Disboutiquers Part 13 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[minnie2]

Sorry about all the posts!
Here is what I ahve been working on.

I actually made Kyle these shorts awhile ago but Friday it was finally warm enough for him to wear them. He has Darth vader ones like them.

This is the dress for my girlfriends niece that I got roped into and I really didn't want to make. Hopefully she will like it and once I see her in it I will be glad I made it.

This is Carla's peasant dress up sized to a 12! THANKS CARLA!!!!!!!
At 1st I thought it was going to be HUGE because I am used to making things for my niece and Nikki and Nikki is only an 8.
Her she is modeling it. It is for her BFF's bday gift.

getting her twirl on!

It was windy and the dress is really big on her so it didn't twirl right. She had her pj's on under neither....

I didn't have enough green dot fabric . I wished I did because I would have done green dot then the character fabric but Oh well I hope the kids like them.
I think not really wanting to do that one dress affected my creativity for both dresses.

 

[minnie2]

Here is my first Big Give outfit. This is for Jacob's sister Abbigal.

I was going to have DD2 try it on and model it, but I thought better of it. I'm pretty sure she would have thought it was hers and I might not have been able to get it off of her!!! Does it look okay? I only make stuff for my kiddos and my neices so I am really nervous about this outfit! I can see about a million things I should have done differently. I hope little Abbigal likes it.

It is adorable!!!!!

 

[twob4him]

I am home sick today...I'll be ok....but I just had to comment on a few things:

Miss T- you look fabulous!!!! Sorry you're are so tired and not feeling well. I don't think people realize how hard pregnancy is on our bodies and organs. You asking your body to run two people. Please dont feel bad resting and make sure you do!!!!

CATHY, why won't you go to WDW again without your kiddos? Darren and I went before we had kids and it was fantastic. Did you feel guilty about being there without them? I could totally see that happening. I really want to go back by ourselves again but I think I would feel bad about leaving them. I guess that trip will have to wait until they are grown. But I am excited about going away for a week with friends to my parents FL house this summer! We've never left the girls before (together anyway - and I've only left the older two once for 4 nights) so we'll see how it goes. I need a break!

For some unknown reason, I thought it would be fun to go to Disney without my kids. I don't know what I was thinking.....freedom perhaps or not being slowed up or whatever. Well, it was fun for about 2 or 3 hours and the rest of the weekend was torture. I mean I did have fun but the whole time I am wishing they were with me to see this or do that or meet the other Dis kids and play...etc. Lesson learned! I won't do that again....

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

So sorry to hear this....prayers for all of you

Have any of you ever seen Buzz Lightyear applique designs for an embroidery machine?????

I did a quick goggle search and came up empty handed..I even check Stitch on Time....nothing...hope someone can help you find it...Buzz is out there somewhere.

Here is my first Big Give outfit. This is for Jacob's sister Abbigal.

I was going to have DD2 try it on and model it, but I thought better of it. I'm pretty sure she would have thought it was hers and I might not have been able to get it off of her!!! Does it look okay? I only make stuff for my kiddos and my neices so I am really nervous about this outfit! I can see about a million things I should have done differently. I hope little Abbigal likes it.

OH she will love it....its so pretty and I love the ruffle....really darling!

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

Hey we had our silent auction tonight and the tote bag and wristlet went for....

wait for it...

$15!

I am disappointed but then I read here that the same thing happened to fairygoodmother, and my stuff was nowhere near complicated and beautiful. $15 was the minimum bid, so can you imagine if there wasn't one?

I think mixed in with the other silent auction stuff (restaurant, golf, limo, sports, etc.) homemade items just don't stand out.

Hope everyone has a great weekend, I need to go catch up and see what I missed (and maybe sew some!).

Oh no! I don't get it...why are these things getting such low bids! Don't people get they are getting a "one of a kind" item! I would have paid you more!!!

Okay I finished my first dress this morning. It was the first thing I have made besides easy fit pants. It was also my first attempt at applique. I think it turned out okay, it's not perfect, but I'm happy with it for my first try. The pics aren't great, I can't find my camera so I had to use my blackberry.

My model wouldn't stand still she was twirling and running around in it, which normally would be cute, but the blackberry camera pics come out too blurry like that. Here is the top, you can see the colors a little better here:

Very cute! I love Boo!!!!!

So this is what I have been doing to un-stress - organize my sewing area. Dh is going to get me some wall shelves, and I also have a few other things that I need to put on the wall.

View of the whole room - what used to be our formal dining room - the disadvantage of that is that I am going to have to try and keep in clean and tidy all the time since it is in the front of our house! I think someday when the kids are older, I am moving my sewing area upstairs.

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Nice are!!!! Very nice! I need to organize my fabric one of these days! My is all kinda heeped into my cabinet...maybe I should be doing that now....

Awesome costumes, Boo applique and sewing room (and stash!). I would lock up at night the way the girls are talking on here J/K!


So, I really got to try out the borrowed machine (Janome 10000). Don't know if anyone else beside Steph rides horses but I feel like I climbed off a nice servicable lesson horse (my machine), and climbed onto an Olympic Dressage horse. First, I really like the auto threader and the knee lift. I am so used to using a peddle foot that I can't get used to the on/off button. I went to applique something and there is a whole applique section. All I did was clicked on zig-zag...and it started. It stitched around the applique perfectly....no gaps or uneven stitches...my machine can't even come close to it. Next, I can overlock the seams....way cool....not as good as a serger but much better than zig-zagging. Then I had to make button holes. I dread buttons. Well, there is this button-hole foot where you place the button in the back and it measures it. You literally put the presser foot down at the bottom and press start. It does the entire button-hole perfectly and squarely in about 15 seconds. When it was done, I started yelling "Look Look Look!!!" Everyone came running to see. Even my dh is impressed. OK I will stop gushing and show you the machine....tomorrow when I finish what I am making I will show you....then its onto trying to do an applique from swak....

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That sounds like me when I got my new Singer last year...it was a huge step up from my 1950's singer and everytime I would figure out the new things it would do...I would yell for everyone to come see...they all gave me the "nice"...but I was amazed!!!

Thank you to everyone for the nice comments about all my outfits I forgot to put the actual disney one on her so here it is. It was nice to hear how everone liked the jellyfish skirt. It is starting to grow on me maybe I won't take it apart to see where i went wrong. I love all the new twirl skirts and darla I love the costumes. I wish I had the sewing machine that was pictured. Look like it would be fun to have. Well I hpe you all have a nice day I am off to finish cutting out my 45 headbands. And sew them if I make it through all of them I will share. To all.

Very cute! Katie loves all things Tink! I like the jellyfish too!!!!

Kids Sewing Machine,,,,

Hi Everyone - does anyone know where I could get a kids sewing machine pretty cheap? I am working with a little girl who has many disabilities and would like to try sewing with her as part of her therapy session - Im a bit afraid to use the department machine (yes, believe it or not we have a machine in our department) with her and am wondering if the kids machine would be safer?? I want to try to gain her interest because that is when she pays the best attention and learns.....she is a sweetie, but has sooo many issues....tips or help from those who have a kiddie machine???

Thanks so much!!!

Update on Daniel - I know many of you continue to pray for my Daniel - he is doing pretty well right now as far as his health goes. His 2 big issues are weight loss ( he is getting sooooooo thin so he has no reserve if he were to get sick) and then just the damage from the tumor removal is resolving so slowly (posterior fossa syndrome) - I know too much compared to the others in our family, and sometimes that makes it so hard. He is still just very silly all the time and laughs and giggles at anything - makes him have a hard time with any school work they are trying to do with him.....but better than than being depressed and crying all the time, right??? Keep praying - he still has a long road of recovery!!!

Thanks friends!

Kaite has the Singer Pixie that we came from Wal-mart...about $50...it is pretty simple...hope that helps.

Continued prayers for Daniel.

A few weeks ago, I had the kids portraits made- I am just in LOVE with these. I had to take pics of the framed pictures. To reduce the glare, I had to take them slightly from the side.

Great pictures! They look so cute...as usual!

Thought you ladies would enjoy this one. We went to look at a house today. There is a master suite with bedroom, walk-in closet, bath, and then this random other little room off of it. I guess some people use it as an office/others as a nursery. Randy response to it: Well that would make a nice scrapbooking/sewing room for you FINALLY, I got through to him

FUNNY! Good job that he gets it!!!!

SO I have a question for you crafty ladies...(of which I am NOT one, but I love what y'all create!)

Is there some unwritten rule that says you don't dress your kids in awesome handmade Disneywear once they wear more than a 6?

Okay okay I know I'm kinda kidding here, and I do understand that a lot of patterns are made for the little ones, but it seems like there isn't much ebay etsy anywhere for the bigger girls so I wondered if it was just a lack of patterns available or something?

My DD 10 loves to wear the customes....she is even leaning back toward a "few" ruffles...but she does love the custom made outfits!

quick update. I'll be 31 weeks on tues and haven't taken a belly pic yet so her ya go!

Mind you I have NO makeup on and I'm exhausted so excuse the circles!!!

...t.

T- I wish I looked that good now...every inch of my body swelled when I was pregnant...you look amazing!!!!

 

[Twins+2more]

the big give outfits all I can say isit is so hard to do a snow white theme outfit for boys !! it looks perfect,

Love the Puppy Birthday love the idea !!!! my older boy was really into dinosaurs ,when he was 4 yrs and we did the Dino theme party including "digging for dinos" , hunting dinos, and dino pinatas ...we spent the most for that party , but was the best!!!! the kids had so much fun, OH how I miss those days!!!
Love the kids pictures!!!

T you look beautiful, I looked so bad when I was pregnant I never took a picture!!


thank you so much for the compliments on the mickey disco dot top, I did not use a pattern as it was one of those accidental things , I had less than 1/2 of the fabric and decided to work with it , the bottom shape was part of what was left from another cut and I decided to just use bias tape to keep it at a good length ,the straps I made them too long so I had to add the hoops at the back , really simple

I am working on a Cinderella sundress ( this picture the dress is only hand basted) I hand basted to have an idea how it will look , as usual I am wondering if you think Cinderella when you look at it (dress is not finished)

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TIME TO VENT AND I NEED ADVISE!!!

OK, so today I have our friends (with their two daughters) come over, we did a little sewing ( I was teaching them) and one of the girls was telling me how she got in trouble for stealing, I gave her a little talk about why it is bad to steal, how God do not like it, and how you hurt a lot of different people with your actions (parents, friends , etc) and asked her what her brain told her when she did it ...her response was ...I knew it was bad we kept talking and BTW the last time (last week) she came to my apartment I promised her if she did good in school I was going to buy her a PSP or Nintendo dsi,


My youngest son collects trading cards, some of the cards are really expensive and he has quite a collection, the little girl asked me for some and I told her that they belonged to my son , they were really expensive but she could asked my son to give her one maybe of lesser value that he did not mind sharing ( he gave her 2 cards), well after the family left my son came to the room crying that half of his collection cards were missing!!!! more than 30 cards ( he's been collecting them since he was 5 and had them in a tin can even thought we bought him a binder with the pages to keep them and told him over and over to take care of them as they were expensive and as some of them were so rare , hard to get)

at this point I am so MAD!! I wanted to call the parents and let them know what happened , but my husband told me to let it go, that it was my little one's fault for being careless , I pointed out that one of the card I spent a good amount of money(it was for his birthday) and the told me let him learn a lesson

the family is to come back next Sunday and I really want to talk to the parents, to me is the principle of the matter, she knew we spoke about stealing and that being WRONG, if I only had a tape of the speech i gave her about it...I spoke for about 15 min to her and i thoughtshe "got it" , I feel so stupid and upset at the same time,

I told my husband that I will let her know that she will not be getting anything from us, but my husband says we have to because we promised her, I really do not want to get her anything , my husband keeps saying let it go...What will you do????????????????

sorry for the vent but I am so HURT!!!!

linnette

Linnette,
Im so sorry that happened to you. I would DEFINATALLY tell the lil girls family for a number of reasons. 1. They are the parents and need to know 2. She needs punished so she will not do it again (hopefully) 3. Maybe u can get the cards back 4. She needs to know why you can not trust her again around your stuff in your house 5. She needs to know that you can not steal and get away with it.
As far as buying her a gift (dsi or psp) for good grades you let her know that you had every intention on doing so untill she hurt you and stold from your family. Reallly lay it on thick how disappointed youa re in her and that it hurts you and your son for her to take what is not hers especially after he gave her the 2 cards. Tell her at this point as punishment you will not be teaching her to sew and will not buy her gift, however if she returns the cards and appologizes then after the grades come up you will teach her to sew or if you are still willing buy the game system. I don't think you should do both, just as a lesson to the lil girl. But you do owe it to the parents to let them know what is going on.
Now to the dress. That is so cute. It looks great. Are you making jewelery now? Is that necklace attached to the dress. HOW CUTE! You rocked cinderella.

 

[revrob]

I was looking through some older pics and came across some that I got a kick out of......

Morgan's first thoughts on SW (She had been in this country about 2 weeks LOL)

This reminds me of AbbyGrace when she went to Disney for the first time after getting home. It was very difficult communicating to her that she was supposed to smile. She went to BBB during that trip (my parents treated her to the whole package thing) and she picked SNOW WHITE! Why? Because she loved the shoes! That's my girl! This is the only picture that I have of her smiling during that trip!

the big give outfits all I can say isit is so hard to do a snow white theme outfit for boys !! it looks perfect,

Love the Puppy Birthday love the idea !!!! my older boy was really into dinosaurs ,when he was 4 yrs and we did the Dino theme party including "digging for dinos" , hunting dinos, and dino pinatas ...we spent the most for that party , but was the best!!!! the kids had so much fun, OH how I miss those days!!!
Love the kids pictures!!!

T you look beautiful, I looked so bad when I was pregnant I never took a picture!!


thank you so much for the compliments on the mickey disco dot top, I did not use a pattern as it was one of those accidental things , I had less than 1/2 of the fabric and decided to work with it , the bottom shape was part of what was left from another cut and I decided to just use bias tape to keep it at a good length ,the straps I made them too long so I had to add the hoops at the back , really simple

I am working on a Cinderella sundress ( this picture the dress is only hand basted) I hand basted to have an idea how it will look , as usual I am wondering if you think Cinderella when you look at it (dress is not finished)

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I've just go to say that I LOVE THIS DRESS! This is one of my favorite things that you've ever created!

 

[eeyore3847]

I dress my 9 year old in lots of customs and her favorites are the twirl skirts. I'm starting on one for her tonight. Here is her in one I recently made for a Big Give (also for a 9 yo).

The one thing she won't do, no matter how much I try to pay her... is wear anything that looks like a costume (no Cinderella dresses for her)

very cute I like it a lot... perfect for a tween

 

[eeyore3847]

I have been MIA this weekend and skimmed many of the pages---lots of cute stuff! We had a yard sale and made $400 to put towards the Disney fund!

OH MY GOSH!!!!! That is a great Yard SALE!!!! WOO HOO!!!!

 

[ireland_nicole]

Thanks!

We're adopting two boys. One will be "anytime now", he just turned 1 on Friday. We are also adopting his "older" brother (by only 11 months!), he will be 2 at the end of May, and his adoption is scheduled for August. We also have 3 girls, aged 12, 8 (on Saturday) and 9.

I wish I could show you a pic of them all! One of the things I'm looking forward to about having the adoption over with is being able to show off pics of my new sons!

Congratulations! Can't wait to see the pics when you're able to take them! DH and I have talked about adoption, but he thinks our 2 have to many special needs to bring another kiddo into the family. I'm trying to tell him that there would still be 24 hours in a day, and the necessary would still get done... we'll see...

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

I don't have any books, but I'm very sorry for your loss

Thanks for the many compliments guys. I am feeling rather large and gross lately. I've always felt really pretty during my pregnancies and this one -not so much.
I really would like one more but this pregnancy is kicking my butt. It's kinda funny, I felt REALLY great all of the time w/ Little except I kept landing in the hospital for ridiculous things. I got into a car accident and the ER kept me from 9 am to 5 pm w/ no water or food which caused me to dehydrate and start contracting-DUH- so I had to stay over night for "preterm labor" which it WASN'T. Then I had some kidney problems due to her position and that put me in the hospital a couple of times and about 4 weeks left to go and I pulled an intercostal rib muscle typing at work b/c my belly kept the keyboard so far away I can laugh about it now but I couldn't even breath w/out excruciating pain and it took them 2 days to figure out why. Come to THIS pregnancy and I haven't had to go to the hospital ONCE but I feel pretty crummy a lot of the time. I am ALWAYS tired. The other day I got up at 8:45 (15 minutes before I had to take Mac to school, he's such a good kid he can always tell when I need a little extra sleep and will wait as long as he can to wake me) and by 10:30 I could barely keep my eyes open. It's miserable to never feel like you've had enough sleep. I keep telling B my body is just prepping me for the months of little sleep ahead LOL.

OK, vent over. Thanks again for all of the kind words!
...t.

Every pregnancy is different, and you're not doing anything "wrong" this time; your body just needs more rest then you're getting. you are going to get through this, I promise. But I know ya feel awful right now. Just remember, baby's worth it and this pregnancy will be over soon; in the meantime, feel free to vent away when you need to; I know a lot of us have been there and can sympathize.

I am working on a Cinderella sundress ( this picture the dress is only hand basted) I hand basted to have an idea how it will look , as usual I am wondering if you think Cinderella when you look at it (dress is not finished)

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WOW; I certainly see Cindy when I see this, and the back is amazing! My DD would go nuts if she saw it, of course then she'd expect mommy to make her one, and no way could I pull it off LOL

TIME TO VENT AND I NEED ADVISE!!!

OK, so today I have our friends (with their two daughters) come over, we did a little sewing ( I was teaching them) and one of the girls was telling me how she got in trouble for stealing, I gave her a little talk about why it is bad to steal, how God do not like it, and how you hurt a lot of different people with your actions (parents, friends , etc) and asked her what her brain told her when she did it ...her response was ...I knew it was bad we kept talking and BTW the last time (last week) she came to my apartment I promised her if she did good in school I was going to buy her a PSP or Nintendo dsi,


My youngest son collects trading cards, some of the cards are really expensive and he has quite a collection, the little girl asked me for some and I told her that they belonged to my son , they were really expensive but she could asked my son to give her one maybe of lesser value that he did not mind sharing ( he gave her 2 cards), well after the family left my son came to the room crying that half of his collection cards were missing!!!! more than 30 cards ( he's been collecting them since he was 5 and had them in a tin can even thought we bought him a binder with the pages to keep them and told him over and over to take care of them as they were expensive and as some of them were so rare , hard to get)

at this point I am so MAD!! I wanted to call the parents and let them know what happened , but my husband told me to let it go, that it was my little one's fault for being careless , I pointed out that one of the card I spent a good amount of money(it was for his birthday) and the told me let him learn a lesson

the family is to come back next Sunday and I really want to talk to the parents, to me is the principle of the matter, she knew we spoke about stealing and that being WRONG, if I only had a tape of the speech i gave her about it...I spoke for about 15 min to her and i thoughtshe "got it" , I feel so stupid and upset at the same time,

I told my husband that I will let her know that she will not be getting anything from us, but my husband says we have to because we promised her, I really do not want to get her anything , my husband keeps saying let it go...What will you do????????????????

sorry for the vent but I am so HURT!!!!

linnette

Of course you're hurt, of course you're mad. You opened your home and your heart to a child, and they violated your trust, and worse, hurt your child. I would also have a talk with her, and agree that I would explain to her that unfortunately, you no longer have the money for the gift because you have to replace what is missing. I don't think your son was remiss- the cards were in his room where they should have been safe. That being said, unfortunately you now know to keep an eye on this little one at all times. To not say anyting tacitly tells her that what she did was ok. She's not a monster, but she is definitely having a major problem, and needs someone who cares about her to correct the behavior. Better you than school staff or worse, the police when it happens again. And make no mistake; if she "gets away with it" she will do it again.

My Aunt called me tonight my grandfather passed away this afternoon. He had been sick for a long time. I was hoping to see him during our Florida visit.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Here is my first Big Give outfit. This is for Jacob's sister Abbigal.

I was going to have DD2 try it on and model it, but I thought better of it. I'm pretty sure she would have thought it was hers and I might not have been able to get it off of her!!! Does it look okay? I only make stuff for my kiddos and my neices so I am really nervous about this outfit! I can see about a million things I should have done differently. I hope little Abbigal likes it.

I love it! I'm sure Abbigal will too; it's absolutely adorable!

 

[JustcallmeHappy]

Hi Guys
Has anyone seen any disney iron on patches lately? Goofy, pluto, Marie??

THanks, wendy

They have "bigger" ones at Joann's. I got a Nemo one this weekend, I think I saw Mickey or Minnie (but not both) and Maybe Pooh. And I think the price was around 6.00 HTH

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

So...Kaite is home sick today...so I was laying on the couch watching Lifetime...she likes to watch Reba...and this commercial comes on about casting for Project Runway...oh Linnette!


http://www.bunim-murray.com/index.php?session=casting&id=17

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

How is that a BAD thing?

It's only a bad thing for my wallet

quick update. I'll be 31 weeks on tues and haven't taken a belly pic yet so her ya go!

Mind you I have NO makeup on and I'm exhausted so excuse the circles!!!

...t.

WOW T, wish I looked that good NOW!!!

Didn't put in an offer. We don't love the yard/driveway. The house itself is perfect (although at the highest end of our price range of course!). The driveway is on a hill and kinda long- which would be kinda hard for me to snow blow to get to work since Randy works nights.

Can you have your DH talk to mine please!

This was a fluke...I assure you!!!

Is Morgan wearing a store-bought outfit????

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

Sorry to hear about your grandma. We got Maria Shiver's book "What's Heaven" for DD. It was very helpful but obviously only works for certain religions

My Aunt called me tonight my grandfather passed away this afternoon. He had been sick for a long time. I was hoping to see him during our Florida visit.

So Sorry

Here is my first Big Give outfit. This is for Jacob's sister Abbigal.

Great job



I lost Linnette's Cindy sundress. Gorgeous as always Linnette

 

[t-beri]

WOW T, wish I looked that good NOW!!!

Yeah, well as soon as I drop this kid I'm hittin' the pavement so I can do the 1/2 w/ you so you'd better be Fo' Shiz!

 

[Eyore4Ever149]

Yeah, well as soon as I drop this kid I'm hittin' the pavement so I can do the 1/2 w/ you so you'd better be Fo' Shiz!

Okay I have no idea what that last word means- but I definitely am looking forward to being able to get out and exercise when my midwives and chiro give me the green light, I sure hope I dont have to wait long- Im hoping I can get out and go for a walk by the time the baby is 2 weeks old. Just to be able to stroll down my neighborhood street would be nice.

 

[t-beri]

 

[froggy33]

Good morning all!!
I ordered the serger from Hancock Fabrics - it should be here in a few days - but now I need help with the Thread. What do you buy?? Do you have to buy 4 cones of each color?? Does anyone know of some somewhat inexpensive thread, or sets of thread?? I am going to get some books on how to use it, but I want to be able to hit the ground running when it does get here!

Thanks for all your help!

Everything looks amazing! I had to get caught up again from over the weekend - so no multi-quote. I just love the Cinderella sun dress!!

 

[NaeNae]

Good morning all!!
I ordered the serger from Hancock Fabrics - it should be here in a few days - but now I need help with the Thread. What do you buy?? Do you have to buy 4 cones of each color?? Does anyone know of some somewhat inexpensive thread, or sets of thread?? I am going to get some books on how to use it, but I want to be able to hit the ground running when it does get here!

Thanks for all your help!

Everything looks amazing! I had to get caught up again from over the weekend - so no multi-quote. I just love the Cinderella sun dress!!

I always buy mine when Hancocks puts it on sale. If you're going to do rolled hems then you need at least 3 of the color that you want to use. I usually buy 4 of each but I don't have every color. I just match the closest to the material since it won't show. I have red, black, white, pink, hot pink, purple, light blue. On my serger you can use regular thread. I do that alot of times for rolled hems so the thread will match my fabric.

 

[froggy33]

I always buy mine when Hancocks puts it on sale. If you're going to do rolled hems then you need at least 3 of the color that you want to use. I usually buy 4 of each but I don't have every color. I just match the closest to the material since it won't show. I have red, black, white, pink, hot pink, purple, light blue. On my serger you can use regular thread. I do that alot of times for rolled hems so the thread will match my fabric.

Ohh thanks so much!! I'll have to see if you can use regular thread on mine. I got the Juno by Janome (that you can hardly find information about!) I do want to use the serger for nice quick seams, but also for some nice rolled hems and it would be perfect if I could just use regular thread. Do you have a specific brand or type of thread, or just get what's on sale (that totally works for me!

Thanks!!

 

[surfergirl602]

I was talking to my sewing machine repair person the other day and he said they have perfectly nice "used" but maintained sewing machines (with all of their parts) sitting in his store for only $100. Maybe you could get a gently used but more updated machine. I would hate for you to get discouraged because you are trying to learn on an old machine. Try calling your local sew/vac repair store. That way you get help and service with your machine!

ha ha - this is actually the first type of place I looked for - there aren't any!!!

 

[surfergirl602]

I don't have any suggestion, I am a huge beginner, sorry..... but I just saw your avatar..... is that by any chance the former CM who's article was posted on here the other day? I know he played Jack and dated Ariel..that was an interesting article.

lol I don't know!!! I wondered that exact thing after I read that article. I actually found it on the internet while I was searching for a Jack picture for my avatar. That one made me laugh so much that I had to use it. I am wondering if it is the "picture" he got in trouble for?