I made this exceptionally pretty – I think! – new lingerie set…
Cassie bought this beautiful kit for me for Christmas last year; it’s stunningly lovely, with black bits and pieces; and a really lovely minty-coloured tulle embroidered with iridescent pink/blue/violet embroidered butterflies; from Emerald Erin. I’ve linked to the kit, it is not an affiliate link.
I decided to use my MakeBra pattern DL03 to make a padded, underwired bra, plus the Cloth Habit Watson pattern to make two pairs of matching knickers. I love my unpadded Watson bras dearly, but leading into winter I need some of the padded ones. They just look better under the tight merino sweater tees that I like to wear in winter.
The tulle lace is, of course, completely sheer, so I decided to underline it with some cream stretch stuff from my stash; I bought quite a lot of this from Spotlight years ago and it’s proved incredibly useful in my lingerie making. I’ll need to get some more when it’s gone!
I also used some black stretch cotton jersey also from my stash, for the backs of the knickers. The fronts of both knickers is the lace, cut on the bias, backed with the cream stretch. I had enough of the black fold-over elastic to do one knickers waist and legs completely, and the legs of the second pair. The waistline of the second pair is finished with regular picot elastic. I wish I’d had enough of the foldover to do both pairs, but c’est la vie!
I wanted to minimise slicing the butterflies in half on the bra cup pieces, so cut around some of the motifs that would have been too obvious in this aspect, and hand stitched them over the seams. This wasn’t possible with all of them, but just this little bit is an improvement, I think. You can probably just see it barely in this picture, but I always hand stitch the fabric to the foam cups “in the ditch” to keep everything in place nicely.
The kit is a really beautiful quality, with everything needed to finish my bra except for the aforementioned foam and cream and black stretch. ANDO ALSO EXCEPT, it contained only half a metre of strap elastic, which is about half the amount I need to make this bra. I’m not sure how the black beauty bra pattern works… there was quite a lot of foldover elastic for just one bra, so I wonder if that was supposed to be used for the bra straps somehow? Or the twill tape? which I used for the decorative bows. Strange… anyway, fortunately I had some black strap elastic already that did the trick. . I had no choice really; since I’d basically finished the bra by this point. If decided to buy another kit from this seller I might have to buy the black beauty pattern as well and see how it all works together.
Anyway, I’m super happy with this very beautiful set.
I just love the sharp contrast between black and white on the inside of the bra. I love it so much I might attempt a bra with this kind of look on the outside, someday 🙂
In #use30 chat, I did use some of my stash to finish, probably about half a metre of black and cream stretch all up; so I can legitimately claim this little bit off my #use30 pledge for the year. Well hey, each little bit counts!
My total for the year so far is up to 15.5m; and I have 14.5m to go, yay!
