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.
Briar Rose Lace is timelessly elegant and effortlessly gorgeous. The dramatically outline of large scale blossoms and pastel color palate draw your interest for understated gracefulness. With an open pattern and a bit of luster to the embroidery, Briar Rose pairs perfectly with our luminous Stretch Silk Satin. It is 8 5/8" with no stretch. The lovely bra made by our Featured Artist Nadine shows Briar Rose with Peaches Stretch Silk Satin. She made a longline version of the Vivien Bra in a Grace form, both by Annie and Myra’s. Enchanting and charming, your Briar Rose Lace Bra can bring a little magic to your day!
Pair your leftover Briar Rose Lace with one of our undie kits to make a matching set for yourself (Microlycra, Stretch Mesh or Microlycra Air).
This bra kit features either Stretch Silk Satin, Microduoplex, Sheer Cup Lining, Super Simplex, Microlycra or Tricot as the base fabric. One kit contains everything that you need to make a bra and has enough fabric for 2 on many sizes. To get the second bra with larger sizes, upgrade to the half yard of cup fabric and add a bra finishing kit.
A Briar Rose Lace Bra Kit contains:
- A fat quarter of Microduoplex, Sheer Cup Lining, Microlycra, Super Simplex or Tricot, or a half yard of Peaches Stretch Silk Satin and a fat quarter of Sheer Cup Lining for the silk option
- Add an extra kit cut of cup fabric for extra cup fabric
- 28" x 14" of Powernet (specify regular or firm weight)
- 1 1/2 yards of Briar Rose lace
- Band elastics
- 1 1/2 yards of 3/8" scalloped band elastic
- 1 1/4 yards of 5/8" or 1/2" scalloped band elastic
- 1 yard of plush channeling
- Twill tape for seam stabilization (if requested)
- Strap elastic
- 6" plus interfacing for self straps (no rings and slides)
- 1 1/2 yards plus rings and slides for elastic straps
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.