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Fancy Italian Footwear, Part VI (Or The Importance of a Properly Adjusted Pivot Pin)

September 14, 2011

Ok, so I wasn’t planning on more skating updates, but there have been some interesting recent developments. Somehow with skating “interesting” often develops into “expensive” but it has been a while since I have updated equipment, so I suppose that was to be expected? In any case, you can read about Part I, Part II, Part III, … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part VI (Or The Importance of a Properly Adjusted Pivot Pin)

Fancy Italian Footwear, Part V

August 31, 2011

Ok, so this may be the last skating update for a while. I wore the yellow rubber upper/blue urethane lower cushions for a week, but by the end decided I didn’t really like it all that well, at least not for the big figures. Whereas the all urethane felt fairly stable on the large figures, … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part V

Real Life Spectra!

August 26, 2011

I don’t know how many of you have read this news blurb about the newly discovered diamond planet, but to those of us who watched Rainbow Bright and the Star Stealer religiously as children, this comes as no surprise. Now we just have to be on the lookout for evil princesses who want to keep the sparkly for themselves…. … More Real Life Spectra!

Fancy Italian Footwear, Part IV

August 24, 2011

Ok, so I switched out the figure cushions for the yellow rubber top/blue urethane bottom. Rubber/urethane combo. This was actually quite an interesting experiment. It gave the skates a feeling of stability a bit more like my old skates, but still had the responsiveness of the new skates. It almost felt like the yellow rubber … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part IV

Fancy Italian Footwear, Part III

August 21, 2011

Ok, so I am really starting to like my new equipment. It still takes me a while to get settled into them (they don’t feel quite natural yet), but I think overall in the lessons today they performed pretty well. After two more sessions on the figure skates, they are starting to feel a bit … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part III

Fancy Italian Footwear, Part II

August 18, 2011

Ok, so I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to practice on my new skates the day after they were mounted. This is good, because it gives me a week of adjustment period before I have any more lessons, so I can hopefully get them somewhat stable, if not actually completely correct, in terms … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part II

Fancy Italian Footwear, Part I

August 16, 2011

When I had originally started this blog, I was intending to mostly post about my adventures in sewing, with occasional updates and news posts about the goings on of the artistic skating world, and a few book reviews. I had not planned on detailing my daily or weekly triumphs and tribulations at the rink. Honestly … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part I

Fabric Therapy

August 14, 2011

So those Burda September designs were really depressing. Also, depressing: the August issue hasn’t arrived yet, so I will have to wait until the mail starts up again Monday. Sigh. I was a little bit depressed over this, so I bought fabric. Or, well, my mom bought fabric for me (yay mom!). My mother is … More Fabric Therapy

2011 National Championships – Event Results

August 8, 2011

The event results for the 2011 National Roller Skating Championships have been posted here. The results include ALL placements from ALL events, not just the medal winners or finalists. The last event has just finished and another skating season has ended for the skaters not continuing on to the Pan American Games in October or the … More 2011 National Championships – Event Results

Completion Satisfaction

August 3, 2011

As may or may not have been obvious by all of the old sewing project posts, I haven’t been doing a lot of sewing lately. Mainly, this is due to the fact that I was at the Nationals in Fort Wayne for a week! My skating was not so good, but the rest of the … More Completion Satisfaction