Theater costumes!

My school is doing a spring musical this year, and that got me thinking about what they might do for their costumes! They might just rent from other big theaters or Opera houses, or they might have the students that are interested help out, like they do for the lights. So I asked a friend what they do for the tech stuff and he said they have students do it! So I emailed the director of technical things for the play telling him that I am an aspiring costume designer and would like to help out. I am so excited because I think they will need me, and now I have a chance to work with costumes! And the play takes place in the time period that I have been studying. I can't wait. The play is called "Kiss me Kate" a take off on the play "The taming of the shrew" by shakespear.

Mannequin Prom dress

I know it has been a very long time since I last posted anything, but that is because I haven't been sewing much. But I have gotten back into it by making myself a small work station for sewing projects like pillow cases and tiny prom dresses! Yup, that is what I have sewn so far in 2010. I made pillow cases for each of my siblings for Christmas and I just finished a tiny prom dress for my Mannequin. I used some pretty purple fabric that I got for Christmas from my brother for this prom dress.

I love purple fabric. If I ever go to a prom I would want my dress to look like this, purple with twists in the fabric so it looks like roses.

And my dress would have a gold sash, a wide gold sash around the waist.

I hope to enter this in our county fair, I wrote out the instructions for how to make it and I made the pattern! Tiny prom dresses are fun!