Ad Absurdum Crafts

I spent much of the last few months working on my biggest sewing commitment EVER- helping out as a costume mistress for Huntington Dance Theatre as they prepared for this year's rendition of 💂‍♀️!

It was a lot of taking in, embellishing, hemming, finishing, letting out, repairing, tacking, re-imagining, altering, serging, mending, making from scratch, and blinging out! It's been a great education and an honor to work alongside the passion and experience of great directors and other volunteers, and to carry on the amazing work of the skilled seamstresses who have created and worked on these costumes in the past. It was such fun to work on such beautiful costumes for such talented, gorgeous, and hard-working dancers, and I love that I get to see it all come together on stage this weekend!

There is one more show, tomorrow at 2pm, and tickets are nearly sold out! You don't want to miss it!

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My amazing oldest niece turned 11 this summer (back in June 🫣)! I gave her the option to design her own outfit for me to make, and I was really excited when she took that option!

She sent me her idea and then helped pick out fabric (one of my favorite faux denim prints from ) and talked designs to make it come together! I used the essential tank pattern from and the (retired) Skipper Skort from for the bottoms. I made the shirt with sparkly vinyl and a removable Velcro front so she could add patches or other velcro things after her birthday (I had hoped to make a whole patch alphabet to go with it but almost a half a year later that hasn't happened yet... Maybe for Christmas 😂).

Anyway, she's my favorite 11-year-old and I loved working with her to make something so fun and cute (just like her)!

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I made this satin royal blue dress for this year's Junior Miss Ohio River Festival back in May!

It's mostly self-drafted, with some help from the circle skirt generator! The back bow is removable and the hem of the pleated double circle skirt is lined with horsehair braid. It was certainly a learning experience and I'd like to play with more draped designs this winter, especially if I'll be sewing for more royalty in the future 🤩.

Thank you for trusting me with this! She's just so cute!!

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