Lingerie Development

After toiling my lingerie in white lace, I decided I was happy with the shape of the lace bralet and would source some pink lace to make my final one from to fit in with the pastel 1950s theme. Unfortunately, I couldn't source this lace so I decided I would adapt my pattern to be able to make the bralet from pink satin and add a white lace trim around the raw edges.
I began to adapt the pattern. I needed to change it as this pattern is for a stretch fabric and obviously this wouldn't work with a woven fabric.

 

pattern adaptations

 

I continued to make the bralet from the satin by cutting it out and pinning it together.

 

I cut out 8 of the half cups to then make 4 whole cups. This would then double up as a lining on the inside so that the raw seam wouldn't be exposed on the bust. I pinned these together and then stitched them into place. With the part that goes underneath the bust, I cut it out in satin and put this to one side. I then made some rouleux loops for the straps.

I began to pin this to the stand.

Own photographs

 

From the photographs you can see that I still need to do adaptations as it doesn't fit the stand. Cathy informed me that if I wanted to, I could use this as a big learning step and not make this one from satin as my final piece. I could use the white lace toile as my final piece instead. I am disappointed and I wouldn't have made this satin one if I knew that the colour of the lace didn't matter, as long as the shape and everything is what I wanted. I really like the lace one so I will now go and adapt that to fit the stand. The lace trim I added to the white lace made the bralet non stretchy and it restricted the movement of it so I couldn't get it on the stand so I will add an elasticated trim to enable movement.

I am disappointed that I couldn't use this satin one as my final as there was too much change to apply to the pattern to make it fit. I have learnt so much from this, even though I am running out of time now as the deadline is creeping up. I feel that this has taught me a lot that you can't use a stretch pattern on a woven fabric. This kind of thing has happened before with my jersey top.