How to Make Your Own Figure Skating Outfit

Making your own figure skating outfit is very challenging and a very hard task if you never in your life done this before. But then, it is rewarding when you see little by little the garments form an outfit that you desire.

Here are some tips that you need to know. You can design your own outfit from scratch or you will use a pattern. It is advisable to use a pattern so you can have a perfect drafting and sewing techniques.

The amount of sewing pattern manufacturers who supply the figure skating dresses patterns are pretty weak, they exist and they’re generally simple silhouettes that make them easy to adapt. Gents figure skating outfit sewing pattern are very rare to find. Well, as per said, man’s pants or leggings can be drafted from any pattern in any style but make sure the fabric that you are going to use are stretchy enough. For the shirt, you can use any patterns in catalogue, no particular stretch rule need unless you are going to tight the design.

You can check in the net and visit the websites of the company that can provides skating patterns such as figure skating patterns, ballet, gymnastics and more. Some sites offer a large selection of simple styles, from practice wear, handkerchief, skirts and etc.

Once you find a perfect style that you like, you need to choose a fabric for your creation. You can buy this in your local suppliers or go purchasing online. You can check in eBay and find a seal of professionalism the “Power Seller” badge and group buy to save money on shipping costs. Materials are sold by yard or meter (by length) and has fixed width.

You need to focus on the elasticity of the fabric as well. Make sure that you can bend, your outfit can fit to your flow and not constrict to cut the blood circulation. So better to consider first the 4-way stretch fabric or the 2-way stretch. This basically means that the function of this fabric stretches you from pull it up, down and or left to right. The supplier will tell you the amount of elastane that present in the fabric.

Find a thread that needs to be a good at all purpose and most importantly to stitch in zig-zag on the machine. In this way the fabric gets stretch out the thread gives, and goes back to its usual place. This saves the stretchy fabric from running away.

Follow the instructions in the sewing pattern and take plenty of time cutting out the fabric. To make your life easier, better to invest some tools such as cutting matt and rotary cutter.

Once you are done with the garment, you can now start doing the embellishment. This part is very fun as you can do whatever you want. But before you proceed to embellish it, make sure that you take a good rest after sewing the costume. As you need to freshen up your mind and start to motivate your attitude to create a something special. Be ready as you need to spare a lot of time with this.

You can buy sequins, crystals, and or beads from your local supplier or go for online again. In online purchasing you can get better prices and bigger quantities. This can be helpful in creating a skating costumes as they need a lot of adornment. The size, color, texture and different types of beads. It is better to do draw some sketches to give yourself an idea of what type and color you need to put.

Lastly, enjoy and have fun! Creating your very first costume is overwhelming. Make sure that this will be the first and not the last making your own figure skating outfit. This will help you to improve more and create wonderful desings.