Disboutiquers Part 19 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[disneygirlsanddrew]

What a cool thing to add to your stash!!! At that price you can sit on it for a while if needed. I do this all the time...which is why I have 12 yards of Minnie dot in the closet when it went to 50 cents a yard!

Wow! How in the world did you find it (or any other fabric for that matter) for 50 cents a yard?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to go to fabric stores more often. i can usually only afford to get just what i need to make my girls outfits so I have no stash except for small scraps. therefore i haven't been able to sew anything for awhile and i told my DH i am going through withdrawal. i NEED to sew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dmbdisneymom]

Hi, I don't get a chance to post much, but I did this for our last trip in Nv. Using emb. designs from stitch on time:

The characters on the skirt are lego star wars. The CM's at Star Tours were thrilled with it. One of them gave DD a rider switch pass for a second ride!

That's exactly what I'm looking for! I'm not very good with applique/embroidery yet, but I'm desperate to learn! If anyone knows how to do all that with a Memory Craft 5000, help would be greatly appreciated! We love our Lego Star Wars games!

 

[*Toadstool*]

Hi EVERYONE!!! I've missed you! (what? You didn't notice I was gone ALL day!) LOL...

I Love coming on here, even when I have had a bad day, I come on here, read about bobbins, and kids, hems (Kira- I use my blindhem stitch the same way- point falling just off the fold to "pick" a few threads up) etc, etc.
all this sewing talk just cheers me up!!!

SO- we went to the Princess Birthday Party today. First, we went to a salon to get her hair done- i was trying to go for the "BBB" feel. Well, it didn't have "magic" to it....
First they told me the price was going to be almost $10 higher than what someone quoted me on the phone....then they assign a young girl to her (I learned later that she is brand new) and she didn't talk to Megan AT ALL!! To get her to move her head she would push on Megan's head, rather than asking her to look in a certain direction.

Megan said nothing and sat like stone, at the end she swung her around and she had tears sitting on her eyes. Bless her heart.
She turned down the glitter for her hair.

Then we arrived at the hotel and she was grinning from ear to ear. She was SOOOO excited.
Ariel came to visit- she was superb with the kids, but looked about 25 years older than Ariel. The little girls loved her though.
They got paintings on their arm....
danced
limbo
karioke
made ballon butterflies
played Hannah Montana music
pin the patch on the pirate

they served little tea sandwiches and cookies (not the best tasting- but very cute)
Each child left with a helium balloon, a balloon animal, a little gift box with mini bundt cakes, a foam crown (pirate stuff for the boys)

However, the one downer is that they did not open gifts! WHY do they do this? Megan kept asking when she would open presents, and when we went to leave she asked- "Mommy, could she just open the card?"
All in all Megan loved it and said "Maybe I could have a birthday party like this?"
Me a non commital "Mmmmmmm" I have to admit, I was more than a little bummed it, took me a week to finish the outfit and I didn't get to see her reaction. Oh, well. Live and learn.
LOL

SHe looks so pretty! Thats no fun about the hair thing. I hope you call there and complain. I would..
I would have been bummed about the child not opening the presents either. I've never been to a party where they didn't open the presents.. how strange!

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Voted for Emily! Such a pretty girl!

I did one...kinda...this was made from the retro sheets at Pottery Barn Kids...pricey for fabric...but my mom bought the sham for me so I would have some cool fabric!

The boys shorts I CASED from someone else...they are the pillow panels. Katie will be wearing the dress again this year, but I think I will make something else for the boys...haven't decided yet. Patrick would gladly wear his full-on Jedi stuff, but I don't want the kid passing out!

So cute.. LOVE the dress.

Hi, I don't get a chance to post much, but I did this for our last trip in Nv. Using emb. designs from stitch on time:

The characters on the skirt are lego star wars. The CM's at Star Tours were thrilled with it. One of them gave DD a rider switch pass for a second ride!

Love it!!! I think I might have to make a SW outfit for my DD now. She has no clue what SW is though so that is why I have never made one.

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For the cupcake skirt, most of them are done with a rolled hem (but I couldn't figure out how to do it, even after reading several rolled hem tutorials). So I just improvised with a regular hem filled with fishing line. I was pretty happy with the result!

WOW! Congrats Emmy!! How exciting for you. More exciting that you said Oahu! hehe.. LOVE me some Hawaii! You have to do the rolled hem on the serger. I tried it once and my fishing line wasn't thick enough. I have a special foot for it. Hopefully mine will come out as cute as yours. Mine needs to be pink for sure though! hehe!

I googled "disney font" it, but only found regular files, not embroidery specific downloads. Could someone pm me with more info? I am new to all this - I'm picking up my new Brother embroidery machine today : )

You'd have to google "disney embroidery font"
Claws and Paws and Pegasus Embroidery both have great prices. Pegasus has it in a beautiful applique font too.

i would like to know if there is a way to get this font for free too. i am also waiting for my brother machine to arrive.

Read above ^^ I don't think 3 dollars is too much to ask for a font.

EMBROIDERY FONTS
Oh and btw fonts like this aren't actually manually digitized by the digitizer. All they do is put the ttf file on their computer and the software converts it into stitches. All you can do is adjust small details and sizes. Embird Font Engine is great to do this yourself if you have Embird.
Oh and if you buy these embroidery fonts that are for sale you still need software to put the letters together to make words. If you don't have the software you can sit there and painstakingly line up the words. It is a real pain in the booty. That is why I recommend Embird Basic to everyone who asks me. It is a cheap software and works great.. you won't regret the purchase.
If you pm me I will give you a link to my server that has 2 free fonts on them. They are not the disney fonts, but are just some fonts that I liked that I did for sewforum. If you google embroideryrn designs you should get a website that has free embroidery fonts too. Try this link: http://embroideryrndesigns.niceboards.net/simple-alphas-f7/simple-alphas-t9.htm
Oh and Embird has a free trial where you can save designs... you can try it for 30 days and merge all the fonts you want and reuse those designs.

 

[MinnieForMe]

My daughter (4) finally decided that she HAS to be Tiana for our visit to Epcot this year. So, I've decided that the rest of the family has to wear a character (embroidered) from the Princess and the Frog on their shirt.

Does anyone know if Heather Sue has the alligator with the trumpet design digitized? I didn't see it on etsy. My 12 year old is a jazz player (trumpet) and I know he would actually wear that on his polo shirt. Now to find pale green shirts for everyone!

 

[Diz-Mommy]

*Toadstool*

I'm just wondering why you used the blind hem stitch for this.. Thats not how I use the blind hem stitch on my machine. The triangle part falls off of the fold to where you don't see any stitches on the front. Just wondering if I am missing something. Also.. When I hem thick fabrics I take a hammer and beat the seams.. BIG help to me when I hem hubbys work pants and coveralls.

They were my hubby's work pants, so I just used the same finish they had before I shortend them...I'm not sure why it looks funny, but all I see on the other side are small tacks so it served the purpose. Maybe I have the width of the blind hem stitch set too narrow? Or maybe it's user error that's what happens when you get most of your sewing lessons from YOUtube.

 

[woodkins]

I would have been bummed about the child not opening the presents either. I've never been to a party where they didn't open the presents.. how strange!

Maybe it is a regional thing because I have never been to a child's birthday party where the gifts were opened at a party! Even when I was a little girl the gifts were given to the bday child and put into a bin or sack for them to take home. I actually like it that way as there is no comparing who brought the "best" (ie most expensive LOL) gift etc.

 

[*Toadstool*]

*Toadstool*
They were my hubby's work pants, so I just used the same finish they had before I shortend them...I'm not sure why it looks funny, but all I see on the other side are small tacks so it served the purpose. Maybe I have the width of the blind hem stitch set too narrow? Or maybe it's user error that's what happens when you get most of your sewing lessons from YOUtube.

Hrm I don't know. Maybe yours is different than mine. I hate how it looks on mine.. it bothers me so I still do the blind hem by hand.. but definitely not on work pants! I coverstitch those!
I was just wondering if it served a purpose different than what I was using it for.. because like I said.. I hate the way it looks. I even have the blind hem foot. It sure is fast, but I just don't like seeing the thread as much as you see it.

 

[*Toadstool*]

Maybe it is a regional thing because I have never been to a child's birthday party where the gifts were opened at a party! Even when I was a little girl the gifts were given to the bday child and put into a bin or sack for them to take home. I actually like it that way as there is no comparing who brought the "best" (ie most expensive LOL) gift etc.

Oh wow.. Maybe it is then.
Hannah's favorite part at the party is seeing the child open the gifts.

 

[ireland_nicole]

My almost 13yo DD needed a black dress to wear for an upcoming symphonic band concert...she plays French Horn. Finding something in a tween size that wasn't a cocktail dress or looked like grandma's mourning clothes was impossible, so she let me sew for her. Even finding nice black fabric was a challenge. It's impossible to seein the pic, but this has a sparkle to it...and I found it in the costume fabric section at JoAnn's! She's photographed here, under protest of course. I hope we'll get a few concerts out of it.

Gorgeous!

Nini, I'm praying!

Love the pageant dress, and congrats!

Love the Ariel outfit/ sorry about the hair experience- how dissapointing.


Rant coming:
Finished an Alice Feliz today for the movie (and for the tea party in June)... but I'm way too upset and frustrated to take pics of it. DD just cut her hair- again. She's 10 for heaven's sake; I know she has autism, etc. but sometimes I just want to stick my head in an oven over her behavior. We only just got it grown out from the last time. And then to find out why- "I got gum in it" Um, where'd the gum come from? (Grandma) I'm trying to be grateful that at least this time she cut a section out under the back; but it was only just to the point we could put it up again- Ugh! And my first thought, for better or for worse, was that we'd have to cancel the BBB appt we made 3 months ago- I can't think of any way to hide it the way they put their hair up... Sorry, I just ... ugh. I know it's not huge in the grand scheme of things but it just feels like a kick in the teeth every time. It's like living in the movie Jaws- just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water-

 

[desparatelydisney]

My daughter (4) finally decided that she HAS to be Tiana for our visit to Epcot this year. So, I've decided that the rest of the family has to wear a character (embroidered) from the Princess and the Frog on their shirt.

Does anyone know if Heather Sue has the alligator with the trumpet design digitized? I didn't see it on etsy. My 12 year old is a jazz player (trumpet) and I know he would actually wear that on his polo shirt. Now to find pale green shirts for everyone!

Heather does not but Stitch on Time does; however I think the smallest is 5x7. I have bought it but not stitched it out.

 

[jessica52877]

Opening Gifts Thing -

I do think it is somewhat regional. This is the first year that I have ever had a party for Dallas and I made sure that he opened the gifts in front of the kids (and parents). I wanted them to see that he appreciated them (hopefully). I dislike going to a party and not seeing the gifts opened. Just me. I could care less what was the most expensive, etc. I Just think it is fun for the child to see the birthday child open them. And I do know that kids will be kids and what comes out of their mouths I might not like! LOL!

Thanks goodness Dallas only had 4 gifts to open and LOVED them all! And didn't have any of them already.

 

[livndisney]

Gorgeous!

Nini, I'm praying!

Love the pageant dress, and congrats!

Love the Ariel outfit/ sorry about the hair experience- how dissapointing.


Rant coming:
Finished an Alice Feliz today for the movie (and for the tea party in June)... but I'm way too upset and frustrated to take pics of it. DD just cut her hair- again. She's 10 for heaven's sake; I know she has autism, etc. but sometimes I just want to stick my head in an oven over her behavior. We only just got it grown out from the last time. And then to find out why- "I got gum in it" Um, where'd the gum come from? (Grandma) I'm trying to be grateful that at least this time she cut a section out under the back; but it was only just to the point we could put it up again- Ugh! And my first thought, for better or for worse, was that we'd have to cancel the BBB appt we made 3 months ago- I can't think of any way to hide it the way they put their hair up... Sorry, I just ... ugh. I know it's not huge in the grand scheme of things but it just feels like a kick in the teeth every time. It's like living in the movie Jaws- just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water-

You don't "have" to cancel BBB. You can ask that they just put the top half of her hair in a bun and leave the rest down. They do this for the girls with shorter hair. I know this doesn't help much-but we are dealing with "issues" I thought we had worked thru.......gain an inch fall back a foot.......

 

[WDWAtLast]

Rant coming:
Finished an Alice Feliz today for the movie (and for the tea party in June)... but I'm way too upset and frustrated to take pics of it. DD just cut her hair- again. She's 10 for heaven's sake; I know she has autism, etc. but sometimes I just want to stick my head in an oven over her behavior. We only just got it grown out from the last time. And then to find out why- "I got gum in it" Um, where'd the gum come from? (Grandma) I'm trying to be grateful that at least this time she cut a section out under the back; but it was only just to the point we could put it up again- Ugh! And my first thought, for better or for worse, was that we'd have to cancel the BBB appt we made 3 months ago- I can't think of any way to hide it the way they put their hair up... Sorry, I just ... ugh. I know it's not huge in the grand scheme of things but it just feels like a kick in the teeth every time. It's like living in the movie Jaws- just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water-

Hugs! As the sister of someone who constantly cut her hair, my hair and ALL of our doll's hair, I feel your pain! I would just let her go to BBB and if her hair doesn't look like she envisioned, then explain that she shouldn't have cut it!! Because if she is like my sister - she will still love it all - even it it isn;t "perfect"!

 

[Piper]

Here is the Minnie skirt and top for Phoebe (Big Give) I was going to do a peasant top, but they said she had very narrow shoulders, so I thought a T would be better.

didn't notice the skirt was folded until just now when I posted....I think Mai Li cattacked it!

 

[tmh0206]

oooo.....wouldn't it be great if we could get it from her?!


What kind did you get? I literally can't wait until I can get my hands on mine. I think I am beginning to drive my DH crazy because I want it NOW!!!

Is it just me or is everyone not as chatty on here lately?
My poor little Addyson is sick -fever and bad head cold. She is so miserable. I feel really bad for her, but at the same time I just know I am going to get it because she keeps sneezing and coughing on me! She just turned 3 so she really can't help it. I hate it when my babies are sick!

I got a Brother PE750D and I felt the exact same way, I couldn't hardly wait for it to be delivered. Now I cant wait until I figure out exactly how to use it!

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

Wow! How in the world did you find it (or any other fabric for that matter) for 50 cents a yard?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to go to fabric stores more often. i can usually only afford to get just what i need to make my girls outfits so I have no stash except for small scraps. therefore i haven't been able to sew anything for awhile and i told my DH i am going through withdrawal. i NEED to sew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, it was posted on the board here a few years ago that Walmart had it on clearance for $1.00, which I thought was a good price. My Walmart didn't have any, but I had a friend in NJ check hers and they had it for .50, so she bought the rest of the bolt for me. I've made a few things since, so I don't have the entire length, but still enough to make a few more things if the mood hits. And it probably will. Rebecca's Minnie dress is now so short it's indecent, and she's asked for a new one.

 

[princessmom29]

That's exactly what I'm looking for! I'm not very good with applique/embroidery yet, but I'm desperate to learn! If anyone knows how to do all that with a Memory Craft 5000, help would be greatly appreciated! We love our Lego Star Wars games!

I loved these designs. They were pretty easy to stitch out. I have a singer machine, but the basic process it the same on every machine. I don't know how much you know about machine applique, so forgive me if I give you too mch info, but here goes.
You download the design form the website in the format that your machine uses, then upload it to your machine. these are from stitchontime.com

The design is set up to stop the machine every time it needs something done to it. Basically, for each piece of fabric to be placed it will stitch a placement guide and stop. You then place a piece of the correct color fabric over the guide. The next block will stitch the fabric down. Now you take the hoop off the machine and trim the fabric as close as possible to the stitching line, being careful not to shift the base fabric. Then the hoop goes back on and the machine zig zags aroung the trimmed edge. Once all the fabrics are down, the machine will do all the satin stitching around the edges and the detail work. It really isn't ashard as it looks, and these designs aren't bad b/c they only have a few fabric colors. HTH!

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

Have you guys seen those new pirate crocs for little boys?! They are so cute! If I only had a little boy.

 

[MinnieVanMom]

Here is the Minnie skirt and top for Phoebe (Big Give) I was going to do a peasant top, but they said she had very narrow shoulders, so I thought a T would be better.

didn't notice the skirt was folded until just now when I posted....I think Mai Li cattacked it!

Piper that is beyond adorable! She is going to love her outfit. You are so kind to do the big gives.

 

[ireland_nicole]

Piper- love the outfit!

OK, finally got over myself enough to take pics of the Alice Feliz this morning: it was a little challenging, because I wanted something both for the movie and the tea party; so it couldn't be too cartoonish, or too "out there" because it would have been "off" for the other event. I finally found some great fabric based on the illustrations from the original book. Figured that would work for both: so......

front:

back:

and by DD's request, the obligatory "action twirl" shot:

(please excuse the one serger thread hanging; I had her still and just need to thread it through the stitches, but wouldn't have been able to keep her in one place long enough- its fixed now LOL)
I'd planned on doing her hair in high bun piggies w/ raggy bows in the fabric, but now that's out; so I'm trying to figure that out- I'm open to ideas if anyone has em- Thanks!