For her birthday, my sister wanted the bodysuit pictured on the left. Unfortunately its not for sale anymore, so she asked me to take a stab at recreating it. To make things more complicated we live about 800 miles apart and she would not be able to try it on to get the size right.

She mailed me a solid bodysuit that fit her pretty well and I traced it to get the right size. Then I went about drafting up the straps that would make up the front of the bodysuit as well as the gloves built into the arms.

We decided on a snakeskin patterned jersey fabric, something a little wild to match this bold outfit, and it came out looking really good! And I had enough fabric to make her a matching skirt!

This was my first time using a serger and I am never going back! I love this thing. It took some serious trial and error to get the right settings though. I used stretch thread in the upper threads and wooly nylon in the loops and that seemed to offer a good amount of stretch. Once I figured that out though it was a lot of fun!