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

[lovesdumbo]

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!!!!

So sorry. Sounds like you need a new pediatrician!

Hi guys,
Well, I just played around with my new designs on some dish towels and I have to tell you, I heart Heathers Designs. They are so cute! I wanted to do this instead of the cake (which turned out pretty good -black light was actually pretty neat!).

So, here they are, I don't really know how to use the emb machine, but these turned out really nice.

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....

Those are great!

i miss you guys!!!!

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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SO cute!

Love all your bags!

Oh my goodness, I haven't been able to keep up with this thread lately.....I wish I had more time.

My son (10) has landed the main part in his school christmas concert, he's so pleased and I'm so proud of him. He's playing the part of an Ice King and I'm hoping that you cleaver people will give me a few ideas for his costue???

Please help, I'm not very good at comming up with ideas.

thanks guys

No ideas but congrats to your DS!

I have also been wanting to share this and finally got the picture uploaded. It was my son's Halloween costume. Went with the blue fairy costume I shared a while back. I used a simplicity overalls pattern and made the colors for Pinocchio, I used a vest pattern off of YCMT.

So perfect!!!

I need help with my appliques! I read through the GREAT tutorial by Heather, to get where I'm at, but I just lose it figuring out the points (like the top of an A) & my machine does not like to overlap stitches I am finding out. On my last one, I decreased the width on the underlayer--is that right? My biggest think is how do you make the points and good looking points like in the corner of the Mickey ears? I know I'm doing something wrong, but can't seem to figure it out. Here is my 2nd applique, it turned out pretty well, (we'll not talk about the "A" I attempted after this)

I know the colors are the wrong order for candy corn, but that's how it was on the purple candy corn fabric in the pants.

No advice but those look adorable!

 

[EnchantedPrincess]

I know this has been covered before, but very quickly - when you all machine embroider on t-shirts, do you iron on the tear-away to the t-shirt and then hoop both? Does it need to be tight?? Thanks!!!

Jess

When I embroider t-shirts, I don't hoop the shirts. I iron on the tear away to the t-shirt, just big enough to cover the design that I am embroidering. Then, I hoop a polymesh cutaway, spray the back of the t-shirt a little with spray adhesive and stick it on the cutaway. Seems to work for me that way.

 

[mom2rtk]

For those of you sewing Christmas customs right now, where are you getting your red/white stripe fabric? I'll be out tomorrow looking for some. I do recall in the past being really disappointed with what I found. Some of it was too orange-y of a red, and everything I found was super thin.

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[pipersmom]

My mom is looking for a pastel Mickey print to make a jacket for my dd. She's been able to find lots of Mickey in primary colors, but no pastels..anyone have any ideas? Thank you in advance...

 

[desparatelydisney]

For those of you sewing Christmas customs right now, where are you getting your red/white stripe fabric? I'll be out tomorrow looking for some. I do recall in the past being really disappointed with what I found. Some of it was too orange-y of a red, and everything I found was super thin.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Hancocks has some great ones this year - plus it's on sale 60% off right now. My red and white stripe I used for the Feliz underdress actually looks like pieces of candy canes and it is a nice dark berry red.

Good luck!

 

[Tinka_Belle]

Oh my goodness, I haven't been able to keep up with this thread lately.....I wish I had more time.

My son (10) has landed the main part in his school christmas concert, he's so pleased and I'm so proud of him. He's playing the part of an Ice King and I'm hoping that you cleaver people will give me a few ideas for his costue???

Please help, I'm not very good at comming up with ideas.

thanks guys

Make him up like Jack Frost in the Santa Clause 3. He looks so frosty. This is him with his jacket on:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/...rost/setokaiba06/Santa Clause 3/jackfrost.jpg

I think a blue vest with matching easy fit pants and a snowflake tie would be cute and then "ice" up his hair.

 

[teresajoy]

OH my gosh, that is TOOO cute!!!!!

 

[teresajoy]

YAY!!! The adult Easy Fits are out!!!!

Forgive the awful picture of me, but here I am in my I LOVE Troy jammie pants!

 

[HeatherSue]

You did a great job on that by hand!! You should have sent me THAT picture to work from for digitizing Imma!! You may have saved my eyes!

Could you please pray it's nothing? I can't get in for more films/ultrasound until the 25th.

I know that it could be nothing, and I'm trying not to let me mind go there, but.....

I've been stressed beyond belief this year. Our oldest is having a VERY difficult year. My doctor put me on antidepressants a few weeks ago to help cope with dealing with him.

DH is traveling like crazy; in fact, he's gone now. We have ZERO family support. We're an hour away from our church family. I'm just feeling very alone and vulnerable.

It didn't help that when the hospital put me on hold, the song playing was, "I Beg Your Pardon; I didn't Promise You a Rose Garden." I haven't heard that song in probably 30 years. I hope it wasn't a bad omen.

I'll pray for you.

Has anyone ever tried to do a Carla C pattern with a 9 year old helping you? One of my patients is going to Disney in January for a once in a lifetime trip (not make a wish though, her disorder is not considered life threatening) and i was wondering if you all thought I could help her (she has severe learning disability, seizure disorder, possible CP and other issues) maybe make a Molly top or something???? Thoughts? I just cant stand the thought of a little kiddo going without a custom now!! See what you guys have done to me!!! lol!!!

Tessa made an American Girl-ish doll dress from Carla's portrait peasant pattern. She did a great job on it, too! She added a bunch of buttons to it after I took these pictures. Here's a repost:

I love the kitty jumper and so will Tessa! That girl is obsessed with cats! Megan looks adorable, as usual!

You and Jacob are too cute! I love to see your smile!!

Everything looks great! That is a really pretty Belle picture!!

Tried to do an applique of the McD logo "M" for it, and followed HeatherSue's tutorial, but just didn't have any luck. Not sure what happened, but I kept getting about half an inch up one of the legs of the M and a giant knot would form on the back side of the material - like it was sewing the same place over and over - I did three attempts before I just gave up and put the patchwork pieces on the top. I will try again, though, so if anybody knows what I was doing wrong, or has any extra tips, let me know - the tutorial is great, this student is not always so bright, though....

Charlinn - LOVE the minnie Christmas dress!

That is SO cute!! I'm not sure what it says about us, but my kids could spot a McDonald's sign from 2 miles away by the time they were 18 months old.

This may be a silly question, but have you tried making your satin stitches further apart?

Heather the fantastic

I just wanted to say that I like that!

A

That is SOOOO pretty!!! You did a great job!

Do the CarlaC doll patterns work for Build-a-bears? My daughter's class has a bear that they take turns with. The poor thing seems to only have boy clothes! We bought a ballerina costume, but I thought it would be nice to make a few of the princess dresses for the girls to play with.
Thanks!

They sure do! I use the 18" size for ours:

While I was looking for those pictures, I stumbled across these pictures of some of the first things I made my kids in July-ish '07 and I got all teary-eyed.

That was my very first "applique". LOL!

Those outfits are GREAT!!!

Now you know why I didn't want to do any Christmas Carol designs- that's a lot of color changes! YIKES! LOL!

Great job on the applique! Very nice!

I have to tell you I am so excited! I have been doing small boutiques here and there showing my sets and some other things that I make with some success (not a ton), and today a friend took one of my applique'd T's (with Mickey with the Santa Hat) to her daughters dance class (they are going to DL in December as a class - they get to perform on main street). She called me and the owner wants all the kids to wear the shirt that I created! There are 21 kids. This is my biggest order ever!!! And most of the moms are ordering one for themselves and the siblings.

They are going to turn in the rest of the orders by next Saturday, but I have orders for 10 of them already!! OMG...I am so amazed that they love them!!!

I guess when you create things, you just hope people love them, but I am really hard on myself.

They have beautiful dresses that they are wearing for the parade, but while they are in Disneyland the rest of the day, they will all be wearing my shirts!!! OMG!!! Sorry...just had to share!

Thanks again for all your support and encouragement...it means the world!

WOW!! That's a lot of shirts!! You may just have to quit your job so you can finish them all! That's wonderful!

That happened to me once and when my husband took apart the printer there was a crayon inside it. Who know how it got there?

Stephanie, I have told you and told you- there is not a little man inside your printer drawing those pictures. You do not need to give him crayons!!!

 

[teresajoy]

Stephanie, I have told you and told you- there is not a little man inside your printer drawing those pictures. You do not need to give him crayons!!!

I just about choked from laughing so hard after I read that!

 

[teresajoy]

While I was looking for those pictures, I stumbled across these pictures of some of the first things I made my kids in July-ish '07 and I got all teary-eyed.

AWWWWW!!! Look at the little cutie pies!!!

How is my Tessa doing?

 

[teresajoy]

Well, I'm off to bed! Night all!

 

[HeatherSue]

Five more pages and I'll be caught up! Thanks for not chatting too much since last Friday!!

FABULOUS!!! Those are some of the prettiest tutus I've ever seen!!

Hello,
I am not very good at sewing. When we were at the world in March bought a Jasmine outfit for DD4.

Nearly all the sequins have come off (this was in 2 weeks!) can anyone tell me the quickest and easiest way to put them back on. Needs to be as permenant as possible as I don't want to have to keep doing it.

Thanks for any advice I receive
Ela

Is the sequins coming off in strips, or individual sequins coming off? Either way, I would think that E6000 glue would work well for putting it back on. I bought some in the craft department at WalMart. It's sold in tubes.

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.

This and many of life's other mysteries can be found in the very first post in this thread.

We found a sandwich on the VCR once.

I found a rotten apple under the couch cushion last week.

Question if you have ever made pj's for you kids:

I bought some flannel and fleece to make some pj's for my dd's but when I went to cut out the flannel it had on the side that it wasn't for children's pajamas. I know it is because it isn't fire retardant fabric. Is something you ever worry about?

Emily

I don't worry about it, but maybe I should. I know kid's clothes have to be coated with some sort of fire protective stuff (that's the technical term) or be skin tight to be considered pajamas.

So, here they are, I don't really know how to use the emb machine, but these turned out really nice.

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....

I think these turned out great! It looks like you know how to use your machine just fine!

i miss you guys!!!!

I miss you, too!!

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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.

Awwww....how cute! I think the elastic sewn onto the underside would be really cute and give it some shape. I love this fabric- it's what I used to make my very first shirt for Tessa.

O

Those turned out GREAT!! Thank you for making one for a Big Give!

 

[HeatherSue]

AWWWWW!!! Look at the little cutie pies!!!

How is my Tessa doing?

Not so good. Her fever was back up to 103 this evening! She looks so miserable! I hate it when my kids are sick!

H
What kind do you all recommend??

Thanks! Jess

I just wanted to recommend rayon Marathon thread, like a few others suggested. My thread almost never breaks now.

I got the 50 most popular colors and then placed another order of 50 to share with Teresa. But, I found out that they will let you choose which 50 colors you want and still give you the package price. You just need to call them first! Here's the link to the packages:
http://marathonthread.com/collection.shtml

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

No, but you could try the link I just posted. It's a great company!

WOW!! That is so precious!! I love it!! You did a fantastic job!!

I know the colors are the wrong order for candy corn, but that's how it was on the purple candy corn fabric in the pants.

Those turned out SOO cute!! I think you're doing great on the appliques! As for the points, you just need to keep practicing until you figure out how to turn the fabric to get it to look right. It's a problem if your machine won't let you go over the same area twice because when you do a point you have to do that a little.

YAY!!! The adult Easy Fits are out!!!!

Forgive the awful picture of me, but here I am in my I LOVE Troy jammie pants!

You are looking FABULOUS in your I love Troy pants, my dear!

I just about choked from laughing so hard after I read that!

I thought you would like that. I was making myself laugh so hard I could hardly type it.

Well, I'm off to bed! Night all!

So, I guess that means I'm all alone!

 

[HeatherSue]

In my attempt to make this a totally Heather/Teresa page, I will post some things I've made recently. Here are my CarlaC Easy Fit Pants for adults!!!! This pattern is just as easy and fast as the kid's pattern and oh-so-comfy!! I live in these pants!

Here's an Incredibles shirt I made for a Big Give. It was a last minute thing, so I used the test stitch for this design and just sewed it on as a patch.

I also wanted to show you all Tessa's new bed. This thing is AWESOME!!! I've been looking on craigslist for the last year and finally found the perfect bed for a great price! It would have been better if it looked like a castle, but we'll take it! It was perfect timing because Henry picked it up on Saturday and that's the same day Tessa came down with the flu. So, she's spent a lot of time laying in her new bed, resting. Here are some pictures:

In this one, you can see the little doors on the side that lead to a play area underneath the bed:

You can also see her pretty pink puke bucket on the desk. Luckily, she's only thrown up once.

The stairs have drawers in them and there are tons of drawers and shelves all over the place! BTW, this is before she slept in it- we did put sheets on first!

Both the kiddos at the top. I got an extra tall bed rail to put on it after we took this picture.

 

[HeatherSue]

Guess who?? Yep, it's me again.

I am looking for someone to draw some original applique designs for me. If you have some artistic ability and can draw fairy uncomplicated images for me, please send me a PM!

 

[shopn24seven]

ugh...I have looked everywhere, tried ebay, free cycle, yahoo groups, lol.

Can anyone help me? Where else should I look?

 

[HeatherSue]

ugh...I have looked everywhere, tried ebay, free cycle, yahoo groups, lol.

Can anyone help me? Where else should I look?

Are you looking for her black hat or her white hat?

I can't help you with either one, but mom2rtk might have a suggestion!

 

[livndisney]

ugh...I have looked everywhere, tried ebay, free cycle, yahoo groups, lol.

Can anyone help me? Where else should I look?

If you are looking for the white hat for the "Jolly Holiday" look, I used a white easter hat for DD's Mary Poppins. It was white "woven" and had a wide brim.

 

[shopn24seven]

WHITE, Jolly look.
I tried searching for Easter and also Sun hat.
Did not try looking for Woven hat.
I think the fall/winter season is not helping me at all.
I even tried a thrift store. LOL.