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Long-term storage options for dance and skate dresses
Must-Know Dress Tips - all dress styles
January 30, 20240Comments

How To Store Your Competition Skate or Dance Dress

Once you purchased, made, or altered that perfect performance dress for dance or skate, you must consider how to store your dress so it will last for years to come. 
three rhinestoned dresses
Must-Know Dress Tips - all dress styles
December 5, 20230Comments

How to Transfer Your Rhinestone Design to Your Dress

Are you ready to glue rhinestones on your country or ballroom dancing, artistic roller or figure skating dress? Adding rhinestones to a competition dance or skate costume is one of the
FREE, TWO-PART DRESSMAKER MASTERCLASS. Perfect for ballroom dancers, country dancers, belly dancers, Argentine tango dancers, ice skaters and artistic roller skaters!
Design Fundamentals - all dress styles
November 4, 20230Comments

Free Dressmaker Masterclass for ballroom dance and figure skating costumes

. .   My DO WHAT YOU LOVE month is underway until the end of November. The entire month is full of sewing school sales and free dressmaker masterclasses! There are only a few more
Sewing Challenge: Make Women's Dance Skate Costumes for Income, improve your sewing business.
Sewing Tools & Tips - all dress styles
October 25, 20221Comments

Sewing Challenge: Make Women’s Dance & Skate Costumes for Income

  Is making a profit a challenge for your sewing business?  Do you have a difficult time charging what your skills are worth?  Are you a sewist bored with your current
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Teresa's personal blogs
September 14, 20226Comments

Van life. I remote work from all over the USA.

Remote work?  Van life?  Really?  Yes. I have been a digital nomad, traveling solo since March, 2018. I run my online sewing school, Sew Like A Pro™ - offering all the
4 main types of rhinestone glue
Must-Know Dress Tips - all dress styles
May 21, 201916Comments

Rhinestone Glue: Which Is Right For Your Dress?

  Are you adding or replacing rhinestones on a Country or Ballroom dance, or artistic roller or figure skating dress?   You need adhesive! In today's post I offer the pros and cons about
5 steps to avoid overwhelm when trying to buy or design a competition Dancesport, Country or Skater dress. Teresa Sigmon.
Design Fundamentals - all dress styles
May 15, 20182Comments

Avoid Overwhelm When Buying or Designing A Dress

  One of my Sew Like a Pro™ members posed the question on how to avoid overwhelm when choosing a dress: “There are thousands of design ideas out there.  How do
home sewing room, with a cat photo bomb
Sewing Tools & Tips - all dress styles
May 7, 20181Comments

Pretty, Efficient Home Sewing Room

  Most dressmakers have a home sewing room, not a large office space where they can store a million sewing items and not worry about it being tidy or pretty. If you're
3 ways to help overcome setbacks that can make life difficult, Teresa Sigmon hikes Silver Star Mountain, Mount Hood
Teresa's personal blogs
September 8, 20170Comments

Overcome Setbacks: make the best of a bad situation

  Everyone has to overcome setbacks. Sometimes they are tiny and easy to resolve. Often, they are significant and take months or years to recover. The U.S. is facing tough times these
Feathers are hot in the Dancesport, Country and Skate world. Do you want them on your dress?
Design Fundamentals - all dress styles
March 7, 20170Comments

Feathers Are Trending. Do You Want Them On Your Dress?

Feathers are a hot fashion statement in Dancesport, Country and skate dresses. Whether you're adding a high-impact feather arrangement near the neckline or ostrich boas to the hem of your dress,
Teresa Sigmon shares how to dye flesh color elastic
Sewing Tools & Tips - all dress styles
January 23, 20172Comments

How To Dye Flesh Color Elastic

  Today’s blog addresses a great question posed by a Sew Like A Pro™ subscriber concerning flesh color elastic: "I can’t find flesh color elastic to use for shoulder straps. How do
This Moment - lessons from my cat and dog
Teresa's personal blogs
January 11, 20170Comments

In This Moment: Lessons From My Cat And Dog

  I live in Portland, Oregon U.S.A. This is a city that seldom gets snow and when we do, it is only a little bit that melts in a day or
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