Sorry I'm so behind! I have been so busy! We'll be in WDW in 15 days, and school starts tomorrow. That means I go back to work too. Anyway, here is Isabelle's asian dress I've been working on. She may have to wear a cami under it, she keeps saying the brocade is itchy!
Praying for your FIL Teresa!
PS LOVE those personalized bags!
Isabelle looks gorgeous in this dress, i love it!
sigh....
DH and I just sat down and had a "family meeting" about our finances and it aint pretty.
He ran through a long list of things we will have to cut out...
-my once a month cleaning company (because we have 2 big dogs, 2 cats, 2 kids, 2 adults and only 1 adult who cleans)
-tv- we will get the box and try for free tv, but DH is not hopeful that we will have any reception because we live in a hilly area and dont live close enough to the cities where public tv "comes from"
-no restaurants, so no more brunch after church, etc- he said we could keep pizza night.
-no more fabric (except Im allowed to buy fabric for the girl's for Hannah's baby dedication gown)
-no descretionary spending without first discussing.
-no landscaping (again this was something I did because I was the only one doing it- his view is that it can look a little scruffy - but he'll try to mow it)
I'm fine with the cut backs, even though some are pretty drastic, but I wish I heard more from him that he would do more.
My stipulation was that we need to meet once a month to discuss our financial progress.
I realize this is totally personal, but Im a little disheartened a the moment and looking for a cheering sqad.
I actually kinda feel like maybe God brought us to this place, because for years I have begged DH to watch less TV so I could have more of him, for the little amount of time I see him in the evenings and now he will have no choice- until now he was not willing to cancel the direct tv, so even though it will be really hard for me if we dont at least get PBS, I think it will bring our family together.
Feel free to help me find the bright side of this! I'm feeling a little down right now.
and all outfits I make will be from fabric I already own- so I guess that means clothes without much for coordinating fabrics. Im happy I have that cinderella fabric sitting in my stash to make her dress for Halloween!
Have you looked into very basic cable? We had the stupid box from February (when all our stations switched to digital) until June when I couldn't take the 1/2 a channel we were getting! We pay $10 a month for Basic. It was really hard to find it on the cable website though, they weren't advertising it anywhere, I had to do a search for it.
We did matching shirts with our daughter last trip and it was so much fun. Here are some pictures...they are all terrible though...someone else can post close ups
Dh with Mickey, me with my 40th b-day tee and daughter with Tink outfit.
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I love all these pictures of you Maureen! I'm still bummed that I missed you by a day!
Hi all! I am so excited! I am getting a new embroidery machine! I currently have a Viking Iris, and I just got fed up with not being able to do anything bigger than a 4X4. I found a Brother PE700II for a great price, plus I had some 'free money' sitting at
Amazon, so I ended up getting it for what I think is a steal! Now I can get more of CarlaC's great designs! I am so excited.
I also finished up the Molly dresses for the girls as well! So now I owe you all pictures of the twirl dresses and the Molly dresses!
WOO HOO!!!!! You might want to look at Heathersue's designs for the embroidery machine.
Get Ready for lots of Pictures ---- I finished Joci's M&M dress and she likes it and told me she will wear it. Whewww!
Thanks,
Carol
Carol all these outfits are fabulous!!!
Inspired by Leslie's cute Vida for the AG doll, I decided to make one for one of Zoe's Build A Bear animals. I think it came out really cute. Unfortunately, the bunny I'd started to make it for didn't like my fabric/color choices (or so Zoe told me). Luckily this pink kitty did so it won't go unworn like the last dress I made for Zoe
That's so cute! And I love the modified Emma!
Question for those of you who do appliques: Do you use your regular machine or an embroidery machine?
You can do appliques with a regular machine, you don't need an embroidery machine. See Heather's tutorial in the first post.
the pictures or patterns for the applicaques (sp?) that all of you are using? I looked at the tutorial and it's wonderful...but where can I find the patterns or pictures...is there a web site or link? I bought a MM colorbook and that's been a help, but I'd like to find the other characters...
I'm still in the very very early learning stages..you all still amaze me with your talents.
Are the bowling shirts hard to do? TIA....Barb
and here's another question for you....you've all talked about a "hoop"...well....I wasn't sure what anyone mean't. My stitching was puckering when I did it (zigzaging on a reg. machine). Soooo.....I took my embroidery hoop....put the shirt in that and then was able to "just" manage to get it under the foot of the machine. It worked, and I finally got a decent stitch - but now I'm wondering if I'm "jury-rigging" it and there's better way.. I sure hope you're all not hysterically laughing at me...:...thanks again...Barb
When we talk about hoop sizes on here we are talking about the hoops that go in our embroidery machines. I don't think most people use a hoop on their regular machine, although it seems like it is a good idea.
Well, I promised to post pictures of all the dresses I finally finished...and if photobucket will cooperate I can get them loaded sometime today...I've been trying for an hour so far!
So, I'm guessing if it is taking so long to load the 15 pix...I should pic and choose the best ones and only post them.
First dress will be an A line for Boma.
I think I have them all right now...
Nini
You have been very busy!!! FABULOUS outfits!!!
I know I am not crazy. Where did I see a Mickey 4x4 design that is not applique? I want to do some quick polo shirts with a left chest design. But I do not want to do applique that small. Thanks ladies. I am in a panick. We leave Friday and I am still not done yet
Lynn
Do you mean for your embroidery machine? A 4X4 applique isn't really that small. I did Heather's safari Minnie in my machien (4x4) and it wasn't hard at all.
Hi! Got DS's first day of school outfit done, and he loves it, although my DM thinks it's too "girly"
So what do y'all think?
Adding myself to the list of very satisfied TGMers!
I think it looks cute. Your son isn't going into high school, right?
I never got around to my Custom Wear Report from our June vacation, becuase of trouble I've had with my camera program. Anyway, I finally got all my pictures downloaded and on Photobucket.
This is our version of Ariel. I just planned on the top with a green skort. Kirsta got mad because it's supposed to belong. So I went looking for something to make a ruffle. But I came across this green glitter that as pretty cheap.
To be conti:
Sally, I always love seeing what you have made!
I only have 11 days left to sew and everyday I think of something else to make, this
free dining is killing me, why do all the restaurants have to have such fun themes. And while I am thinking of it, have any of you eaten at Whispering Canyon? All the reviews I have read lately have been pretty bad and I have a res there and am wondering if I should change it.
Here is one set of outfits for the girls to wear at AK, DD13 is too old to have much of a theme to her clothes but the subtle animal print on this fabric met her standards. She even wore it to church on Sunday to please DD6 so they could have matching outfits, if she will do it at church where she knows everyone I know she will do it at Disney YEAH!!
CUTE CUTE CUTE!!!!
I love Whispering Canyon. I don't think we'll be making it this trip, but I think it is a lot of fun.
Here is the outfit you all wanted to see....Taylor is wearing this to 1900 PF next Saturday. It was not made by me, Leslie made this and it is what got me so inspired to learn how to sew.
Sorry the pictures aren't great it got too late to take them outside. I promise I will get good pictures at 1900 PF for you to use Leslie.
Apparently, Taylor thinks she is Vanna White or a Price is Right girl tonight, this is all should would do when I would try and get her to pose
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Great job!!! That turned out really nice!
You know what we all need....a Behind the Scene tour of Disney's costuming dept....I could spend hours looking through all the costumes and versions and watch the seamstresses creating them....Big Bucks I'd pay to go on that tour
Oh yeah! Set that up for us why don't yah!
I finished this dress last week, but was having trouble uploading to Photobucket. It has a zippered back-my first zipper!
Now I'm working on Halloween Dresses.
That is so pretty! Great job! I hate zippers! So, I am very impressed!
Here is the last dress I made for my baby girl with her sister's matching dress.
Your girls are so cute!! I love the dresses!
NCmomof2 I had to check when you were going because I thought if we ran into eachother and my daughter was wearing this dress they may all look like sisters, I love black and white with pink or red, this dress is for our Cinderella's breakfast.
That dress is wonderful!
Well Ms Kitty gave the first dress to her friend the monkey (which may or may not be a boy ) yesterday so she could have a Halloween themed dress with kitties in costume on the front and back panels. Another friend put in a request for a Christmas themed dress. Ms Bunny is still being too hard to please. I think she was hinting that the dress doesn't have enough twirl to it, though.
Arminda has a BAB named Teddy that seems to be a boy or a girl depending on which outfit is cutest that day.
Great idea.... But I wouldn't want people to think I was a costume-crazed lunatic or anything!!!!
That is too funny!
Finally got some pics taken today. You may notice a puss on her face in the princess vida (which I know I cased from someone on here). Sara Beth told me she is too old for princesses today. NO! She is only 5!
Well, I am off to work. Thanks for looking!
Wow! I love these, especially the Alice!
So I'm wondering. If I don't have a Vida pattern, but really really really really want to make a Vida....and I have a vida that someone else has made us...do you think there is a way to "trace" what I have and make my own pattern from that? The tutorials really make it look like a vida is within my reach. But I'm not often inspired to sew anymore, and I want to do it NOW instead of waiting for a pattern...which I will have to trace anyway right? So do I just try to "rig" a pattern from this existing dress for my DD??
I don't see why that wouldn't work.
Hi, i love lurking on this thread. Everything is awesome!
I am looking for some advice. We are going to WDW 12/8-12/15. We're coming from rainy western washington so the weather will be pleasent to us.
I made the girls these dresses last year for DLR, I cheated a little and did 1 type of dress 2 fabrics.
TIA for any help!
First, I love your username!!!
Second, your girls are adorable!!!!
Third, the dresses are great!
Fourth, I would just put t-shirts or peasant tops underneath the dresses. I like layers.
Oh I am so mad I could scream!!! I don't know if it is my TBI or the stupid tutorial but I can't for the life of me figure out the applique tutorial for Embird Studio.
It could be I don't have a clue what they are talking about or that I have never seen the software before, but DANG!!!
I was going to buy the tutorial for Embird from Carolyn also but I sure hope it is easier than this one. If not, I need to find different software. Something more user friendly.
Embird is not easy to learn, even for people without TBI!
Do you have the software or the machine yet? It almost sounded like you didn't in your post. I would think that if you don't have your embroidery machine or the software to actually work with learning to use it would be even more difficult.
Okay I think I am done with shirts.... didn't do everything I originally wanted, but at least I got Taylor's stuff done.
Here are the shirts I finished for us big girls....wish DH would match in some way too, but he won't
For the dessert
For Ohana (Taylor couldn't let me take pics that didn't have her in it):
I LOVE the stepsisters!!! That is so cute!!! You guys are going to look wonderful!
I bought the new Molly Peasant pattern yesterday and decided to try it with some fabric I bought on clearance at Hobby Lobby. I love this pattern!
It is sooo easy and Claire can wear it to school (she has to have sleeves).
I will be making more of these this week...as well as some other things.
On a Disney note, DH and I talked today and are planning on going to WDW again in Nov 2010 for Molly's 3rd birthday!
Great job, this turned out really cute!
That just made me laugh!
And last but not least (Actually it's my FAVORITE I CASED My*Sweet*Sunshines Tink outfit. This was THE outfit that made me decide I was going to dig my sewing machine out and LEARN how to sew! (THANK YOU LESLIE!!) Mollie can't wait to wear it in Oct to meet the Fairies (and neither can I).
is board that have gotten me this far! You all have given me a new passion!
These outfits are all wonderful!!!
Hello everyone,
I have followed you guys for a 2 years and love your outfits. I love to sew and DD has gotten quite a nice collection now. I am currently making a tink sundress and a birthday dress now.
What do you normally include in the gives for boys? I normally just do crayon rolls but I know of a wonderful family who's DD is undergoing treatment for cancer and she and her mom may be separated for 9-12 months from the dad and brother. I am giving the boy some things and kinda running out of ideas. Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure I have any good ideas, but I wanted to welcome you!
) And I hate spending so much on a robe
- You're a doll!!
I will check them both out
