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

[billwendy]

I wonder if a beach towel would work. Like one of those good ones. Wal-Mart has some cute ones for $5, but I don't know how good those would be. You're right it does look like the Mexican Tunics. It also reminded me of the ones like the men wear in Africa. I love those too.

I made the easyfit towel pants from the cheaper beach towels - they are so cute - the kids love them!!! Do you guys have the Christmas Tree shop? I got the beach towels there last year for $3 - they had cute coverups last year too - they looked like an aline with the ball fringe on the bottom and ribbons at the shoulder.....

 

[Tinka_Belle]

I made the easyfit towel pants from the cheaper beach towels - they are so cute - the kids love them!!! Do you guys have the Christmas Tree shop? I got the beach towels there last year for $3 - they had cute coverups last year too - they looked like an aline with the ball fringe on the bottom and ribbons at the shoulder.....

I don't a place like that here. I think that I will pick up some of those beach towels and try my hand at a terry tunic. Ya'll don't wait for me to do it though, because it will be far down on my list.

 

[tricia]

Heather - OMG, you are famous. So glad you still have time for us little people. LOL

Lori - Awesome new outfits.

Toadstool - There is Strawberry shortcake material at my fabric store. Well, there was on Sat. Did ya want me to check again for you? I don't mind, I am there at least once a week anyway.

 

[mirandag819]

LOL!! Great Minds...I have that same fabric and I want to make a set with an apron too!! I LOVE that fabric!!! If I get to it before you, I will take pictures and write up a tutorial on how I make the apron. I'm hoping to get to it this weekend. Here's the one apron I made.

Awesome! I loved your last tutorial, even as a beginner it worked perfect for me. We must shop for fabric at the same place. I felt like a ding dong tonight.... I pulled up your step sisters outfit tonight when DD and I were talking about Disney World. Sunday is my 90 day ADR date and we were talking about where to eat. She asked about eating with the step sister's again so I pulled up the outfit to show her what she will get to wear. Low and behold.... I bought both of those prints this weekend. I knew I loved them when I saw them this weekend, but really didn't realize they were the exact same prints in your outfit. I guess I will hold them for awhile and make something when she outgrows the stepsister outfit, heaven forbid she trys to compare the two, no way I could make anything close to how awesome that outfit is.

BTW.... that is such a cute apron outfit, I would have never thought about it with jeans, but that looks adorable.

 

[billwendy]

DH is "considering" a September trip for us!!! THe free dining is something he has loved in the past - keeping my fingers crossed!!!!!

Any suggestions on what I should say to convince him?????

 

[NaeNae]

HELP PLEASE. . .

I need 4 embroidery applique designs, ASAP,my brother and his DiFi (and DH and I) are going on a short trip (before the baby comes) next week and we leave Dunday, I bought shirts and fabric, but now I need the designs. . . I need:

Eeyore
Tigger
Donald
and Stitch

I saw good ones for Donald and maybe stitch on stitchontime. . . but no regular Tigger (only a cutie) and no Eeyore. . . since Heather hasn't opened her etsy store yet - I need your help - where can I get the others, does anyone know who has a good site with Disney Applique Designs that stitch well??

ALSO -

I have a question about fonts (especially for those of you with a singer futura) - If I bought a font, how would I put it into the program so I could make words with it, or do I have to paste in one letter at a time?? THANKS!

I have bought almost all of mine from http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Tigerlilyhill-Embroidery-Designs__W0QQ_armrsZ1
Her stuff has always been great and she is great to work with. What kind of machine do you have?

 

[Adi12982]

If you ever figure out the answer to the font thing, let me know! It's been driving me crazy! I have a Futura and I bought some really cute fonts and I don't know how to use them. I'm not patient enough to do one letter at at time! I have autopunch, would that help????

I have bought almost all of mine from http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Tigerlilyhill-Embroidery-Designs__W0QQ_armrsZ1
Her stuff has always been great and she is great to work with. What kind of machine do you have?

I'm using a Singer Futura - it takes most any format.

THANKS!! I'll look to see if she has the two I need. . .

 

[my*2*angels]

Look at you with your cute avatar! Love it!

AWW, Thank you!

I WAS JUST ON OPRAH!!!!

What?!!! We are not worthy! We are not worthy!

OMG now I know an honest to goodness TV star!! That rawks!

JHam, did you sew the ribbon the ruffle? I'm guessing? It looks so adorable!

Toadstool I'm sorry you've been feeling bad. I really hope the meds bring you relief. Hang in there!

And...believe it or not... drumroll please...

TODAY I SIGNED UP TO TAKE SEWING 101~!

It's just a 2.5 hour class at our local Joanns where you learn how to use your machine, but it's a start! I can even bring in my own machine (I bought it at a garage sale 2 years ago and promptly stored it, I'm too scared to try it) so maybe by the time I'm done I'll know how to turn it on and load the thread!

And here is the 50's Primetime "dress" I "made" last night. Of course it's all done on my computer in photoshop. It uses the "Sweetheart Dress" pattern by Pretty Baby Boutique at youcanmakethis.com

I actually think it would be cuter with a yellow or pink dot dress and the same main color sash and zigzag trim, though, but all I could find in a photo of a dress with that pattern that was close to what I had in my head was a picture of the black dot. I'm not sure about the eyelet on the apron. My respect to the original sewer of the dress, I thought it would be okay to use it for illustration purposes since I made it just for fun and it's from a pattern that's readily available

Here's a larger copy of the apron logo I designed, a copy of the sign for the restaurant but with the name in the place of the clock:

So what do y'all think? How could something like this be improved? I feel like it's "missing something." (Of course it will probably be 3 years or so before I could actually attempt sewing it, lol!) Like maybe instead of the name on the apron in the logo, it should be sewn on a patch up top like a name badge for a waitress.

That is sooo cute! LOVE IT!

Love it! Already added the pattern to my wish list!

Thanks! You will love it!

 

[Adi12982]

I have bought almost all of mine from http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Tigerlilyhill-Embroidery-Designs__W0QQ_armrsZ1
Her stuff has always been great and she is great to work with. What kind of machine do you have?

Sadly she didn't have them. . . . I may just have to do them by hand, but I am terrible at hand applique

 

[Clutterbug]

Don't know where the quote went - but someone asked about making the Sophie Tunic out of terry cloth. I have to say that I don't particularly recommend it. I made this version in testing, and, let's just say that I'm not real fond of it.

The fabric kept stretching for some reason. It came out kinda wonky. But I did learn that I don't like working with terry cloth in these types of applications. I may like it more for smaller projects or something. but it didn't work well for this.

This is so funny...

We currently have (not all are hooked up right now) - atari, Nintendo Original, PS2, N64, Wii, gameboy, and DS. I did have a sega and a Nomad to go with it, but i sold it on EBAY and it went for a mint!!!

THat is a bummer about the terrycloth not working - I had made easy fit pants from a towel, and thought this tunic might be a good top - we keep going to the beach into Sept and it gets chily for the kids towards the end of the day. The tunic kind of reminds me of those shirts that were popular maybe from mexico made out of that rough material and they had a hood???

Darnnit, that's exactly what I was thinking of trying too. I've made a bunch of Easy Fit towel pants for my kids and their friends and I was thinking of trying towel tops from the tunic pattern. I may still try it so I'll let you all know how it works out.

 

[sohappy]

Sadly she didn't have them. . . . I may just have to do them by hand, but I am terrible at hand applique

You should send her a message. She has a HUGE photobucket account. You can do a transaction outside of ebay (I have done this with her before or I wouldn't recommend it). She will give you the address of the account and you can find tons of stuff there, probably what you are looking for.

 

[jham]

Love the added ribbon ruffle!! what a GREAT idea!!! Boy, that Lily is growing up and looking like her beautiful big sister!!! Did you make a tunic for Jayden?



LOL - my DH plays WOW too!! I havent gotten sucked in, but he plays it all the time!! I do like video games though!! Right now I've been playing Rythm Heaven on my DS....FUN!!!

Does anyone have an IPOD touch? What are your favorite downloads for that (applications)?

Do you think the tunic could be made out of a beach towel? I was thinking beach coverup???????

I plan to make one for her, I just have to upsize the pattern one size (or wait for the adult version, but I'm not that patient, I have fabric already!) I just bought some more copy paper, so soon!

Ok, I'm posting to take one last look at my ticker in my siggy. I'm sorry to report that we have cancelled our July trip. Several things have come up, and we've decided it's just not something that we should do right now. So, the reservations are cancelled. But on a brigher note, we HAVE decided that we want to plan a trip to California (including Disneyland). We're trying to figure out a good time for our family to make that trip. It probably won't be until 2010. Looking forward to that!

You know, October 2009 is a lovely time to go to Disneyland

 

[emcreative]

Really quick before i go lay down again (sure hope the doc can fix this pain tomorrow!)

Anyone have any ideas of something I could hotfix for myself to wear to cinderella's table. Something like "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" or something? It's a dinner so it's the fairy godmother show.

Love to hear some ideas!

 

[jham]

Really quick before i go lay down again (sure hope the doc can fix this pain tomorrow!)

Anyone have any ideas of something I could hotfix for myself to wear to cinderella's table. Something like "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" or something? It's a dinner so it's the fairy godmother show.

Love to hear some ideas!

Once upon a time someone did the cutest hotfix Cinderella's carriage! I don't know who or where the pics are though. I've always wanted one for myself.

 

[revrob]

Really quick before i go lay down again (sure hope the doc can fix this pain tomorrow!)

Anyone have any ideas of something I could hotfix for myself to wear to cinderella's table. Something like "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" or something? It's a dinner so it's the fairy godmother show.

Love to hear some ideas!

Once upon a time someone did the cutest hotfix Cinderella's carriage! I don't know who or where the pics are though. I've always wanted one for myself.

I think the carriage would be awfully cute! AND, when you get the pattern together, I think it would be absolutely necessary to post it here!

 

[revrob]

I plan to make one for her, I just have to upsize the pattern one size (or wait for the adult version, but I'm not that patient, I have fabric already!) I just bought some more copy paper, so soon!



You know, October 2009 is a lovely time to go to Disneyland

I would LOVE to go in October. However, it's getting really difficult to take Ethan out of school for trips. He eventually is fine, but he really freaks out at the idea of having to miss school and catch everything up when he gets home. It's really attributed to his ADHD - he can't handle the idea of having to keep a week's worth of work organized enough to get it done. So, we feel that it isn't fair to him to put that kind of stress on him. AND, it's not fair to us to have to deal with his attitude about it. So, we're trying to find a time when the kids are out of school.

We really want to do several things in Southern California while we're there. We have to have a beach day. I've read something about whale watching? I think that would be really cool. I'm not sure what all we're gonna do yet - still trying to figure it out!

 

[danicaw]

heck I do not think I sleep lately.. I have 2 planned to start on tonight. lol

on the ruffle trim I roll the hems......



Thank you..... I have been sewing and listing like crazy .... I like the tropical one too... I bought way too much of that fabric! lol

Lori

Thanks!

Really quick before i go lay down again (sure hope the doc can fix this pain tomorrow!)

Anyone have any ideas of something I could hotfix for myself to wear to cinderella's table. Something like "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" or something? It's a dinner so it's the fairy godmother show.

Love to hear some ideas!

Oh! "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" would be cute! Maybe with a wand?
I think I remember the carriage, I like that idea also.

 

[ibesue]

I have messed up my quotes again. My computer logged me off and I couldn't find my multiquote and well that was the story of my day!!

So from memory.... LOVED all the tunic tops. So cute. And again, I am so jealous that all of you guys get to be testers!!! CARLA, I want to test too!

Heather, you are now a celebrity!! You were on the Oprah show and I saw it!!!

All the outfits are too cute, the poodle skirts are so much fun. Can't wait to see everyone in their skirts! The hot fix shirts are cute and you are amazing at making the designs!! I wish I had known you when it was time for 100 days of school. I had an idea, but no skills to make it! Lori, you have been so busy!! I can't believe you have made that many sets! You don't want to move it all?? I love finding old fabric! I love even more finding old fabric that is selling for a TON on ebay right now!! (think many yards of MERMAID fabric!)

I know I am missing tons. I am trying to make a skirt and figure out how to open an etsy shop. The more I read, the more I am not sure about the shop!

DUH, see I already forgot... SHANNON YOU ARE COMING TO CA???????????

 

[Tinka_Belle]

I would LOVE to go in October. However, it's getting really difficult to take Ethan out of school for trips. He eventually is fine, but he really freaks out at the idea of having to miss school and catch everything up when he gets home. It's really attributed to his ADHD - he can't handle the idea of having to keep a week's worth of work organized enough to get it done. So, we feel that it isn't fair to him to put that kind of stress on him. AND, it's not fair to us to have to deal with his attitude about it. So, we're trying to find a time when the kids are out of school.

We really want to do several things in Southern California while we're there. We have to have a beach day. I've read something about whale watching? I think that would be really cool. I'm not sure what all we're gonna do yet - still trying to figure it out!

You have to do Whale watching. It is so much fun. We did that in San Diego and it was a blast. My brother got sea sick though and me and my little sister were enjoying popcorn and that didn't help my brother at all. Oh Fond Memories!!

 

[MouseTriper]

Linnette.....where are you? Are you okay????????????