimsuit with your hands such beautiful flounces?

The upper part of the set is most often decorated with an elegant assembly from the straps to the center of the bodice, and the lower part is ruffled on the upper edge. This method is simpler.
More original and stylish design: sew ruffles in several levels. This method is applicable to both the bodice and the swimming trunks. And this set looks very smart.

Important! Another option, the most fashionable now, is the decoration of the bodice with a long wide frill in full length.

Drawing with acrylic paints

You may think that this method is not suitable for everyone, since you need to have artistic talent. But this is not so, because you can choose a beautiful pattern and apply it to the fabric with a pencil, and then proceed with the design.

Here are some tips on how best to do this:

Drawing paints is suitable only for a plain swimsuit. On a colorful and patterned costume, such an ornament is a senseless undertaking.
Do not put the pattern on the fabric in places that are subject to strong stretching. Otherwise - the ornament will lose its attractiveness, and, rather, on the contrary - spoil the appearance of the costume.
Before starting work, place the clothes on a hard surface and secure.
Apply the paint with a fine brush and ensure that it is thoroughly absorbed into the fabric.

Important! Acrylic paints should not be too thick.

Leave a swimsuit for one day to allow the composition to dry.
After completely drying with iron, iron the pattern through the paper.

Important! Use acrylic paint for fabric, which can be purchased at a specialized store.

Brooches and chains: costume jewelery for swimsuit decoration

Perhaps, these are the simplest ideas how to decorate a swimsuit with your own hands. To do this, you just need to purchase decorative parts in a jewelry store or sewing accessories.

So, we make out a bathing suit with chain braces:

Gently cut the swimsuit straps with sharp scissors.
Give the chains the required length - they should be equal to the length of the straps.
With needles and thread we fasten the chains to the place of straps.

That's it! Quickly, simply and conveniently, but it looks like a swimsuit is very interesting and unusual.

It is even easier to decorate the bodice with a beautiful and stylish brooch, simply fixing it between the cups. Choose a brooch for the style of the swimsuit, and better - large, so it is not lost, but on the contrary - it creates an accent.

These simple and simple ways can transform your bathing suit. We have listed only a few ideas that can form the basis for your masterpiece. And then you can act, as fantasy dictates, and complement the clothes with elegant accents and beautiful strokes. The result will be evident, and you will undoubtedly become the queen of the beach.

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Decoration of a leotard for gymnastics

Decoration of a costume for rhythmic gymnastics is a responsible and creative process. To do this, you can use a wide variety of materials. For example, rhinestones, sequins, beads, fringe.

The design depends on many factors:

Appointment of a suit. Perhaps it is necessary to speak at an important stage of the competition, or for daily training.
Compositions and productions. Depending on the image of the gymnast and the idea of performance, an ornament for a swimsuit is also selected.

There are several basic methods for decorating a suit.

Acrylic paints

The fabric is applied to the fabric with special acrylic fabrics. The process begins with the contours, after which all the elements of the composition are painted over. The key to success is the quality impregnation of the fabric.

Important! If the paint remains on the surface of the material, then its layer will begin to crack.

Then it is necessary to wait at least 24 hours, until the paint dries and iron the pattern from the wrong side. And already on top of this ornament can be attached rhinestones.

Rhinestones

How can I decorate with a rhinestones a swimsuit for gymnastics? Very bright and effective. In general, such stones - the main and best material for decoration.

Especially bright crystals look with iridescent shine and overflow. To design was beautiful, you need:

Find the optimal size of stones. For small swimsuits it is ss16, for large swimsuits it is ss20.
Strip stitching is required on the part prior to their stitching.
If the stones are not self-adhesive, then use only special glue that is applied to the material.
The main pattern is laid out with small crystals, and individual decor elements with large stitched stones.

Applications

This is a quick and convenient way to create a unique drawing:

First you need to decide on the composition.
After that, the details of the application are cut from the paper, then transferred to the fabric.
All the elements are laid out on the swimsuit and fixed with pins.
Attach the application to the base with a zigzag.

Important! The line must go along the very edge of the element.

Fringe

This item is used for decorating skirts. The fringe has an excellent effect: it overflows, moves, sticks. This is further emphasized by the skillful movements of the athlete.

The color of the finishes is selected for the basic tones of the costume.

So, you are now aware of how you can decorate with rhinestones a swimsuit for gymnastics and not only. Sometimes different variants are used simultaneously and perfectly combine, which makes the outfit of the sportswoman the most beautiful and bright.