I believe it was Aaron Levenstein who said "Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital". This great, and vaguely bra related, quote notwithstanding, I have found all the information provided as part of the wire size survey entirely fascinating. But then, I'm a bit geeky like that. As promised, I'll be sharing my findings in this post, and I hope you find it interesting too. I'll be talking about wire size and wire length which can be a bit confusing. These statistics shouldn't be extrapolated to apply to all women, they are only based on the results you provided me, but they do give a very interesting glimpse into the wire requirements of wome
There isn't a full blog post this week. It's because I'm wading through the vast amount of submissions received for the wireline survey and I've been crunching numbers for a couple of days and finding the information really fascinating - in a bra making geeky kind of way. So, to do it all justice, I'm going to be taking a little more time with this post in order to give you all some more substantial feedback. To make it up to you though, I can share with you that I've been selected to be an affiliate for Craftsy! Yay!! I love Craftsy, and especially all of Beverly Johnson's bra making classes - they are great for making that first bra and full of useful tips to get you started on your bra ma
A couple of weeks ago, I realized that I'd been sewing non stop since the middle of February for a whole host of other people. This is great, it's what I do, but I felt I needed to up my self care and make a new bra for me, for Spring! I had found this lace a little while ago, and I loved it. The white interspersed with the cool greeny-blue reminded me of sea foam, and it clearly wanted to be something light and frothy and super feminine. I decided to use some cut and sew foam cups that I had lying around, these were already made as part of the Lavender & Lace testing process so I thought I could use them perfectly here. I decided on a gothic arch, and to continue that frothy lace scalloped
