Earlier this year I was approached by a dancer’s mum about making a costume for her daughter for the Alana Haines Awards. I was excited, and also a bit nervous, as this would be my first tutu for this biennial competition which is highly regarded “down under”, the competition that is! I made a costume […]
Romantic tutu for AHA Read More »
There were not too many other costumes I needed to make for this concert as many were able to be re-used from previous years. I did need to make some Chinese type costumes but the fabric chosen by Miss Lisa had more of a space look so that’s what they became! Space dancers! Once again
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It was concert time again! Miss Lisa decided to use music from The Nutcracker – Land of the Sweets. Our youngest student was to be a Raspberry Drop and so a tiny red tutu was needed. And I do mean tiny! I made a size 6 but wee Miss S would have fitted a size
This morning when I opened my emails they took a longer time to download than usual. Soon it became evident why. I’ve been sent some lovely photos of the gorgeous Miss N in her tutu! You can read about the process here. I’m proud of this tutu as it was my first woven bodice tutu.
A lovely surprise! Read More »
When you have a tutu you need something to carry it in! For Locket’s first tutu I decided to make her a special bag. One that would be easy to recognise and not get mistaken as belonging to someone else. I used a pattern from Tutu.com. You need to scroll partway down the page to
Grab a cuppa . . . or maybe a wine . . . cos this is a long post 😛 Last year I was asked to make a tutu for competitions. I was recommended to the client by an amazing lady, Anne de Geus, who I have been tutored by on and off over the
After making Miss L her tutu one of the mum’s whose daughter also does competitions asked me to make her lovely young lass a new tutu in 2011. This tutu is in the romantic style with longer skirts than one with a short skirt. The bodice is of stretch velvet lined with stretch drill to give
Miss L has been dancing since she was three…though to begin with she preferred to watch rather than join in! Miss L would then do everything she had seen that week at home. As she grew so did her confidence until it came to the point where Miss L decided she would like to have a
Miss L’s First Tutu Read More »