Embrace your femininity with the Diana Bralette. Craft cups perfectly molded to your figure, then choose your body style: a cropped bralette, or an empire waist A-line top. Feel like a goddess. A straightforward knit, with high impact results. The lace + cable pattern is very quickly memorized while working the straps and back, making it a breeze to stay in pattern for the rest of the garment. There’s also no finishing other than weaving in the ends, as the patterned stitches don’t curl, and no additional trim is needed. Construction: Worked top down seamlessly. Start with the straps, CO for the back neck joining the two. Work the back flat, shaping the armholes with increases after transitioning two of the cables into stockinette. Pick up sts to work the left front, work a short strap, then transition the center cable into stockinette and shape the neckline and armhole with increases. Repeat for the right front, then CO sts at the center front to join the two. Work a few more increases for the armholes, then CO sts at the underarms to join the front to the back. Work in the round to full bust height, then shape each cup individually with customized short row instructions using the calculator. Even out the center front hem with a few more short rows, then transition the stockinette sections back into the lace + cable ribbing, and choose your body style. Option 1: Bralette - Work the lace ribbing for the under bust, then BO with a Tubular BO. Option 2: Top - Work the lace ribbing for the under bust (fewer repeats than the bralette), then transition the cables into stockinette and work gradual increases in the stockinette sections to shape the A-line body. Finish with a short double knit hem. Difficulty: Intermediate The stitch pattern is easily memorized, and the pattern uses markers to help you distinguish between the patterned sections and stockinette sections where all the shaping occurs. The cup shaping calculator provides personalized cup shaping instructions, and offers a lot of modification options for the shape and size of your breasts. As with all my size inclusive garment patterns, you can use the code ANTIFATTAX to get 20% off the pattern, intended for sizes 6-10 to help combat the extra costs incurred by knitting larger sizes. This pattern has been professionally tech edited by Boann Petersen, and has been test knitted.