11 August, 2011

Bra Conversion Tutorial


Well, it's that time again, Miranda is 17 months now & our nursing relationship is waning. Soooo, to put it mildly, my giganto nursing bras are overkill for my current endowments. I have 2 drawers of bras in sizes from AAA-DD, & most I've not worn in nearly 3 years. I know, it's clutter & I hate to ask for money for smaller bras when I've so many but none of them are for nursing & I do plan on nursing until she's 2. So, you can find these elsewhere, I found one in Cyrillic & the pictures were easy enough to follow, but here it is in English.

Fist select the right size bra to convert. I thought I'd practice on a cheapy one befor trying this on a prettier one. Slice off one strap.

Remove the nursing clasp from your rattiest most worn-out nursing bra that does nothing for proper support and/or the wire that mercilessly pokes you no matter how many times you sew it back in. Loop it through a piece of satin ribbon & sew to the top of the cup. You can certainly machine sew this, but I'm hand sewing in order to not scratch poison ivy/ prednisone during a movie.
Measure (keeping some extra) & sew the ribbon satin side out down below on the elastic taking care to align it w/ your clasp above.
Do make sure you've gone over & bound or zig-zagged the raw edge you created by cutting the strap.
Hmmm, I didn't take the picture showing the clasp being secured to the strap. Do that, secure it to the first clasp you sewed to the bra cup then pull the ribbon through & sew it together.
The nursing flap down:
Nursing flap up. Congratulations, you've saved yourself $15-$30.00, cleared ratty clutter away & repurposed something you've not seen it years!


4 comments:

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Heart of Wisdom Academy said...

How are you? I was just thinking about you and hope you and your family are doing well. I'm going to set aside an afternoon to actually call you!! Natasha was visiting and asked how you were doing? Hope all is well and I plan on actually talking to you soon.

God Bless,
Kristal

Mrs. V said...

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Kristal we're afternoon schooling is there a morning your free?

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