I have a class coming up at Central Sewing at the beginning of May. I’m making a new pattern, so needed to sew up new fitting bras.

I decided to use up all the bits in my stash to do this. We’ll see if I have enough. I’m not done yet. I started with the smaller sizes, equivalent to the size 2s. These little bras have a bit of everything. I decided along with using up my stash, I would use up whatever threads and bobbins I had – just to make the job go more quickly.

I really have to say it was quite fun and very freeing to just grab a thread, or a bobbin and not worry about matching anything. I don’t think I’d do it for a bra I want to wear, but it’s been fun to do it for these fitting bras.

Next were the equivalent to size 3s. And again, just what I had in my stash.    A friend was asking about them and called them Frankenbras when she heard they were all different colors.

Here are the size equivalents to the 4s.    These look better, don’t they? All nice and the same color.

That is until you see the back! Still, they’re perfectly functional, and I don’t have quite so many bits to store now. All the more reason to buy some more fun things!

Lastly, I thought I’d show you how I organize to sew multiple bras at one time. I’m sewing these all in size sets. So for the most part, I’m sewing four bras at a time.

These are the equivalents to the size 5s.

I print off all the pattern pieces in that size, cut them out and keep each one in a pile. They are also labeled. For each bra, I will sew one thing at a time. So I sew one set up bottom cups together, put it back with the pattern pieces. Pick up the next one and do the same. So all the sewing will be done with the same stitch, either all a straight stitch, or all a zigzag.

It’s much quicker to do it this way, than to sew one bra completely and then sew another one. I’ve all used this approach to sewing for myself say for two black bras, or two pink bras. You get the idea.

Back to sewing for me! Happy creating!