VBAndrea
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- Joined
- Jun 28, 2009
It means you just slide a piece of stabilizer underneath your hoop without attaching it. One you do your first placement stitch it gets attached, though if you remove the hoop from the machine to cut fabric for an applique and then reattach it make sure you keep the floated stabilizer even so it doesn't fold over. DOes that make sense? I'm often unsure I explain things well -- I'm a visual learner and would rather teach that way too.What does float mean?
The funny thing is I have that skirt pinned but I never made it b/c it doesn't "wow" me -- yours wows me! I think you made your tie and waist band wider and I like that so much better.Thanks Andrea and Pyrxtc.
The skirt was actually a free twirl skirt tutorial I found online. I made another ladybug skirt with red trim exactly to the tute's specifications for a size 5 and it is WAY twirly, and also super cute. A full 45" front AND full 45" back panel so it takes a while to go the full length of fabric. I love this tute as it provided guidelines for multiple sizes. It also calls for 1/2" elastic in the waist, which helps. My kids are both super skinny, so I anticipate the tie will come in handy though. I used fat quaters from Joann's for the "Rapunzel" skirt, and that worked just fine. I needed 2 of the purple and 3 of the green (needed about 1 full FQ for the tie and I made the hem about 3"). I took advantage of a sale with the FQs at 1/2 off, so it wasn't too bad - $5 for the fabric. I used DS as my model to figure out the end length I wanted, he's in a size 7 now. Such a trooper.
Twirly Skirt Tutorial
http://www.houseonhillroad.com/
Agree on the sizing on McCall's, my mom bless her heart, lives in MI, so she did have DD for a fitting (we're in MN). She ended up taking it in about 1" on each side! Crazy!
If you want to learn we all recommend Carla's (Scientific Seamstress) Easy Fit Pants to start with. They are available on YouCanMakeThis.com. It's almost like you get a free sewing lesson -- things are well explained and so much better than a commercial pattern.It took a few days to fiend this thread. Wow every one makes really nice things. I have tryed but all i can turn out is a pillow case lol...
I love the polo too!I cut fabric for a shirt for DH (from a Mickey print) to match all 3 of the boys (I had a LOT of the fabric in question). He didn't want to admit it, but he happily picked out the applique that will go on it.
He also loves the polo I did for him and agreed that it looks like something you'd pay about $35-40 at the parks.
If you can't have fun dressing at Disney, where can you??? (Okay, confession: I'm actually wearing a shirt I stitched out with Mickey & Minnie on it today.)
My other confession - I went shopping and hit Joann's for the sale and Walmart (only because I needed a new rechargeable razor - figures mine would die the first day of pool season). Between the CLEARANCE at Wally-world and the sale at J's...check this out:
I had to sneak that picture while DH wasn't paying attention. (Notice I got the new Brave fabric - yay!!!). BTW - I found two different bolts of Princess and the Frog cottons and two different fleece prints on the extra 50% off red tag clearance. I didn't need any, but it was pretty and darn cheap.
Great fabrics -- I have all of those except Brave and Perry -- Joann's had them, but my wallet didn't have the extra money.
Your first attempt turned out absolutely perfect! Have a wonderful cruise! And Happy Anniversary -- but don't let Cheryl see your post -- she just canceled her 30th Anniv. cruise to AK since she is not recovering well from her surgery.My first attempt at appliques. I am very happy with it. We fly to Seattle on Friday for our 30th anniversary cruise to Alaska. All of you wonderful people motivated me to get back to sewing after basically a 26 year hiatus.