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,both paper and downloadable.
Tourmaline is a lovely pink and yellow-green gemstone. We've included a picture to help you see what we saw when we looked at the color combo in these cute little flowers! We always have out eye out for delicate florals, and this one is such a perfect lace for the peak of summer in these tourmaline colors.
This is one of our Bra Builder Budget Combos, and it's a great way to get a gorgeous garment without breaking the bank. All the fabrics are white, and the elastics can be either white (for the fastest shipping time and lowest cost), or you can upgrade to have your elastics match those sweet little flowers. Either way, it's beautiful!
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 extraTo get the second bra with larger sizes, upgrade to the half yard of cup fabric and add a bra finishing kit.
A Tourmaline Tulle Lace Bra Kit contains:
Color | Quantity | |
Cup Fabric-
| Frost | Fat Quarter |
Power Net- Regular, Firm or Stabilized Firm | Frost | 28' x 14' |
Tulle Lace | Petite Floral-7' | 1 1/2 yards |
Upper Band Elastic- 3/8' Picot | Frost, Tea Rose, Phlox, Willow or Key Lime | 1 1/2 yards |
Lower Band Elastic- 1/2' or 5/8' Picot | Frost, Tea Rose, Phlox, Willow or Key Lime | 1 1/4 yards |
Strap Elastic- 1/2' or 3/4' | Frost, Tea Rose, Phlox, Willow or Key Lime | 1 1/2 yards with rings and sliders -or- 6' plus interfacing for self strap |
Hook and Eye- 2, 3 or 4 hook | Matches band | 1 |
Plush Channeling | Matches band | 1 yard |
Twill Tape(if requested) | Matches band | 18' |
Underwires | 1 pair |
Add-on a Matching Panty Kit | Smaller | Larger |
Matching Fabric (Microlycra, Microlycra Air, Stretch Mesh) | Fat 3/8 yard | 3/4 yard |
Foldover Elastic | 2 1/2 yards | 5 yards |
Tulle Lace | choice | choice |
Cotton Jersey | 9' x 9' | 9' x 9' |
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, and our collection of Leg Lace.
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.