Skating Costumes Fit

Posted by Betsy on March 25, 2009, 9:14 am

After the practice last night, I had the girls try on their costumes
without the skirts. They all fit! Since the fabric doesn't have all
that much stretch and I had to measure most of them on a cold day at the
semi-enclosed rink when they were wearing snow suits, I was a bit nervous.

Last year, the learn-to-skate show group was less organized and I was
only able to measure them at the rink 7 days before the show. There
were no practices during the week and I had to wait until the afternoon
of the show to see if they fit.

Somehow, while trying to measure the girls at the cold rink while
holding a fussy 6 week old, I only had a chest measurement for 1 girl.
Since I didn't really have other options, I gambled and made a dress
based on just the 1 measurement.

Everyone else's dress fit. I had a hard time convincing this girl's
mother to have her try on the dress but she finally did, at a little
more than an hour before we needed to be back for the show. It was 2"
too short to get on, and 2" too narrow across the shoulders.

I packed 4 kids in the car and rushed home. It was lucky that I had
some extra skirt fabric. First I picked off the skirt and made a new
longer one. Next, I sliced horizontally just above the leg holes and
added a 2" band to extend the length, then sewed on the new skirt above
the band. For the shoulders, I sliced down perpendicularly from the
middle of the shoulder seam, and inserted gores. It looked great on the
ice, but I really didn't want another last minute panic like that this year.

--Betsy

Posted by Bobbie Sews More on March 25, 2009, 11:03 am

Hey Betsy, I am proud of you for sewing all the outfits, AND for adjusting
the last skirt at the last minute! Way to go!
Barbara in FL

Posted by Betsy on March 25, 2009, 2:15 pm

Bobbie Sews More wrote:
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Thanks, I'm having fun with it. I'm donating my time, since there is no
way the club could pay a reasonable rate for costumes and it means so
much to the kids to have proper costumes that match. I volunteered
after seeing a few years of no costumes and costumes made by others.
The skirts always looked shorter in the back than the front and were a
sort of '70s length all over.

--Betsy

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