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| shanda |
Posted - Jul 15 2012 : 06:18:12 AM
Howdy!
I am looking for a knit or crochet pattern for a bra or halter top that can work as a bra/undershirt.
I have shopped for many years, looking for that one bra meant for me, and can't find it. I have been professionally fitted (at several different stores) and still no luck. I get headaches from wearing a bra, really! I wear one and get a headache, then when it becomes too much to take I remove the bra and the headache lets up. I'm also sensitive to fabics types. So, time to make my own.
If you have patterns that worked for you I'd love to try them. Right now I'm layering undershirts, which gets hot and doesn't always hide my girls when they are (shall we say) perky.
Thanks for any help.
Shanda
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| doll58maker |
Posted - Jul 17 2012 : 2:53:44 PM
Shanda, There is another thread somewhere about bras and there is a sista who makes her own, and another who says the Target T-shirt bras fit better and don't hurt. If I can find it again I will try to let you know. this site is so huge I constantly find a thread and then if I don't subscribe to it I can never find it again. A very long time ago, maybe before some of you were born, they came up with a Pennyrich bra and it was all the rage. I bought one and found out how a bra actually should fit and it has sure made a difference (the right fit). My 69 year old girls still look pretty darn good.
Glenda #3534
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| AnnieinIdaho |
Posted - Jul 16 2012 : 10:17:07 AM
Thanks Denise for e-mailing Leslie about the article since I only have a hard copy. I'm getting ready for a trip so this helps me out since I won't have computer for a week.
Annie
"The turnings of life seldom show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing." Edith Wharton, 1913 from 'The Custom of the Country'. |
| levisgrammy |
Posted - Jul 16 2012 : 06:17:46 AM
Leslie,
I have that issue. I'll email you.
farm girl sister#43
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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| cori1312 |
Posted - Jul 15 2012 : 2:32:59 PM
Annie, do you know if there is an online link to that article? I'm new and don't get a printed magazine (if that's what you're talking about), but I'm intrigued by the information you allude to, especially as it might concern nursing mothers.
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"You don't have a soul; you are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis |
| shanda |
Posted - Jul 15 2012 : 12:29:33 PM
Thank you Ladies! And Annie thanks for the info about the headaches, that makes so much since! I do go braless at home and work (I clean vacation cabins, so it's just me and my daughter) I only wear a bra to church or other such things. My hope is to go completely braless with just something for modesty, I don't much care if they hang abit. ha
Shanda
Farmgirl #4233 |
| AnnieinIdaho |
Posted - Jul 15 2012 : 10:37:46 AM
Well, I too get headaches from wearing a bra. Turns out the occipital nerve runs along side our neck and pressure from the straps causes the nerves to trigger the occipitals which also run across the top of our head and all around the ears, etc. I just don't wear a bra around the house any longer. Especially since I read the article in MJF Magazine The Art of the Egg Issue, "The Breast Cancer Prevention Project" pgs. 80-81 about cultures that do not wear bras have no breast cancer. Wearing a tight bra causes our lymph glands not to be able to flow and drain correctly and toxins get trapped in the breast tissue or under the arm and can cause breast cancer and at the least breast swelling. I took the 30 day test of NOT wearing a bra and my breast did reduce by at least an inch or more. (its a good thing!) My breast tissue is so much less swollen since I only wear a bra when going out somewhere special. I have taken to wearing soft workout bras just to run to the store. Oh...gosh...granny boobs for sure, and they are big mama's at 40H!!
Now if I lived in Hawaii I could just wear those wrap dresses with flip flops all the time and fit right in. I save that for inside the house here. But...I don't have the breast pain and swelling and my headaches are so much less. Good luck with the sewing project. Just try going braless every minute you are at home. If I were small boobed I would never wear a bra..and this is also important that your cotton panties can breathe. Under a skirt around the house..just don't wear those either!
Back to nature, yeah!
Annie
"The turnings of life seldom show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing." Edith Wharton, 1913 from 'The Custom of the Country'. |
| clothedinscarlet |
Posted - Jul 15 2012 : 08:18:58 AM
Did you look on ravelry.com? I've seen quite a few patterns on there.
Farmgirl Sister #1110
Siobhan - AKA Liza-Jane (my farmgirl name), wife to my best friend, Trent, and mommy to Camden (11/28/05) and Bennett (7/11/07). and Truman (7/28/09) |
| kysheeplady |
Posted - Jul 15 2012 : 06:23:25 AM
Just google it ... you will get all kinds of them. When you do google it look to the left of your screen and click on images ...
Good luck, I'm right there with you on the bra thing!
Teri
White Sheep Farm
www.whitesheepfarm.com |
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