Cute Dancewear pics!!

Here are a few examples of my basic dance wear items. I made these specifically for my niece and used her favorite colors. I have made many leotards and shorts to specific specifications of color and style. Here are some of her favorites.

This has a fun snakeskin patterned white spandex with turquoise bottom half.

super sparkly gold headband

Hot pink shorts close up

Fun pink and white tutu

cute matching hot pink shorts and polka dot leo with chocolate brown bottom half.

Raw Couture 2009

This post is way overdue!!!

These are pictures taken during the dress rehearsal of SLCC Raw Couture 2009. The entire show was based on different decades from the 1920's to the 1980's. I was inspired by the 1930's flowy, and drapy designs, but I transformed them into designs for modern ballet costumes. The fabric I used includes chocolate brown stretch velvet for the leotards and hand painted silk burnout for all the dresses and drapy elements. I used a gold tulle for accents and volume.

Illustrations and Sketches

Here is a sample of some of my favorite sketches and Illustrations.

Here are the three illustrations for my board for Raw Couture. Because the fabric was so intricate, and my illustration skills are not quite up to par for this type of project, I scanned a section of fabric on to the computer and used photo shop to fill in the different sections.
Here is a sample of flats I drew for my Illustration class. The are part of a larger line of ballet and lyrical costumes. I designed the tulle to have an embroidered diamond shape with pearl beads placed in a diagonal all through the design.
These are a few sketches I drew up for my dance studio. I made the simple empire waist dress with spanky shorts for a little seven year old class for our Christmas recital. I plan to make all of these sooner or later.

SUCCESS!!!

I just finished sewing this top together. The black one is the one I made and the white one is the one I made the pattern from. It's not finished obviously, but I couldn't wait to post this. I have been very scared to sew this together! Every stage so far I have had some sort of hiccup, all of which I have learned tremendously from, but frustrating non the less. I have been doing every other project possible before this, but it was finally time to get busy. At first glance this looks like a simple project. When I took a closer look, I realized how different each piece is and how many sizes I had to make. I obviously got it backwards... but I was able to make it smaller and keep each pattern piece fitting together like it should! (Grading patterns is a skill I am still perfecting). I had to share my excitement with you and now I feel I can do any project headed my way.