In my spare time (!) made another leotard on the weekend recently for the aspiring Olympian, Rainbow Girl. Because she’s now training several times a week, she needed another leotard. Being one for a challenge, I had wanted to do one with some swirly shaped appliques on it. Applique on stretch fabric in such a way that the stretch is not inhibited is a little challenging, so of course I wanted to try it! It worked, though it was extremely painstaking. I think I will want to improve on the technique.<\/p>\n
I also crossed over to the dark side: I bedazzled my first garment ever! Little girls tend to like sparkles, and swirly appliqued leotards tend to have sparkly crystals all over them. So I borrowed a friend’s hot fix thingy and glued some crystals on the leotard. The idea of *gluing* things on really goes against the nature of someone who prefers all things sewn – in my mind its sort of akin to gluing up the hem of a school uniform. I know that some people do it, but I am certainly not one of them!<\/p>\n
So, the swirly bedazzled leotard has made Rainbow Girl very happy, and looks quite professional, if I do say so myself. And no, I don’t have a photo of it, sorry!<\/p>\n
We very much enjoyed watching the Gymnastics World Championships last week, and over the weekend. Lots of very lovely swirly, sparkly leotards, and some really revolting *orange* and *pink* leotards – yes, I am talking about the ghastly things that the Australian girls shocked us with for the team finals. Here’s a link to a photo of Lauren Mitchell<\/a> in it. At least Lauren seems to be enjoying the gymnastics. Surely her smile is not for the leotard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my spare time (!) made another leotard on the weekend recently for the aspiring Olympian, Rainbow Girl. Because she’s now training several times a week, she needed another leotard. Being one for a challenge, I had wanted to do one with some swirly shaped appliques on it. Applique on stretch fabric in such a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}