For today’s Lingerie Friday, I want to step back a little bit. It’s been a month since the Bra-making Sew Along, but I’m still getting some wonderful emails and enquiries about it all. I know many of you discovered the sew along later in the month or afterward. Some were just beginning to fit their bras toward the end. Or perhaps were too late to join the Flickr group.
If you made a bra following the sew-along, would you like to share with us? Submit your photos to the new Sew Along Gallery!
Leave a link in the comments either here or the gallery to your photos on your blog, Flickr, Pinterest, etc. and I’ll add them. Or you can email me, too!
Speaking of which, I love getting emails and hearing about your bra-making experiences and questions. Sew-alongs are wonderful for the wealth of tutorials and sometimes sense of online community, but they can have their drawbacks, too. We all learn and participate in different ways and in different paces. Getting individual feedback is priceless, and I am happy to help and hear from you!
In other news, I’m up to my ears in projects. More bra-pattern drafting, a new bra-making tutorial, and a cape. Lord knows why I made a cashmere cape in a winter that never dropped below 70 degrees, but we all need a little fantasy sewing now and then, right?
Most of all, I’ve been up to rose-pruning. Roses and lingerie-making–my kind of weekend. Every February, I go into a zone with pruning. It’s a poetic and centering activity, an annual ritual that includes climbing up arbors and tying back some (literally) bloody thorns. Yes, I have gauntlet gloves, but they don’t make much of a difference when you’re battling an 18th century brambler. After we bought our own home eight years ago, I fell in mad love with gardening and particularly roses, and seriously considered training as a master gardener. I published a gardening blog for about five years until starting this one. Sometimes I miss it, taking macro wildflower pictures and obsessing over seed-planting tutorials. It’s what pushed me to take some basic courses on photography and learn more about light and cameras. I still have so much to learn….
Happy weekend, all!
Oh gardening. Yes i know the feeling as have relatively recently got into it too, though mine is edible and I’m not as much a gardener as you are
. I love to prune the tomatoes or whatever and get into that zone too though of late it has been so hot here that I have almost melted.
Gorgeous roses too.
Amy – there is no end to your talents! I want to be a great gardener, but find the desire and enthusiasm is seasonal – disappearing completely during summer! On the sewing front – thank you SO much for all the time you spend helping us achieve that prized trophy – a bra that fits! I’m loving every minute!
Your roses are so beautiful! Gardening is such a talent, one I hope to learn as well once I have a yard to call my own. Right now I’m scratching my green thumb at my place of work where we’ve been doing some major seed planting. Mostly edibles, but I snuck a few flowers in there for my own personal enjoyment. I want to thank you again for doing the sew-along, it was such a wonderful series of posts. Now I just need to get on making my bras!!
A gardening blog! Oh my. What fun. Glad to hear you are having an idyllic weekend. A happy hello for San Fran as you are pruning.
What a stunning rose, it looks like Crepuscule: is it? You are a lady of many talents
Yes, it is – and how much that makes my smile that someone would recognize her. The last rose I planted on a whim but now among my most cherished.
I just purchased my bra pattern from the shop link at ebay Elan.
I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile, and was so darn intimidated. When I read Amy’s post in my Google Reader, I tossed it around in my mind and decided; why yes, why not ? Safety in numbers and all that , lol. So I shall add the bra logo to my blog and join you.
Thanks very much,
Elise
Help? Please? I have a Kwik Sew pattern, it works well for me. Not for a daughter and I need help. We went to a specialist and had a measurement done. Sports bra 34D. On regular bras, one side fits but the other side is way too big. I’m thinking one cup is actually a cupsize of “b”? I have no idea how to set up a pattern to give support and comfort. If you could help???
Hi Kathryn, sports bras are a bit different so I don’t know if they would compare in sizing to an underwired bra pattern. I would suggest finding the underwire that fits her best, making the larger cup size and then adjusting the cup for her other side. It really depends on what part of the cup isn’t fitting. If the entire cup (top and bottom) don’t fit, then perhaps make the next cup size down, and widen it to fit the underwire. Many of us have two different sides so it’s ok to have two different cups
. Does that help?
Thankyou:) I worked on it again late last night. I ended up with a d on one side and a c that I needed to widen on the outside. Also, we realized that I needed to have a larger space in the middle. Most patterns seem to leave it at approx. 1 inch. I needed 2 1/2 inches in the middle. Now, we have a perfect fitting bra. I am so glad this is finally figured out! I am becoming more confident at making things for my whole family!