The bra continues

So, I have made some progress on the African wax print bedlah:

• sewn silver stretch fabric around the bra band (because both my teachers think it's 'not classy' if you can see any part of a bra's original structure.)
• sewn the wax print fabric around the bra cups.
• sewn the wax print fabric around the straps (in a tube so that the bra straps can still stretch inside it.)
• stitched on two lines of big holographic dangly sequins, and one line of lace to mimic the belt. (Except that the lace is the other way up to give myself a bit more cup size.)
• I've cannibalized a necklace that I will never actually wear to give myself a center piece & stitched that on.
• I've made four danglies to hang from the front just behind the center jewel.

I'm making the danglies and the swags with jewellery wire, because I had a phase of making necklaces, so I happen to still have the supplies & equipment hanging around. At least it means that things should be unlikely to snap mid performance.

Now I've just got to make 1 - 5 other danglies (depending on how it looks when I pin the first five on) and a couple of similar (but much longer) beaded swags, and then stitch them on. After which it will be finished, and I can start on the power-mesh.

I want some kind of white-and-wax-print decoration on my arms, just to balance the whole thing out. Possibly a wax-print armband holding up a white gauzy sleeve? Or just a dangly strip of white gauze? The possibilities are limited with the wax print fabric because it has no stretch in it. I'll have to workshop that a bit!

But the rest of it I think will be done by the end of June, as long as I keep up the momentum :)