A pale set

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I’ve made another new set of lingerie…  fairly plain and simple and prosaic but that’s ok since plain, simple and prosaic are my middle names.  Three more of my middle names, that is.  I have lots of de facto middle names, deployed in this blog selectively and when it suits my purposes to describe the various facets of my personality and how it applies to my wardrobe. 
*eye roll at self-craziness*
The bra has no foam insert, thus the sad, limp, popped-balloon kind of a look it has in its picture above…  It does have an extra, underlining layer of cotton jersey in the lower bra cup which gives it a nice thickness.  But no padding = no visual appeal, I do admit that.   Droopy and deflated  🙁  It looks heaps better on an actual body.

The fabrics have all been in my stash for yonks; an ivory coloured cotton jersey (Spotlight) that I’ve also used for all my white Tshirts and a white stretch lace (Fabulous Fabrics).   Also, white lingerie elastic and decorative mini-bows made using creamy-peach coloured ribbon.  Unlike my previous lingerie set which was all yellow-y, the presence of pure white here enabled me to use the bright white rings and sliders on the straps of the bra.  It’s a pain that Spotlight has such limited colour range; maybe I should get global and go internet-notion-shopping for other colours.  Maybe…
I made the straps using this very pro-looking ivory lingerie strap elastic.  I spotted it in Homecraft Textiles, and bought some to try it out.  

yo, looks like a REAL bra!!

Pros; it looks real clean and neat, and gives the bra more of a professional RTW look, plus it is very strong and sturdy and feels like it will last for aaaaages, even possibly outlive the bra itself and be re-cycled for future bras too.   
Cons; looks definitely “lingerie-y” if it was to peep out under a top, whereas I think a turned-out fabric strap looks like a little camisole and doesn’t scream “BRA!!!” quite so loudly.  Plus it’s more expensive to buy notions like this as opposed to making your own straps from the same fabric as your bra. Oh well, I bought enough to make one more bra, sometime down the track.

I bought the white stretch lace to fix up these undies, and there was so little left on the roll at the time I just bought the rest.  Fortunately, that happened to be just enough for the bra upper cup pieces and another pair of Tanga knickers.  These knickers are the easiest thing in the world to make and they look super cute on, but I hated that awful seamed crotch in my first pair and ended up re-constructing the whole crotch…  for this second pair I eliminated that crotch seam right from the word go.  I cut both the lace crotch and the cotton jersey panty liner using the panty liner pattern piece.  I cut two strips of regular elastic 10% shorter than the length of the crotch edge, laid them inside the edges of the panty liner, turned under to encase and pinned to the inside of the crotch piece and then zigzagged all layers together, stretching the elastic to fit.  This makes for a very comfy pair of knickers, with no.. er, wedgy issue  🙂

don’t worry, these are as yet pristine and unworn

The other pair of matching knickers is the bikini bottoms of McCalls 2772, in the same ivory cotton jersey as the bra.  I really like my lingerie sets to co-ordinate together in some way, and it tickles me even more when the two pairs of undies in a set are different from each other but both still recognisably match the bra, somehow.  The mix of cream, white and ivory in this set is very peaceful and calm, and very pleasing to my eye.  And I expect it will be nicely unobtrusive under my pale summer wardrobe.

Details:
Bra; KwikSew 3300, cotton jersey and stretch lace, my review of this pattern here
Lace knickers; Tanga knickers, a free downloadable pattern here, modified to have no crotch seam
Jersey knickers; the bikini bottoms of McCalls 2772 with lingerie elastic attached as for knickers.

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128 thoughts on “A pale set”

  3. I downloaded that knicker pattern ages ago, but like you, didn't like the crotch seaming. Your changes might move me to make them. I really like your sets of lingerie, and must get myself motivated to make some.

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  4. Every time I see another set of lingerie that you have beautifully made, it reminds me that I have been wanting to make my own for the longest time! Maybe one of these days I'll get my act together. I don't know if I'd be brave enough to show them to everyone on my blog though! Gorgeous as usual.

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  9. You are an underwear making MACHINE! They look so very much RTW.
    I had never considered the "does this strap look like a bra strap or a camisole strap if it peeks out from my shirt" quandary before, but that is an interesting point.
    I love coordinating sets too.
    I've made my own panties but bras….I'm not there yet.

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  10. Another gorgeous set so professionally made. Love the shape of those bikini pants and I hear you on the wedgie issue…I have some RTW undies with a crotch seam that are never worn due to the discomfort level.

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  15. Very pretty. I have this bra pattern and have been waiting to try it. I love pretty matching underthings. Yours turned out really pretty.

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  18. As long as your notions are all the same stuff, you can just dye them all together for one project. Even if the result is not totally uniform, it usually hangs together in a pretty good way. Most lingerie notions are nylon, which would call for acid dyes. And there's polyester dyes now, so even that isn't tragic if you're stuck with the contents of your fabric closet as it is at any given moment. In my experience, it's almost impossible to keep in stock as many colors as might strike our fancy :-).

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    1. M-C; yes, that's a great idea! Amy of cloth habit dyes or "stains" her lingerie notions too, I've often thought I should just give it a go. 🙂

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  22. Your set is beautiful, It feels so nice to wear pretty undergarments even if no one see them (Except for your blog friends of course).

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  23. To answer you question, yes I am learning to spin the fiber from my Angora goats. I have given them a hair cut once so far. A real learning experience in itself… I have a spinning wheel and have spun some roving into yarn. A big learning curve to spinning :O)… I also have a loom, a 4 shaft 6 treddle floor loom. My goal is use my handspun yarn to weave cloth on my loom… One process I am eager to learn is felting the hand woven fabric…leaving me with a lovely felted wool to use in projects…Of course woven fabrics of all sorts will be wonderful but I am eager to learn this felting process in particular. A lot of learning but very interesting and enjoyable. In case your interested this is the free pattern I downloaded to make the lace undies with the stretch lace… no seperate crotch seam in these :O) http://so-sew-easy.com/make-your-own-lace-undies-tutorial-and-free-pattern/

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  25. I like your set very much! :O) … I thought you were looking at alternative ways to do the seams in stretch lace undies, thus the link to a different cut pattern on those type undies … :O) …

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