dance

  • A zipper bag for workshops

    A zipper bag for workshops

    This is just a fun project I decided to share. I needed a little zipper bag to organize some of my dance stuff (ballet shoes, knee pads, snacks, etc) that I use less frequently in my dance bag so they weren’t floating around making it hard to find the things I do use frequently. I…

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  • Dance top (aka Simplicity 3832)

    Over one of these winter weekends, I had some free time and decided to go through my UFO (unfinished objects) pile. One of the items was this turquoise blue top. I had it all cut out with the pattern still pinned to the fabric. Just hadn’t had time to sew it. So I pulled out…

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  • Yoga pants

    Yoga pants

    I was inspired by this Threadbanger video on how to make your own yoga pants to copy a pair of my favorite dance pants. I did it a bit more ad hoc, laying the tracing paper over the pants and tracing that way rather than using a tracing wheel, but I’m quite pleased with how…

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  • Dance skirt

    I see these dance skirts all around and I’ve always thought to myself, “I could make that.” So I had some extra lycra lying around. (Okay, actually I cut up a dress I made that went horribly wrong. Sorry there are no pictures of it, but it’s probably for the best.) It was all very…

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