Viva Stretch Lace Bra Kit

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 Patterns Page, both paper and downloadable.

Early winter is often full of festivity and celebration, whether you observe one holiday or many! This shimmery stretch lace, Viva, pairs beautifully with our neutrals Pecan and Midnight so you can mix and match to your heart's content. Choose either color for your fabrics and elastics, or pop one color or the other with contrasting elastics! You may even want Midnight silk for your cup, to really up the drama. We are planning color-matched rings and slides this time around but leave us a note if you prefer Rose Gold or Gold in your kit. The lovely and talented Dee Anne has sewn up another stunning black and metallic example for us this month, with her capsule containing a customized body suit, bra, and panties!

This bra kit features your choice of Silk, Microduoplex, Super Simplex, Tricot, Sheer Cup Lining, or Bra Tulle as a 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.

A Viva Stretch Lace Bra Kit contains:

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 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 (we 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 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, we found it just as easy to sew as quilting cotton. Move the needle to the right to set the seam allowance at 1/4" since the 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.