After making those sumptuous silk tap pants, I looked at the scraps of silk that were left over. With some careful placement, I had just enough to make a bra.
This lovely silk came from Lilypa‘s shop.
Here’s my silk and ivory bra. I used the Pin-Up Girls Freja again – you’ll be seeing a few more of them before I try another pattern.
This bra is so soft and well, silky. It feels wonderful on!
Here’s a close up of the bridge showing that careful placement I mentioned. I didn’t have enough material to put the bridge on the fold, which is what most patterns have us do. So for this, I added a 1/4″ seam allowance, and cut two pieces. Then I simply sewed the two sides together.
Here are the side views. The silk shows wrinkles more on my display than duoplex or lingerie satin does. Still, it’s lovely and fun. 
Lastly, I used ivory findings and power net. There are different shades of green in the silk, and I had nothing that was going to go with that. Ivory was the most neutral choice.
Have you ever made a silk bra? Or any silk lingerie? Oh, the feel of it! Luxury.
Here’s the bra and slip together.
Lovely if I do say so myself. I don’t know how often I’ll be wearing these together. When I do, I’ll love it.
Happy creating!
These are very flowy and I don’t think I’ll need to make any other changes to the pattern. And, I can finally throw out that terribly worn slip.
The one big difference between the culotte slip I had and this is the old RTW one didn’t have a front or back seam. 
Aren’t these just darling?
Isn’t that lovely? When I first saw it, I just had to have some. And I thought this project would be perfect for this material.
I love them! One thing I didn’t realize when I bought the material is the map isn’t all ‘right side up’. The continents are both right side up, and upside down.
So if you see this and fall in love, be aware of this.
I made a mistake that was quite upsetting. I couldn’t believe I did it really. One of the class suggestions was to use pinking shears to keep the edges from fraying. Well, I love my rotary pinking blade and use it often to trim seams on panties. I just love the look.
There’s nothing to be done about it now.
Making this pattern is really inspiring me to clone and alter my favorite RTW Fantasie Vivenne. It’s one of my projects for during the Bee.
They are quite similar.
This lovely lace comes from 
Working with these lovely flowers made me remember something I’d been told. Always place your flowers so they are climbing up or growing up. If they’re growing downwards, your cups will look sad. And you don’t want sad looking cups.
So I was careful when placing my lace to make sure I had happy looking cups and my flowers were all growing upwards.
I heard 
I’m not sure if it’s the Barbie effect, but I’m really loving the pink right now. Normally I’m more a fan of fuchsia, but I’m really enjoying this set.
Here’s the bra and panty together.
I’m happy to have another full set to enjoy.
I took this photo while enjoying Nikki’s class on Fitting As We Age. I’m loving the Bee so far this year. I have a few more sewing/adjusting patterns projects planned for during the Bee too.
These were such cute kits.
And I thought they were adorable. But when I looked for the pattern, I found the more recent version. 
You can see the seam is sitting just forward. With the seam sitting forward just a bit like that, it makes the lace trim match up better for joining it.
You can see on this older make the lace trim joins at a bit of a point. With the seam forward, it’s just a little neater.
I have some solid pink cotton Lycra for a second pair of panties. I’m just not sure which pattern I want to make yet.
Some good news – my hand is healing and improving. So I’ll be back soon with more makes.
Oh, I loved the lace and the copper duoplex together. I was sad it didn’t fit perfectly. 
I loved the shaping of this bra, and the Freja is very close to the same shaping.
I had this lovely pink kit from BMS so decided to use it for my second attempt of the Freja. It’s lovely!
I could use the tip from Porcelynne on the side here – to add another strip of channeling beside the wire channeling and add boning there. However, when I was wearing this it wasn’t bothering me that the wire is a little lower at the side.
I’m really happy with how the Freja fits. Yes, there’s a little playing around I can do to help my Omega shape fit even better, but for an attempt I wasn’t sure would turn out better than the first time, I’m very happy.
Next I’m thinking of making a pair of panties to match. 
This 
Here’s the back of the bra. It has a nice curved U shape to the straps. Despite all the testing, this was a bit big for me. I think it’s mostly due to the fabric. I’d been using 
Do you see where the cup joins the side seam? There isn’t a dart in the cup. There are no gatherings along the wire line. No, this cup is simply designed to fit into this size cradle.
I promised to tell you something else about the side of this bra. Do you see where that red line is? That’s where my wire ends. Normally, if the side of the bra was raised up this much higher than the wire, the side seam would be flopping over. Not here.