Make it Your Own Opaque Bra Kits with Lace option

Our 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.

Make it Your Own Bra or Bralette Kit featuring an opaque cup in your choice of Microduoplex or Super Simplex - Techsheen for bralettes. Our Microduoplex is buttery soft, never ravels or frays and is almost indestructible. If you've used other duoplex for your bra building, you'll be delighted with our microduoplex. It has all the features of the polyester duoplex available elsewhere, but it has a lovely hand and conforms to your shape even better. Microduoplex is completely stable in all directions, making it a super support option! Our luxurious 50 denier Tricot is a wonderful bra building fabric that is smooth on both sides. It has with a 15% mechanical give in one direction while completely stable in the opposite direction, giving you a tiny bit more ease for fitting. Pairing your choice of opaque cup fabric with lace or print provides all the support you need with the beauty you want! Our Make it Your Own Kits are available in a wide range of lovely colors, both vibrant and neutral- and don't forget we have dye to match laces to meet your need for color!  Featured lace here is the Generous Stretch Lace.

This bra kit features your choice of Microduoplex or Super Simplex as the base fabric. A Smaller Cup Kit contains a Fat Quarter of Fabric and a Larger Cup Kit has 1/2 yard. 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 and underwires. We're also providing the option to add additional cup fabric to your kit, which will be sent as a separate piece rather than continuous with your main cup fabric. This is a great option if you want to make the frame of your bra from something else. Our kit picture shows the Microduoplex fabric option with optional Sheer Cup Lining.

A Make it Your Own Sheer Cup Bra Kit contains:

Your panty will match your bra 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 here, and our collection of Leg Lace here.

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.