Ruby skates?
lilblakdog
For those who don't remember, DH and I get my adorable stepson for Halloween
this year. An amazing show of support for his mother--whose birthday is
Halloween, but doesn't seem to notice or care that DH generally has to spend
his without child--since Halloween falls on a Saturday. So long as we have
him call home and wish her a happy birthday, he's ours!
As a result, I went out and bought $175 worth of Halloween supplies
yesterday. We're going as Dorothy, Toto and the Scarecrow in the Wizard of
Oz. My stepson's just become goofy for the Wizard of Oz and had his heart
set on being Toto. Since they don't make a Toto pattern, I'm just using the
lion pattern and making it black! I'm going up to my mom's today to cut the
fabric. We're moving, so I don't trust bringing it here--DH will stick it
in a box. When we were going camping I got out towels for my baby brother,
who was housesitting. Well, DH saw towels and the next thing I knew we were
driving out of town with the spare towels packed in the back!
Anyhow, we're going to go have a Sears portrait done in our costumes, and
then we'll take him over to the ice rink for a Halloween party before going
trick-or-treating. So I'll need to make myself some ruby skates.
I figured that I'd try covering mine in masking tape (freezer tape) so that
I don't ruin my skates (not that I'm too worried--they haven't been used for
15 years!), but then I have a variety of different ways to make them "ruby":
1. Spray them with red Halloween hairspray and then over with red
gliter spray
2. Spread them with white glue and coat them with glitter
3. Glue seperate sequins on
Anybody got any other ideas? I bought some second hand shoes (ick!), but
I'd rather not completely screw up the skates...I don't think my feet are
getting any bigger, so they'll last me forever.
lil
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"lilblakdog" <lilbl...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> Oooooohhhhh...I'm so excited! Halloween is just around the corner!
>
> So I'll need to make myself some ruby skates.
Don't they sell something, I guess called a skate cover, that just fits
over the skates to make them appear a different color? Try calling a
skating store or rink and asking if there is such a thing and where you
might get it.
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nancy g.
> Anyhow, we're going to go have a Sears portrait done in our costumes, and
> then we'll take him over to the ice rink for a Halloween party before going
> trick-or-treating. So I'll need to make myself some ruby skates.
>
> I figured that I'd try covering mine in masking tape (freezer tape) so that
> I don't ruin my skates (not that I'm too worried--they haven't been used for
> 15 years!), but then I have a variety of different ways to make them "ruby":
>
> 1. Spray them with red Halloween hairspray and then over with red
> gliter spray
> 2. Spread them with white glue and coat them with glitter
> 3. Glue seperate sequins on
Jeez, lil, you sure do believe in doing things the hard way, don't you??
(grin)
Go to the fabric store, head to the way back part where they keep the remnants,
and buy yourself a half yard or so of some glittery sequiny red fabric.
Make a couple of fabric "covers" for the skates ... they don't have to be
perfect, they just have to give the *idea* of ruby slippers. After all,
nobody's going to be examining them too closely!
I think the easiest way would be to make them skate-shaped, to fit loosely
over the skate, but with a bunch of extra fabric at the top ... that way, you
can tuck the extra fabric down inside the top of your skate after you get it
laced, and that will hold it on. You don't want the bottom too long, though,
so that it would hang down and trip you if it happened to get loose ...
hmmm (thinking as I type, which is always a dangerous proposition) I think
I'd probably make some kind of a stirrup arrangement across the bottom to
hold it on, under the skate. Remember, this doesn't have to be fancy! You
will only be wearing them for a couple of hours! Just get some ribbon or
even an old shoelace or two, pin or stitch it on to the bottom of the fabric,
and you can tie them on under your skates.
Sigh. This would be *so* easy to do, and *so* easy to explain if I could use
either pictures or my hands (which are waving around here as I try to demonstrate
what I'm talking about. I can see it in my head so clearly ...)
Anyway. I hope this gives you some ideas of your own, and you can proceed
from there. (And good luck!)
janelaw
>
>snip
> So I'll need to make myself some ruby skates.
>
> I figured that I'd try covering mine in masking tape (freezer tape) so that
> I don't ruin my skates (not that I'm too worried--they haven't been used for
> 15 years!), but then I have a variety of different ways to make them "ruby":
>
> 1. Spray them with red Halloween hairspray and then over with red
> gliter spray
> 2. Spread them with white glue and coat them with glitter
> 3. Glue seperate sequins on
>
> I'd rather not completely screw up the skates...I don't think my feet are
> getting any bigger, so they'll last me forever.
>
> lil
I agree with the skate cover idea. You could just buy red
sequined material and make some. Elasticize the bottom, or use
those little gizmos with two suspender-type clips on either end
of a piece of elastic (I have them on the bottom of my ironing
board cover. Actually, they may have patterns in the costume
section. You could decorate panty hose and slip it over the
skates. Personally, I think you should use red hairspray AND
glitter AND sequins.
Did I ever tell you that my daughter watched the Wizard of Oz
every night for 2 years? She wouldn't go anywhere without ruby
slippers. More is better.
Incidentally, how are you going to get the skates into the Sears
photo?
nancy g.
(snip stuff about lil's skates)
> Incidentally, how are you going to get the skates
> into the Sears photo?
She could always pose in one of those "action" skating shots ...
you know, like the one where the skater bends her head back and
reaches her arms over her head, and then she raises one leg in
back of her and grabs the skate blade and arches her back and
pulls her leg straight up over her head, all done of course while
she's spinning rapidly around to a medley of the tunes from "Carmen"
by Bizet?
nancy g
well, it was just a *thought* ...
lilblakdog
nancy g. wrote in message <3602822F...@tiac.net>...
ROTFL!!!
Oh, that *would* be good! Actually (and this is the part where I become a
thoroughly dedicated mom), I'm making a seperate set of slippers for the
photo and the trick-or-treating. I just wanted to carry it out during the
skating as well.
I like the skate cover idea...of course, I don't like the cost of that
sequined fabric! I've seen skate costumes in the pattern books, but I
haven't seen the covers (I *haunt* the pattern books!)...shouldn't be too
hard to fudge up.
Maybe I *should* do the spray and the glitter and the sequins!
lil
Lisa
> I like the skate cover idea...of course, I don't like the cost of that
> sequined fabric!
>
>
> lil
How about getting that cheap slick lining fabric, make the skate covers,
and then do the harispray/glitter on THAT?
(The stuff is easy to work with, too --many's the skating skirt I've
made from it.)
Lisa
P.S. This sounds SOOOO great! What a good fairy godmother you are!