Course Description: Learn how to make Catherine Zehr’s “Queen’s Pointed Crown” Tiara Design - a regal, dramatic tiara, available to build in three color combinations in two different levels of difficulty. 

Level 3 Design: 

A. Icy Snow Queen Colors - The first, in crystal and light sapphire, is perfect for a Snow Queen, both elegant and icy. 

B. Firebird Colors - The second color combination, Siam, Tangerine, and Topaz, is perfect for a Firebird, and one of the fairies from The Sleeping Beauty.

C. Evil Queen Colors - The third color combination, Jet, Black Diamond, and Amethyst, is perfect for Carabosse, the evil fairy in The Sleeping Beauty. 

Level 4 Design: 

Teaches you how to add a specially-wired support headband to the tiaras above on which you add dramatic feathers or fabric.

As with all advanced-level kits, you are encouraged to make the design your own by arranging the stones supplied in any way you want! We encourage you to bring your own rhinestones and decorative gems to further personalize this design.

Catherine Zehr, costume designer for New York-based touring company, Ballets with a Twist, is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, with a degree in Fashion Design. Catherine spent ten years working in the fashion industry for several major companies before going into costume design. She brought with her excellent pattern-making skills, and an understanding of the importance of having costumes and headpieces support the dancer and choreography, not over-shadow them. With twenty years’ experience as a costume designer, Catherine’s designs are elegant, enhancing both the dancer and the project. Her favorite part of the creative process, by far, is creating the headpieces. She brings five new tiara designs to TutuSchool - Charlotte.

Prerequisites: Any Level 2 class, or have permission from the instructor. To be considered, please email several detailed (inside and outside) images of work to [email protected]. Students must already know frame-building techniques and how to properly string both rose montees and chaton montees.

Payments: Tutu.com Courses are available for those attending TutuSchool. Cost for this course INCLUDES the class, the teacher, and all fabrics and notions. Payments are non-refundable, however a TutuSchools credit, less 10%, will be granted for use within one year at any of our seminar locations when requested more than 30 days in advance of your seminar. If you must drop out within 30 days of the class date, no credit will be issued. Pay in monthly installments with ShopPay or PayPal Credit.