Blue Danube Lace Bra Kit

Our Lace Bra Kits take the guesswork out of bra building by putting together everything you'll need to make a beautiful bra using your own pattern. If you need a pattern, we have a great selection on our Patterns Page, both paper and downloadable.

Look at the lilting and lyrical swoops on this gorgeous lace! Doesn't it remind you of a waltz? Blue Danube was written at the end of the nineteenth century to lift the spirits of a country mired in malaise, and it is actually 5 different waltzes. When you think of the graceful movement of the motifs, the gorgeous color and the little bit of shimmer that catches the light and merge it with your craftsmanship and beautiful bra pattern, you have that 5-part waltz! 

Dee Anne created her waltz (oops, bra!) with our gorgeous Blue Danube lace and our new color Mallard. She used the Sahaara pattern from Rubie's Bras and then added undies to match, bringing in a bit of the Kaleidoscope lace from October. The great news is that this lace also works super well with our November prints! By default, this kit is all in Mallard, which is a color that works on just about anyone. The lace is a tulle lace and doesn't have any stretch. 

This bra kit features your choice of Microduoplex, Super Simplex, Tricot, Sheer Cup Lining, Bra Tulle or Microlycra as the base fabric. One kit contains everything that you need to make a bra and has enough fabric for 2 with many sizes if you pick up an extra bra finishing kit. To get the second bra with larger sizes, upgrade to the half yard of cup fabric and add a bra finishing kit.

A Blue Danube Tulle Lace Bra Kit contains:

Your panty will match your lace 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.