Disboutiquers Part 15 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[PrincessKell]

Here are some photos of Lily from a photoshoot (playing with my new camera) the other day. My friend Jen made the pillowcase dresses, I made the ruffle pants and peasant top.

Seriously, Lily just gets cuter everytime I see her. I dont know how she does it but she does!

ANOTHER STRIPWORK SKIRT QUESTION:





So, I decided I'm a glutton for punishment and I'm making Emmy (12, women's size 12) a stripwork skirt. REmember I'm a sewing moron, so just cutting out the strips and sewing them together took me 7.5 hours. I told her for mother's day I want breakfast in bed..for a week! )

Anyhoo she's a little old for "ruffles" at the bottom of the skirt. Could I use a relatively narrow quilt binding to finish off the bottom edge instead? Or will it bulk up too much?

Thanks.

(You know, we realy need this smilie for when I post this stuff:

I add cuffs alot over ruffles at the bottoms. I bet a cuff would make it look more grown up. or bias tape would be good too.

I'm absolutely in AMAZEMENT when I look at all the gorgeous things all of you can make! Makes me feel like such a dud of a mommy!

Just wondering - can anyone tell me if it's hard for someone who's never sewn before to make Pillowcase dresses?? I'm looking for inexpensive ways to make my girls cute as a button for our Disney trip in December and love the style of the pillowcase dresses on lil girls! I'm so tempted to try making one but not sure if it's biting off more than I can chew or not!

I think that pillowcase dresses are a great starter dress to make. They can be super simple, or you can fancy them up and still have it cost little! I think that you can do it! Its super fun and addicting. you will be sewin like a champ in no time at all!

So, I've been dying to go back to Disney World. First it was baby fever...now it's Disney fever! lol...Disney Destinations sent me a pincode for $58/night in a value or $89 in a moderate for 8/22/09-10/01/09. And since DH is military he gets a 5 day park hopper for free and each additional family member is $99. It's just too good to pass up and I'm really trying to convince DH. He however, is not really a Disney enthusiast..hehe..If I bring it up too much I become nagging and it will never happen So just wish me luck that I can get him to agree. Sure, I'll be like 24 weeks preggo...but I don't care! I really want to go!! hehe ok, just had to get it out

Sending WDW pixie dust your way for a big fat YES from your dh!! That would be awesome. I feel ya. I totally have Disney fever all the time.

I'm gonna try to catch up later on all the awesome stuff you ladies (where's tom??) have been posting today. I'm still fighting with Emmy's skirt, lol!

I did want to post up some stuff today. I DID NOT SEW IT! Melissa did the sewing, we "collaborated" about fabrics and ideas but she was the genius behind almost all of it. Please forgive Lizzie (the darker shorter haired girl) she had a very hard weekend with her biodad so it took her a while to get into the spirit of it. Look at her smile, though, with her Lilo dress!!! She and Melissa did a lot of planning on it together and she put it on and was in LOVE! She is my tomboy who usually hates dresses, so that she asked for these and loves them is HUGE. Hannah is the smaller girl with pigtails, she's my diva- notice she decided that Cindy's dress needed gloves, lol! You MUST have satin gloves to dine with the princesses, I guess! Let me know if this is too big and I'll resize.

To explain pirate day- My father in law was in a very bad accident about two years ago. He was working construction and another worker ran over his foot (bending it backward onto itself) with a fork lift. He was in the hospital almost a year, fighting hard to be able to save his foot. Eventually it was decided it would probably be healthier (not such an infection risk, end up with better mobility) by having it amputated. It was such a hard thing for him to do, he is a very independent man, but he knew the choice had to be made.
Eventually they fitted him for a prosthetic bottom leg. The top under his knee is very much like a "peg leg." When they had him go pick out fabric to seal on the top of it under the plastic coating..he picked a skull and crossbones! Yes, my FIL has a "REAL" pirate peg leg! To us it was like the first sign that yes, he was going to be fine, and was even having some "fun"/accepting what had happened. So we decided one day at Disney we would ALL be pirates!

look how great those dresses and outfits look on them!! She did such a great job sewing them up. I think the Lilo one is still my favorite too! totally gonna case that one of these days

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

I have something I am a little confused about. I am wanting to make a few shirts for me and my sister (maybe my mom too), to match DD's outfits on our Disney trip. I will probably do just a few applique t-shirts or tank tops for us. I was also thinking of adding our names to the shirts, but here is where I am confused. I love the disney font much better then the default fonts of my machine (Brother PE 700 II). I have seen on etsy where you can buy the disney font, but how does that work…. Do you literally send 1 letter at a time to your embroidery machine and have to move the needle position after each one? Or can you type the name on your computer first and then send it (I figure you probably need editing software?? Which I don't have), or can you send multiple letters to your machine one at a time and then actually form the word and stitch them at once?

Anyone bought the disney font without editing software?

Thanks!

I bought a bunch of names in the Disney Print from Pegasus embroidery.
If you just buy the font you can use a program called Sew What to create the names.

She has a set of over 200 names.
http://pegasus-embroidery.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=79_97&products_id=411

 

[EnchantedPrincess]

Hello everyone!!!! I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. I have fallen far, far behind on this thread, and don't think I am going to have time to go back and catch up but I did glance through the last few pages and love all the 4th of July customs! My poor kids didn't have any this year...!

Our trip is in less than a month, and I don't think I am even going to finish sewing all the customs that I have in mind. Dh and I have been saying for the last few months that we should sell our current home. Couple weeks ago, we look into building a new home and dropped by the builders' sales office and they showed us a "ready to move-in" inventory homes and we love the home! So, if all goes as planned, we will own that home 5 days before we leave on our Disney vacation...and we hope to have our house ready to list around the same time...so I have been packing like crazy!
Wish us luck!! This is going to be a crazy month.!

Love all those customs! your girls are adorable.

Wow..I love the Epcot Princess dress! That looks like a lot of work!

 

[snubie]

I'm gonna try to catch up later on all the awesome stuff you ladies (where's tom??) have been posting today. I'm still fighting with Emmy's skirt, lol!

I did want to post up some stuff today. I DID NOT SEW IT! Melissa did the sewing, we "collaborated" about fabrics and ideas but she was the genius behind almost all of it. Please forgive Lizzie (the darker shorter haired girl) she had a very hard weekend with her biodad so it took her a while to get into the spirit of it. Look at her smile, though, with her Lilo dress!!! She and Melissa did a lot of planning on it together and she put it on and was in LOVE! She is my tomboy who usually hates dresses, so that she asked for these and loves them is HUGE. Hannah is the smaller girl with pigtails, she's my diva- notice she decided that Cindy's dress needed gloves, lol! You MUST have satin gloves to dine with the princesses, I guess! Let me know if this is too big and I'll resize.

To explain pirate day- My father in law was in a very bad accident about two years ago. He was working construction and another worker ran over his foot (bending it backward onto itself) with a fork lift. He was in the hospital almost a year, fighting hard to be able to save his foot. Eventually it was decided it would probably be healthier (not such an infection risk, end up with better mobility) by having it amputated. It was such a hard thing for him to do, he is a very independent man, but he knew the choice had to be made.
Eventually they fitted him for a prosthetic bottom leg. The top under his knee is very much like a "peg leg." When they had him go pick out fabric to seal on the top of it under the plastic coating..he picked a skull and crossbones! Yes, my FIL has a "REAL" pirate peg leg! To us it was like the first sign that yes, he was going to be fine, and was even having some "fun"/accepting what had happened. So we decided one day at Disney we would ALL be pirates!

All the outfits look great. However, the story about your dad made me weepy. I once worked with amputees (I was a physical therapist prior to being a SAHM) and got such a great feeling when a client would receive their final prosthesis and walk out the door independently. So, for your dad.

 

[DisneyKings]

Thanks for the compliments on the Vida. I found out this evening that the mother did not put the dress on Serena for her birthday like I was told. I was also told that all of the other dresses that I made for her were not worn other than the first time for me to see her in them. I will not be sewing for her anymore.

That's just terrible! After all your hard work I can't believe they didn't appreciate it. If you need someone little to sew for I'll send you my address!

So far I like it a lot. I was trying to read a book about how to use it and I was having a hard time. Next week we are going to visit some friends in Panama City, FL they are both photographers and I am hoping to get some lessons on how to use it from them. I do much better if someone shows me rather than try to read. Our older camera was just a 6 megapixel Canon Powershot. It fits nicely in your pocket but I wanted some better quality pictures.

I live in PC!

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

I have done a bunch of cotton princess dresses. I love doing them because the possibilities are endless!

I think your plan sounds perfect. I would go with the double fold bias tape in a contrasting color.

Those sundresses are amazing!!! I love how creative you were with that pattern. Now I need that pattern too!!!!!

 

[Tinka_Belle]

Teresajoy.. my DIL did not like it. She thought the fabric was too 'busy'. I haven't told my DD9 yet...probably won't!

BTW...My DGD2 thought it was 'pretty'!

Nini

I hate it when that happens. The dress was precious and I love that your 9yo made it for her niece. That is too sweet. Atleast the little one liked it.

 

[3huskymom]

Here's Hayleigh's flip-flop dress I finished today. She'll be wearing this one to breakfast with Minnie at the Beach club.

 

[jessesgirl]

My stuff is not nearly as spectacular as all the others that are normally posted but I thought I would share anyway .. Here are some outfits for my 2yo to wear at Disney in a week in a half.. I still need/want to add something to the blue and pink dress I started it to look Cinderella-ish but it did not turn out that way I also need to add embelishments to the Minnie/Mickey inspired dress, I just dont know what to add. I am still working on shirts for my 12yo to wear and if there is time I will make shirts for me .. I also really want to make the little one a yellow Belle-ish dress.. I just dont know if there is enough time ..

 

[jessesgirl]

My stuff is not nearly as spectacular as all the others that are normally posted but I thought I would share anyway .. Here are some outfits for my 2yo to wear at Disney in a week in a half.. I still need/want to add something to the blue and pink dress I started it to look Cinderella-ish but it did not turn out that way I also need to add embelishments to the Minnie/Mickey inspired dress, I just dont know what to add. I am still working on shirts for my 12yo to wear and if there is time I will make shirts for me .. I also really want to make the little one a yellow Belle-ish dress.. I just dont know if there is enough time ..

 

[Picabo]

Here is a dress I made last month for DD to wear to the Epcot princess breakfast... I am going to put a pettiskirt under it to dress it up for the meal, and then since it will be hot in August she can take the petti off after we eat and I can put it in my backpack with a travel sized spacebag and she will just have more of a sundress on.

Then I also made Cinderella's workdress to wear into the BBB.

WOW!!! How much time did it take to make that princess dress!?! That is truely amazing! My DD3 just dropped her jaw when she saw it and said, "Mommy can I have one of those?" (Don't I wish!)

My stuff is not nearly as spectacular as all the others that are normally posted but I thought I would share anyway .. Here are some outfits for my 2yo to wear at Disney in a week in a half.. I still need/want to add something to the blue and pink dress I started it to look Cinderella-ish but it did not turn out that way I also need to add embelishments to the Minnie/Mickey inspired dress, I just dont know what to add. I am still working on shirts for my 12yo to wear and if there is time I will make shirts for me .. I also really want to make the little one a yellow Belle-ish dress.. I just dont know if there is enough time ..

Not spectacular???? I beg to differ! Just awsome! Thanks for sharing!

 

[emcreative]

That is such a sweet story; I love your family's sense of humor- can y'all adopt me, too? The dresses are even cuter on the girls than on their own- just think, soon we might catch a glimpse of phineas and ferb, too

You're SO in! Remember, we're a foster family...we LOVE having our family grow and grow and grow! (I told The Husband I was never again going to say we were done with have kids, because every time I say that we get more!)

Seriously though, I could use some family, but are you sure you want us crazy people in yours?

And you gotta know, August 7th this page will be plastered with so many pics of "phineas" and "ferb" you'll be sick of seeing them. I have their adoption videos done and waiting (slide shows of pictures from when we met each of them to today!!)

 

[emcreative]

I like to add a co-ordinating band at the bottom of twirl skirts because I really dislike ruffling. Something like this:

This isn't a stripwork, but I believe it was a women's size 12ish

Daniela that looks REALLY good! I couldn't find anything super exciting today so I had to do basic black. (BTW my diva has that chatterbox shirt, I had to move really fast past the pic of the adorable skirt with it...it will be a while, I think, before I do this again. I should NEVER have started with a skirt that took so many strips!)

 

[eeyore3847]

Finished 2 new Back to school sets!! WOO HOO!!! can not believe it is almost that time. I hope to finish one a day and then move on to halloween ...lol

Lori

 

[luvinyou]

Daniela that looks REALLY good! I couldn't find anything super exciting today so I had to do basic black. (BTW my diva has that chatterbox shirt, I had to move really fast past the pic of the adorable skirt with it...it will be a while, I think, before I do this again. I should NEVER have started with a skirt that took so many strips!)

Well the chatterbox skirt was a 12-18 mos, so there wasn't much to sew I can't wait to see your skirt, sometimes basic black is needed and adds just the right touch. I bet it looks awesome!

 

[emcreative]

Well the chatterbox skirt was a 12-18 mos, so there wasn't much to sew I can't wait to see your skirt, sometimes basic black is needed and adds just the right touch. I bet it looks awesome!

Well, my 12 yo picked out the fabrics and they probably aren't what I would choose, but hey, it's her skirt. Even if it looks bad when I'm done, after 8 hours spent just cutting and sewing the strips together, she's wearing it no matter what!!!

 

[mirandag819]

WOW!!! How much time did it take to make that princess dress!?! That is truely amazing! My DD3 just dropped her jaw when she saw it and said, "Mommy can I have one of those?" (Don't I wish!)



Not spectacular???? I beg to differ! Just awsome! Thanks for sharing!

Awww thanks! It took me a long time, probably about 60 hours, but it was only the 4th thing I had even sewn, so I was still very very slow.... I have gotten a little bit faster this month since I don't have to read directions every 2 seconds.

 

[luvinyou]

Well, my 12 yo picked out the fabrics and they probably aren't what I would choose, but hey, it's her skirt. Even if it looks bad when I'm done, after 8 hours spent just cutting and sewing the strips together, she's wearing it no matter what!!!

I am sure it will look great, but as long as she loves it, that's all that matters!

 

[jenb1023]

YES! Please post pix of your dresses! How awsome you were able to do not just one but a 2nd one as well! So you did it without a sewing machine or you did use one? I don't have one but my FIL has one I can have - my MIL died 3 yrs ago and so it's been sitting unused. I'd have to figure out how to use the thing - like you it has been since high school since I've touched one! If not using a sewing machine - is there an EASY way to do the hem on the heckline, etc? AND if I wanted to add some ruffle of some sort at the bottom, how do I attach that? (Sewing machine, eh??)

Well, I only got a photo of one of the dresses and DD was posing but you will get the idea. It certainly doesn't compare to the other stuff on here but I am pretty proud of it - for those that missed my earlier post it is the first dress I have ever made (I made it this past weekend) and I have not touched a sewing machine since 8th grade. DD loves it!

Thanks to Jeanne (jham) for her directions for a pillowcase dress - those are the ones I used with a little extra help!

To answer your other questions, I used a sewing machine - my MIL's that she let me take since she doesn't use it. I am not sure about adding ruffles but wouldn't think it would be that hard.

 

[Tykatmadismomma]

Here are the girls 4th of July outfits.

Like a dummy I forgot my camera so these are from my Cell phone. We were so close it looked like the fireworks were raining down on us. The show lasted for 30 mins Madi ended up falling asleep. She didnt even wake up during the Finale
I am off to catch up on the thread Katie was so generous to give everyone her cold.