Costuming DIY

April Event: 2-Hour Skirt Workshop

April 9, 2021

“2-Hour Skirt” 90 Minute Live Multi-Media Zoom Workshop/Demo Sunday, April 25, Noon Pacific $25 on the BDBA site Click to Reserve your Space Q: Can you make a performance-ready belly dance skirt in under 2 hours? A: Yes, You Can! Join me for a costuming workshop Using a basic sewing machine, some simple patterning, and […]

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Assiut Mask Project: Part 4 – Orders & Shipping

August 4, 2020

Hello gang! At the time of this writing, this project is in full swing. I’m using scraps and left-over bits and pieces of assiut, I will run out of fabric very soon! This project is really using scraps, so most of the pieces are smaller than the mask pattern I developed back in April. Click […]

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Assiut Mask Project: Part 3 – Order of Construction

July 20, 2020

Are you the kind of person who reads directions for a pattern first? Perhaps you like to dive in and figure it out, only referring to the directions in times of need? Or are you like me, rarely using commercial patterns so you have to figure out how to sew things together on your own? […]

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Back to Making Costumes

May 25, 2020

Hello Gang! After spending many weeks working on that new most essential part of our wardrobe, the protective face mask, I’m now back to work on a costuming project. One of my ongoing customers is the San Francisco/Bay Area professional dancer Shalimar. Over the past decade, I’ve been so pleased and blessed to have opportunities […]

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7 Bellydance Costuming Tasks to do During a Down Time

March 20, 2020

As I write this in March of 2020, virtually the entire world has gone into quarantine as a preventative health measure. With a bit more free time, you can now do some of those pesky chores that always seem to fall to the bottom of the list. So to help combat the overwhelm of the […]