I wear a D cup and stopped increasing on the cups when there were 23 sc on each side of the center stitch.

I ended up running out of brown yarn so I switched to blue at my husband’s suggestion. When it came time to sew it together, I realized that the cups were too large. I redirected my color choices and decided to redo the cups smaller in blue. This second time, I made the cups with 19 sc on each side of the center stitch. I unraveled the brown from the cups to use as the picot trim and the straps.