A bra

Another make for my daughter. About two years ago  I saw a bra online made in a lovely lace that I thought my daughter would really like. As it wasn’t a rtw bra I looked for the lace and found it. But it was sold by a shop outside my country and shipping costs were so high that I didn’t buy it. I forgot about it until I saw a very similar lace at Suzanne’s lingerie supplies. A shop in my country! So I bought it and made this bra. The lace is not mirrored so it was not possible to make it symmetrical, but it’s okay. 

This bra pattern is a copy from a rtw bra. The black one is my first iteration. The cups fit perfectly but the band was a bit too narrow to my daughters liking. Must have been the material. Probably the powernet I used didn’t have the same stretch as the original. So I made the band a bit wider on this new one. Hope it’s good, the bra has yet to be given to her.

It was nice to sew lingerie again, haven’t done that in a long time. My lingerie drawer should get a serious update though.  I bought a new bra pattern for myself months ago and have yet to make it. Perhaps I should get myself work on that. 

Sewing for my daughter

I have been sewing quite a bit for my daughter. I joked when I called her recently that I she spoke with her personal dressmaker😆

Joking aside, she loves wearing the garments I make for her which makes it a joy to sew for her too. We went fabric shopping recently and she chose this striped linen for the combination below.

The shorts are a Burda pattern. She showed me a rtw pair she loves and this Burda pattern was very similar. Size 38 withouth changes, never happens to me.

Below the steps for the slant pocket. I always interface the edge because ir’s cut on the bias. 

When pressing I make sure the outside fabric is folded a bit inward, so the edge is less visible. 

After topstitching ready for further construction

The gilet is inspired by a rtw piece too, of which I don’t have a photo. Base for this was a gilet from an Ottobre issue.

In the meantime this ensemble has been with my daughter a few weeks now and she loves to wear it. 

A few answers

 Recently I found some comments that were not published at the time because after 7 days I want to monitor them. If I don't do that I get lots of spam comments. Thank you for all who commented, either published earlier or later! 

A few questions came up: Chepmweno asked which pattern I used for the blue/white dress that I wore when I started blogging again. That's a very old pattern, from Burda April 1993! Which was a great issue, I could make a whole summer wardrobe from it. I wondered why I hadn't used patterns from the issue at the time I realised I was pregnant of my daughter then. Later, in the childhood years of my children I didn't sew much for myself and the issue was forgotten. Till about 30 years later ☺

I do include a photo of the line drawing, perhaps it makes it easier to find a similar pattern.

Barbara asked for the pattern pieces of the top from my previous post. Here they are. From left to right it's center front, back en side front. Apart from armhole facings this is the pattern. 

She also asked about Bemberf versus Venezia lining and my answer wasn't posted (I have a few issues with Blogger). Venezia is not the same, but feels lovely on the skin. Bemberg is lovely too, but much harder to get here. Both are anti-static. 

That's it for now, I've been working on a few things for my daughter, Will come back on that in another post.