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© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. The inspiration for this blog was an email that I received a few days ago. A potential dance team customer was inquiring about a costume with SEQUENCING on it. Hmmm. In my world, SEQUENCES are when you do one thing after the other, in a particular order. The correct [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. ‘Twas the Day Before Danceline! A special holiday poem lovingly created decades ago by Margaret, a Satin Stitches employee, with minor updating for this year, by Deborah. The simple term-Danceline, used to be the term for our State High School Dance Team Championship, back in the 80s.

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. It is SPOOKY this time of year, at Satin Stitches!  WHY?

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. When I was a child, I was not a big fan of museums.  I thought that museums were generally boring.  They were endless collections of stodgy paintings or artifacts that I did not relate to.  Or displays of fake animals in their so-called, natural habitats.  Boring.  I would not [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. This year Barbie is turning 50.  Mattel, Inc. launched the first Barbie doll in 1959 after Ruth Handler watched her daughter, Barbara, play with her paper dolls and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles.  At the time, most dolls were infant or toddler dolls.  She felt [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. What should we be doing, as Americans, as professionals, as mothers, and as daughters, in this scary world of ours? It is Halloween week, here in the suburban Midwest. My husband and I moved a year and a half ago, closer to our Satin Stitches shop, and a couple [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. It’s the middle of summer.  That means that your dance studio is winding down your year.  You are at Nationals now, will be soon, or you have already competed, and are going home.  You may have a few weeks off before your fall classes start.  Or, if you coach, [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. July Fourth. What do YOU think about? Fireworks, picnics, red-white-and-blue, stars and stripes, parades, right? And maybe glitzy costumes and national dance competitions, too? Over the years, Satin Stitches has been asked to create many different Patriotic dance costumes. Some have been for dance soloists and some have been [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. I got to be a fashion show judge last week!  I was chosen, along with three other fashion professionals, to judge the Silhouettes Fashion Show at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  This show is a very big deal, every spring, and is put on by the Apparel Design Department.  This [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. We just cannot seem to be rid of winter, here in Minnesota. Yes, yes…I know that if you live on the coast – East or West, you probably think it is ALWAYS winter here, in good, old Minne-snow-da! With global warming supposedly everywhere, what is up with our COLD [...]

© Deborah J. Nelson/Satin Stitches Ltd. The Power of Shine! This is a charity that all your dancers at your studio can participate in. Wear Sequins For A Cause! Elizabeth Barry and Associates has teamed up with Sequins Direct, a division of the sequin manufacturer that we have worked with for over twenty-five years – [...]