B,Wear recently asked for testers to try out some of their fabrics and show what could be made from them. I jumped on that. I love testing patterns and fabrics.
B,Wear sent me the most lovely Italian Stretch Satin. This is very hard to get a true picture of the color. It’s more a lavender-gray with light blue polka dots.
Here’s the photo from B, Wear’s website.
Here it looks blue. Trust me, it’s really a lavender-gray – not quite full on lavender, but not gray either.
It is so easy to sew. It’s not slippery or hard to sew at all.
My DIL saw it and, well, she’s been hinting she wants another bralette or two for a few months. She even went so far as to tell me she ‘needs’ one. So I told her she could have one with this fabric. She was so excited.
Here’s the lovely Watson I made for Em. Sadly, it’s a bit too small in the band. I have just enough satin to make her another one, but don’t think I’ll have enough for the cradle and cups.
Em wanted black elastics with this, and I think the little picots peeking out are darling. I would have loved a light blue elastic to match the dots. I did use light blue thread as a complement to those the dots.
I loved using this light blue thread to match. This was a happy solution because lavender thread didn’t quite match. It was too purple. Gray didn’t match either – it was too gray with not enough purple in it.
Em isn’t big in any way. She’s very petite. So she didn’t need me to line the cups. This satin only has a little stretch in one direction, so if using it for bra cups, I’d line it for me, but I didn’t for Em.
Happy creating!
Isn’t this charming? This is from Emerald Erin’s bra shop. She has it in black, and Latte. 
I love them both. But bought the black one.
Do you ever just love something you’re doing? I loved sewing this bra together. I love the sheer fabric with these adorable bees!
I love this. I’m super tempted to buy more of this so I can make it again.
Do you see that pretty hardware on the straps? This is a very old finding kit I bought from Mrs Weaver’s Finest Unmentionables (now closed).
They have a bit of a more rounded shape. I love them.
I think my favorite part of this bra is how sheer it is. I really do love this bra. It was a very fun make just in time for the Bee this year.
Oh! I love this! 
Are you ‘going’ to the International Bra Sewing Bee? Jennifer, from Porcelynne will be doing a sew-along of the Willowdale. I’m planning to take that in.
This is made from a copper bra kit I had. Oh, I love this color, and I’m rather loving this bra too.
I love the shape of the lace, and the look of the whole bra. This copper color is such a gorgeous color.
Not too much to see here at the back. It’s a tad too long. I’m wearing it on the middle hook and eye, and could probably wear it on the tightest one.
However, before I started work on fitting a new pattern, there was the 
As soon as I heard about that class, I said to my husband that I would have loved to take that class. He said, ‘Why don’t you take it?. Sign up.’ I jumped on that opportunity!
The only thing I want to change on it is there isn’t enough depth at the center front to give any separation for me. I need to add to the pattern there.
However, after looking at the two patterns, the cradles are different enough that I decided not to try it. So I hacked my Sw16 cradle, and redrew it.
The next thing I had to do was put back the amount of space I’d removed from the frame. I added that to the back band. It’s looking much more like a bra pattern now, rather than a bralette pattern.
Are you wondering the same thing I was wondering the whole time I was making it? Does it fit? Well, yes it does. The band is a touch too big – I have to fasten it on the tightest hook and eye. That’s and easy fix.
I made the full-length Luna option. I used a beautiful turquoise cotton Lycra, with some coordinating lace on the inner cups.
My Luna is a bit big for me, but I’d rather have loose for sleeping than tight. However, my mind is full of ideas for how to change this up.
First off is my Singer treadle machine, rather laden down with things still needing to be sorted. Next to that is my Rocketeer. Then piled beside those are a bunch of books that are still unpacked, some storage, and then my cutting table. You can see the fabric left over from my latest project.
Behind the sewing/work area are my storage rack, a small sewing table, and a storage cupboard.
Beside the storage cupboard is my yet-to-be-packed bookcase.
I still need to do some organizing, but at least I’m set up enough to do some sewing.