This post provides a simple tutorial for creating a stitched and glued bangle bracelet for competitive ballroom dancers. Jewelry with prong settings can catch in fine knit fabrics, styled hair...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2016/02/ballroom-bangle-tutorial.html
It used to be no one wanted a black ball gown for competition. Black is the color of almost every gentleman on the floor. Universal belief is that the man is a frame and the woman should be ...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2016/02/bonnies-black.html
Thanks SO MUCH to all Made for Movement clients for a great 2015! My 2016 is almost entirely booked, and really, over-booked for the first half of the year, so if you are thinking of a gown in t...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2015/12/holiday-hostess-mary-christmas-says.html
I am sorry to say Made for Movement is booked completely for the remainder of 2015. If you are looking for a custom-made competition costume, I can put you on a waiting list, in the event that...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2015/04/waiting-list-only-for-2015.html
Dear Clients Past and Present, In the interest of beginning to move toward my retirement, I have made the decision to eliminate some portions of my business and focus on others. The biggest ...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2014/09/last-chance-for-menswear-and-gently.html
This post is to show you that you do not have to spend a fortune to look great on the dance floor. Sometimes a cocktail dress can become a costume with minimal tweaking. This great littl...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2014/08/success-for-less-for-sally.html
Rita is one of the very first dancers I dressed, way back in the late 1980's. She has never stopped enjoying ballroom dancing. She is now retired, and her investment advisor told her she would n...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-hawaiian-carnival-for-rita.html
Many of my clients have met and worked with my seamstress/tailor Michele Kielsa. I would ask you to keep her in your thoughts, and offer prayers for her today. Last week, Michele's mother ha...
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It's easy to make a beautiful gown for a beautiful woman. Tracy fits that description. The ideas for her gown came from video clips on You Tube, featuring one of her favorite Latin dancer...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2014/02/tracys-emerald-vine.html
I have made many costumes for Leslie. Each one, different from the last, and yet uniquely hers. I always ask my clients to provide a word of phrase that we can use to narrow the visual fo...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2014/02/leslie-in-aqua.html
Julie is one of my all-time favorite clients. She is a professional dancer, teaching and competing with her students. She is also a retired a professional competitor, and that helps to e...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2014/01/condiments-for-julie.html
Ursula is a really vibrant woman! She has a big personality, is artistic and creative, and has so much energy and enthusiasm that she literally fills my studio when she visits for her desi...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/12/ursulas-peacock-gown.html
Sometimes, one of my clients wants something other than what I typically create. Many times, these things are what I like to think of as "unicorns," because it can be hard to define exac...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/08/kims-thankful-praise.html
Usually, Tracy arrives at her design meetings with tremendous preparation and forethought. But this time, she had just one goal in mind. A new gown for International Standard Ballroom ...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/08/tracys-elegance.html
Seven years ago, Nancy brought me a wonderful silk georgette skirt. She wanted it used to create and ballroom costume and we decided that costume could be both a rhythm gown and a smooth dress...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/05/nancys-silk-skirt-gets-new-lease-on-life.html
I made this rhythm gown just over a year ago, but never got around to writing about it. I thought I would wait until I saw Cathy wear it, so I could include photos of her dancing, but someh...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-cure-for-blues-for-cathy.html
The design meeting for this gown for petite and trim Christy was an easy one. Christy wanted something with substantial sparkle. She wanted thick white fringe, and she wanted white and nu...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/05/dazzle-for-christy.html
This is not a post about ballroom dance costumes, but about the loss of the official Made for Movement Greeter and Sergeant-at-Arms, Gingerbread. Some of you might remember when we got Ging...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/04/farewell-to-gingerbread-greeter-and.html
All of Leslie's three styles of dance require a separate gown. She and husband/partner Lee compete in American Smooth, Rhythm, and International Standard Ballroom. Her Standard and Smooth go...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/03/white-peach-blooming.html
I am a ballroom dancewear designer by day, but after dinner, I play with beads. Through my beadwork, I have met a most remarkable woman, Eva Maria Keiser . She is a beader, designer, and art...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/03/thank-you-eva-maria.html
It has been a while since I have blogged. Too busy making costumes is an easy excuse to voice, but it happens to be true. And things that do not have deadlines are harder to find tim...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2013/03/ginger-for-sharon.html
I can't wait for you to see the rest of this gown, because many of you might wonder about a combination of plum and tangerine and cerise, but there is a really good reason, and a nice cohe...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2012/11/susans-plumtangerines-and-cherries.html
Therese saw a fringy gown on Dancing With The Stars that she thought she might look good on her body, and visited my studio with a photo. She had a very specific budget in mind and a wanted...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2012/11/tereses-hot-pink-fringe.html
This gown was actually begun in 2011, when our client Tracy was headed for the Ohio Star Ball. Unfortunately, life intervened, and Tracy put the gown on hold for several months while finding ...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-bouquet-of-roses-for-tracy.html
Sometimes, the jewelry is almost the most important part of the costume! Kate wanted a elegant and sexy look for her new Rhythm gown. Something that one of James Bond's consorts might...
http://made4movement.blogspot.com/2012/09/kate-shaken-not-stirred.html