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

[InkspressYourself]

Okay I hope this posting is okay:

Was at Payless tonight with Hannah, they had the most ADORABLE and perfectly Minnie Canvas flats for girls...parts were black with white polka dots, parts were red with white polka dots...little bow off to the side...best part they were on clearance for $5. Alas, they did not have Hannah's size (I think they had every size BUT hers!!!)

Tried to find a picture online with no luck..wish I'd remembered to use my cell for a pic!!!!

OOOh, I need those so bad for my girls. My payless stinks. They never have anything. I just ordered some things online and I'm having them shipped to the store. I didn't notice any girls shoes like that online. I'll go look again.

I'm new here, but congratulations Tiffani on the new baby. Was the picture on this thread and I missed it? I love new babies!

 

[ireland_nicole]

What do you all think? Does this need a black sash or something? It seems busy to me or is it ok???

I like it! I don't think it's to busy, but I also like the idea of a yellow sash.

I finished Taylor's outfit for the Tusker House breakfast against all odds. I swear I about threw it out the windor at least 50 times. I had to completly redo the mickey and minnie appliques 12 times, I got so completly close to finishing them and something would mess up..... I never could get the black outline to look right around parts of the face, I finally gave up on the embroidery machine and did the black outline on the face by hand (well with my regular sewing machine).... so they don't look great. Donald's eyes should probably be a lighter blue so they don't blend so much with the black, but I didn't want to do it over again. I had several problems with the shirt and had to redo it a little. It wasn't that bad, but I am spoiled by all of Carla's pictures, and with far less pictures it took me a min to understand what I was suppose to do. It was also my first time doing buttons, so I needed to practice for awhile.

Anyhow here is the outfit all done, I think I am going to add a pettiskirt.....Ignore the crooked hair, she wouldn't let me fix it much today..... I am not done with the hairbows either, they will be bigger and have other ribbon.... I will use this mickey ribbon as the base, but I will add some other animal prints.

Get ready for far too many pictures of Taylor, she was loving getting her picture taken today.

I am still trying to decide if I want to move the buttons a little so it will be slightly less open.

This outfit is the bomb! It's really, really awesome! Can't wait to see it w/ the petti! I wouldn't move the button until you have tried it with the petti and checked the fit. I think it looks good the way it is, though.

 

[DisneyKings]

I finished Taylor's outfit for the Tusker House breakfast against all odds. I swear I about threw it out the windor at least 50 times. I had to completly redo the mickey and minnie appliques 12 times, I got so completly close to finishing them and something would mess up..... I never could get the black outline to look right around parts of the face, I finally gave up on the embroidery machine and did the black outline on the face by hand (well with my regular sewing machine).... so they don't look great. Donald's eyes should probably be a lighter blue so they don't blend so much with the black, but I didn't want to do it over again. I had several problems with the shirt and had to redo it a little. It wasn't that bad, but I am spoiled by all of Carla's pictures, and with far less pictures it took me a min to understand what I was suppose to do. It was also my first time doing buttons, so I needed to practice for awhile.

Anyhow here is the outfit all done, I think I am going to add a pettiskirt.....Ignore the crooked hair, she wouldn't let me fix it much today..... I am not done with the hairbows either, they will be bigger and have other ribbon.... I will use this mickey ribbon as the base, but I will add some other animal prints.

Get ready for far too many pictures of Taylor, she was loving getting her picture taken today.

I am still trying to decide if I want to move the buttons a little so it will be slightly less open.

I LOVE it! Where did you find the mickey ribbon for the bows?

 

[princessmom29]

First off- congrats to T on the new Tbaby!!!

This is slightly OT,but I remember a discussion a while back here about Cheer stuff so i am asking anyway. For those of who do Park Ball cheer, how often do you practice and for how long? I just signed DD up at our local park. She is 5, almost 6 and whill be on the 4 and 5 year old team. We will practice 4 days a week for an hour and a half. I am not complaining, just wondering if this is the norm other places too.

 

[mirandag819]

I LOVE it! Where did you find the mickey ribbon for the bows?

ebay...... you can PM me for the sellers name if you want it. I got a ton of different mickey ribbon.... hopefully I will finish Taylor's outfit for the dessert party today, you should see the mickey ribbon for it.... so cute!

 

[Mom2SamandJames]

I took my son with me to the fabric store today to pick out the fabric for his nap mat if we could find any. He didn't like the pirate fabric in the store so he just tells me he wants blue and I can put Captain Hook, Smee, Peter Pan, and maybe Tinkerbell on it for him. This nap mat is going to be quite a lot of time consuming work, but if he loves it, it will be worth it.

Thanks for the suggestions though!

 

[emcreative]

OOOh, I need those so bad for my girls. My payless stinks. They never have anything. I just ordered some things online and I'm having them shipped to the store. I didn't notice any girls shoes like that online. I'll go look again.

The first thing I did when I got back was look for them online (since they didn't have my Hannah's size) and they didn't have them there.

I honestly don't even remember seeing the shoes until I went yesterday during the clearance sale and there were tons of them (in all the OTHER sizes) for $5

 

[VBAndrea]

I am ordering (online) a custom for dd for our trip in December. Believe me, it's something I could never make. I just need some help figuring out sizing and measurements to give to the designer.

DD is 5 years old and is on the thin side, probably normal in height for her age (42.5 inches). She currently wears a size 5 though I must have adjustable waist in store bought pants because she is thin (trust me, she inherited dh's genes). She will be 6 a couple of weeks after her trip and the first time she will wear the custom is on our trip, but I would like it to last her for some time after that since it's pricey. It's a dress and embellished jeans combo.

Seamstress said standard chest measurements is 24 inches, dress length 26.5inches and inseam 21 (this is what she would use if outfit was a gift or I didn't want to take measurements). As of today, dd measures: chest 21.5 inches and a pair of jeans that fits her well has a 19" inseam. I am not concerned about dress length. The dress does have some elastic in the back. The seamstress is using adjustable waist jeans so waist size for jeans won't be an issue.

Do you think I would be safe telling her chest of 23" and inseam of 20"?

I know it's absolutely impossible for anyone to predict how much dd will grow between now and early/mid December, but if it were your child and you were making an outfit to be worn 6 months down the road what would you do? Or should I just convo the designer with everything I shared with you all?

 

[woodkins]

First off- congrats to T on the new Tbaby!!!

This is slightly OT,but I remember a discussion a while back here about Cheer stuff so i am asking anyway. For those of who do Park Ball cheer, how often do you practice and for how long? I just signed DD up at our local park. She is 5, almost 6 and whill be on the 4 and 5 year old team. We will practice 4 days a week for an hour and a half. I am not complaining, just wondering if this is the norm other places too.

That seems like a lot of time for a non-competition team. My dd (2 weeks from being 7 ) is on a national level competitive cheer team (it goes up to 12 yrs old) and she practices 2x per week for a total of 4.5 hours and that includes team practice and tuble classes. The practices are all in a climate controlled cheer gym as well (not outside in the heat etc.)
-Krysta

 

[princessmom29]

That seems like a lot of time for a non-competition team. My dd (2 weeks from being 7 ) is on a national level competitive cheer team (it goes up to 12 yrs old) and she practices 2x per week for a total of 4.5 hours and that includes team practice and tuble classes. The practices are all in a climate controlled cheer gym as well (not outside in the heat etc.)
-Krysta

They will compete once at the end of the season in an association wide meet, but I don't think it's anything like a true competition gym team. I was just courious what other mothers thought. Thnks for the input. I checked around to some of the other parks in the laegue too and they are doing the same thing. It looks like they are tking it a little more seriously than your average park ball squad. We will just have to see how it goes I guess.

 

[Mommy2JulietJocelyn]

sorry to not have posted in a while but I just got caught up - our Beef n Beer was not good, we only had like 30 people show up, I don't know if we even made any money.

I did not get the Ladybug patchwork done - Toadstool - do you know after getting 9 pieces of 44" ruffle pinned to the skirt of that monster I still need more!! I added 4 more 44" pieces and am stil about 30" shy of having the whole thing done! I was pinning through the entire Speed Racer movie. I took the dress I had done to the Auction. SOmeone with a 2 y.o. won the dress and loves it so that was good. I told Juliet she can have the ladybug Patchwork when I am done since the thing NEEDS to have a petti under it. Plus she wants it something fierce. What can I say -I love my kids- then again don't we all.
Carol

 

[lovesdumbo]

littlest is here!!!!!!!!

Tifani (T-beri)'s baby girl was born at 5:57PM. She needs names people, lets give her some ideas!!!!

8 lbs ? Oz
22 inches long

Congratulations T & family!!!

I finally finished all 7 tees and 2 patchwork twirls for our first day at the MK!

WOW! What a beautiful photo!!!! LOVE the skirts too but that photo with all those shirts is so cool!

I just finished this dress tonight. Peach had no clue I was making it. Its very special and dear to my heart. My uncle said this is the last fabric my aunt was sewing with (she made herself a button down shirt) before she passed away a few years ago. Georgia just loved this fabric. Its very light and breezy. She is going to love it. Hopefully she will model it for me before her dad gets her for a last minute over night weekend. (ugh.. another long vent)

We are both finally feeling better. hopefully being at her dad's wont make her mood change too bad. Last time she talked to him on the phone which was nearly two weeks ago now, he said He didn't know when the next time he would see her was and he would call her sunday, well sunday was two sundays ago!!! She said to me the other day.. "Mommy, why doesn't my daddy call me, doesn't he love me anymore?" UGh....

Well off to catch up and go to bed for me.

Beautiful dress!

What do you all think? Does this need a black sash or something? It seems busy to me or is it ok???

Cute! I like it like it is.

I finished Taylor's outfit for the Tusker House breakfast against all odds. I swear I about threw it out the windor at least 50 times. I had to completly redo the mickey and minnie appliques 12 times, I got so completly close to finishing them and something would mess up..... I never could get the black outline to look right around parts of the face, I finally gave up on the embroidery machine and did the black outline on the face by hand (well with my regular sewing machine).... so they don't look great. Donald's eyes should probably be a lighter blue so they don't blend so much with the black, but I didn't want to do it over again. I had several problems with the shirt and had to redo it a little. It wasn't that bad, but I am spoiled by all of Carla's pictures, and with far less pictures it took me a min to understand what I was suppose to do. It was also my first time doing buttons, so I needed to practice for awhile.

Anyhow here is the outfit all done, I think I am going to add a pettiskirt.....Ignore the crooked hair, she wouldn't let me fix it much today..... I am not done with the hairbows either, they will be bigger and have other ribbon.... I will use this mickey ribbon as the base, but I will add some other animal prints.

Get ready for far too many pictures of Taylor, she was loving getting her picture taken today.

I am still trying to decide if I want to move the buttons a little so it will be slightly less open.

Stunning! Your cutie is going to get so much attention in that!!!!!

You should be sure to go to Camp Minnie Mickey so you can get some photos there too-those might be better photos than in Tusker House. The Tusker House meal is really fun too but I like photos without other people and stuff in them too.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

for those of you who do appliques by hand......

okay, i have been following heathersue's tutorial ( which is awesome!), but I am not sure how to stitch faces in the exact spot that they need to be once you put all of the pieces together. does that make sense? how do you know where to stitch all of the extra lines inside the shapes that are not part of the outline. hopefully I am making myself clear....lol!

 

[emcreative]

for those of you who do appliques by hand......

okay, i have been following heathersue's tutorial ( which is awesome!), but I am not sure how to stitch faces in the exact spot that they need to be once you put all of the pieces together. does that make sense? how do you know where to stitch all of the extra lines inside the shapes that are not part of the outline. hopefully I am making myself clear....lol!

I draw them lightly with a washable fabric pencil first.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

You can applique it on using the instructions in my applique tutorial. Or, you could use the pillowcase as a fabric piece in the dress. I appliqued it on for this dress for Tessa WAY back when!

Then, I made Sawyer this matching t-shirt with the Sebastian from the pillowcase. He was much happier after I bribed him with a cookie:

Sorry, but I can't tell from the picture. When you applique these large pictures using pillowcases and things, did you just sew around the outside of the picture or all of the lines inside the picture of ariel too?

 

[my*2*angels]

Ugh. I had my post all typed up and it wouldn't let me post it!

I just finished this dress tonight. Peach had no clue I was making it. Its very special and dear to my heart. My uncle said this is the last fabric my aunt was sewing with (she made herself a button down shirt) before she passed away a few years ago. Georgia just loved this fabric. Its very light and breezy. She is going to love it. Hopefully she will model it for me before her dad gets her for a last minute over night weekend. (ugh.. another long vent)

We are both finally feeling better. hopefully being at her dad's wont make her mood change too bad. Last time she talked to him on the phone which was nearly two weeks ago now, he said He didn't know when the next time he would see her was and he would call her sunday, well sunday was two sundays ago!!! She said to me the other day.. "Mommy, why doesn't my daddy call me, doesn't he love me anymore?" UGh....

Well off to catch up and go to bed for me.

Love the story of the fabric and the dress is GREAT! Glad you guys are feeling better. So sorry to hear about poor Georgia and her daddy! That must really stink for you both.

What do you all think? Does this need a black sash or something? It seems busy to me or is it ok???

I think it is really cute!

I finished Taylor's outfit for the Tusker House breakfast against all odds. I swear I about threw it out the windor at least 50 times. I had to completly redo the mickey and minnie appliques 12 times, I got so completly close to finishing them and something would mess up..... I never could get the black outline to look right around parts of the face, I finally gave up on the embroidery machine and did the black outline on the face by hand (well with my regular sewing machine).... so they don't look great. Donald's eyes should probably be a lighter blue so they don't blend so much with the black, but I didn't want to do it over again. I had several problems with the shirt and had to redo it a little. It wasn't that bad, but I am spoiled by all of Carla's pictures, and with far less pictures it took me a min to understand what I was suppose to do. It was also my first time doing buttons, so I needed to practice for awhile.

Anyhow here is the outfit all done, I think I am going to add a pettiskirt.....Ignore the crooked hair, she wouldn't let me fix it much today..... I am not done with the hairbows either, they will be bigger and have other ribbon.... I will use this mickey ribbon as the base, but I will add some other animal prints.

Get ready for far too many pictures of Taylor, she was loving getting her picture taken today.

I am still trying to decide if I want to move the buttons a little so it will be slightly less open.

AWESOME! You did a really great job! Well worth all of the frustration! OH and BTW, NO APOLOGIZING for bad hair!LOL

 

[SallyfromDE]

littlest is here!!!!!!!!

Tifani (T-beri)'s baby girl was born at 5:57PM. She needs names people, lets give her some ideas!!!!

8 lbs ? Oz
22 inches long

Tell T we all say Congrats! I just read a book and fell in love wiht the name Faythe.

I finally finished all 7 tees and 2 patchwork twirls for our first day at the MK!

and here are the skirts modeled. I have had these done for a while but the girls never actually put them on till today go figure...good thing they fit!

And some twirling shots...

Oh and someone asked for a close-up for easier casing...lol! This ensemble was definately cased....thank you disboutiquers!!!! so feel free to recase!

This was the adult tee...I applied stablizer underneath. I opened up the side seams. I attached the two ribbons with a few rows of straight stitches. Closed up the side seams. I had heat/bond lite applied to the back of the Minnie head and bow, so I ironed them on the middle front. Then zig-zagged the edges! Finally, I added a daisy and its done! Easy Peasy!



Credits:
God - everything
Minnie - Disney
Teeshirt - Old Navy
Twirl Skirt - Carla's Patchwork Twirl
Fabric and notions - Joann Fabrics
Sewing Machine - Janome MC10000

Your shirts look great. Your girls looks great. I just love these twirl skirts. I don't know why I never made Kirsta one.

I agree with trying to find sheets, or a pillowcase.
I just made DS a Bowling Shirt from a POTC pillowcase that I picked up at WalMart.

This is my favorite bowling shirt. I went to our Walmarts and they don't have this style. I just love it.

This board is addicting! Many of you don't know me very well yet, but I check this board more than my email or facebook account! And it definitely inspired me to try sewing and I LOVE it!!! Last week I made my first dresses ever (the 4th of July ones) and now tonight I am almost done with the pink Cinderella dress that the mice make. I still can't believe that I was the one to make it!!!! I love all of the great ideas on here, helpful advice, and just the overall tone of this board. It's the nicest one I have ever been on.

And mirandag819, I often stare at your stuff wishing I can make what you make.

Now enough typing for me....I only have 2 month until my trip and only one disney outfit made! AHHHHHH!!!!!

Can't wait for pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Ugh. I had my post all typed up and it wouldn't let me post it!

I just finished this dress tonight. Peach had no clue I was making it. Its very special and dear to my heart. My uncle said this is the last fabric my aunt was sewing with (she made herself a button down shirt) before she passed away a few years ago. Georgia just loved this fabric. Its very light and breezy. She is going to love it. Hopefully she will model it for me before her dad gets her for a last minute over night weekend. (ugh.. another long vent)

We are both finally feeling better. hopefully being at her dad's wont make her mood change too bad. Last time she talked to him on the phone which was nearly two weeks ago now, he said He didn't know when the next time he would see her was and he would call her sunday, well sunday was two sundays ago!!! She said to me the other day.. "Mommy, why doesn't my daddy call me, doesn't he love me anymore?" UGh....

Well off to catch up and go to bed for me.

I'm 52 and my Dad still acts like this. I did get a Bday card this year. About 3 months late.

I love that you made a dress with this fabric. When my step father died (he raised me) I wanted to make all the grandchildren a small pillow with a square of one of PopPops shirts for Xmas. I told my mother, but she went ahead and got rid of all the shirts anyway!

I finished Taylor's outfit for the Tusker House breakfast against all odds. I swear I about threw it out the windor at least 50 times. I had to completly redo the mickey and minnie appliques 12 times, I got so completly close to finishing them and something would mess up..... I never could get the black outline to look right around parts of the face, I finally gave up on the embroidery machine and did the black outline on the face by hand (well with my regular sewing machine).... so they don't look great. Donald's eyes should probably be a lighter blue so they don't blend so much with the black, but I didn't want to do it over again. I had several problems with the shirt and had to redo it a little. It wasn't that bad, but I am spoiled by all of Carla's pictures, and with far less pictures it took me a min to understand what I was suppose to do. It was also my first time doing buttons, so I needed to practice for awhile.

Anyhow here is the outfit all done, I think I am going to add a pettiskirt.....Ignore the crooked hair, she wouldn't let me fix it much today..... I am not done with the hairbows either, they will be bigger and have other ribbon.... I will use this mickey ribbon as the base, but I will add some other animal prints.

Get ready for far too many pictures of Taylor, she was loving getting her picture taken today.

I am still trying to decide if I want to move the buttons a little so it will be slightly less open.

I just love this!!! It is so adorable.

They will compete once at the end of the season in an association wide meet, but I don't think it's anything like a true competition gym team. I was just courious what other mothers thought. Thnks for the input. I checked around to some of the other parks in the laegue too and they are doing the same thing. It looks like they are tking it a little more seriously than your average park ball squad. We will just have to see how it goes I guess.

Kirsta was in this type of cheer. She had practice 4 days a week or 2 hours. It got worse near the competition. It was mighty expensive. Thank goodness she didn't ask to do it again.

 

[emcreative]

Miranda, you've outdone yourself on the safari outfit. Every one you make gets better!!!!

Okay ladies and Tom, I was reading on another thread about someone's stroller getting taken "by accident" while they were on a ride because the other family had the same exact one. They did obviously get their own stroller back later that evening, but I've been trying to brainstorm ways to really identify "our" stroller. The trick being, of course, it would have to be something non-permanent as we're in a stroller swap. So I thought I'd share what I came up with in case anyone else has similar concerns!

I got those foam sheets and made this sign (Please excuse the still wet glue. I had to do some creative editing on names, of course. The white is the sign, the black on the edges is the leather chair it's sitting on). I used a hole punch in the corners, and I'll tie it onto the handles of the stroller with ribbon:

Who knows, maybe it will work, maybe it won't. I used the foam instead of just making a posterboard sign because in my head I thought it might be less apt to rip or run/fall apart if it rains!

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

I just cut all of the pieces out for one of the birds from Cinderella and ironed them all together but now I am totally scared to put it on my dress in case I do a horrible job with the stitching!!!! The dress is all done so I don't want to screw it up but my daugther totally wants this bird on there! Any advice for me before I start the stitching tonight?

 

[princessmom29]

Tell T we all say Congrats! I just read a book and fell in love wiht the name Faythe.



Your shirts look great. Your girls looks great. I just love these twirl skirts. I don't know why I never made Kirsta one.



This is my favorite bowling shirt. I went to our Walmarts and they don't have this style. I just love it.



Can't wait for pictures. Thanks for sharing.



I'm 52 and my Dad still acts like this. I did get a Bday card this year. About 3 months late.

I love that you made a dress with this fabric. When my step father died (he raised me) I wanted to make all the grandchildren a small pillow with a square of one of PopPops shirts for Xmas. I told my mother, but she went ahead and got rid of all the shirts anyway!



I just love this!!! It is so adorable.




Kirsta was in this type of cheer. She had practice 4 days a week or 2 hours. It got worse near the competition. It was mighty expensive. Thank goodness she didn't ask to do it again.

You know, its funny that you say that b/c When I paid the $150 reg. fee I thought we got off really cheap. It includes her uniform, shoes,poms, cheer bag, hair bow, socks, and warm up suit. Supposedly this is all we will be paying for the season. The coaches are not paid or anything. I can only assume they really love doing it and really want the girls to do well. I am hoping that I am not getting into a high pressure performance type situation here. I assumed with it being park ball and them only doing the one competition locally that it wouldn't be that bad. Here's hoping.