Worker Bee

 I have hives of honeybees most years happily buzzing through the summer. It made sense to have fun and pick up the Black Beauty Bees bra kit from Emerald Erin. At the time, they only had latte, but it looks like bees on black tulle may be back in stock.

 The kit comes with stable tulle, the kind you use for the bridge, and to keep things up. The bees are on cup tulle, which is stretchy across and stable along the grain. I sewed up the pattern as written, but the power bars were at a strange angle and my bees fabric bagged out along the cross seam. I took out the cups.

I have altered one copy of the pattern to vertical seams. I sewed up a new pair of cups. I didn’t add the power bars back in, and found that the seam is actually at least an half inch forward of my bust point. The cups are a touch loose, too. Without the power bars, I simply looped the fold over elastic (FOE) through a ring and put the adjusters in the front of the bra. 

I need to adjust the pattern some more, it’s nearly fitting.