Ok, so there were a lot of proposed changes up for the 2011-2012 USARS skating season. While the new official rule book isn’t out yet, and, indeed, even the official announcement of the dances and figures haven’t been posted, I was able to find the requirements posted to the North East regional website (opens to … More Newsflash – 2011-2012 Skating Dances and Figures Announced (Sort Of)
Ok, as promised, here are some pictures of my new-new skates: Pretty Harlick boots Roll Line Giotto Plate Shiny new Roll Line Giotto wheels. I have been able to wear them a few times and so far I really like my new vice grips on wheels figure skates. Ok, I kid. But not really. Anyone who … More Fancy Italian Footwear, Part VII
I was wasting time looking stuff up on YouTube and happened to run across some of these old videos of world class pairs skaters from the early 80’s. Stunning.
In the days before my sister left for Europe we made an excursion to Forever 21, because she couldn’t bear the thought of living with shoe remorse for a year. Confession time: this was my first experience in a Forever 21. That’s right, I had never been in one of these stores before. Well, I … More Foray to Forever 21
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)
I guess since September is National Sewing Month the sewing gods have answered my prayers and Joann will be having a 3 day pattern sales that inclue the Burda envelope patterns! I plan on using that 10 pattern limit in as many stores as possible, because who knows when there will be another Burda sale? … More Joann Sales – Simplicity and Burda!
Apparently September is National Sewing Month, and with Labor Day weekend first thing, Joann is having some decent sales. Of particular interest: *$0.99 McCall’s (usually sale price is $1.99, so this is good! Although probably too much to hope for having the new winter patterns in, but we shall see…) *$3.99 Vogue (hoping to pick up … More JoAnn Labor Day Sale – Vogue and McCall’s
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
When I go places my favorite things to look for are fabric stores and used book stores. While I was at the regional meet this year, I found an interesting cookbook…. all about cheesecakes. Somehow me acquiring said cookbook resulted in some sort of bet about clothing sizes, which then resulted in me losing said … More Neither Skating Nor Sewing
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
Doctor T Designs 