Before performance and competitions, Aina and her ballet friends have this tradition of giving a good luck gift. For the next week’s competition, since I have been on a-crocheting-roll for…
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It’s been a while, but I finally made a mini pouch again. This time, for Shi Ying… Thus the 2-letter thing on the pouch. And it’s pink! I have never…
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It’s another pointe shoe bag! This time, with a letter T… just like my name. I guess, if I had a pair of pointe shoes, this would be my bag……
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Another pointe shoe bag is finished. This one is Mercy, one of Aina’s friend in her ballet class, thus the letter M on it. I have made another one with…
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I made another pointe shoe bag! I think I will start documenting all the pointe shoe bags I made here. I still need to do a post for Aina’s other…
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After I finished Aina’s first crocheted pointe shoe bag, I made a few other bags and pouches before starting to take orders, like the Hana’s and Miko’s bag. I made…
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Tokyo was under a typhoon-scare today. Yesterday, the weather forecast said that there would be heavy thunderstorms all day… We were kinda worried that we may have to cancel our…
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So, I made another pointe shoe bag. This time is for Miko. And it looks similar to Hana’s bag, except that this one is bigger… It’s deeper, longer and just…
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Since the first crocheted pointe shoe bag I made a few months ago, I’ve been trying to refine the design and make it more useful. Changing the size, adding tiny…
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I had been thinking of getting Aina a smaller pointe shoe bag to bring to class. Her current one was quite big; it fitted all of her 3 shoes (1…
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It turned out that her first pointe shoes did not last very long… After 4 classes, the shank on the right one gave out and died. Mrs. Cheng, her teacher,…
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For ballet dancers, the day they got their first pointe shoes is probably the single most anticipated moment in their ballet life. Or at least, it was for Aina. The big…