You won't see anything there yet, but will see a few things on my facebook page of the same name. Haven't officially published it yet, as I'm not quite ready with everything, but close.
Dug up some pictures of some competition leotards I had made for when my daughter was competing.
This was a design collaboration of both my daughter and myself, and my 2nd competition leotard. The material used was a black slinky lycra with red and silver glitter design.
I tried to use the glitter waves in the design and have them all running down at a diagonal. I also used red lycra to create the mandarin collar piping, sleeve cuff and the panties, for added pop. We found these beautiful red frogs for the top and black beaded fringe for the skirt, to finish the look of the design. Probably the most unusual thing about this competition leotard is that I made it to slip over the head and snap at the panties, more like lingerie.
My daughter used this for one season and we sold it for the following season... probably still in the competition circuit.
Russian Sarafans
I loved designing these dresses. Russian Sarafan dresses are traditional folk festival wear, meant to be very colorful. Don't think they are traditionally made in satin, though....
I wanted them to be as authentic as possible in the look, but also have them work on stage. The artistic director wanted them to really bell out when her dancers spun around. 6 yards of material it took for them to create that bell look. Many more yards for the flowers, which my assistant satin stitched each layer of flower to ensure they would never fall apart!
More later.
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