There are many ways to add an interesting feature to a simple skirt, but what’s more romantic than a little drape or a swag? 🙂 Creating perfectly draped fabric can be tricky, but in this tutorial, I’ll show you a super-easy way to add drape to a belly dance skirt. Let’s get started! Resources mentioned in the video: Detachable side swag… Read more →
Do you have a skirt that could use a little makeover? You can easily transform a simple skirt into an exciting ruffle skirt if you know how to add a ruffle to a skirt! The original skirt is from my 3-panel mermaid skirt tutorial, and I decided to add ruffles to upgrade it. In this video, you’ll see how to… Read more →
Are you in love with beaded fringe but not sure how to create it yourself? Do you have a costume that needs an upgrade? In this post, Chani, our alteration expert, will show you how to create beaded fringe to give your costume more movement and shimmer. Enjoy 🙂 Greetings, Dancers! I hope this finds you well and enjoying dancing,… Read more →
Looking for ideas on how to alter a beaded belly dance bra? Have a vintage costume that needs an upgrade? In this post, Chani, our alteration expert, will show you how to alter a beaded belly dance bra top seamlessly and make it fit you! Enjoy 🙂 This is a vintage costume I bought on-line many, many years ago. The… Read more →
Got some costumes you inherited from your teacher that don’t fit quite well? Love vintage costumes but need help with altering them? Today I’m super excited to introduce to you a belly dance costume alteration expert, Chani! As you’ll see in this post, she is excellent at taking an old costume and putting new life into it. And her work… Read more →
In my last week’s post, I started this 1 hour belly dance costume challenge and made the bra top in 45 minutes. Yes, I used ¾ of the time just making a bra top! In this Part 2 of DIY 1 hour belly dance costume challenge, you’ll see how I made a skirt and decorated the costume. Did I finish… Read more →
Have you been in a situation where you need a last-minute costume but can’t find anything suitable in your wardrobe? Or where you need a costume in a specific color for a specific show but you KNOW you won’t use it again, so you can’t justify spending lots of money or time creating that costume? Well, I think many of… Read more →
One of my least favourite things about costume making is getting sore fingers 🙁 So I use my sewing machine for most part, but I usually do these things by hand: Attaching straps to bra cups – because feeding bra cups through a sewing machine can be tricky. Securing fabric to cover bras – because I don’t want stitches to… Read more →
Want to make this lovely grey skirt? Learn here! For making dance costumes, stretch fabric is essential – it helps us create fitted costumes and gives the flexibility we need for when we move around and dance in it. 🙂 So I have a lot of tutorials where you use stretch fabrics – like this mermaid skirt, Goddess Skirt, and… Read more →
We make lots of tubes when we make shoulder straps, ties etc for belly dance costumes. To create a clean looking shoulder strap, you need to sew a tube wrong side out, then turn the tube so the pretty side of the fabric shows. I used to get frustrated when making tubes, because when the tube is narrow like a 1cm wide,… Read more →