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

[charlinn]

I LOVE these tutus. I really want to do a few tutus as Christmas gifts this year... it seems like all of my friends have toddler girls... I downloaded the free filled tutu pattern but I really like these styles as well - they are so cute.
So just wondering where you two got patterns from? Did you make it up? How did you add the embellishments at the bottom and such. If either of you could point me in the right direction I would love it - thanks!!

I just wing it on mine. I tie the tule around elastic and then sew on the ribbon...I realy like the look of the other two...so I may just change my method LOL!!

 

[dancer_mom]

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Sorry - I have a couple more questions. Thanks for the directions - do you tie square knots or do the pull through the loop method? Also I notice that you have multiple colors going round but your waist color is all the same? How do you do that??

 

[froggy33]

Well howdy almost neighbor! We live in Independence not far from the Harry Truman home. It's SO pretty here this time of year.... well.... it WAS until all the leaves fell!

Hey! Small world! I live just south of Olathe - in Gardner, but I drive to KUMed every day!! I think there are a few others that live in the area as well!

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MACHINE EMBROIDER!!
I was just testing out my PED-basic and machine last night with a free downloadable applique design. I was trying it out on a denim material. I hooped the iron on tear away stabilizer and then just floated the denim material. Everything went fine through the marker stitch, the applique fabrique tack stitch and the first little bit of embroider and satin stitch, then my thread went all crazy and unraveled. The bobbin thread (which was a prewound type) was fine. So, I am pretty sure it is the top thread. I was just using some coats and clark (??) machine embroidery thread. Is this not good??
What kind do you all recommend??

Thanks! Jess

 

[Granna4679]

you did GREAT!! My friend went and they love the show too!!!

Love your Mary Poppins!!!!

That is AWESOME!!!



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So cute!




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Thank you for all of the compliments. I hope I didn't miss anyone that posted. I am very flattered because all of you do such wonderful work. I have loved the outfits posted the last weeks. Great work by everyone.

Love the bags that were just posted. I always wanted to try something like those. Maybe I will now.

 

[teresajoy]

I missed the quote, but the Mary Poppins dress is fantastic!

Just checking in here... WOW.. I haven't been able to search through ALL the pages yet but wondering if there is a thread or link that shows all completed projects. I am really intersted in seeing everyone's Disney quilts. I am thinking of tackling this project and want to do different Disney character appliques. Any suggestions where to start looking.

No need to search every page, just the first one.

If the speech issues that led you to getting help for her speech also cause her to have trouble expressing herself, the behavior issues you describe could be a venting of the frustration she feels by wanting to say things but having trouble getting the right words out. Or, it could just be a case of the threes. Mine is about to turn four and we have our tantrummy moments at my house too. Sometimes her...sometimes me!



OOOOH! Want. There is also a different Tiana fabric on Hancock's website, don't know if it'll be in the stores too, but I believe I will be finding out tomorrow when I go out looking for some Princess and the Frog fabricky goodness!

And, I have a finished object! It's a shirtdressy kind of thing that I can't decide if she'll wear with leggings or tights. It might depend on the weather.

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A few thank yous for this project. First, Teresa helped me find this fabric when I just innocently commented that I liked it but couldn't find it anywhere. Thank you for that! And also a thank you to my ruffler, because I would have pulled my hair out trying to do that ruffle any other way.

Oh! And I may still add a tie in the back or maybe a strip of elastic sewn on the underside shirring-style to give it a little more shape. Opinions? I'm not sure. I kind of like it semi-flowy, too.

That turned out so cute!!!! I think it would look cute with a tie in the back.

 

[BBGirl]

Thank you!

I really have to say I agree with this. Better to get her checked out and find out it's nothing, than to let it go and wish you had done something sooner. Listen to your instincts.



I STILL can't get the bowling shirt to print. It gets to page 26 and then jams. Even printing pages individually isn't working. I'm going to try hooking a different computer up to the printer today and see if that helps.

Have 3rd-4th this. Get her checked now if your ped won't do it find another ped.

Try uninstalling and reinstalling your printer. It has something to do with the memory in your printer. It remembers the jam and puts it there. I had to do this with the stripwork jumper pattern.
HTH

 

[EnchantedPrincess]

Quick question..have anyone bought from www.sewforless.com ?? I am thinking about buying embroidery thread from them.

 

[sahm1000]

Hey y'all, guess what I found at Hancocks last night- and at 50% off too

it's the first Tiana fabric I've seen, I was so excited! Of course, DD has decided she thinks she's too old for it, but I figure somebody going on a wish trip will love it! Just wanted to let y'all know it's out there!

So cute! And I was just at Hancock's today and they didn't have it. Wish it had been there! But all of their notions are 50% off so if you need anything now might be a good time to stock up! I needed serger thread and four cones came to $6.45! Not too bad!

Ok, so not sewing related but I'm about to loose my MIND!!!!

My loved 3yr old is physically and mentally wearing me down. She is WILD!!!!!! We finally have her in speech twice a wk for 20min. Don't know how it will be going, apparently she is all nasal speech. So surgery may have to happen. What is new is her behavior. She has been having these mood swings and now she can be so sweet and then very hateful. Like ANGRY!!!!
I feel like my pediatricain blows me off when I try to talk to her about anything. I have also been asking about the issue of her drinking ALOTTTTT. The kid would be happy to have water all the time. As long as her cup is full.

I'm just ready to pull my hair. I have no idea on what else to do with her. She is up right now, she was just throwing a major fit and sounding so HATEFUL in her room. I have her up to just hold her for a little bit. Sorry to vent, I'm just ready to pull my hair out. No one else really knows what i'm going through and it's tough!!!!

Ok, back to all of the wonderfull customs. I need to go look for some ao the princess T's fabric.

I'm going to agree with what everyone else has said - get your pediatrician to test her for diabetes. My FIL has type 2 and is a real - - -hole (I blanked that out not dis) when his sugar is off. You really don't want to be around him at all - and he's an adult! But normally he's pretty mellow so that sugar thing can throw a person for a loop.

And I wanted you to know that others understand too. My Claire (4 years old) can be a bit "difficult" at times! She also seems to have some sensory issues (nothing major but trying at times) with her socks (like the toe line has to be in the just right place, pants being too long (and I swear they aren't!!!), her shoes have to be tight (especially her mary jane style shoes or her tennis shoes - you woud think her circulation was being cut off!) but she likes it that way for some reason. And when one of these things is off, you had better watch out! She can be a bear! But normally she is very sweet and easy going. She has never had a problem at school though thankfully and her teachers think I'm crazy when I ask if she is ever difficult since they NEVER see that side of her. I think it's just me! But I do worry that it is attention seeking behavior so I try and pay as much attention as possible to her and give her lots of positive attention to hopefully downplay the negative side.

Good luck and I'm sorry you are going through this!

i miss you guys!!!!

You should stop by and visit us more often!

This site has instructions for beaded bobby pins using beads and wire you wrap around the bobby pin -- hopefully you could do the same on a hair clip.
http://www.girlythingsbows.com/beaded_bobby_pins.html


If she is drinking constantly she needs to be checked for diabetes. Has she had a blood sugar test done? High and low blood sugars could account for some of the mood swings.
My dd HAD terrible mood swings as well from about 1 year to 4 years old. I can't exactly pin point what caused it, but she has some minor sensory issues as well (tags on clothes bother her, she has to wear a t-shirt under a peassant top I appliqued for her, the fabric on her Halloween costume bothered her, etc.). So she has something going on, but alot of her behaviour boils down to attention. We tried everything with her and I think we finally figured it out so that her drastic mood swings and hateful behaviour are now minified. The best way for us to handle her her bad moods are to give her what we call "alone time." We do this instead of a time out. We usually give her two options. One is to sit in the office and watch the aquarium ( we have a huge salt water aquarioum so fish watching is relaxing) the other is to go to her room and close the door and sit on her bed and read/look at books. Those have worked best for us. We can't put her in a regular time out b/c she won't stay and she will scream and get more and more worked up. She says hateful things and she will pinch, bite, kick, etc.

Our dd is extremely articulate and smart, but in the case of your dd she may have some issues as well with not being able to express herself clearly. Hopefully the speech therapy can help with some of that. And at a younger age alone time for your dd may be best accomplished by you sitting with her and cuddling and just taking a break (our dd wouldn't always let us do that though).

Now that our dd is older we can take some more extreme action. Like when she told me she hated me and didn't want me to be her mother anymore I took the weekend off (dh was home to take care of her). And when she locked herself into her bedroom and wouldn't open the door I took the door off for a week. Idle threats don't work with this child until after something with impact has happened.

When my daughter is sweet she's a doll and soooo loveable. But she can easily misbehave and have foul moods as well. Either age is improving things or our learning how best to handle her is. She really thrives on attention and compliments though and I always remember from my psychology class that if a child isn't praised or rewarded for positive behaviour they will perform negative behaviour to get attention b/c all they want is attention.

So in a nutshell, give loads of praise and positive attention. It may not solve any problems depending on your dd's issues, but it surely won't hurt. Also, mandate that your ped investigate the excessive thirst -- it IS abnormal. And also, you know your own child best, so if you feel a psychological evaluation is necessary push for one as well. It may help give you some answers or set your mind at ease. You're the mother -- you're with your child constantly and you obviously know things aren't quite right. Don't settle for "no" with the pediatrician.

I like your solutions! I think I just want the weekend off no matter what their behavior is! Very creative and I bet they work!

I use to say part of her frustration was because she couldn't comunicate to well. But last night I had her in bed and and she was so mad and angry, I could hear her through her door. She was ANGRY, then about 30min later was crying for me. I finally got ehr calmed downed, and she slept in my bed. That's what is so strange aboutt he mood swings. She can be fine, then next thing we know it she is mad and gets angry. I've also noticed DS ahs ahd some bite marks on him. I'm NOT around when this is happening. So i don't know if she has done it, or if his cousin who is 3wks younger then him doing this. She does bite, but hasn't bit him before, just her sister. I'm just concerned she will have one of these anger fits at school,a nd it won't be good.

My kids have always acted better for others than they do for me so hopefully she won't have an issue at school.

OK, get ready for too many tote bags. I finally got all of these finished.

Three my cleaning lady bought to give as gifts:









One for a Big Give:



One a coworker bought to give as a gift:

Very cute! Great job on all of them! And my cleaning girl brings me things to mend for her - kind of cracks me up a little! So as it stands right now - I clean before she comes and stitch up small things for her that need mending or hemming. And I pay her to get to do this!

I ask because I did a couple of custom Halloween treat bags to match costumes. I don't like anything iron on for things like this, and tried some sew in interfacing for the handles. They had nice body, but probably too much, because it has to be folded over. Maybe I should not fold the handle fabric, but use 2 thicknesses of fabric, so I can use a single thickness of interfacing......

Thanks!

Ooh! I love the idea of a more structured trick or treat bag! I always make a real simple but coordinating custom bag for my girls to use but it's not structured at all. Really I just stitch up the sides of a piece of fabric and add straps (along with trim and an applique this year). But this is a great idea!!! I might have to do this next year!

Hey! Small world! I live just south of Olathe - in Gardner, but I drive to KUMed every day!! I think there are a few others that live in the area as well!

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MACHINE EMBROIDER!!
I was just testing out my PED-basic and machine last night with a free downloadable applique design. I was trying it out on a denim material. I hooped the iron on tear away stabilizer and then just floated the denim material. Everything went fine through the marker stitch, the applique fabrique tack stitch and the first little bit of embroider and satin stitch, then my thread went all crazy and unraveled. The bobbin thread (which was a prewound type) was fine. So, I am pretty sure it is the top thread. I was just using some coats and clark (??) machine embroidery thread. Is this not good??
What kind do you all recommend??

Thanks! Jess

I didn't realize that you were at KUMed! One of my great friends and former neighbor works as a nurse there in the ER. Her name is Jill Sailer if you happen to run into her, tell her you know Benita (me)!


As far as the thread goes, I bought mine from marathon threads after getting advice from Teresa and Heather. I have also bought some from the store where I bought my machine and I like the Marathon thread the best. And it's pretty inexpensive. You might want to try that and see how you like it. Their website is... www.marathonthread.com . Good luck and I hope that helps! I don't know anything about Coats and Clark embroidery thread.

 

[tricia]

Love the bags that were just posted. I always wanted to try something like those. Maybe I will now.

Thank you. They are really quite easy. After seeing all the great stuff you have made for your DGDs you could handle it easily.

Very cute! Great job on all of them! And my cleaning girl brings me things to mend for her - kind of cracks me up a little! So as it stands right now - I clean before she comes and stitch up small things for her that need mending or hemming. And I pay her to get to do this!

You've really got to change this around.

 

[kathyell]

For the record, and I know it is quite likely that others have had different experiences, I have never had any kind of good luck with any Coats and Clark thread. The issues I get with it is that if I use it for bobbin thread as well, the stitching on the back of anything I sew is loose. I can change any settings I want, redo the bobbin, rethread the machine, anything, and I still get loose thread on the back.

I tried it again recently (I have no idea why I went back to that well when I knew what would happen!) and had that same loose stitches issue, switched the thread out for a non-Coats and Clark thread without changing any settings on the machine, and the problem went away.

 

[busy mommy]

Great job on your bags! Don't you just love this pattern. This is one of my favorites.

 

[billwendy]

I use to say part of her frustration was because she couldn't comunicate to well. But last night I had her in bed and and she was so mad and angry, I could hear her through her door. She was ANGRY, then about 30min later was crying for me. I finally got ehr calmed downed, and she slept in my bed. That's what is so strange aboutt he mood swings. She can be fine, then next thing we know it she is mad and gets angry. I've also noticed DS ahs ahd some bite marks on him. I'm NOT around when this is happening. So i don't know if she has done it, or if his cousin who is 3wks younger then him doing this. She does bite, but hasn't bit him before, just her sister. I'm just concerned she will have one of these anger fits at school,a nd it won't be good.

Hey Girle - to you - you know your child best and should go with your instincts to have things checked out just to make sure its all okay! Your pediatrician SHOULD definately help you figure out things you need to rule out and refer you to the right people!! If its behavior, sensory issues, speech frustration issues, blood sugar issues - the pediatrician should help you!!

Oh - for the person with sock issues - I've heard really good things about these socks from Sensorycomfort. com - "seamless" with a good fit!! http://www.sensorycomfort.com/Clothing.htm

 

[EnchantedPrincess]

Hey! Small world! I live just south of Olathe - in Gardner, but I drive to KUMed every day!! I think there are a few others that live in the area as well!

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MACHINE EMBROIDER!!
I was just testing out my PED-basic and machine last night with a free downloadable applique design. I was trying it out on a denim material. I hooped the iron on tear away stabilizer and then just floated the denim material. Everything went fine through the marker stitch, the applique fabrique tack stitch and the first little bit of embroider and satin stitch, then my thread went all crazy and unraveled. The bobbin thread (which was a prewound type) was fine. So, I am pretty sure it is the top thread. I was just using some coats and clark (??) machine embroidery thread. Is this not good??
What kind do you all recommend??

Thanks! Jess

I use Isacord thread and it works really well with my machine. Only problem is that there is only one place where I can buy it locally.

I love this! I need to drop by Hancock after I drop off my ds at school tomorrow.

Please excuse the crappy photo - I have to get a camera - I have been using my Handycam and it's not good at stills. Ugh....

That turned out great!

 

[tricia]

Great job on your bags! Don't you just love this pattern. This is one of my favorites.

Thank you. Yes, it is my favourite, (and everyone else I know too, I have had to make a total of 18 of these for family and friends)

 

[froggy33]

So cute! And I was just at Hancock's today and they didn't have it. Wish it had been there! But all of their notions are 50% off so if you need anything now might be a good time to stock up! I needed serger thread and four cones came to $6.45! Not too bad!

I didn't realize that you were at KUMed! One of my great friends and former neighbor works as a nurse there in the ER. Her name is Jill Sailer if you happen to run into her, tell her you know Benita (me)!


As far as the thread goes, I bought mine from marathon threads after getting advice from Teresa and Heather. I have also bought some from the store where I bought my machine and I like the Marathon thread the best. And it's pretty inexpensive. You might want to try that and see how you like it. Their website is... www.marathonthread.com . Good luck and I hope that helps! I don't know anything about Coats and Clark embroidery thread.

I am definitely going to run by Hancock's and get some serger thread!! Oh and elastic - I go through that like crazy!!

I actually am in grad school at KUMed, so I don't have much interaction with the hospital, but if I see her I'll give a shout out!!

Thanks for the thread info. I think I remember someone saying that about Marathon thread!

For the record, and I know it is quite likely that others have had different experiences, I have never had any kind of good luck with any Coats and Clark thread. The issues I get with it is that if I use it for bobbin thread as well, the stitching on the back of anything I sew is loose. I can change any settings I want, redo the bobbin, rethread the machine, anything, and I still get loose thread on the back.

I tried it again recently (I have no idea why I went back to that well when I knew what would happen!) and had that same loose stitches issue, switched the thread out for a non-Coats and Clark thread without changing any settings on the machine, and the problem went away.

I use Coats&Clark for "by hand" embroidery and usually it is ok, but I do run into problems sometimes. It seems to twist and ravel easily!

I use Isacord thread and it works really well with my machine. Only problem is that there is only one place where I can buy it locally.

I'll look into that as well. Thanks so much!!!

Now that I have that figured out I am going over to etsy to spend some money!!!

 

[tvgirlmin]

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Sorry - I have a couple more questions. Thanks for the directions - do you tie square knots or do the pull through the loop method? Also I notice that you have multiple colors going round but your waist color is all the same? How do you do that?? [/QUOTE]

I tie the square knots - I stink at the through the loop method! Sorry - I forgot to mention that I wrap ribbon around the waist - that is how the uniform look gets there - it does not look like that without the help of the ribbon...

 

[princesskayla]

Okay. I know I read in this post about another great digilizer from England. What is her website. I have searched everything and I have missed it. Can someone help??

 

[mom2rtk]

Hey! Small world! I live just south of Olathe - in Gardner, but I drive to KUMed every day!! I think there are a few others that live in the area as well!

Well Howdy neighbors!

So does it bug you all as much as it does me to live so far from BOTH Disney parks????

 

[froggy33]

Well Howdy neighbors!

So does it bug you all as much as it does me to live so far from BOTH Disney parks????

Yes!! And there isn't really anything to compare that close either!! I'm not a fan of Worlds of Fun or Six Flags. That being said, I do really like Silver Dollar City!!

At least there are direct flights to Orlando and San Diego!!

 

[mom2rtk]

Yes!! And there isn't really anything to compare that close either!! I'm not a fan of Worlds of Fun or Six Flags. That being said, I do really like Silver Dollar City!!

At least there are direct flights to Orlando and San Diego!!

I haven't been to Worlds of Fun in at least 20 years..... And I haven't been to Silver Dollar City since I was a teenager. What's the point? I'd just be disappointed..... We're not big thrill riders, so my kids have never even wanted to go to WofF.