Category: Sewing
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My Red Tango Dress
It seems as if I’ve been working on this tango dress forever. I’ve had a lot of personal distractions and had to put it aside for weeks at a time. When I make costumes, I don’t normally use a pattern, I drape it and make my own pattern. I do adjust the design…
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Bentley and My Tango Dress
My little dog, Bentley, has been sick for a while now. He has something called non-erosive IMPA Which stands for immune mediated polyarthritis. It’s like a form of lupus in dogs. The erosive form of IMPA is similar to rheumatoid arthritis in humans, but he’s got the non-erosive version form of it. He’s had it…
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Draping and Designing a Tango Dress and Some Other Costumes from 2016
For some reason I never finished this post back in 2016. I saw this rough draft when I was writing my blog just the other day, so I decided to finish it, a year and a half later. Back in the winter of 2016, I was working on a tango dress, draping it and sewing…
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My Reupholstery Procrastination-Mode
So my hands have recovered from removing the thousands of staples from my Queen Anne wing chair and now it’s time to start laying out the pieces. To prepare for this, I bought two books, both excellent books about upholstering furniture, what one is missing, the other one has. Professional Upholstering by Frank T,…
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Day 6 of Reupholstering the Queen Anne Chair Wing Chair
So today I finally finished removing all of the staples, fabric, kapok and foam from the Queen Anne Chair. I still have to take the chair cushion apart, but no more screwdrivers, tack pullers, needle-nose pliers or upholstery staple removers… just a seam ripper and it can be done inside, instead of out in the…
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Designing My Rumba Dress (2014)
Back in September, I decided that I wanted to perform in the Christmas Showcase at my dance studio, DanceMakers in Fort Worth. I started taking some private lessons with Ryan there sometime in August. We were working on the smooth ballroom dances, Fox Trot and Waltz. We thought about doing a Fox Trot at the…
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