Getting ready for the 2010 Season

Well the 2010 season should be an interesting one to say the least. TwirlGirl will be doing solo events this year as well as Pairs Events .. so that translates into 6 costumes for this year. And now looking back at some of the other things i have done sence the last years “time crunched” [...]

Costume Making Part 5 – Embellishing

Before I get to the embellishing part i wanted to note something. I’m making 2 of these costumes for 2 different girls so i started to get confused as to which was which, this caused me to think about having labels made. After looking around I found the cost and quantity’s were just too much [...]

Costume Making Part 4 – Cutting And Sewing

Ok so we have our base pattern and our design. First let’s make sure we have the tools we need. Things I recommend you purchase even if you’re new to sewing Rotary Cutter Self Healing Rotary Cutting Mat These Items will make cutting so much easier and are well worth the investment .. As if [...]

Costume Making Part 3 – The Design

Any normal person would have been done, but I had great patterns but no idea how to make this thing really pop from a design aspect … these performance costumes usually are very loud and sparkly So I did some more searching to try and figure out a design to put on the basic leotard [...]

Costume Making Part 2 – The Pattern

So I decided to make the girls costumes… now what First things first … a pattern … that fits them (so in my case its 2 patterns) Patterns There are multiple options here and it will depend on budget and skill level to start with In my research i found a couple options for purchasing [...]

Costume Making Pt 1

well once the girls told me they wanted to do a solo pairs routine .. and i resumed breathing after my brian went in to calculator mode and quickly added up the extra costs. i realized that the only cost in adding another routine was the costumes so i started looking around at some of [...]

New to Competitive Twirling? Part 5 – Costumes

Now for the part most parents fear the most … the costume   For the team events the organization usually provides them but for solo and dance twirl you need to provide the costume for your child.  Now these things can get very expensive your average price for a purchased costume is between $100 and [...]