Beverly Johnson, your one and only Fairy Bra Mother, is back with LONDON, the first in a series of exciting Master Classes designed to lift you up beyond the basics into a whole new world of bra sewing mastery! With her signature humour and fun teaching style, Beverly will guide you with her decades of knowledge and experience as you advance your own bra construction skills in this project based modular learning experience.
Bra Builders is happy to collaborate with Beverly and provide curated bra/panty kits just for the London including the various upcoming versions of this bra. Make it Your Own is the beauty of the London - select your favorite color and design the look you want including matching fold-over elastic for neckline and strap trim.
With Beverly’s help you will soon be creating bras with brilliantly designed support elements usually found in only the finest specialty boutiques. Your journey will begin with the Views of London, an all new beautiful bra design with multiple views created by Beverly exclusively for her Mastery students. Each view of London is designed to take you a step forward in your bra-making journey. Using this exclusive new pattern you will learn to create bras that are not only beautiful but that include advanced support elements, such as:
-Internal and External Power Bars
-Internal and External Slings
-Collars
-Internal Pockets
-along with Advanced Construction Techniques, and more!
The London mastery course includes hours of instructional video covering all six included London design views with their support element options and specialty possibilities including a Gothic Arch, nursing bra and mastectomy bra all taught by the Fairy Bra Mother herself, as well as printable instructions for you to refer to as you learn. This master class in bra engineering will soon have you tackling bra support issues from the band up!
Visit the London Class here and get started on the fun!
Your panty kit will match your bra unless you specify otherwise. As always, feel free to choose your favorite elastics or narrow lace (please leave us a note if you don't see your choice!). You can also add a 9" square of absorbent fabric for your panty panel! You can find our collection of Waist Lace and Elastics here, and our collection of Leg Lace here.
Sewing Notes:
The strength of our microduoplex fabric, which makes it so wonderful for bras, also makes it hard to puncture with needles and pins. This is true with most duoplex fabrics. Use either fine silk pins or Wonder Clips to pin (I find Wonder Clips work best), and a Microtex 80/12 needle with a smooth thread like Superior Threads So Fine or Mettler Metrosene to make it easy to sew. In my testing, the So Fine thread and Microtex 80/12 won the challenge of the nicest stitch on microduoplex, and as long as my presser foot completely covered the seam allowance, I found it just as easy to sew as quilting cotton. I moved the needle to the right to set my seam allowance at 1/4" since my presser foot is a bit wide. I find it works well to saturate the lace with liquid starch and let it dry before laying out your pattern pieces and cutting your fabric. This stiffens the lace until you wash it and the lace has enough body to behave well in the sewing process.
We offer all these pins, clips, needles and thread here on our site.