Many of the panties I’ve made in the past are still in good shape. I have beige, ivory, black and a few other colors all still doing well. But I didn’t have any turquoise. So I needed some matchy matchy panties.

I had some turquoise cotton Lyrcra in my stash, and some turquoise stretch lace trim.

Of course I reached for my two favorite panty patterns. The House Morrighan Clover Boy Brief and the Kwik Sew 2286.

Let’s start with the Clover briefs. These are my favorite hipster. It’s a modern  hipster, and as soon as HM is selling her patterns again, I’ll let you know. Yes, I do love this pattern. I like how it looks a bit like a boy short, but it’s not sewn together the same a boy short is. It also fits me a lot better than boy shorts.

My next favorite panty pattern is an older one, and you might be able to find it on Ebay, or Etsy. It’s the Kwik Sew 2286 pattern. Yes definitely an older style of hipster, but I still love it. These both came together easily, and I’m happy with them both.

Now, onto my sloper progress.

The Sure Fit Designs sloper does not fit so well. Both my friend and I have the bust point too low. I’m thinking since we were working together, we both made the same mistake. So I need to raise the bust, but I’m also thinking this is too big.

Back to the drawing board on this one.

Happy creating!

After making one lovely turquoise bra, I wanted another one. I had used the duoplex and power net from a BMS kit I had in my stash.

I used the rest of that kit, but used a finding kit from B,Wear. I prefer their 15mm size finding kits.

Look at this lace. Isn’t it gorgeous? I don’t know if BMS still has this kit. It’s a few years old now. I love turquoise. And I’m loving my two new turquoise bras. 

I’m really happy with the couple of changes I made to my pattern. Now I want to update the whole bra drawer so all my bras are fitting this way. Next I need some turquoise panties. I don’t have any of those in the panty drawer.

Do you remember in my last post how I said the lovely lace from Bwear would go great with red or coral? I have a coral one all cut out that I’ll share with you next week. But this month Bwear has this lace with a red bra kit. The Freja. It’s one of their kits of the month.  I knew it would be lovely with red!

I’m still working on my sloper and will have more on that soon.

Happy creating!

I decided to make a couple of small tweaks to my Freja pattern. And I’m in love with how much better it’s fitting. It’s amazing how a small change can make a big difference.

Another thing that really makes a difference is weight gain or loss. I’ve recently lost five pounds which isn’t a lot, but the tops of my cups were gaping. Not something I wanted.

So I removed a little bit at the bridge and at the side. Just along the upper cup. That makes such a difference in how this is fitting. I’m such a happy bra-maker right now.

Another change I made was to take about 1/8th of an inch out of the cradle. When I drafted this frame, I added some wire splay, but I really don’t need wire splay. Being an Omega shape, I don’t need any more width added.   So those two small changes have really made a big difference in how this fits, and I’m thrilled.  For this bra I used some gorgeous lace and findings from Bwear, and part of a turquoise kit from BMS. I have just enough duo and power net to make a second bra from that kit. Stay tuned for that next turquoise bra. This lace is beautiful. I wish I had a coral bra kit to pull those colors out of it. Red would work too, but as soon as I saw the blue, I knew what I wanted. I love turquoise. The lace has a right and left side, and is beautifully sheer. It’s really gorgeous. I know Bwear is updating their laces right now and have been adding more to the website. I didn’t see this one yet, but keep looking.

Happy creating!