well I have to say it's quite a challenge to post up here everyday, I have looked through various bits and pieces lying around the sewing room and have come up quite uninspired today.
The trouble is the fact that I am itching to work out my bra cup size to see if I can draft a 50s style bullet bra for underpinning my vintage style clothing. This is an obsession that has slowly taken over my thoughts lately and I have spent a lot of time trawling the internet for inspiration and patterns. I had discovered a site called foundations revealed (see their link lower) which has a number of free articles on it explaining bra construction and you can also sign up at a fairly reasonable monthly fee to join and have access to all their articles. Well this weekend I bit the bullet, excuse the pun, and signed up so I could get my grubby little hands on Soft Bras, Part 3 (and all the other parts, but this was specifically about 'the circle and spoke bra'). Now I am not adverse to a little mathematics, I was quite good at school, but after a rather brief flick through earlier I must admit to being a little overwhelmed.
What really want to do it settle down on my own and really digest the details, so I'm afraid that I only have two little photos for you today of a bracelet done in more or less the same style as the flower bracelet but with 2 buttons and therefore 2 button loops and picots added in. It was tatted in the same thread as the butterfly tatting, but I'm not sure what that was any more, a large ball of the basic stuff from the local haberdashery.Well now I'm off for a geometry lesson. I'll keep you informed of how I get on.
hugs ally x
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