Disboutiquers Part 16 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[Stephres]

Yes, very cute, my daughter would love them! Is that the McCall's pattern for the first one? One of the first things I made was that McCall's pattern as a top in lime green, hot pink and red. My husband said, well, at least we won't lose her at disney!

She looks so little in this picture! I love the outfit and the sparkly converses. Megan can't wear them because her foot is too narrow, she walks right out of them, but I love the look of them on little girls.

Oh my, that is breathtaking! It's about time you made something for poor neglected Tessa! I can't wait to see pictures of her in it.

Gorgeous! You matched the colors of the skirt with the shirt perfectly.

I love black and white and hot pink together, so cute! And your storybook outfit is great too, I love the stripes with it. I think I like a cute stripe just as much as polka dots.

 

[Stephres]

I love this outfit and cannot show it to my daughter! I made her a rag quilt out of the flannel version of the horsey fabric for Christmas and she loves it. She would be demanding a ruffle top of her own if she knew it came in regular cotton. I think it looks great and the ruffles look perfect to me!

Poor puppy! He didn't mean to ruin a library book I am sure. My not so dear puppy chews up spools of thread if they happen to fall on the floor. It's a good thing they are cute, right?

 

[revrob]

WOW! I've missed pages and pages again! There's no way for me to catch up! So sorry that I've missed out on so much. What I have seen has been fabulous! great job everyone.

I've spent the week getting kids ready for school, and we took a little outing yesterday. The girls in our family went to the AG store and the boys went to Six Flags. We had a great time! Now back to finishing up school stuff. I'm ready for them to go back to school so the paperwork can be over!

 

[busy mommy]

I have another question. Actually I have a bunch of questions, but I am going to ask them one at a time. I need to get my posts up so I can share pictures.
I have done a few appliques ( a soccer ball and a mickey head.) I think both turned out okay for a first try. I am either going crazy or trying to be very brave. I bought some princess pillowcase a few months ago to make pillowcase dresses with them. But since then, I found those great tutorials on the Vida dress. I have actually made two of these from the wonderful instructions and they turned out okay. I want to make a Vida with the cinderella head and want to applique her face. (or I may chicken out and just make the dress minus the applique.) If I mess it up I only paid a couple of dollars for the pillowcase, but I won't have it anymore.
I have taken many notes from your thread. I think I read somewhere to put heat and bond ultra lite on the back. I also read somewhere to use sulky tear away. And for some reason, I have a package of heat and bond ultra hold. Which of these in your opinions will work the best? I have worked with the ultralite before, but not the others. Or should I try something else? Or should I just wait on an applique that big?
Sorry for all the questions. But I am trying to be brave, and I don't have anybody around here that knows very much about sewing.
You all are great, and I am very impressed with everything that has be posted.

 

[livndisney]

I am so proud of the company I work for. My good friend is on a 5 week paid leave right now for the adoption of her son. He is 3 1/2 and she was his foster parent from 2 days old. His adoption was final a week ago and now she gets her time to celebrate with him. We even got her a cake and gift basket of things for her kids.

It's too bad not all companies are like that. She had it rough...having to come to work after being up all night with a week old baby. Just because she didn't give birth to him.

I just want to say THANK YOU for celebrating with her! Everyone does the "baby" shower at work but not many do the "adoption" shower. (I still rarely talk about what happened when I went back to work). I am so glad to hear of a company joining in the celebration for an adoptive family.

 

[t-beri]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY T !!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Thanks guys!!

 

[teresajoy]

Then you would like this one I made two years ago to go to Disneyland.

This is the other one I made for this trip.

Thanks for sharing! Those are really cute!

No it's a Simplicity or McCalls pattern, very simple. The dress in the pic was actually a lot longer but I thought it looked cute shorter.
It only took me about an hour and a half to sew it.

It's adorable!

I'm so excited to be actually sewing something for our October Disney trip, that I had to share before it's finished! I'm making this for Tessa for 1900 Park Fare. I'm going to do a shirt with my Cinderella cutie design on it to go with it. But, I haven't started that yet.
Here's the front:

And the back:

Here are some closeups of the appliques I digitized for it:

I hadn't trimmed the threads on these yet and I fixed the "y" in the first design:

I know that's a lot of pictures, but there will be even more when it's finished and I get some pictures of Tessa wearing it!

Oh HEATHER!!!! That is SOOOOOOOOOOOO GORGEOUS!!!! I LOOOOOVE it!!!! What does Tessa think of it?

My first disboutique board share! Okay, so i know it isn't anything special, or (disney related LOL) but I just wanted to share an outfit my daughter Gianna & I put together for her 7th birthday party. She had it at an old fashioned ice cream parlor & decided she wanted a vanilla, chocolate & strawberry themed outfit. I don't have an embroidery machine, so I cheated and bought the tank on etsy, but she "designed" the skirt & I sewed it and I even snuck a fabric hair tie on her (mom....bows are sooo babyish!!) so here she is...my now 7 year old DIVA Gianna!
Thanks...Krysta

Great job!!!!! It turned out great!

Since it is your first outfit to share, I will forive you for breaking the 3 banana minimum rule!

Finally have pics of finished outfits! Had a storm, so moved photo shoot to the living room.... Here are the AK dress and the story book outfit! Fogot to add...the mickey head is my first non square applique! My sewing machine actually cooperated with me and the material didn't pucker thanks to that great stuff you put on the back of the material!

Now off to work I go.

That is really really pretty!! Great job!

 

[teresajoy]

Heather
Lydia was walking by the computer and saw that skirt!!! She loves it too!
She said, "GIVE ME THAT! and tried to hug the monitor!

 

[JustcallmeHappy]

2CuteKidz


hey, did you make the arm warmers or buy them on etsy?... I love the way they looked and if you made them you will need to post a tute!!!

 

[ireland_nicole]

Finally have pics of finished outfits! Had a storm, so moved photo shoot to the living room.... Here are the AK dress and the story book outfit! Fogot to add...the mickey head is my first non square applique! My sewing machine actually cooperated with me and the material didn't pucker thanks to that great stuff you put on the back of the material!

Now off to work I go.

Those are soo cute! I can't let DD see the AK dress or she'll definitely want one; too cool!

First of all, I have quickly read everything that has been posted but forgot to multiquote. As usual, every one has created some great outfits. I love both Vidas (the Pooh and Halloween), the Minnie Princess Dress is unbelievable, and Marah I am so impressed with your applique -- to me it looks like your 100th applique -- not your first! Love the new kitty as well. If it's a girl I say name it Candace in honor of Phin and Ferb.

April, I so hope your mom's dog comes home safely. I know cats are great at disappearing for days and I have had a few stories about dogs as well that make it home safely. Our pets are our families as well.

And, after seeing HeatherSue's latest endeavor (I am oh so jealous!!!) maybe I should wait a few days to post my pics, but here goes anyway.

DD loves horses so I made her a ruffle halter from YCMT and Carla C's easy fit pants, which I wanted to be capris and they turned out more like crop pants. I presume it's b/c dd is so frickin' skinny. I think I need to take the pattern in a bit for her. Also, I hand ruffle and see I really could have done a better job on the shirt, but it's really not noticeable when she wears it (and she wore it to the dentist today and got compliments )

Here are pics of the top and pants:

View of the back:

Not the greatest lighting but shows off the outfit:

And here is a picture of nsdp (not so dear puppy). He is nsdp b/c he chewed the corner of "Sewing For Dummies" which I checked out of the library. I never even opened the dang book, but took it back to the library yesterday. Being the good citizen I am I took it in to the librarian and told her what happened and expected to be fined a couple of bucks. Wrong!!! $24.99 later I now own a used dog chewed copy of the book. The book is still very usable as he only damaged a few pages on the corner, but I'm not happy about the $25 that I instead could have spent on fabric!

I think I'll make him a devil costume for Halloween and dress his sister as an angel (though she's clueless with potty training so an angel isn't really fitting).

And I MUST put in my two cents on the adoption issues. My heart goes out to all of you have adopted. DH and I very seriously considered international adoption but we ran into a couple of problems with him being in the military (he was required to be present for an adoption and with his going to sea all the time we may have had to turn down referrals) and the issue of of us not being able to sell our house in RI (again military related that we even had to get that house in the first place!). So due to timing and finances it's not working out. Which just kills me as someone had posted that they received comments about adopting for financial gain -- if only they knew! Adoption is a hard emotional, financial, and selfless act. It makes me cry that some of you have friends and family members who don't accept your adopted child(ren) as your own. I just do not understand it. You are more their parents than the person who gave birth to the child. It pains me to hear your stories.

I could go on and on, but I digress. I actually won't be sewing for the next few days b/c I am helping a friend with her dd's birthday party this Sunday. I am making the cake and food. My friend has breast cancer which progressed to the lungs, brain and bones. She just had another seizure the other night and isn't even sure if she will be at her own daughter's party. Her dd is turning 5, and btw, she was adopted from China. My dh and I threw the family a couple's baby shower when they adopted and thankfully they've received a lot of love and support from family and friends
Anyway, please keep my friend in your thoughts that she's well enough to attend her daughter's party. It's at the Botanical Gardens so I'm making a caterpillar and flower cake. I will hopefully get cake pics posted on Monday (I am not at all a professional, but I can make a decent looking cake).

After that, I'm going to attempt either a stripwork Simply Sweet with applique or a skirt with a t-shirt applique for dd for Halloween -- fabric is already washed and just waiting for me to get my hands on it. It will be my first applique!

Love, love, love the outfit! as far as the pants go, I actually make the size that her waist measurement dictates, and do the elastic about 3" smaller than her waist. I just figure the length based on her height. And I'll definitely be praying for your friend. She's blessed to have you.

I have another question. Actually I have a bunch of questions, but I am going to ask them one at a time. I need to get my posts up so I can share pictures.
I have done a few appliques ( a soccer ball and a mickey head.) I think both turned out okay for a first try. I am either going crazy or trying to be very brave. I bought some princess pillowcase a few months ago to make pillowcase dresses with them. But since then, I found those great tutorials on the Vida dress. I have actually made two of these from the wonderful instructions and they turned out okay. I want to make a Vida with the cinderella head and want to applique her face. (or I may chicken out and just make the dress minus the applique.) If I mess it up I only paid a couple of dollars for the pillowcase, but I won't have it anymore.
I have taken many notes from your thread. I think I read somewhere to put heat and bond ultra lite on the back. I also read somewhere to use sulky tear away. And for some reason, I have a package of heat and bond ultra hold. Which of these in your opinions will work the best? I have worked with the ultralite before, but not the others. Or should I try something else? Or should I just wait on an applique that big?
Sorry for all the questions. But I am trying to be brave, and I don't have anybody around here that knows very much about sewing.
You all are great, and I am very impressed with everything that has be posted.

Don't use the Ultra; you can't sew it. Use the lite, it will still hold while you do the applique. You use heat n bond behind the applique piece (s) and you use sulky iron on tear away stabilizer behind the fabric you're putting the applique on (like a t-shirt.) Check out Heather's tutorial on the first page; she'll walk you through everything!

 

[angel23321]

HEATHER!!! You're killing me. You need to stop making designs cause I keep wanting to buy more and make more and the vicious cycle must stop.
Okay...don't stop making designs. Just don't tell my DH on me.
The skirt is beautiful.

 

[angel23321]

Finally have pics of finished outfits! Had a storm, so moved photo shoot to the living room.... Here are the AK dress and the story book outfit! Fogot to add...the mickey head is my first non square applique! My sewing machine actually cooperated with me and the material didn't pucker thanks to that great stuff you put on the back of the material!

Now off to work I go.

I love this...what pattern is it?

 

[HeatherSue]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the compliments on the skirt!!! I love it and I wish I could wear it myself! Well, I could if I let out the waist elastic, but I might look a tad bit silly. I do plan on wearing a t-shirt with my Lady Tremaine "ugly cutie" embroidered on it to 1900 Park Fare!

My first disboutique board share! Okay, so i know it isn't anything special, or (disney related LOL) but I just wanted to share an outfit my daughter Gianna & I put together for her 7th birthday party. She had it at an old fashioned ice cream parlor & decided she wanted a vanilla, chocolate & strawberry themed outfit. I don't have an embroidery machine, so I cheated and bought the tank on etsy, but she "designed" the skirt & I sewed it and I even snuck a fabric hair tie on her (mom....bows are sooo babyish!!) so here she is...my now 7 year old DIVA Gianna!
Thanks...Krysta

That is SO cute! I love it! Your daughter is so pretty!
I noticed that you did, in fact, use 3 bananas, they just aren't all together. The bananas really prefer to dance together. When you separate them, they get depressed.

I love this. Did you use Carla's scalopini pattern? How big are you appliques. That is so cute!

Yep! That's the scallopini skirt. The castle and the Fairy Godmother's wand are both 5x7 and the rest are 4x4s. But, all of the designs come in 4x4, 5x7, and 6x10.

Now off to work I go.

VERY cute!! Your daughter is such a little model! Stabilizer works wonders and your applique looks great!

Here are pics of the top and pants:

Anyway, please keep my friend in your thoughts that she's well enough to attend her daughter's party. It's at the Botanical Gardens so I'm making a caterpillar and flower cake. I will hopefully get cake pics posted on Monday (I am not at all a professional, but I can make a decent looking cake).

The horse outfit is adorable! You did a really nice job on that!

That dog is too cute to ever do any wrong. I think you must be making that story up!

I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. I'll say a prayer for her.

Oh my, that is breathtaking! It's about time you made something for poor neglected Tessa! I can't wait to see pictures of her in it.

Poor neglected Tessa!

WOW! I've missed pages and pages again! There's no way for me to catch up! So sorry that I've missed out on so much. What I have seen has been fabulous! great job everyone.

I've spent the week getting kids ready for school, and we took a little outing yesterday. The girls in our family went to the AG store and the boys went to Six Flags. We had a great time! Now back to finishing up school stuff. I'm ready for them to go back to school so the paperwork can be over!

So, you missed the "Peace-out" I posted, just for you?

I have another question. Actually I have a bunch of questions, but I am going to ask them one at a time. I need to get my posts up so I can share pictures.
I have done a few appliques ( a soccer ball and a mickey head.) I think both turned out okay for a first try. I am either going crazy or trying to be very brave. I bought some princess pillowcase a few months ago to make pillowcase dresses with them. But since then, I found those great tutorials on the Vida dress. I have actually made two of these from the wonderful instructions and they turned out okay. I want to make a Vida with the cinderella head and want to applique her face. (or I may chicken out and just make the dress minus the applique.) If I mess it up I only paid a couple of dollars for the pillowcase, but I won't have it anymore.
I have taken many notes from your thread. I think I read somewhere to put heat and bond ultra lite on the back. I also read somewhere to use sulky tear away. And for some reason, I have a package of heat and bond ultra hold. Which of these in your opinions will work the best? I have worked with the ultralite before, but not the others. Or should I try something else? Or should I just wait on an applique that big?
Sorry for all the questions. But I am trying to be brave, and I don't have anybody around here that knows very much about sewing.
You all are great, and I am very impressed with everything that has be posted.

Someone already said this, but make sure you don't use the heat 'n bond ultra- only the lite! The ultra will gum up your needle and is impossible to sew over! Have you read my tutorial?

Heather
Lydia was walking by the computer and saw that skirt!!! She loves it too!
She said, "GIVE ME THAT! and tried to hug the monitor!

I love that girl!! Tell her that her mommy can make her one because she has the pattern and all of the designs! Tessa did the mouth open panting thing when she saw it. But, in all honesty, it's for me since I am the one that really loves all things Cinderella! She probably would have preferred something with Ariel- or cats.

HEATHER!!! You're killing me. You need to stop making designs cause I keep wanting to buy more and make more and the vicious cycle must stop.
Okay...don't stop making designs. Just don't tell my DH on me.
The skirt is beautiful.

Thank you so much!! You guys are all so sweet!

 

[tricia]

Great job.

Finally have pics of finished outfits! Had a storm, so moved photo shoot to the living room.... Here are the AK dress and the story book outfit! Fogot to add...the mickey head is my first non square applique! My sewing machine actually cooperated with me and the material didn't pucker thanks to that great stuff you put on the back of the material!

Now off to work I go.

Love the Zebra dress. Great work.

[Not the greatest lighting but shows off the outfit:

Looks great. Hope nsdp doesn't chew anything else on you.

I love this...what pattern is it?

Not me, but that looks like the Simply Sweet halter version.

 

[clairemolly]

I just want to say THANK YOU for celebrating with her! Everyone does the "baby" shower at work but not many do the "adoption" shower. (I still rarely talk about what happened when I went back to work). I am so glad to hear of a company joining in the celebration for an adoptive family.

I am so sorry you had a bad experience. This particular friend also has 2 daughters that she fostered, then adopted. We did the same thignwhen she got the girls...they were 18 months and 3 if I remember correctly. If I had known you when you adopted Morgan, I would have done the same for you too. It takes a lot more love, in my eyes, to adopt and I applaud you.

Edited to add: This goes to all of you wonderful adoptive mommies out there!

 

[aimeeg]

I am in organizing heaven right now. My husband and I are going to be doing some "house stuff." As we were going through the list of important things for our house he mentioned Art Room/Sewing storage. Let's just say I could not contain my grin. Honestly I think I have left my crap around so much he is tired of looking at it! LOL

I was hoping I could get some suggestion on good storage solutions. My room is about 10x10 with a corner cut out. On one wall I have three large windows. I would not be able to go vertical on that wall. One wall has a door to our deck. I have two full windowless walls to work with. I need a sewing/serging/embroidery machine area. A cutting area and an area for the laptop. Then I need storage for my fabric.

Any Suggestions?

 

[Camping Griswalds]

I'm so excited to be actually sewing something for our October Disney trip, that I had to share before it's finished! I'm making this for Tessa for 1900 Park Fare. I'm going to do a shirt with my Cinderella cutie design on it to go with it. But, I haven't started that yet.
Here's the front:

And the back:

Here are some closeups of the appliques I digitized for it:

I hadn't trimmed the threads on these yet and I fixed the "y" in the first design:

I know that's a lot of pictures, but there will be even more when it's finished and I get some pictures of Tessa wearing it!

Oh wow that is just amazing!

 

[froggy33]

Okay, I have asked this before, but I thought I would throw it out there again. When you all make dresses with really full skirts (let's say a bottom hem length of 60" round), how do you construct the skirt?? My daughter has a waist of roughly 20". Do you do a big rectangle 60" X length of skirt and then gather the top 3X, or do you do it another way??

I want the skirt part really full so I can put pettis underneath. I can do this if I do a tiered skirt, but I would like it to be one piece. Thanks!!!

Jessica

 

[ireland_nicole]

I am in organizing heaven right now. My husband and I are going to be doing some "house stuff." As we were going through the list of important things for our house he mentioned Art Room/Sewing storage. Let's just say I could not contain my grin. Honestly I think I have left my crap around so much he is tired of looking at it! LOL

I was hoping I could get some suggestion on good storage solutions. My room is about 10x10 with a corner cut out. On one wall I have three large windows. I would not be able to go vertical on that wall. One wall has a door to our deck. I have two full windowless walls to work with. I need a sewing/serging/embroidery machine area. A cutting area and an area for the laptop. Then I need storage for my fabric.

Any Suggestions?

Can you post pics and measurements?

 

[froggy33]

I am in organizing heaven right now. My husband and I are going to be doing some "house stuff." As we were going through the list of important things for our house he mentioned Art Room/Sewing storage. Let's just say I could not contain my grin. Honestly I think I have left my crap around so much he is tired of looking at it! LOL

I was hoping I could get some suggestion on good storage solutions. My room is about 10x10 with a corner cut out. On one wall I have three large windows. I would not be able to go vertical on that wall. One wall has a door to our deck. I have two full windowless walls to work with. I need a sewing/serging/embroidery machine area. A cutting area and an area for the laptop. Then I need storage for my fabric.

Any Suggestions?

Well, I don't know how helpful I'll be really, considering I really need to organize mine too, but I have a few ideas in my head. For storage, I really like the bookshelf idea. I think it showcases the fabric and is easy to see/find your fabric. However that takes up room and could be pricey. Another way I think I may use is milk crates. I love the look of them with the covers http://everydaybeautiful.typepad.co...008/11/handmade-fabric-milk-crate-covers.html
They have some pretty big ones at my Walmart for $2.50 a piece. I also have some fabric in file drawers.

We also put up shelves on the wall (not bookcase), getting things up off the floor. I got those clear little totes with lids. Right now I keep ribbon and stuff in there. They go on those shelves.
I know you mentioned it, but definitely a big place to cut. I either use my ironing board or the kitchen table. I don't have room in my sewing room for one. It'd be great if you could find a table that folds up quick and easy for that!

Hope you figure it out. I have all these ideas for mine and just need the motivation to get it done! Good luck!