Disboutiquers Part 24 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[teresajoy]

Wow! I just looked at the photo bucket account. You ladies have skills!

Some of the dresses I really loved had shirred backs, which I think make the fit so nice. Does the simply sweet pattern tell you how to accomplish that? If not, how do you do that?

The pattern doesn't tell you how to do that, but the pattern maker, Carla, wrote a tutorial on her blog: http://scientificseamstress.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

 

[kstgelais4]

Oh No NOT by hand lol Thank Goodness for the embord. machine! They are all machine appliqued! Thank you so much! My daughter loves the bubble guppies right now as well! She is in love with this dress and has tried to wear it everyday since I have finished it! Crazy kid will freeze with our silly weather! One day it is beautiful and in the 70's the next day freezing and in the 40s.

LOL, I was going to say... You have a huge hoop on your machine though! Our weather is the same way right now. I got to sit through Ds#2's baseball parade on Saturday in 30 degree weather, when the day before was in the
60's.

 

[VBAndrea]

My first ever pillowcase dress! Thanks Ellen for the fabric! I just LOVE how this turned out! I can't wait to make many many more!

Adorable! You beat me to doing a pillow case dress ~ I have fabric for one though for dd (perhaps will do just a top and not a dress so she gets more use out of it).

Applique question: I do all of my appliques by hand (no embroidery machines here ) Gianna has agreed to wear appliqued tees and tanks for our trip in October and since I do it all by hand I want to get a head start, but at the rate she grows I don't want to make the shirts just yet for size reasons.

I know that some people have made their appliques on a patch of cotton fabric and then sewn the patch to the item, but I really don't want the "patch" look. I had an idea, but don't know if it will work. Can I piece my applique and do the satin stitching all on a piece of tear away interfacing, then put that interfacing on the shirt and do the outline satin stitching and then simply tear away the surrounding interfacing when I am done? Don't know if I am explaining my thoughts clearly, or if it will work, but I don't want to waste hours on a detailed applique for it to crash and burn!

Any advice would be appreciated!!!

That is exactly how I have done my last three. I took pics of the last one I did and can post the details if you want -- just let me know.

Thanks ladies!

I went and signed up ... now just awaiting approval Same username as here! I've wanted to ask before, but wasn't sure what the families were wanting ... Star Wars t-shirts I think I can handle Especially since my two DS LOVE Star Wars and I can get them involved ... Phalen thinks BigGives are AWESOME after what everyone did for his bff Sebastian for his MAW trip ...

So cool that your ds has has experienced wish trips through his friend! My ds is into it, but dd always is intrigued as to who I am making things for and loves seeing pictures. And she got to meet one of our local BG families earlier this year.

DH is a middle and HS math teacher and the story's he tells of some of the kid's lives are just sad

My ds's tutor initially taught at an inner city school. She said those kids LOVED coming to school because they got attention from her and they had a safe place to be and had food to eat. I can't even begin to imagine what kind of lives they had at home. I guess I should look at it positively when there is a day my kids say they don't want to school!

I also knew a HS teacher who taught at a school in a decent area and said the parents made all the difference in the world. The "good kids" got support at home and parental involvement.

Hello all,
I am a new poster on this thread, but I've been following it for quite some time. I'm not a novice sewer, but I'm not particularity experienced either. I'm looking for advice.

My daughter asked me to make her a pink Cinderella dress for our upcoming trip. I'm wondering if anyone here has made one, and if so, if you have any recommendations regarding patterns?
Thanks!

Welcome! I can't help you with Cinderella as I've never made one, but the photobucket account has some pictures ~ they have been made!

 

[cogero]

Life has been totally crazy.

I am working on a huge list of projects along with my crazy life. Plus I will have the kids with me at work starting on Thursday so I am trying to do as much as I can by then.

I love everything that has been posted I just haven't really had that much time lately.

Hope everyone is doing well.

 

[Marianne0310]

My first ever pillowcase dress! Thanks Ellen for the fabric! I just LOVE how this turned out! I can't wait to make many many more!

I love how cute the AG pillowcase dress looks.

 

[aboveH20]

My first ever pillowcase dress! Thanks Ellen for the fabric! I just LOVE how this turned out! I can't wait to make many many more!

That's a cheerful start to my Tuesday morning. Nice job.

Since we have been talking about the GKTW pillows lately, I think you may want to see them in action in Elliot's Wish Trip PTR/TR:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2612264&page=26
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Thanks for posting that. I was glad to see that the prints aren't just Disney. I made some non-Disney ones because GKTW said they're used for kids up to 18 years old. Not that you're ever too old for Disney, but I thought maybe older kids would appreciate something more "mature."

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

Someone posted that they used lightweight interfacing and it worked fairly well.

Thanks!

Sorry I haven't been around in awhile. Everyone in my house has been sick for the better part of two months. During that time we bought Tangled. dd fell in love so I decided to make her a dress. She's a bit shy, but she did model it

If you are wondering, I altered two patterns then combined them. The skirt is from the Juliet Dress (YCMT) and the bodice is, very loosely, Whimsy Couture Peasant Dress

This is really pretty and looks comfortable!

I've used a light weight fusible interfacing on satin with good results.

Thanks!

When I went to a embroidery class they said you should use a stabilizer made for Satin. It was sponsored by Florini (sp) and I think it was called Dream Weave which prevented the satin from fraying.
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Do you know if that is something they sell in stores like HL or Joann's?

ooooohhhhh - Trace would love Star Wars Tshirts!!!! I think this guy would like more than 1 character - lol - so far Jessica is making him a Darth Goofy!! But I know he'd love Jedi Mickey too!!!

Has anyone signed up for a Jedi mickey design? Do you know where I can find that design to purchase?

I appliqued the hearts onto Arminda and Lydia's satin flower girl dresses. I haven't had any trouble with them fraying. I've washed them many times. I did first stitch out the hearts onto stabalizer, then cut around them and sewed them on the dresses. I did that because the dresses were done, and I couldn't risk having my embroidery machine mess up and ruin the dresses!
We are very boring people actually! We love just hanging out at our timeshare. We go to the outlet malls and we also like Downtown Disney and we visit the resorts. We usually spend a day driving over to the Gulf side. Brian wants to go to Venice Beach this year, so I think we'll head there. Brian also wants to go to the Ocean, but I'm hoping to talk him out of that if we go to Venice beach. Sometimes we go to Kennedy Space Center too. This year we have plans to go to Sea World. WE ARE SOOOO EXCITED about that!!! Lydia was jumping up in down about it this morning while we were planning her outfit! We haven't been in years, and I don't think Lyddie has ever been. We might hit the campfire at Ft. Wilderness this year too. We did that last year (or was it the year before???) and had a lot of fun. We also want to go to a few museums. On Groupon the other day I was able to buy a family membership at one of our local museums for $25 which allows you into a lot of museums around the country for free! Lyddie loves the museum in Orlando (can't think of the name of it right now), so we will probably go there. Now that I type it all up, it sounds like too much stuff to do!

It sounds like you are going to busy to me!!!! Is that $25 museum thing still available? i'm assuming it isn't. Last week we took the kids to the Indianapolis children's museum and it was a lot of fun!!!!

Thanks for the satin advice!

Please keep an officer's family in your prayers. He was killed not too far from here last night. It just makes me sick to my stomach and my heart just hurts for the family. I wish my DH was close to retirement!!!

 

[tricia]

My first ever pillowcase dress! Thanks Ellen for the fabric! I just LOVE how this turned out! I can't wait to make many many more!

Very cute. I love it with the green. (my DH says I have been on a green kick lately - we were out of town last weekend so hit a couple of different fabric shops and I bought something green at every one)

 

[cogero]

a couple little things to share.

I did not make the skirt (I found it at Babies R Us) I embellished this adorable onsie I found to match it

Owl and Eyeore Shirts

and this is my first etsy order shirt

 

[Fruto76]

HELLO LADIES!!! I am SO excited...I catucally sewed a skirt had to redo the hem just once. WHAT A DIFFERENCE WITH A SERGER!!!!!!

Oh I love it! Great job! Glad you are enjoying your serger.

goodness you all have been very busy! I took a couple of days away from the computer and missed almost 20 pages!

just a couple of things I have been working on over the weekend:

for January's give:

and for DGD3 (these are my absolutely favorite so far!)

thanks for looking!

These are adorable. I love them all, but I really like the korkers you added on the BUzz ones! Super cute.

Its been a LONG while but I am back to peek in and say Hi! I miss chatting with all of you wonderful ladies (Mostly but there is at least one guy I remember) Hope everyone is doing well! Here are a few of my latest creations! Just wanted to share and read up on how everyone is doing! I think about this group often and miss it! With 4 kids it is so hard to find time to sew let alone get on the computer!

Thank you all for allowing me to share with you and I hope to be back into the swing of things and back often very very soon!

Candice

WOW! Amazing work and your DD is beautiful!

Sorry I haven't been around in awhile. Everyone in my house has been sick for the better part of two months. During that time we bought Tangled. dd fell in love so I decided to make her a dress. She's a bit shy, but she did model it

If you are wondering, I altered two patterns then combined them. The skirt is from the Juliet Dress (YCMT) and the bodice is, very loosely, Whimsy Couture Peasant Dress

You did an awesome job on this! I bet she loves it!

 

[Fruto76]

a couple little things to share.

I did not make the skirt (I found it at Babies R Us) I embellished this adorable onsie I found to match it

Owl and Eyeore Shirts

and this is my first etsy order shirt

Great job on everything! I always love your shirts!

 

[jstbcuz]

I am looking to make a senior tshirt quilt for my dd, but Im not sure what type of interfacing to use. I went to Joanns to look, but oh my there was so many to choose from. I would appreciate it if anyone could help me out.


THanks!!

 

[tinkerbell3747]

Its been a LONG while but I am back to peek in and say Hi! I miss chatting with all of you wonderful ladies (Mostly but there is at least one guy I remember) Hope everyone is doing well! Here are a few of my latest creations! Just wanted to share and read up on how everyone is doing! I think about this group often and miss it! With 4 kids it is so hard to find time to sew let alone get on the computer!

Thank you all for allowing me to share with you and I hope to be back into the swing of things and back often very very soon!

Candice

Oh! I love these. Would you mind sharing what pattern this is? I am new so I still don't recognized / match dresses to their patterns very well.

What a wonderful job!

 

[VBAndrea]

If Heather has that design available and it's for a BG send her an e-mail or PM and she will get it to you. I'm not sure whose it is, but I wanted to let you know Heather will help you out for any BGs.

So sad about the officer. I remember about 7 or 8 years ago waking up in the middle of the night to 3 gun shots. Heard later on the morning news an officer was shot about 3 miles from our home -- he pulled over a car that robbed an IHOP. He had a 6 month old baby I can't even imagine how nerve wracking it is being married to a police officer. I worry enough when my dh goes overseas or is deployed.

a couple little things to share.

I did not make the skirt (I found it at Babies R Us) I embellished this adorable onsie I found to match it

Owl and Eyeore Shirts

and this is my first etsy order shirt

What a find on that skirt, but you really made a cute outfit adding the onesie!
Love the Eeyore and Owl -- don't think I've ever seen owl done before.
And congrats on your first etsy order!!!! I would be too askewed to take orders. I wouldn't mind selling things I've already made, but I don't need the pressure!

 

[cogero]

I know divasdoodles has Jedi Mickey

 

[haleyknits]

Thank you all so much for the kind words dd absolutely loves her dress. She wants to be "Tangled" every day.

 

[tmh0206]

a couple little things to share.

I did not make the skirt (I found it at Babies R Us) I embellished this adorable onsie I found to match it

Owl and Eyeore Shirts

and this is my first etsy order shirt

both are super cute!!!

 

[aboveH20]

a couple little things to share.

I did not make the skirt (I found it at Babies R Us) I embellished this adorable onsie I found to match it

Owl and Eyeore Shirts

and this is my first etsy order shirt

Very cool about your first etsy order. I love everythng, but especially Eeyore!

 

[tricia]

a couple little things to share.

I did not make the skirt (I found it at Babies R Us) I embellished this adorable onsie I found to match it

Owl and Eyeore Shirts

and this is my first etsy order shirt

Very cute. Awesome find with that skirt.

Oh! I love these. Would you mind sharing what pattern this is? I am new so I still don't recognized / match dresses to their patterns very well.

What a wonderful job!

Just in case she doesn't come back and answer you, I will. It is the Feliz, by Farbenmix. I believe it is out of print now, but is available in the Sewing Clothes Kids Love book. (which is so awesome, and I have now done every pattern in the book)

 

[tmh0206]

Its been a LONG while but I am back to peek in and say Hi! I miss chatting with all of you wonderful ladies (Mostly but there is at least one guy I remember) Hope everyone is doing well! Here are a few of my latest creations! Just wanted to share and read up on how everyone is doing! I think about this group often and miss it! With 4 kids it is so hard to find time to sew let alone get on the computer!

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[Thank you all for allowing me to share with you and I hope to be back into the swing of things and back often very very soon!

Candice

WOWZER!!! everything is amazing! especially love the hello kitty dress!

So ladies, I am hopping onto your thread. I havent posted on it before and wanted to share something I made for my youngest DD. She is 4 and loves Handy Manny and is soooo excited to meet him in September at H&V.

We had a Handy Manny b-day party when she was three, the cake lady was a tad confused when I gave her a girls name to write on the cake.

Anyway, there are ZERO girly outfits out there for girl Manny fans, so I had to take matters into my own hands and get creative.

I chopped off a pair of jeans and turned them into ruffly capris in primary Manny colors and then using my Cricut, MTC software, paint and freezer paper I made her t-shirt. That was tedious but worth the effort.

She will be the first to tell you that the nose is a little off, but that reminded her of Flynn Rider's nose problems in Tangled, so it worked out okay

Thanks so letting me share.

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we love handy manny around our house!

I haven't posted for awhile, but I finally finished Disney outfits for our trip to DW in a few weeks and thought I'd share.

I got the idea for this outfit from someone on here (it was a skirt and t-shirt), but my DD insisted on only dresses.

My DD will be going to BBB one day, so I made her a comfy Cinderella dress. The fabric has glitter in it!!

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Love the Minnie, Epcot dresses. Did u use a pattern? I think I can manage this just cutting panels equally around but how wide is it around before gathering.....45? Also how do I make the top....I am new to all this All help is appreciate!!

super cute dresses!

I am very happy to introduce my seventh and final princess, Jasmine.

D~

LOVE all your princesses! very creative

Here is where I sew, and sorry the pics are huge but Photobucket is behaving as if I have dial-up and I don't want to spend over an hour resizing a few pics.

This is the room as entering through the door. On the right are shelves with baskets that are used for laundry -- one for ds, one for dd, one for me and one for kitchen. Another basket is sewing repairs/mending and the box is socks waiting for their mates. Then comes my sewing table (shown closed in this photo). At the back wall is a counter. I keep my serger on that along with my big cutting mat. Usually it has stuff all over it but I just cleaned it to begin a new project. Under the counter is a set ofplastic drawers that house craft supplies, stabilizer and applique supplies and scrap fabrics. To the right of that I have ringbinders and folders with patterns and beading things on top of that. To the left is kitty potty central.

This is the view to the left -- washer and dryer and ironing board. Shelf with boxes of fabric on top and I use the hanging space for laundry/ironing. I keep my ironing board set up at all times b/c I use it every day. The door in the pic goes to a walk in attic in which I keep a lot of craft supplies in rubber made bins.

This is my sewing desk open (I am minimally overweight so I can leave it open at all times and still walk through between the pull section and washer):

Another view of my table/desk -- the back also opens to a huge cutting table, but NOT in my cramped quarters!:

To the sides of the window I have fabric totes with sewing goodies:

On my washer I have magnetic bins and something dd wrote to me:

A cabinet of fabric (I have fabric in bins on top of the cabinets as well):

Mainly supplies and fat quarters and unwashed fabric:

And that is the hole I sew in! Not pretty, but I manage. And I did sweep the floor for the photos.

SO JEALOUS!!!


WAY TMTQ, so sorry If I missed anyone and thank you to all for the sweet comments on my flip flops!