Well, not quite! When we got home from the first Dead Silent show Brains casually announced . . . “Oh, yeah, Mum, there’s a hole in one of my ballet shoes! It’s quite big!” Indeed it was! Late on a Friday night, and not a chance of getting new shoes for Saturday’s show. Because here in Wellington, […]
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Late last year I was asked to help with costumes for a dance show Brains was performing in. The show was going to be part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival, one of over 100 shows on during the festival. The show was choreographed and directed by Ariel Middlemiss and was performed at Bats in The Dome. Below is one
A while ago I made a dress for Mrs A, who had a design idea in mind. There was no specific pattern in the pattern books that I could use so I turned to my pattern draughting books. Image source I’ve used Winifred Aldrich’s books quite a few times now to draught patterns. These are