Disboutiquers Part 18 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[emcreative]

I wish I could...she is 7.5 and very perceptive, plus the only other kids I have to sew for are 8 & 6 yr old boys and I don't think I can convince her that either of them want a Princess Tiana Vida LOL

I use someone else as a scapegoat! I have told the kids before that it is a gift for their cousin, a gift for a friend's kid, etc. Why don't you say it's for a give or something?


Can I admit I'm incredibly jealous of all of you on your way to Disney?

I really need a vacation. We may take a mini one to the casino (we don't gamble AT ALL and hate the smokey environment- we're thinking of going because there will be comedian there that Hubby really likes, it's during the kids' break, and they have babysitting right on site so we could go and actually have some mommy-daddy time!) but all I keep thinking is that "We could use this $$$ for our Disney trip!"

Hannah got sent home from school today with an asthma attack (When I got there her pulseox was 88% ) and I'm having a flare and hardly moving, so tonight we spent 1.5 hours curled up together watching stuff about Disney World on the travel channel. It was SO fun!

 

[froggy33]

I love it all! But Tiana is my favorite. You must do a Tutorial for us!!

Thank you. I will be gone for the next week, but I could definitely do on ewhen I get back.

Froggy - YOU ROCK!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for the directions on how to do the Tiana! I have the itch to run out to the fabric store right now and get some kickin' greens and yellows! I will definitely be making this for Emmy to wear to the movie! Thank you and enjoy your trip to the world - we were just there in September and I am so ready to go back!

You bet - good luck!!
Love the hula snowman!!

Thanks for pointing that out. Somehow, it didn't have the entire URL bookmarked. It should work now.

Mind if I bookmark your directions too?

Not a problem! Go ahead and bookmark them. I am going to try and do a tutorial when I get back!

 

[NaeNae]

Question for those of you that have embroideried on jeans. I know you have to split the inside seam to get access to the leg. Has anyone ever embroideried across the thick side seam? I'm worried it will be too thick and break the needle.

 

[emcreative]

Question for those of you that have embroideried on jeans. I know you have to split the inside seam to get access to the leg. Has anyone ever embroideried across the thick side seam? I'm worried it will be too thick and break the needle.

I didn't try my embroidery machine but I did have some problems with the sewing machine

 

[VBAndrea]

I can't believe it. Our camper is packed. Now all I have to do is our travel bags, snack bags, coolers, and something else that I can't remember right now. Hopefully, I will remember soon.

I haven't even started packing yet and we leave tomorrow morning! I did just finish the sleeves and sewing buttons on a bowling shirt for ds this morning. I still have two more hair bows to make for dd and another shirt I want to applique for ds. Am I insane? I also found out dh can't get internet access in the car with his new lap top -- grrrrrrrr!!!! When on earth am I going to peruse TGM?!

Here is the hula snowman dress - my model was reluctant to have her pic taken, but she loved that dress and threw a hissy fit when I made her take it off before nap...

Thank you to Ireland Nicole (whose recent peek-a-boo skirt pics introduced me to this great skirt) and Tom (whose awesome big give dress inspired me to make it attached to a simply sweet top)! I am so proud of this dress - it was a challenge for my beginner skills but tons of fun to make!

LOVE it! I love the tropical prints with the snowmen -- great idea!

I made these little snowy truck pants for Tim tonight to kinda match this truck shirt I got on clearance last year!!

My serger is really being a pain!! I will be sewing along, and then all of the sudden the threads dont hook together anymore. I checked the threading, and a few times 1 of the threads wasnt right - so I fixed it, but then it all happens again? Its the Singer from Walmart - any ideas???? I have a LOT of sewing to do this weekend!!!!

wendy

Adorable!

I have the lovely Wally world Singer serger as well. My only issues seem to be if I am using poor quality thread. The original thread that came with the machine worked fine initially, but when it started nearing the end of the spools it was horrid and would keep causing problems like you are experiencing. Also, you may need to try a new needle.



All righty ladies -- must get the kids up and ready for school in a few minutes. I would love to come right home and start packing, but instead dh made an appt to have his car inspected today (never mind it was due last month) so instead of getting home from dropping the kids off at 9am I now have to take the car in, meet dh there and drive him back to work and will now likely get home around 11:30 am. I can't afford to lose that much time today! Hopefully I can take pictures as I pack and post them today or tomorrow night from our hotel in GA. We leave tomorrow morning, drive 10 hours to our hotel in Southern GA and then Sunday morning we'll just have about a four hour drive to the World. Also, somewhere in here I need to do two more hair bows, make the jewelery I never made, possibly applique another shirt for ds so he something to wear to PF and make sure dd has shoes, leggings and t's to coordinate with all her clothes. OH crap, I never painted Mickey heads on her Converse shoes yet -- eeks!!!! Must be off.....

 

[aksunshine]

Andrea and everyone else getting ready to leave- BE SAFE AND HAVE FUN!!!!!

Laura- I am so glad Grace is home and doing ok!

 

[dogodisney]

Hey you will be there the same time we are. We arrive on the 18th and leave on the 23rd. We are staying at a condo at Windsor Hills.

I've been meaning to tell you mom. I saw their ticker and realized we were there the same time.

We will be staying until the 27th. Since we will be spending Christmas there iIam not doing any decorating at home. I am going to put a tree up in our room and am going to do some decorating.

I'll keep an eye out for you.

Our schedule for the days you are there are:
18th MK (during the day), not sure what we'll do at night but will have dinner at Park Fare
19th HS with lunch at 50s Prime Time
20th AK then dinner at Kona
21st Epcot with the Dinner pkg. at Le Cellier and the 8:15 CP show
22nd MK with breakfast at Crystal Palace and dinner at LTT
23rd Epcot with dinner at Teppan Edo

Boy it's coming up fast!

 

[dogodisney]

I haven't even started packing yet and we leave tomorrow morning! I did just finish the sleeves and sewing buttons on a bowling shirt for ds this morning. I still have two more hair bows to make for dd and another shirt I want to applique for ds. Am I insane? I also found out dh can't get internet access in the car with his new lap top -- grrrrrrrr!!!! When on earth am I going to peruse TGM?!


All righty ladies -- must get the kids up and ready for school in a few minutes. I would love to come right home and start packing, but instead dh made an appt to have his car inspected today (never mind it was due last month) so instead of getting home from dropping the kids off at 9am I now have to take the car in, meet dh there and drive him back to work and will now likely get home around 11:30 am. I can't afford to lose that much time today! Hopefully I can take pictures as I pack and post them today or tomorrow night from our hotel in GA. We leave tomorrow morning, drive 10 hours to our hotel in Southern GA and then Sunday morning we'll just have about a four hour drive to the World. Also, somewhere in here I need to do two more hair bows, make the jewelery I never made, possibly applique another shirt for ds so he something to wear to PF and make sure dd has shoes, leggings and t's to coordinate with all her clothes. OH crap, I never painted Mickey heads on her Converse shoes yet -- eeks!!!! Must be off.....

Don't drive yourself crazy trying to get things done. Do what you can and don't worry about the rest.

Have a great vacation.

OT..... BTW we moved here in 2001 from VA. Beach. We lived over by Lynnhaven Mall. MY DH is retired from the Navy. He was able to find a better paying job in Georgia so we sold our house and came here.

 

[minnie2]

PRAYERS TO ALL WHO NEED THEM!!!!

Thanks for everyone who prayed for Grace's surgery. We got home this morning. The surgery went well. She did bleed a little bit but it was easily stopped. She is in pain now and had a rough night. We got no sleep because she spit out most of her pain medicine and we didn't know how much she swallowed so we had to wait to give her more. He pain got out of control and she cried off and on all night. They let us come home this morning. She finally slept and let me sleep when we came home. I have pain med in cream form to rub on her wrists so that is what I used today. I don't know why the hospital didn't have that last night it would have saved her alot of unnecessary pain. She was excited to wear her Little Mermaid hospital gown I made her. I didn't post pictures because it wasn't too cute. I need to get my hands on a real one and take it apart and make my own pattern. I don't need one now and hopefully never will but I thought it would be nice to make a Christmas or snowman one and cute ones to donate to the Children's hospital. It would cheer up a sick child. Even disney ones. They aren't hard to make you just need a good pattern and the only online one I could find the arms were to small. Maybe one of the smart ladies on this site could figure out how to redo the online one. I am just so glad to be home the hospital is just so scary for Grace and most kids. It breaks my heart to think of the kids who have to go there for cancer on a regular basis. Thanks again for all the prayers.

glad the surgery was successful. hang in there before you know it she will be all better.

 

[HeatherSue]

That's really cute! Make sure you post what you make with it!!

Can you guys recommend a pair of scissors that I could use to trim my appliques. Those little tight spaces are driving me to drink.
I saw some springy ones but I am not sure how they work.
What do you guys use?
thanks!!

I use the scissors that came with my machine, so I'm not a lot of help. But, they're just a small pair of scissors that are curved. I do appliques almost every day and they still work great!

I don't know what I would do without Carla! I made the bowling shirt last night for the first time and it went together so easily!!

Oooh!! These are so original! I love them!! The Mary Poppins is probably my favorite!

Can you girls sprinkle a little motivation dust my way! We leave on Sunday and I have yet to make a thing. I'm not much of a sewer but I machine applique and embroider (I own a boutique). I have 2 boys and all I wanted to make was 2 appliqued Mickey shirts. I've only known about this trips since February!

I found some motivational smileys for you! LOL!

Everything looks great! The dinosaur shirt is really cool! I love the fabrics you used!

Please take a moment to hug each of your precious children! My son's preschool teacher called a little while ago to tell me that one of his classmate's moms died in her sleep. Her sweet little boy is the one who found her. When her school called to see why she was late for work, Carson answered the phone and told the caller he couldn't wake up his mom.

The little boy is at preschool right now so he can have a sense of normalcy. His mom and dad divorced last year. Now he has lost his mom at the age of 5. Please keep this family in your prayers.

This breaks my heart. That poor little boy. It hits too close to home.

Tell Henry thank you for me for being a police man. I have tremendous respect for officiers. My cousin in a police officier. I feel they are under paid they put their lives on the line everyday. They are true heros in my book and always will be so give him a hug and thank him for me.

Thank you! It really means a lot to hear things like that!

Thanks for everyone who prayed for Grace's surgery.

I'm so glad that Grace is doing fairly well. I'll keep praying for her.

This is SOO cute!! I love the hula snowmen!

That is great!! What are the odds that you'd find a snowy truck shirt and fabric to match?

I hate to post this, there has been so much sad news. BUt this little boy could use prayers also. DS came home with a letter from the director at his Mothers Day Out. They have a 4yr old little boy that was just diagnosed with Stage 4 Nueroblastoma. I can't imagined being told my child has cancer. If you could add him to your list of prayer too, that would be great.

That is just awful. I will pray for the little guy, and his family.

Hannah got sent home from school today with an asthma attack (When I got there her pulseox was 88%) and I'm having a flare and hardly moving, so tonight we spent 1.5 hours curled up together watching stuff about Disney World on the travel channel. It was SO fun!

I hope both of you start feeling better very soon.

Question for those of you that have embroideried on jeans. I know you have to split the inside seam to get access to the leg. Has anyone ever embroideried across the thick side seam? I'm worried it will be too thick and break the needle.

I would think it would break your needle. But, I don't know for sure!

 

[HeatherSue]

I thought I'd post these dresses that I made for the last Big Give. They're for a little girl named Alyssa and her Bitty baby (Salarina).

Here's Alyssa's dress:

Both dresses:

Salarina's dress:

I was so excited to find this fabric at JoAnn! I bought the whole bolt (which was only 4 yards)! It says "make a wish" right on it!

I digitized the Make A Wish logo and I'll give it to anyone who wants to use it for a Big Give, for free of course.

 

[AlternateEgo]

I am so excited to share... that I didn't even bother trying to find my camera this morning and I used my phone

Its not perfect and I have a few more things to learn.

I started this as a dress 3 years ago and never finished... but I really adore the fabric. I found it about a month ago and had it on my finish list. So I worked on it last night and love it.

This picture shows the top unfinished. Last night is when I decided to make the pants. I found the ruffles to be fairly easy to do. I don't have a ruffler attachment but am interested in getting one. I also would have prefered the ruffles to be longer, but was using scrap material. I made the applique and need a lot of learning in this dept. The bonding stuff (cant think of what it is even called) didn't want to stick to the jeans and my embroidering didn't work so well. I figured it would take practice, so I wasn't persistent with it being perfect... but my thread kept breaking. I actually gave up on the star

Here is my model excited to wear it to school. She obviously wasn't going to wear capris with it 10 degrees outside (maybe an exageration) but I thought it looked adorable with the black.

I woke up early this morning thinking she would definitely need a headband to wear with this outfit. I hadn't read anything on how to make headbands, but figured it was pretty simple. I made a "tube" and inserted elastic in the back. Sewed it up and crossed my fingers that it would fit her head and not fall off It worked out wonderfully And she was soooo excited to wear it. And her older sister was very upset with me for having not made her something last night

To finish, I need to add the fishy buttons to the top. I just sewed them together since I am not real sure how to make button holes and then will put the fishy there to make it appear as buttons.

I also have to finish the pants and figure out why my thread keeps breaking. I am not sure if I want to keep adding more scraps to the pants, or just keep them as is.

 

[NiniMorris]

OK...I'm looking at embroidery machines again. Money is tighter than I would like it to be, and with the HSN flex payments I think I MIGHT be able to swing one. But after reading all the reviews etc... (Brother HE 240) I have a question. There is one review that speaks of the ability to only download 12 or so designs... does that mean I can't save them on the computer (or something like that) and use them again later? Or would I have to purchase the designs again if I needed to use them a year or so later?

I know that is probably a strange question, but from reading the reviews...I got a bit confused. I know sometimes people don't really know what they are talking about in the reviews, but I did see this comment several times, so it has me worried.

I know I am probably not going to be happy with only a 4x4 area, but it is one of the sacrifices I may have to make in order to get one sooner.

I know I am jumping the gun a bit on this, because if Santa doesn't bring it, it will probably have to wait until Jan or Feb to come live with me...but hey...I'm out of fabric and can't sew until this afternoon. I have to have SOMETHING to do...besides clean house!

Nini

 

[AlternateEgo]

I thought I'd post these dresses that I made for the last Big Give. They're for a little girl named Alyssa and her Bitty baby (Salarina).

Those dresses are just beautiful!!

 

[HeatherSue]

I am so excited to share... that I didn't even bother trying to find my camera this morning and I used my phone

Its not perfect and I have a few more things to learn.

I started this as a dress 3 years ago and never finished... but I really adore the fabric. I found it about a month ago and had it on my finish list. So I worked on it last night and love it.

This picture shows the top unfinished. Last night is when I decided to make the pants. I found the ruffles to be fairly easy to do. I don't have a ruffler attachment but am interested in getting one. I also would have prefered the ruffles to be longer, but was using scrap material. I made the applique and need a lot of learning in this dept. The bonding stuff (cant think of what it is even called) didn't want to stick to the jeans and my embroidering didn't work so well. I figured it would take practice, so I wasn't persistent with it being perfect... but my thread kept breaking. I actually gave up on the star

Your daughter is so pretty!!!! I love the fishy outfit! You really did a great job on it!

What kind of bonding stuff did you use for the applique?

OK...I'm looking at embroidery machines again. Money is tighter than I would like it to be, and with the HSN flex payments I think I MIGHT be able to swing one. But after reading all the reviews etc... (Brother HE 240) I have a question. There is one review that speaks of the ability to only download 12 or so designs... does that mean I can't save them on the computer (or something like that) and use them again later? Or would I have to purchase the designs again if I needed to use them a year or so later?

I know that is probably a strange question, but from reading the reviews...I got a bit confused. I know sometimes people don't really know what they are talking about in the reviews, but I did see this comment several times, so it has me worried.

I know I am probably not going to be happy with only a 4x4 area, but it is one of the sacrifices I may have to make in order to get one sooner.

I know I am jumping the gun a bit on this, because if Santa doesn't bring it, it will probably have to wait until Jan or Feb to come live with me...but hey...I'm out of fabric and can't sew until this afternoon. I have to have SOMETHING to do...besides clean house!

Nini

I don't have a brother. But, I'm wondering if maybe you can only store a few designs at a time on the machine itself? Then, the rest would be stored on your computer. I think you would need to buy PED basic (about $100) to be able to take the designs from your computer and put them on the machine. Don't take my word for it, though! I really think you should hold out for a 5x7 hoop, too! Have you looked on craigslist or in a sewing machine store for a used machine?

 

[AlternateEgo]

Your daughter is so pretty!!!! I love the fishy outfit! You really did a great job on it!

What kind of bonding stuff did you use for the applique?

Thank you very much!

The bonding I used was the ultrahold, even though I have read to use the lite... but the ultrahold was all I had on hand

I made thanksgiving shirts for the girls and we traced hands onto fabric then bonded them to t-shirts... and made turkeys. (I might have a picture somewhere...)

But once I had washed them once, the fingers started peeling down and I figured that I probably should have embroidered them (Was a thanksgiving DAY project, didn't have time). So I guess I am not real sure what ultrabond is good for...

This was before we used puff pain to add the legs, beak, and gobbler

 

[CastleCreations]

Is anyone buying the Zhu Zhu hamsters for Christmas? The reason I ask is...Ireland wanted them a while ago, and they were everywhere, and cheap. Well now you might as well take out a mortgage, if you plan on getting the whole set!
I sat up for about an hour last night and an hour this morning and managed to buy everything! Not cheap. Oh well. The girls really don't have too much on the Christmas list, and this was the one thing they mentioned and have seemed to forget about. I hope they will be surprised on Christmas morning.

Heather...LOVE THE DRESS!!!

 

[AlternateEgo]

Is anyone buying the Zhu Zhu hamsters for Christmas? The reason I ask is...Ireland wanted them a while ago, and they were everywhere, and cheap. Well now you might as well take out a mortgage, if you plan on getting the whole set!
I sat up for about an hour last night and an hour this morning and managed to buy everything! Not cheap. Oh well. The girls really don't have too much on the Christmas list, and this was the one thing they mentioned and have seemed to forget about. I hope they will be surprised on Christmas morning.

Heather...LOVE THE DRESS!!!

Actually, I bought 4 hamsters and carriers (3 daughters and neice) when I first read it on the Dis. I figured that even thought the girls hadn't mentioned it, I wasn't going to wait until last minute when they did.

My mom found them at Wal-Mart and was able to pick them up for me.

I have been half tempted to resell them ($$)... but I won't.

 

[tvgirlmin]

I thought I'd post these dresses that I made for the last Big Give. They're for a little girl named Alyssa and her Bitty baby (Salarina).

Here's Alyssa's dress:

Both dresses:

Salarina's dress:

I was so excited to find this fabric at JoAnn! I bought the whole bolt (which was only 4 yards)! It says "make a wish" right on it!

I digitized the Make A Wish logo and I'll give it to anyone who wants to use it for a Big Give, for free of course.

Great Job! Alyssa is going to LOVE both dresses! And the fabric is really too cute....

I am so excited to share... that I didn't even bother trying to find my camera this morning and I used my phone

Its not perfect and I have a few more things to learn.

I started this as a dress 3 years ago and never finished... but I really adore the fabric. I found it about a month ago and had it on my finish list. So I worked on it last night and love it.

This picture shows the top unfinished. Last night is when I decided to make the pants. I found the ruffles to be fairly easy to do. I don't have a ruffler attachment but am interested in getting one. I also would have prefered the ruffles to be longer, but was using scrap material. I made the applique and need a lot of learning in this dept. The bonding stuff (cant think of what it is even called) didn't want to stick to the jeans and my embroidering didn't work so well. I figured it would take practice, so I wasn't persistent with it being perfect... but my thread kept breaking. I actually gave up on the star

Here is my model excited to wear it to school. She obviously wasn't going to wear capris with it 10 degrees outside (maybe an exageration) but I thought it looked adorable with the black.

I woke up early this morning thinking she would definitely need a headband to wear with this outfit. I hadn't read anything on how to make headbands, but figured it was pretty simple. I made a "tube" and inserted elastic in the back. Sewed it up and crossed my fingers that it would fit her head and not fall off It worked out wonderfully And she was soooo excited to wear it. And her older sister was very upset with me for having not made her something last night

To finish, I need to add the fishy buttons to the top. I just sewed them together since I am not real sure how to make button holes and then will put the fishy there to make it appear as buttons.

I also have to finish the pants and figure out why my thread keeps breaking. I am not sure if I want to keep adding more scraps to the pants, or just keep them as is.

Cute model and outfit! You sound like me - I get so excited to finish something, I can't wait to take a pic of it!

Thanks for all the kudos on the snowman dress, everyone! You know how to make a girls day. Don't think I will be able to sew today, as I have to clean the house or hubby will have a meltdown. Why clean when you can sew?

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

My flannel order from joann's arrived today. I have it in the washer. I know someone said that I should wash and dry it at least 3 times before using it. Any other advice out there? Do i have to have a special needle or anything? I've never worked with flannel before but am anxious to get started on all of our Christmas pj's and I'll have to work on them at night so my dd's don't seem them until christmas eve.