So since I have started to dance Latin again and at an Intermediate level! (what was I thinking) I decided that I wanted a dress and since I am dancing as a girl-girl couple that means two dresses… If you have been following this blog you will probably have seen that I have made these dresses ad they have had… Read more »
The other day when writing the post for Sunday Sevens I realised that there are many of our dance dresses that we have not blogged about. I thought I should try to change some of this (and I should do this for clothing too but baby steps!) I looked back through my phone photo back up (you have to love… Read more »
So this year and last I have been dancing latin in a girl-girl partnership, and because of this it looks much better to wear matching dresses. Last year Pippa and I whipped together this two-piece in a week for the first competition to match my partner’s existing dress and it has worked quite well so far. However I decided I… Read more »
Having come back from ship and rejoiced in having my lovely comfortable bed back again, I then had to pack up my stuff again as I have moved. For the first time in about 5 years Nikki and I are officially living in different houses! I have moved to near Poole to help look after my grandparents. Thankfully Nikki was… Read more »
For my Ballroom Dress (see inspiration here) I have decided that I would like to use crinoline to give shape to the hem of it. But this doesn’t seem to be something that is used in tutorials very much (at least not where the crinoline is visible on the hem of the skirt). The look that I am going for… Read more »
Now that I have finished my latin dress (see the post here) my next major project is a ballroom dress. This is quite a step up in complexity from anything I’ve ever really done before. But I don’t really want to spend a ridiculous amount of money buying a custom made dress nor do I want to get a cheaply… Read more »
So I have finally finished my latin dress! See all my posts about the making of my latin dress here. I have to say it took me quite a while to actually finish off the last little bit, because the fit of the top of the dress wasn’t quite right and I put it off for a while. In the… Read more »
Carrying on from my previous post about the stoning of my latin dress, this post will talk more about actually putting the stones on my dress. I put my dress on my dressform for applying the majority of the stones on the top section because that way it would hold the shape of the dress better when I was sewing… Read more »
So by now my latin dress is looking like a dress. Yay! But definitely far from finished. The fringing has been completed. But now for the fiddly and time consuming part… Stoning! Most ballroom and latin dresses are pretty heavily embellished to make them sparkly and to stand out on the dance floor. My dress will be no exception…. Read more »
