Disboutiquers Part 28 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[pyrxtc]

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WOW... I still can't believe how quick you caught onto sewing. It looks like you have been sewing for years. Everything is just adorable.

Thanks !! it is so much fun ! I have been seeing the plus of a serger with all my open edges. The inside of the Tangled clothes are not that pretty.

It has still been less than two months but I figure that if I'm going to do it, I might as well do something worth sewing. there are days that i am ripping things back apart and days like Tuesday that I chose not to. (psst, one of the ruffles on the Tangled pants legs are upside down. After ruffling it and putting it on, i was not about to rip it apart. I figured there wasn't any faces and you can only tell when you look closer because it's such a busy pattern.

I'm working on a building a wardrobe from sizes 3-5 of some nicer clothes and will just purchase the basics to complete it.

I also made two matching taggie blankets for my SIL since my niece is due in 8 days. They were fun and very easy. I have a fleece on one side and flannel on the other. Forgot to take any pics and my camera batteries are dead. I'll have to try my phone.

 

[Meshell2002]

Oh man I was in the middle of a design when my machine screen just decided to freeze up! This is the same machine that I just spend $75 on replacing the motor. I'm afraid this decade old machine may not be doing too well in the computer board department. The service guy that fixed it in Jan said he'd look at it....but he didn't sound too hopeful of finding the cause....It does of course come when we aren't looking at spending a lot of extra money right now, my car also just decided to shut off yesterday in the 95 degree heat, so that's either going to be an expensive fix or a new (to me) car. GRRRR.

So today after DS kindergarten interview we are going to go to walmart and buy a gift since I can't finish my project. Hopefully the car will make it.

On the up side my gender u/s is June 5th!

 

[pyrxtc]

My taggie blankets. grabbed both for the pic so you could see the front and back at the same time.

 

[cogero]

Way back in the dark ages when I was a Girl Scout leader, my whole troop made skirts for that badge. We had a district campout where we were singing, so they made the skirt for their costumes. They used the machine to sew the sides and top(for the elastic.) Hand sewed the hem. The sewing in the hem was so cute--it would be neat, messy, neat, messy. We had 6 sewing machines and moms to supervise. The moms were really good about letting the girls do the actual work. It took 2 meetings to finish them, but the girls were very proud of their work!

When my mom led a girl scout troop she did this too.

Oh man I was in the middle of a design when my machine screen just decided to freeze up! This is the same machine that I just spend $75 on replacing the motor. I'm afraid this decade old machine may not be doing too well in the computer board department. The service guy that fixed it in Jan said he'd look at it....but he didn't sound too hopeful of finding the cause....It does of course come when we aren't looking at spending a lot of extra money right now, my car also just decided to shut off yesterday in the 95 degree heat, so that's either going to be an expensive fix or a new (to me) car. GRRRR.

So today after DS kindergarten interview we are going to go to walmart and buy a gift since I can't finish my project. Hopefully the car will make it.

On the up side my gender u/s is June 5th!

Yeah for your gender US. So sorry your machine is giving you problems.

My taggie blankets. grabbed both for the pic so you could see the front and back at the same time.

I love taggie blankets I should make one for a gift for my cousin who is due any day.

 

[RMAMom]

I KNOW I grabbed your shower photos, at least once, but dis kept wanting me to log in. I love all the decorations. I assume they go home with Mom to be hung in Jrs. room? I'm curious what's in the baby food bottles -- looks like they were used as favors? Especially now that I have a fresh stock of them -- although my husband's eyeing them for screws, etc. on his peg board

Blue and white candy coated chocolate covered sunflower seeds.

I finished up the boy-wear after dinner and got the little monsters to model for me (and my new camera, a Nikon D3100, came - happy Mother's Day to me!)

Time to dig through the fabric and decide on my next endeavor!

I love the boy wear and the boys are adorable. Enjoy the new camera, how exciting!

Thank you for all the replies regarding hoop size and machine preference. I would have been here sooner but I was trying to catch up on the thread from the beginning of this one. Goodness you ladies are talented!

I believe that DH has resigned himself that I am going to go forward with this and while it is not totally in the budget right now, I have some time to do more research and save my pennies.

In the meantime I thought I would share a few pictures of my work just for a little more eye candy on this thread.
Happy sewing everyone!

Have fun shopping for your new machine, I like your quilts but the table topper is my favorite!

For those of you that don't follow my TR, or my FB fan page, or my personal FB page... My latest bag:

And then - a teaser photo for my Launch bag:​

Thanks for looking!

D~

It's Tiggerific! (sorry I couldn't resist) I love it! What a fun bag.

 

[Sandi S]

THese are great Sandi! Everyone looks so excited!



Absolutely beautiful!

For those of you that don't follow my TR, or my FB fan page, or my personal FB page... My latest bag:

And then - a teaser photo for my Launch bag:​

Thanks for looking!

D~

I love the Tigger bag! I think it is my favorite of all the ones you have done. The colors are wonderful and the applique design is perfect.

I lost the other lot. I went to baseball and got distracted with the kids and forgot to bid higher before it ended.



Love that fabric. Greta job, I haven't attempted shorts yet. Should put that on my list.



great job on the quilts ! I don't know if I could do that, I'm having too much fun sewing little girl clothes right now.



Bog looks awesome ! I would love to make one of those. Is the embroidery all thread ? I can't imagine how much time that takes. Do you do it on another piece of fabric and then divide it onto your bag like that ?

So, since I fixed my Mother's machine I have been busy.

My Tiana dress

My circus dress, I saw this fabric and knew I had to do something completely crazy and out there with it for a dress. I got this pattern at a clearance center with the big bow and poufy sleeves.

front

back

I like the bow better in the back than in the front where the pattern says to put it.

Love my Planter's Peanuts fabric from my Aunt.

On to the next pattern, it had a shirt, pants, dress, and kerchief.... I went with Tangled for my theme.

Pretty mixture of character prints and others!

My taggie blankets. grabbed both for the pic so you could see the front and back at the same time.

Taggies look great - these are fun to do!

 

[micksmoma]

I have a couple of questions. Has anyone on here ever appliqued on seersucker? I was wondering how to hoop it without pulling out the texture. Also, I was wondering what is the best, affordable embroidery software. I would like to be able to put words together and maybe a bought design with words. I have never done any of the digitizing and have no clue. It must be a program for dummies.

 

[graceesmom]

I have a couple of questions. Has anyone on here ever appliqued on seersucker? I was wondering how to hoop it without pulling out the texture. Also, I was wondering what is the best, affordable embroidery software. I would like to be able to put words together and maybe a bought design with words. I have never done any of the digitizing and have no clue. It must be a program for dummies.

I haven't done seersucker, but you could probably just hoope the stabilizer and then use adhesive spray to hold the seersucker to the stabilizer without hooping it.

As for embroidery software, I purchased embird after using their 30 day free trial. The 30 day free trial is a great way to see if you like it. It was simple enough for me to figure out and I have only had my embroidery machine for a couple of months. I had never embroidered a single thing before.

 

[GrammytoMany]

OMGoodness, Just caught up again....Loving the beautiful dresses and other outfits.

D, As always...beautiful bag!

 

[Blyssfull]

I have a couple of questions. Has anyone on here ever appliqued on seersucker? I was wondering how to hoop it without pulling out the texture. Also, I was wondering what is the best, affordable embroidery software. I would like to be able to put words together and maybe a bought design with words. I have never done any of the digitizing and have no clue. It must be a program for dummies.

I use Stitch Era Universal. It's completely free. I had to do a lot of trial and error but once you get the hang of it, it's not so complicated. Tho I don't digitize, I just merge and make names. If you download it and have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll be glad to help if I can.

OhMyGoodness, I'm ridiculously behind. I came over to post my tinkerbell fun for Andrea that I finally finished up today! Thanks for asking me to do this, it inspired me to try something new!

And I just couldn't resist... She now has a complete Tinkerbell outfit.

I'm about 6 pages behind.. YIKES!

 

[Disney Yooper]

THese are great Sandi! Everyone looks so excited!



Absolutely beautiful!

For those of you that don't follow my TR, or my FB fan page, or my personal FB page... My latest bag:

And then - a teaser photo for my Launch bag:​

Thanks for looking!

D~

I love teasers. Can't wait for the final reveal.

 

[PrincessMickey]

Wow! Everyone's been busy and looks great! I just finished up my big give items. A few weeks ago I posted a Star Wars car organizer, I finally finished the other. My youngest requested Lightning McQueen. I did change up one thing after I put them in the car. I initially used cord elastic on the top, I thought it would be pretty easy to be able to just slip it over the headrest. I didn't think it all the way through and once toys started getting put into the pockets the elastic started stretching quite a bit so I replaced the elastic with cording.

I was hoping to get more sewing done this week but that didn't happen. My soon to be sister in law called to see if I could be a bridesmaid in the wedding. I was initially planning on making my dress for the wedding so I guess that freed up some time but the wedding is next month and she only started planning the bridesmaid dresses this week. She picked a style and color out so I went to figure out what size and they said the color she chose it would be 12 weeks for the order to come in obviously that's not going to work. So she went to a different place and of course because it's last minute it's going to cost all of us an additional $45 to put a super rush on the order to get it on time. So now I have to go to another store tomorrow to get this darn dress ordered and hope it comes in time. This dress was so not in the budget but it's my brother's wedding so I'll go with it. No wonder why I keep getting this feeling the wedding is going to be alot of drama.

But anyway enough of the drama for now so here's the organizer all complete and then in the car along with the other one.

 

[PurpleEars]

I finished up the boy-wear after dinner and got the little monsters to model for me (and my new camera, a Nikon D3100, came - happy Mother's Day to me!)

Time to dig through the fabric and decide on my next endeavor!

Great job on the outfits! I can't wait to see your next set of creations (or pictures you take with the new camera!)

Thank you for all the replies regarding hoop size and machine preference. I would have been here sooner but I was trying to catch up on the thread from the beginning of this one. Goodness you ladies are talented!

I believe that DH has resigned himself that I am going to go forward with this and while it is not totally in the budget right now, I have some time to do more research and save my pennies.

In the meantime I thought I would share a few pictures of my work just for a little more eye candy on this thread.

This is a block from a quilt I made for a dear friend of mine that I haven't quilted yet because I have an error somewhere as the top is not squaring up correctly.

This is a table topper a friend and I redrafted from an antique block we saw at a quilt show.

Lastly

This is a baby quilt a friend and I designed around the fabric (the cream and the brown border). Her favorite color is brown and she was expecting a girl.

Happy sewing everyone!

I really like the baby quilt! I enjoy seeing quilts that others have made. It's been a while since I quilted since the local Ronald McDonald House doesn't even take them anymore! (I donated lap quilts for children in wheelchair and they told me they had too many already) Maybe I should try a nursing home instead.

For those of you that don't follow my TR, or my FB fan page, or my personal FB page... My latest bag:

Thanks for looking!

D~

What a beautiful bag! I am sure a Tigger fan will be thrilled!

My Tiana dress

My circus dress, I saw this fabric and knew I had to do something completely crazy and out there with it for a dress. I got this pattern at a clearance center with the big bow and poufy sleeves.

front

On to the next pattern, it had a shirt, pants, dress, and kerchief.... I went with Tangled for my theme.

Looks like you have been busy! I can't believe you are making that many beautiful outfits as a "newbie" to sewing. Great job! Keep it up!

Oh man I was in the middle of a design when my machine screen just decided to freeze up! This is the same machine that I just spend $75 on replacing the motor. I'm afraid this decade old machine may not be doing too well in the computer board department. The service guy that fixed it in Jan said he'd look at it....but he didn't sound too hopeful of finding the cause....It does of course come when we aren't looking at spending a lot of extra money right now, my car also just decided to shut off yesterday in the 95 degree heat, so that's either going to be an expensive fix or a new (to me) car. GRRRR.

So today after DS kindergarten interview we are going to go to walmart and buy a gift since I can't finish my project. Hopefully the car will make it.

On the up side my gender u/s is June 5th!

Oh no, I am so sorry to hear about your machine and car troubles! I hope the issues won't cause too much financial strain.

My taggie blankets. grabbed both for the pic so you could see the front and back at the same time.

Super cute and great job!

I have a couple of questions. Has anyone on here ever appliqued on seersucker? I was wondering how to hoop it without pulling out the texture. Also, I was wondering what is the best, affordable embroidery software. I would like to be able to put words together and maybe a bought design with words. I have never done any of the digitizing and have no clue. It must be a program for dummies.

I don't have suggestions for seersucker, however, I would recommend the free Stitch Era software. There are a number of us who have used that software for something similar to what you plan to do with it.

OhMyGoodness, I'm ridiculously behind. I came over to post my tinkerbell fun for Andrea that I finally finished up today! Thanks for asking me to do this, it inspired me to try something new!

And I just couldn't resist... She now has a complete Tinkerbell outfit.

I'm about 6 pages behind.. YIKES!

Cute cute cute!

Wow! Everyone's been busy and looks great! I just finished up my big give items. A few weeks ago I posted a Star Wars car organizer, I finally finished the other. My youngest requested Lightning McQueen. I did change up one thing after I put them in the car. I initially used cord elastic on the top, I thought it would be pretty easy to be able to just slip it over the headrest. I didn't think it all the way through and once toys started getting put into the pockets the elastic started stretching quite a bit so I replaced the elastic with cording.

I was hoping to get more sewing done this week but that didn't happen. My soon to be sister in law called to see if I could be a bridesmaid in the wedding. I was initially planning on making my dress for the wedding so I guess that freed up some time but the wedding is next month and she only started planning the bridesmaid dresses this week. She picked a style and color out so I went to figure out what size and they said the color she chose it would be 12 weeks for the order to come in obviously that's not going to work. So she went to a different place and of course because it's last minute it's going to cost all of us an additional $45 to put a super rush on the order to get it on time. So now I have to go to another store tomorrow to get this darn dress ordered and hope it comes in time. This dress was so not in the budget but it's my brother's wedding so I'll go with it. No wonder why I keep getting this feeling the wedding is going to be alot of drama.

But anyway enough of the drama for now so here's the organizer all complete and then in the car along with the other one.

Sounds like you had a busy time. I hope you could get a dress in time without spending a fortune and the actual wedding day won't be too dramatic!


So just a little bit of an update on our August trip. I have totally dropped the idea of doing a PTR. There is no way I can keep up with one (I barely keep up with this thread as it is!) and I realized I hate sharing info about my family to others. I actually started writing the PTR and I simply didn't feel comfortable posting it. Oh well, I will just lurk on others' PTR instead! The second update is that we decided not to rent DVC this time. It's simply too late in the game for not doing split stays. We have the free dining package at Coronado Springs and we know we will like it there (our 5th time staying there). At least that's one more thing settled for our trip!

 

[ItsyBitsy]

I've been wanting to make re-useable rain ponchos. Does anyone know where I have find/ buy a pattern for this?
Thanks in advance!

 

[VBAndrea]

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So, since I fixed my Mother's machine I have been busy.

My Tiana dress

My circus dress, I saw this fabric and knew I had to do something completely crazy and out there with it for a dress. I got this pattern at a clearance center with the big bow and poufy sleeves.

front

I like the bow better in the back than in the front where the pattern says to put it.



On to the next pattern, it had a shirt, pants, dress, and kerchief.... I went with Tangled for my theme.

Lovely on all accounts! You are really diving in -- the circus dress looks like a more intricate pattern. I love the Tangled items.

Oh man I was in the middle of a design when my machine screen just decided to freeze up! This is the same machine that I just spend $75 on replacing the motor. I'm afraid this decade old machine may not be doing too well in the computer board department. The service guy that fixed it in Jan said he'd look at it....but he didn't sound too hopeful of finding the cause....It does of course come when we aren't looking at spending a lot of extra money right now, my car also just decided to shut off yesterday in the 95 degree heat, so that's either going to be an expensive fix or a new (to me) car. GRRRR.

So today after DS kindergarten interview we are going to go to walmart and buy a gift since I can't finish my project. Hopefully the car will make it.

On the up side my gender u/s is June 5th!

Eeeeks on your machine and car! Don't you just love it when everything seems to go at once! I hope both were just having a bad day and start to behave appropriately.

So are you hoping for a boy or girl or are you indifferent? I so wanted a girl for #1 and it was a boy and for #2 I was very indifferent. Another boy would have been fabulous so #1 would have a playmate but I still wanted a girl. In the grand scheme of things, I realized it never really matters. I love both my kids and wouldn't trade either -- I'm just sad we were never able to have more.

My taggie blankets. grabbed both for the pic so you could see the front and back at the same time.

Great job!

I use Stitch Era Universal. It's completely free. I had to do a lot of trial and error but once you get the hang of it, it's not so complicated. Tho I don't digitize, I just merge and make names. If you download it and have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll be glad to help if I can.

OhMyGoodness, I'm ridiculously behind. I came over to post my tinkerbell fun for Andrea that I finally finished up today! Thanks for asking me to do this, it inspired me to try something new!

And I just couldn't resist... She now has a complete Tinkerbell outfit.

I'm about 6 pages behind.. YIKES!

Oh soooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!! Thank you sooooooooo much! Absolutely perfect Beth (as usual!!). You were very kind to help out with this

I thought SEU was supposed to be a pain. But all I'd like is something to merge designs. And free is good! I honestly don't think I'd use it often. It would have been nice for Amy's shirts though b/c with the names it all required two hoopings and it would have been much faster and easier to do it all in one. Maybe you should give us a workshop on using SEU at Marianne's house!

Wow! Everyone's been busy and looks great! I just finished up my big give items. A few weeks ago I posted a Star Wars car organizer, I finally finished the other. My youngest requested Lightning McQueen. I did change up one thing after I put them in the car. I initially used cord elastic on the top, I thought it would be pretty easy to be able to just slip it over the headrest. I didn't think it all the way through and once toys started getting put into the pockets the elastic started stretching quite a bit so I replaced the elastic with cording.

I was hoping to get more sewing done this week but that didn't happen. My soon to be sister in law called to see if I could be a bridesmaid in the wedding. I was initially planning on making my dress for the wedding so I guess that freed up some time but the wedding is next month and she only started planning the bridesmaid dresses this week. She picked a style and color out so I went to figure out what size and they said the color she chose it would be 12 weeks for the order to come in obviously that's not going to work. So she went to a different place and of course because it's last minute it's going to cost all of us an additional $45 to put a super rush on the order to get it on time. So now I have to go to another store tomorrow to get this darn dress ordered and hope it comes in time. This dress was so not in the budget but it's my brother's wedding so I'll go with it. No wonder why I keep getting this feeling the wedding is going to be alot of drama.

But anyway enough of the drama for now so here's the organizer all complete and then in the car along with the other one.

The car organizers are great and your car looks way neater than mine! Those are on my to do list, but I fear they are a project that will never take high priority.

So do you at least like the dresses for the wedding? I think I'd be a bit peeved too. How long has the wedding been in the planning stages? We had a short notice wedding because we had to move the date a couple of times because dh was attached to the ship and the ship's schedule kept changing (and I really wanted him to be present for his own wedding). We had only family at the wedding and my sister was Matron of Honor and I just let her pick a dress from Lord and Taylor (with my approval). It was sooo much less expensive that way and a good quality dress as well. I've also been to weddings where everyone wears a different dress but same color family -- I like that so much better than a bunch of girls parading down the aisle in tacky matching dresses. And did you get alterations yet? I was in one wedding with the most hideous purple dresses with these sleeves that poofed up to my ears. The dresses were outrageous to begin with and then we had the added bonus of expensive alterations -- I swear they purposely make these dresses to fit no one so they have no choice but to be altered.

 

[VBAndrea]

FYI, I found a free tut for a microwave bowl holder -- I haven't tried it and it's not perfectly detailed, but looks doable. I want to buy the microwave batting stuff before trying it (and that likely will not happen within the next week). Thought I would share though in case anyone is interested:
http://www.quiltinaday.com/community/topic.asp?forum=3&topic=24991

 

[love to stitch]

Wow! Everyone's been busy and looks great! I just finished up my big give items. A few weeks ago I posted a Star Wars car organizer, I finally finished the other. My youngest requested Lightning McQueen. I did change up one thing after I put them in the car. I initially used cord elastic on the top, I thought it would be pretty easy to be able to just slip it over the headrest. I didn't think it all the way through and once toys started getting put into the pockets the elastic started stretching quite a bit so I replaced the elastic with cording.

I was hoping to get more sewing done this week but that didn't happen. My soon to be sister in law called to see if I could be a bridesmaid in the wedding. I was initially planning on making my dress for the wedding so I guess that freed up some time but the wedding is next month and she only started planning the bridesmaid dresses this week. She picked a style and color out so I went to figure out what size and they said the color she chose it would be 12 weeks for the order to come in obviously that's not going to work. So she went to a different place and of course because it's last minute it's going to cost all of us an additional $45 to put a super rush on the order to get it on time. So now I have to go to another store tomorrow to get this darn dress ordered and hope it comes in time. This dress was so not in the budget but it's my brother's wedding so I'll go with it. No wonder why I keep getting this feeling the wedding is going to be alot of drama.

But anyway enough of the drama for now so here's the organizer all complete and then in the car along with the other one.

Those are really nice. Hope everything works out for the wedding.

 

[jenseib]

I use Stitch Era Universal. It's completely free. I had to do a lot of trial and error but once you get the hang of it, it's not so complicated. Tho I don't digitize, I just merge and make names. If you download it and have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll be glad to help if I can.

OhMyGoodness, I'm ridiculously behind. I came over to post my tinkerbell fun for Andrea that I finally finished up today! Thanks for asking me to do this, it inspired me to try something new!

And I just couldn't resist... She now has a complete Tinkerbell outfit.

I'm about 6 pages behind.. YIKES!

Can I ask how to make the flip flops? I want to try this, but am clueless wher to start.

 

[pyrxtc]

Wow! Everyone's been busy and looks great! I just finished up my big give items. A few weeks ago I posted a Star Wars car organizer, I finally finished the other. My youngest requested Lightning McQueen. I did change up one thing after I put them in the car. I initially used cord elastic on the top, I thought it would be pretty easy to be able to just slip it over the headrest. I didn't think it all the way through and once toys started getting put into the pockets the elastic started stretching quite a bit so I replaced the elastic with cording.

I was hoping to get more sewing done this week but that didn't happen. My soon to be sister in law called to see if I could be a bridesmaid in the wedding. I was initially planning on making my dress for the wedding so I guess that freed up some time but the wedding is next month and she only started planning the bridesmaid dresses this week. She picked a style and color out so I went to figure out what size and they said the color she chose it would be 12 weeks for the order to come in obviously that's not going to work. So she went to a different place and of course because it's last minute it's going to cost all of us an additional $45 to put a super rush on the order to get it on time. So now I have to go to another store tomorrow to get this darn dress ordered and hope it comes in time. This dress was so not in the budget but it's my brother's wedding so I'll go with it. No wonder why I keep getting this feeling the wedding is going to be alot of drama.

But anyway enough of the drama for now so here's the organizer all complete and then in the car along with the other one.

Love the organizers. It's on my list of things to make. Are they cotton or a special material ?

 

[Blyssfull]

Time to share some pictures.

Thanks for looking!

These are great! I LOVED! those skirts you did for the Big Give awhile back. Love the extra little detail with the coins.

again!

I'll give a quick update and then go back and read.

I had my thyroid removed on Wednesday. I thought it was a fairly routine operation, kinda like tonsils or appendix (both of which I still have ). Five days later I can only whisper and I gag on liquids -- so I've been having Ensure and baby fruits. Nothing like that diet to make you feel old!

I get the impression the doctor thinks I'm faking. He was not happy that the nurses and I wanted me to stay an extra night. I knew my husband would be a nervous wreck watching me to see if I'd choke in my sleep.

Glad to hear you're starting to feel better and able to eat a little something. I have thyroid disease and boy if I don't take my medicine, it's crazy. I can't think of words or get off the couch. For a long time, I just thought I was lazy but once they got my medication right I found out it was a different story.

From dress rehearsal today:

So cute!!I enjoyed seeing all the pictures you have shared with us. Love the one of you and Alexa!

Thank you for all the replies regarding hoop size and machine preference. I would have been here sooner but I was trying to catch up on the thread from the beginning of this one. Goodness you ladies are talented!

I believe that DH has resigned himself that I am going to go forward with this and while it is not totally in the budget right now, I have some time to do more research and save my pennies.

In the meantime I thought I would share a few pictures of my work just for a little more eye candy on this thread.

This is a table topper a friend and I redrafted from an antique block we saw at a quilt show.

Lastly

This is a baby quilt a friend and I designed around the fabric (the cream and the brown border). Her favorite color is brown and she was expecting a girl.

Happy sewing everyone!

Great Quilts!

I lost the other lot. I went to baseball and got distracted with the kids and forgot to bid higher before it ended.



Love that fabric. Greta job, I haven't attempted shorts yet. Should put that on my list.



great job on the quilts ! I don't know if I could do that, I'm having too much fun sewing little girl clothes right now.



Bog looks awesome ! I would love to make one of those. Is the embroidery all thread ? I can't imagine how much time that takes. Do you do it on another piece of fabric and then divide it onto your bag like that ?

So, since I fixed my Mother's machine I have been busy.

My Tiana dress

My circus dress, I saw this fabric and knew I had to do something completely crazy and out there with it for a dress. I got this pattern at a clearance center with the big bow and poufy sleeves.

front

back

I like the bow better in the back than in the front where the pattern says to put it.

Love my Planter's Peanuts fabric from my Aunt.

On to the next pattern, it had a shirt, pants, dress, and kerchief.... I went with Tangled for my theme.

These are all beautiful!

Oh man I was in the middle of a design when my machine screen just decided to freeze up! This is the same machine that I just spend $75 on replacing the motor. I'm afraid this decade old machine may not be doing too well in the computer board department. The service guy that fixed it in Jan said he'd look at it....but he didn't sound too hopeful of finding the cause....It does of course come when we aren't looking at spending a lot of extra money right now, my car also just decided to shut off yesterday in the 95 degree heat, so that's either going to be an expensive fix or a new (to me) car. GRRRR.

So today after DS kindergarten interview we are going to go to walmart and buy a gift since I can't finish my project. Hopefully the car will make it.

On the up side my gender u/s is June 5th!

Can't wait to hear what you are having!!

My taggie blankets. grabbed both for the pic so you could see the front and back at the same time.

love these. So cute!

Wow! Everyone's been busy and looks great! I just finished up my big give items. A few weeks ago I posted a Star Wars car organizer, I finally finished the other. My youngest requested Lightning McQueen. I did change up one thing after I put them in the car. I initially used cord elastic on the top, I thought it would be pretty easy to be able to just slip it over the headrest. I didn't think it all the way through and once toys started getting put into the pockets the elastic started stretching quite a bit so I replaced the elastic with cording.

I was hoping to get more sewing done this week but that didn't happen. My soon to be sister in law called to see if I could be a bridesmaid in the wedding. I was initially planning on making my dress for the wedding so I guess that freed up some time but the wedding is next month and she only started planning the bridesmaid dresses this week. She picked a style and color out so I went to figure out what size and they said the color she chose it would be 12 weeks for the order to come in obviously that's not going to work. So she went to a different place and of course because it's last minute it's going to cost all of us an additional $45 to put a super rush on the order to get it on time. So now I have to go to another store tomorrow to get this darn dress ordered and hope it comes in time. This dress was so not in the budget but it's my brother's wedding so I'll go with it. No wonder why I keep getting this feeling the wedding is going to be alot of drama.

But anyway enough of the drama for now so here's the organizer all complete and then in the car along with the other one.

These are great!

I've been wanting to make re-useable rain ponchos. Does anyone know where I have find/ buy a pattern for this?
Thanks in advance!

Looking forward to see if anyone answers... Tho I do have to say I saw some really cute ones at Target the other day for 5 bucks.

Oh soooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!! Thank you sooooooooo much! Absolutely perfect Beth (as usual!!). You were very kind to help out with this

I thought SEU was supposed to be a pain. But all I'd like is something to merge designs. And free is good! I honestly don't think I'd use it often. It would have been nice for Amy's shirts though b/c with the names it all required two hoopings and it would have been much faster and easier to do it all in one. Maybe you should give us a workshop on using SEU at Marianne's house!

So glad you like them! Don't hesitate to ask again. The pain about SEU is that it is SLOOOOOW. I primarily use my netbook and it's really! slow on here. I put it on my husband's laptop and it's a lot faster. I'm actually debating on getting a tower computer just for my embroidery stuff. I'll be glad to give a tutorial at Marianne's. He takes his laptop when he travels tho, and right now he's over in Cali for 2 weeks.

Can I ask how to make the flip flops? I want to try this, but am clueless wher to start.

Yes ma'am. I was inspired by someone else on the boards. I can't remember who, but theirs were awesome! Here's the webpage tutorial. Usually I put felt clippies in the middle but decided these looked cute without them.

http://ribbonspikes.wordpress.com/category/2-pinwheel-ribbon-spike-hair-bow-tutorial/

About the pillowcase dresses: I've made a couple. If I can sew them anyone can! I did buy a commercial pattern from Simplicity for 99cents when they were on sale. It gives you a couple versions and a cute pillowcase top/pant set.


Ack! I think I missed some. Love all the dresses I've seen. LOVED the Baby shower photos. We're about to do one for my cousin. She's doing the mustache/little man theme. So I'm going to make the cupcake toppers/bottle water holders/ and I think I'm going to embroider a couple of onsies with the mustache design.

I forgot to grab Sandi's pics of her boys... love the outfits!

Sorry if I missed anyone. I need to stay home so I can stay caught up.. haha.. We're going back to see Caroline this weekend. No internet up there except some spots on my phone so I get so behind. :/