In this episode, Bess walks us through the construction and fit of the Carol bralette, a pattern that will be live in Spring ’23.
We wanted to dig into this with you as an episode because Carol is offering something really unique in the knitted bralette arena – a true sports-bra like level of support, and torso-first grading with four cups per size. We also thought it would be a great opportunity to talk about using negative ease in your garments!
8:00 Introducing Carol
16:35 Size charts vs. your bewbs
20:52 The sorting bra
32:20 Negative ease and proportional grading
35:05 Our gentle plea to dyers everywhere to just tell us where the base is from
37:00 Torso-first grading and size guidance
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When your episode comes out, I start planning when I can sit with a cup of tea and my knitting to listen to you both.
So interesting to hear the process and technical background behind this bralette. It looks beautiful!
Something I appreciate about your approaches is talking about your body as it is at the moment, in a pretty matter-of-fact way. It's refreshing, yet just feels how it should be.
This bralette seriously sounds amazing! I have a friend who's a 28DD so I've heard the stories about how difficult it is to find RTW bralettes that fit smaller framed women with much bigger busts. I can't wait to share this with her!
I love the discussion about proportional ease…I have found my 43” bust can fall into the size Large, XLarge and XXLarge for different designers based on ease however many times the final product does not fit quite like I had expected and after your discussion I think the proportional ease may be the reason. I can see how designers who make a smaller sample and straight up do the math have a skewed final fit for the larger sizes….I will take this thought and incorporate into my future makes when selecting sizes
So hyped for the bralette! Such a lovely discussion that was both fun and interesting, I really enjoy learning from you both 🙂
I've watched every episode and love your discussion on fitting and designing. After sewing for 30 years and only recently becoming a Knitter in the last two years I have shied away from knitting a sweater because the fit on the models is so bad. I see when it needs the full bust adjustment and the front shoulder slope adjustment and a swayback adjustment, but none of that comes in the patterns. When you were talking about increasing for width and using short rows for depth, you were talking my sewing language in knitting terms. What a refreshing breath of air. You're doing an outstanding job. I am determined that my first sweater off the needles will have a full bust adjustment.
The bralette sounds and looks amazing. I can already see mine in tangerine with fuchsia pink for the elastic casing under a jeans jacket. My one burning question is: you chose to use a dense fabric instead of ribbing. Do you think the dense fabric offers more or less support than if you had used ribbing? Would ribbing take it up a notch in support level or would it be pretty much the same? AJ