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A Bra for Breast Cancer
The 36D Snow Queen

I heard that a mail art call went out for embellished bras for an art exhibit about breast cancer at the Texas Artist Museum. Press release here. The show and the collection of submitted bras will travel on exhibit the next couple years, then the undergarments will be auctioned off to raise money for breast cancer research.

I figured I better make a bra and make it a doozy!

I grew boobies at age 11. Big 'uns. I decided that I'd embellish just the kind of blue collar department store boxed bra that I dreaded while bra shopping. The kind that made boobs pointy and so unattractive. The kind that could clothe small children.

I trekked to Sears and found this number for $11.42. Woo hoo! White cotton, no stretch, very matronly. I wanted to get my size, but mine is the holy grail of undergarments, so this is a 36D. Therefore this will be the "36D of the Snow Queen." Lotsa silver and white beads and sequins and big ol' snowflakes over the nipples.

The unadulterated Brazilla		The bra with snowflakes halfway done.

I started out making a snowflake asterisk base with silver wired ribbon. I sewed that down with insanely tiny stitches - now I know why I don't hand-sew. Then I embroidered "The 36D Snow Queen" in medium gray floss. Next, I chain stitched loops in the crooks of the snowflake points and added tiny sequins. The next round was adding 6 sequin branches off of each arm. After the big snowflakes were topped off with the beads and sequins at the apex/nipple, I sewed big silver snowflakes all around. I picked these up at the Container Store years ago, where they were sold as gift wrapping doo-das. Unlike most snowflake sequins, these were thicker with rounded edges. No snagging points. Perfect. I think they really make the bra. I added some fake pearls and white seed beads as a border and added a centerpieces of some more sequins. Sequin party!

And viola - the finished piece!