This bra kit features your choice of Microduoplex, Super Simplex, 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.
Pink Oleander is a wide Midnight tulle lace embroidered with blooms in Dahlia and Arbor Green. We have designed this kit to have a Midnight Cup. For your back band fabric & closure, as well as your band and strap elastics, you may choose from Midnight, Dahlia, or Arbor Green.
This lace is limited in quantity, so we are offering the option to add a coordinating dye to match stretch lace for your panty. Pink Oleander is a tulle lace, with give but no stretch, and measures 11"
A Tulle Lace Bra Kit contains:
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Quantity |
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Cup Fabric- Bra Tulle (Hex) |
Kit Cut (18x30) |
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Power Net- Regular, Firm or Stabilized Firm, or Tech Sheen |
27" x 14" (band cut) |
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Tulle Lace |
1 1/2 yards |
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Upper Band Elastic- 3/8" picot |
1 1/2 yards |
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Lower Band Elastic- 1/2" or 5/8" Picot |
1 1/4 yards |
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Strap Elastic- 1/2" or 3/4" |
1 1/2 yards with rings and sliders -or- 6" plus interfacing for self-strap |
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Hook and Eye- 2, 3 or 4 hook |
1 |
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Plush Channeling |
1 yard |
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Twill Tape (if requested) |
18" |
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Underwires |
1 pair |
Your panty fabric will match your cup/band unless you specify otherwise. If you choose to add stretch lace, this will match your elastics, unless you request 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.
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Add-on a Matching Panty Kit |
Smaller |
Larger |
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Matching Fabric |
27"x30" (panty cut) |
3/4 yard |
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Elastic (option to double) |
2 1/2 yards |
5 yards |
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Coordinating Stretch Lace |
choice |
choice |
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Cotton Jersey (option to double) |
9" x 9" |
9" x 9" |
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.