That sounds nice! Oh, to make lingerie that fits the way YOU want it to fit. . .
I already do a lot of crafts from bygone days, so I don't know what else I would do. Doilies, I guess. I saw a woman needle weaving the most intricate lace doilies on a board once, and thought that would be nice if I had the time, but it's a matter of priorities and time. Recently I was taught to knit and that has been fun, making that basic scarf pattern with all those lovely yarns.
Doilies are nice and done in so many techniques: knitting, crochet, tatting, macrame, lace making.
They used to spell it D'Oyley, for what it is worth.
A simple knitted one, from Miss Lambert's Handbook of Needlework (about 1845) was to make a checkerboard mat. in a k3,p3 block, and then a p3 k3 block (and so on and so on)out of a cotton thread.
You would want to cast on a multiple of 3 + 2. Slip the first stitch and always end in a K stitch.