I began my dressmaking company, Seams Sensational, in 1993.  With the help of several employees, my former husband, and lots of awesome music, I created one-of-a-kind ballroom dance costumes for clients all over North America, from beginning students to U.S. Champions.

As the decades passed, I realized that making women's competition costumes is about much more than fabric and rhinestones; it is about helping women look and feel beautiful so they are happier, more confident and empowered by their dress choices and their femininity.

Being in front of the camera teaching about women's dance and skate costumes is the most natural thing I have ever done.

Every minute is sew much fun.

On March 26, 2014, the idea for a comprehensive dance and skate dressmaker school, Sew Like A Pro™, popped into my head while I sat at the sewing machine making a ballroom dress for a client.

Really, it was more like a voice saying "teach them to make their own."

When I realized what the voice meant, I jumped from my sewing machine and began jumping and down fist pumping the air, running in circles around my apartment like dogs do when they're super excited.

Seriously.  It was an awesome moment.

A week later, I had purchased studio lights, two cameras and began filming my first-ever video blog with a ballroom dancer for whom I was making a competition dress.

I have been a feverish, mostly-one-woman show ever since.

Be sure to check out my signature programs: Ballroom Dressmaker School and the Latin & Skate Dance Dressmaker School.

P.S. I would love to have proper staff so I can grow Sew Like A Pro™ faster and more efficiently.

Contact me if you're interested in what I offer and can contribute with video editing, blog writing, new website, technology updates, social media content and scheduling. Pay or barter is great for me.  teresa@seamssensational.com

As of this writing, there are nearly 300 Sew Like A Pro™ dressmaker school members in twenty countries.

I love that I have decades of personal experience to offer a full arsenal of sewing training to help as many dancing, skating sewists as possible!

In 2022 I created the Sewing Business Academy.  This business coaching program offers what I believe is the world's only business coaching specifically for those who earn money sewing dance and skate dresses, theater costumes, wedding dresses ... and really anything custom-made by a small sewing business.

2023 was the first year for the Fabulous Fitting Techniques Course.  I created this course to provide dressmaking training on how to work with, and fit, stretch fabrics for dance and skate costumes.

The Fitting Techniques Course is perfect for those who sew costumes for children and adults of any age.  It is also ideal for folks who want a "summer school" on working with stretch fabrics .... rather than a "dressmaker degree" found in the university-caliber Latin & Skate Dance Dressmaker School and the Ballroom Dressmaker School.

While all the sewing videos were recorded several years ago, Zoom and high speed internet are my best friends for teaching LIVE anytime, anywhere!

When I am not sitting in front of my laptop running the school, I escape into nature.

I like volunteering with local, state and federal agencies to help improve the world in which we live.  My mom and I pulled invasive weeds in Glen Canyon and twice picked up trash on Lake Powell.  I also pick up trash as I walk in the woods or on the beach.

Traveling is a great way to promote Sew Like A Pro™, meet my sewing school members and explore this beautiful planet.

Thanks to free accommodation via Trusted Housesitters, I twice pet-sat my way around Scotland and England, for 3-4 months each time!  New Zealand and Australia may be up next.

Use my Trusted Housesitters member link to save 25% on your membership, and I get two free months added to my annual subscription.  Or, learn more about this awesome way to travel by checking out my Trusted Housesitters profile with over thirty 5-star reviews around the USA and the UK.

Whew.... I think that's my life in a nutshell.  The only thing left is if you want to scroll below for more details about my ballroom dance career.

Whatever your reason for reading my ABOUT page, thanks for being here.  I hope we stay in touch.

Teresa Sigmon

I began dancing at the age of five. Ten years of strict ballet left me hungry for more fun and less painful pointe dance styles. I changed instructors and fell in love with Jazz and Modern!

At age sixteen, I had the honor of attending Governor’s School of North Carolina in the area of Modern dance.  I also received a North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship for dance though I declined.

While attending N.C. State University School of Design, I missed dancing and called a local ballroom dance studio to see about taking lessons. As luck would have it, at age eighteen I became an instructor instead of a student (which was my true calling giving that I had been “teaching” aerobics and dance routines since high school.)

I founded my first company, Seams Sensational, in 1993 while I was still competing in the Theater Arts/Cabaret division, as well as teaching ballroom dance.

Within a year, I had four employees and had become one of the top designers in the American ballroom dance scene.  It was cool seeing my dresses worn by several of the top six competitors.

As a result of working with hundreds of women across the U.S. and Canada, I finely honed my craft of creating stunning dresses that fit women of all ages, shapes and sizes – highlighting the best of each woman's figure.

I teach my dressmaker tips inside the Sew Like A Pro™ sewing programs.

After only one year of ballroom training, I auditioned with a nationally renowned dancer living in Phoenix, Arizona, and got the spot.

In a classic case of “the road not taken”, I left super fun times Dirty Dancing with my N.C. ballroom colleagues, and dropped out of university where I was making Dean's list.

My dad drove me across the country (much to his chagrin).  We didn't talk much on the long drive west.  I remember a lot of hawks sitting on fence poles in Oklahoma. Then we arrived in Phoenix and my Dad flew out the next morning.  Alone and only 19, I was horrified and wondered if I had made the right decision.

Years later, I told both my parents that all the time and money they invested in my dancing from the time I was five had paid off.  Nearly every dime I have earned is related to dancing.... so parents, you never know how what you do for your child will work out.