Vicky's Dress

Vicky is a senior dancer from my region in NW England. She loves to dance and has many other hobbys too as well as being a busy veterinary nurse and a very clever lady to boot.



Fabrics red satin with overlay of glittered netting, white with mop sequin circles and gold swirl lamé





She wore it for the first time on Saturday. I wasn't there to take any pictures but hopefully she got some and will forward them onto me.

Chrissey's Dress

Chrissey contacted me some time ago to ask me to make her a dress. We tossed around a few ideas and came up with this design.


And here are the finished pictures. The light is causing a problem on the right of the pics. I will be getting some pictures from Chrissey and her mom when she wears her dress out..... I'll put them up, but for now here's my bad pics :o)


The dress is made from black satin and a fuschia pink with metallic strands. A white lace petticoat and white tutu. Embellished with lots of diamantes to give it that extra sparkle.





Hope the dress brings you luck Chrissey

Hannah's Dress

Hannah has been waiting for this dress for ever. Between the postal services being a pain in the butt she finally received it today. Hope you like it Hannah as I know it was to be a surprise from your sister. Please send a pic to add to my collection and Good Luck.


The design for the dress was provided by the customer. She also bought all the fabrics, so sorry if you like them I can't help...I have no idea where they were bought apart from Texas lol.

above and below, skirt detail with and without embroidery

Front

Back with simple lace cape.

Bit blurry, but close up of sleeve.

Lining

Headband

Rhiannon's new dress

This pic is from last Friday evening....I need to do some more work on it yet, but you get the general idea.



Watch this space for updates.

Katie's Dress

This faux 5 panel dress has been made for Katie, a little girl in the USA. She wanted a blue dress and flowers.

So we looked through various fabrics and decided to use a white fabric with blue flowers, covered in a blue organza with sprinkles of silver glitter.

Other fabric used is a pink chiffon base with circular sequined design. The appliqué is done in silver diamond shape foil. All finished in pink and blue embroidery and pink satin flowers stuck on to give a 3D effect and white satin with silver glitter ruffles.


The lining and bloomers are in a crazy design hologram silver foil on pale blue jersey

and the package is finished off with a padded headband.

MISSING CHILD

MADELEINE McCANN

went missing from

Praia Da Luz, Portugal

on

03-05-2007

these pictures show her distinctive right eye

which will help people identify her, should she have had her hair cut and dyed.

Please help in the search for this little girl and pray for her swift return to her family

If you have any information on her whereabouts

contact

CRIMESTOPPERS

0800 555 111

Thankyou for your vigilance

See http://news.sky.com/skynews/home for further information

Lily's Dress

I made Lily's Dress in 2005 and never managed to get a picture of it. I saw it up for sale at a feis last w/e and grabbed a couple of pictures.



It's made in orange satin with tiny silver hologram sequins. The appliqué is in silver sewn sequin and turquoise holo square.

I made the design in an opened Lily shape to emulate the owners name, she is a very delicate looking child who also does ballet and is training with the Royal Ballet Co. She qualified for the Worlds at her first Oireachtas wearing the dress and it always looked lovely, with great stage presence.

Sarah's Dress

Sarah is a senior dancer from London. This is her 2nd costume from me....the other is the purple one for sale at the bottom of the right hand column. This was my first attempt at a 4 panelled dress.

We decided to 'upgrade her' hmmm I sound like Beyonce Knowles don't I? Yes, I am a hip n happening mum, and I know all the words, hahaha!

skirt under construction ^
bodice v

She had a design in mind, but we decided together that it wasn't going to work and she liked the design on one of Rhi's old costumes, so we took inspiration from that.

It's also a 2 piece, so Sarah can keep cool between rounds.


These were all the work in progress, am waiting for some finished pics from Sarah, as the one's I took were all at the wrong angle her legs were too white hahaha, she'll kill me for that!
The main red fabric is satin 'falling rain' from http://www.whitelodgefabric.com/falling_rain1.htm and an orange sequinned overlay http://www.whitelodgefabric.com/chiffon_sprayclover_sequin.htm with silver, and white appliqué. The back is finished off with a small loose shawl in the orange chiffon. Sarah's delighted with her new dress and wore it out at 2 feis last w/e..... yes 2 one in London the other in Birmingham. As soon as she gets the finished pics to me I'll post them.

Jaisie's Dress

Jaisie is my friend's little girl. She's 4 in May. Her big sister, Jasmine, dances and has a couple of old dresses still at home....however, Jaisie, being Jaisie decided she didn't want a second hand dress, she wanted one of her own lol.

So we decided to make her one. Nothing fancy, her mum said, just something she can call her own. Well as Jaisie is at most local feis and will be at the Worlds, I thought what a great walking advertisment, so put more in than they were expecting.


She rang me tonight on the way to dance class to tell me she was very excited......... well she was dumbfounded, as was her mum and sister, when they actually saw the dress.

Fitted her perfectly, even without any fittings. Here are a couple of her in the dress at dance class....love the socks don't you?


Oh yes, she loves butterflies, but had no idea that's what was going on the dress....so the butterfly hair accessories were a complete coincidence. Poor love can sleep tonight now. She's been waiting for this dress since last year and each time we saw her she looked at us in anticipation and then disappointment when we didn't have it with us.


We made the butterfly cape to emulate the bought butterflies on the dress. This has been an absolute joy to make, and I think Margaret and myself have loved it because we were making it for Jaisie and she's such a cutie. This is one of those dresses that will be put on AFTER she's competed, if and when she does.....there's a ruling in NW UK that Novice dancers can't wear dresses, lol that's going to confuse everyone isn't it?

Ashleigh's dress

Second attempt at a 'Theatre Curtain' dress. Made this for Ashleigh who's a young dancer in Rhi's school. She's 10 and wanted a pretty dress.



Think I may have just filled that request. It debuted today at a St Patrick's Dispaly at school and will be seen again on Friday and Saturday.

The base fabric is a lovely white chiffon over net embellished with mother of pearl sequin circles. You may recognise the pink I've used on the upper bodice, insert and sleeve as the same pink I used in Tori's dress. See an earlier post.

The lining is pink and white gingham as are one of the sets of frill. The other set and shawl are a very pale pink voile curtaining with silver hologram circles. We decided to add some celticness to this dress as well as keeping it 'trés moderne' Please excuse my attempts at French, it's been over 34yrs lol. The finishing touches were some tiny little voile flowers with a circle of crystal in the middle of them. Hope this dress brings you lots of luck Ashleigh, and I'm sure you'll turn people's heads in it. If you would like to leave a comment about the dress feel free. Constructive criticism always welcome.

The Finished Routine

Riverdance on Ice (the journey)

Back to Class

Well we got back to class on Saturday, Thursday being to wild to do anything other than jar the door on my car so it now creaks :o(

After 1.5 hours in the car my poor knees were killing me (think they creak more than the door) and I made a rather 'undignified' exit from the car when we got there. Although I'm not sure who was hurting more, me or Rhi after her 2 dance classes :oP

Aren't breaks a pain....in more ways than one? How many dancers actually do anything when they're 'on a break' and I don't mean the Rachel and Ross type of 'on a break'.

We got to Derby and I had a much needed cup of tea (whereas after one dance Rhi needed a glass of water) then found out I'd won the 'bonus ball' :oD
Yay, good start to the year, paid for my fuel and dance classes with some left over. So Derby done n dusted, off to Nottingham for the 2nd class of the day. Another ungainly exit from the car ensued....stopped short of palms on the ground tho'. We had 3 birthdays...and 2 cakes...good job I haven't started my healthy eating plan yet, I'd have hated to pass up on that, especially as one of the cakes was from Costco and I knew it would be sooo delicious. I was so tired we decided to forgo 5 o'clock club and head off home..... not like me, I must've been REALLY tired. Stopped at McDonalds half way home for a coffee... oh yes I fed Rhi too. She was ravenous after all the 'work' she'd put in :oS Then when I got home had to go to McDonalds again, no not for Rhi, she wasn't that hungry, for Niall, who was! He was fishing...see his pic.....and wanted a large 6 chicken nugget meal and 2 cheeseburgers......he's a growing lad :oP So back home I put my feet up and watched TV for the rest of the night. So first class back went well, I think, and I'll get myself on the eating plan and refuse any more birthday cake, should it be available in the future ;o)

China Blue

This was my first 'Off the Rack' and I loved it so much I was upset when it sold. The fabric just reminded me of some china tea cups my nan used to have, hence the name. I could have sold it about 10 times over had it been the right size and even Kelsey, the new owner, had a list of dancers from her school ready to buy it if it hadn't fit.




This has also been a lucky dress for the new owner, who after 2 years in Prelim, without placing, placed at the 1st two feis after buying the dress.



The main fabric is a printed cotton and parts are overlayed with a white chiffon with tiny hologram discs, appliquéd with blue diamond foil fabric and silver hologram sewn sequin this dress sparkles all the way