Month: June 2025

A Beautiful Basic Beige

~ Michelle

I’m a bit late posting today. Sorry if anyone was looking for me. 🙂 It’s moving weekend for my kids and my husband’s work! It’s been busy.

But I’ve still managed to fit some me sewing time into my schedule.

After looking at my bra wardrobe, and my actual wardrobe, I decided I needed a few basics. As well, some of my favorites are getting a bit worn.

You know when they fit great out of the wash, but then as the day goes on, the elastic is giving away a bit and they’re not fitting so great. That’s happening to a few of mine, so… time for some new bras.

I started with a basic beige. I love the golden hue to beige. I think it’s really quite lovely.

I made a Freya again. It is one of my favorite patterns. This lace matches so well with the beige as well. I had a small problem when I was making this bra. After I attached the strap to the front of the bra something didn’t look quite right. So I checked the front again. No. I’d attached it correctly. I looked at the back again. Gah! I’d sewn the strap elastic to the inside of the band rather than the outside!

It was time to get out the seam ripper and start unpicking the strap, and the eyes on the band. You can see just the slightest difference in the sewing along the eyes where I had to resew that part after reattaching the strap elastic.

Fifteen years of sewing bras and I can still mess things up. 🙂 I hope all your seams work out perfectly this week.

Happy creating!

The Prettiest Cotton Poplin Bra

~ Michelle

I recently received a gorgeous cotton Poplin kit from Bwear, and just had to sew it up right away.

Oh, isn’t that all so very pretty?

Here is the kit made up into my Freja pattern. Isn’t this just lovely? I love the colors.

I even love the lavender sheer cup lining and how it softens the look of the white lace. I am in love. Here’s a close up showing just how pretty this fabric is. Just gorgeous.

Here’s the back view. If you haven’t sewn with cotton poplin, it’s very easy to sew with it. All the cut edges do end up enclosed, so you don’t have to worry about any unraveling of those edges. You don’t need to finish those raw edges in any way. They are all enclosed in the bra. As with most of the seams in a bra, they are sewn over more than once.

I will let you know how it wears and washes.

Lastly, this bra didn’t get a bow, but it’s not because it isn’t bow-worthy. This kit had the most adorable little charm included. That little cherries charm was too adorable for me not to use. It’s just so sweet!

Have you tried sewing with cotton poplin? Let me know.

Happy creating!

A Made by Hand Bra

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I am so excited to share something with you all. It’s not something I made, but when I saw it I was honestly so very excited. I had to share.

Let me give you some back history to this lovely make. A number of years ago a friend came to me saying she couldn’t wear a bra because of an injury, and did I have any idea what she could wear.

The first pattern I though of was the Wendy Bra-in-a-tank-top. She could decide how much elastic she wanted to use to determine how snug or loose it would fit. 

She loved the idea and made herself a couple of them. 

But then found wearing a full tank top all the time under clothing was too hot. So she modified her pattern to more of a shorter bralette style.

That brings us up to date. Let me share this amazing hand made, hand sewn bra with you.  This is just incredible to me. This is ALL hand-sewn. Every stitch is by hand!

We were getting together to work on slopers, and at one point she removed her top (which she had also made), and everything stopped. I had to know about her bra. I recognized the hand stitching right away. I had to know more.

Her journey started with this book. I recognized the author from her Craftsy classes. I had purchased, watched, and loved them all.

Okay, back to my friend’s marvelous make.   Here is the back. She had noticed young women wearing racer back bra styles and modified her pattern again to have more of a racer back look than the straight across design. She made this change to keep her straps from falling off her shoulders.

The stitching along the bottom where the elastic is encased is designed to stretch. She used a stretch stitch. However, where no stretch is needed, the stitches don’t have stretch.

Here is the straight stitch on the side seam along with those stretch stitches.

And here are the stitches along the top of the bra’s back.       I am in love with all the thought and detail in this – from the use of stretch stitches where stretch is needed, to changes in design.

Here’s one more photo to show this incredible hand sewn bra. Here is the inside of the bra where the elastic is enclosed. Look at how neat this is!My friend has made two bras for herself – one with blue thread and one with pink.

These are so lovely with all the design, thought, and the hours of hand sewing work that went into them.

This is no sewn-up-in-an-afternoon kind of make. This literally stopped me in my tracks. Changed the course of what we were doing. I was and am so very impressed with this.

These bras are made with 100% cotton jersey. And sewn with Coats button craft thread and the DMC cotton pearl thread. I’m told both threads are better to use than sewing machine thread as they are a little thicker and don’t tangle when hand sewing.

I hope you enjoyed this amazing make as much as I did. Honestly, I am so inspired by this.

Happy creating!