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
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
So, I have been talking a lot about skating, what with the dance video posts, and the new updates about regionals and nationals, but I never actually got around to posting the skating costumes I made for this year. My original pattern review was located in this post, so you can see some of my … More Skating Costumes – More Kwik Sew 2601
For those of you who are interested in watching the 2011 Roller Skating National Championships live video feed from Fort Wayne, Indiana, you can see it here: National Championships Live Video Feed – The Skater’s Place This week (July 17 – July 23) is the national indoor speed championships, and you can get the schedule here. … More Newslfash – Live Nationals Video Feed!
For those of you attending the 2011 National Championships, or planning to watch the live video streaming, the latest schedule has been released. This should be a finalized schedule as all of the regional championships have been concluded. You can look at the main event page here. The new schedule is available here. In addition, the Indoor … More Newsflash: 2011 Roller Skating National Championships Schedule Update
July is here and that means everyone is obsessing over the upcoming National Roller Skating Championships. So it is with every summer. The final regional meet has just concluded, and the National website has posted results for those qualifying to the National meet. Here are the results: South Central Southern North Central Northwest Pacific Southeastern … More Skating Update: 2011 Regional Results Posted
At last, a return to blogging. I have been super busy the past few weeks, but all is well. Passed some important written tests, and some important skating tests. It is good to accomplish something 13 years in the making. I think I have always been better at setting long term goals than short term … More Triumphant Return
Life is getting intense in the next few weeks, so blogging will be at a minimum. Real life work is getting crazy, sewing will be at a minimum (after I finish current dress project), skating will be at a maximum, and reading will be restricted to study materials. Hopefully will be back with more posts … More Temporary Hiatus
Ok, so while I will unabashedly say that I was in “camp Michelle” for the ’98 Olympics, the fact of the matter is Tara Lipinski was the Olympic champion. She was also a national champion roller skater in her younger days. So I thought it might be fun to share some of the old videos, … More Blast from the Past: Tara Lipinski
Well, I attempted to acquire some of the new Butterick’s in the JoAnn sale starting today. That was a total failure. They didn’t even have places for the new patterns, let alone any of the actual patterns. They didn’t have the new books out yet either. Ah well. I am hoping that by Saturday a … More Epic Fail and Work in Progress
Doctor T Designs 