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

[rascalsmommy]

Finished up a Stitch outfit for Ella last night.

Closeup of fabric - it's a Japanese print that I bought from one of those sites that we don't talk about.

I LOVE that fabric! I'm new so I'm not sure which sites "we don't talk about". Could you pm me with more info? I'd really like to order some : ) Thanks!

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

I LOVE that fabric! I'm new so I'm not sure which sites "we don't talk about". Could you pm me with more info? I'd really like to order some : ) Thanks!

I would love to know where it is found too! DD loves Stitch. I have used HeatherSue's design and it stitches out really nicely. I have a Futura and I use the .dst formats. I have had problems with other formats but that one works for me.

Everything posted is so beautiful!

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

No, not at all! My machine is a Brother PE-770 - it has a 5x7 field - I think it just looks bigger on Ella 'cause she's small? If I put him on a shirt for me, you'd probably have to squint to see him! I've only had my embroidery machine a little over a month and I already want to go bigger! So I know the feeling!

That is the machine i just ordered and am impatiently waiting for it to come in! Yours looks great and makes me even more excited to get my hands on it!

ADVICE PLEASE!!!!!






I have found this machine

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?CATID=cat2573&PRODID=xprd686966

that a lady is selling locally. I REALLY want an embroidery machine! Anyway, I am going to go see it tomorrow. She says she has never used it and wants to sell it, at a pretty good price.

Anybody have any feedback...am I going to be okay with this machine? I like Singer...that is what I have always sewn with.

I got a singer futura for christmas and returned it. I have a brother sewing machine and I guess I was spoiled by it. I found the singer to not be user friendly, always had user errors even when everything was right, and I thought it was a pain in the you know what to thread! You may find that you like it, but I just took mine back and ordered a brother machine instead. It did cost more money but I think it will be worth my sanity. The only bad part is you want have the option to return yours if you don't like it. Maybe she would let you give it a test run before you buy it.

 

[Tweevil]

ADVICE PLEASE!!!!!






I have found this machine

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?CATID=cat2573&PRODID=xprd686966

that a lady is selling locally. I REALLY want an embroidery machine! Anyway, I am going to go see it tomorrow. She says she has never used it and wants to sell it, at a pretty good price.

Anybody have any feedback...am I going to be okay with this machine? I like Singer...that is what I have always sewn with.

I have this machine... now that I have it I think I would have gotten something else.
I like the ease of use, yes you have to hit the go button often as it errors for every little thing, the program is easy to use too. It will stitch most files (.dst is the best for it but it will do pst and others).

But, the field space is smaller than it says, a 5x7 is actually almost an inch smaller around, the bobbin is touchy, and there is no way that I can figure out how to trim around an applique and have it re-align properly if I remove the hoop from the machine. So, I am forced to lift the foot and trim the best I can. There also isn't a function that allows the foot to move to the far corner of the design to get it out of the way while I trim. It stays where it is to start and doesn't give much clearance to trim.

The zillion stitches are nice if you use this in sewing mode, the sewing arm is what tells the machine if you are embroidering or not. You have to take off the regular sewing one and put on the embroidering arm to do a hoop pattern. Sometimes I wish i could figure out how to switch it to machine when I am embroidering to fix something while I was there.

In retrospect I wouldn't get this and I would try for another kind with a larger field. If you are looking for something that is in the interim or for figuring out if you would really use it then it would serve its purpose. That's why I got this one, I didn't know what I was doing - still don't but know I have a wish list of what I would like.

Hope this helps and sorry it was such a novel.

 

[luvinyou]

What are your favorite fabric stores in Paris? Also in Amsterdam and Germany?

I hope to find some cute fabrics not available here in the States.

I would love to know too! I'll be in Poland, Belgium, Greece, France, Amsterdam ( possibly some other places) this summer, so i'd love to pick up some unique fabric

 

[aboveH20]

Thank you to all who welcomed me. It is an honor even to post among the creativity I see displayed here daily. I leave for WDW tomorrow, but when I get back I'll be trying a couple CarlaC patterns I got recently. (My sons are grown which has taken some of the fun out of sewing. )

Two things on my agenda at WDW: I'll be scouring the crowds (what crowds?) for original T-shirts, customs, and lime green Mickeys. And, I told MAW/Big Give Piper that I'd get the place all "neat and tidy" for her trip, which starts the day after I leave.

CastleCreations - I like your avatar. Brett was the cruise director when we were on the Wonder a couple years ago. I loved his voice.

Off to finish packing.

 

[Eyore4Ever149]

Soooo....Some of you may have picked up on it based on the outfits I have been making...
As some of you know, things are been tight for us money wise for a while. But DH encouraged me to buy an embroidery machine back in late summer- Fall I guess. I felt so guilty about it, I actually didn't use it for a couple months.

But then my Kenmore decided to give me issues, so I had to start using it.

I did not buy a new machine. I bought a used one that someone traded in.

It's a Viking Designer SE, it has a 4x4, then a larger hoop that I can do 5x7 or 6x10 and then a mega hoop- no clue on the sizing on that. I had the opportunity to use a machine like this at the sewing studio where I made Hannah's gown. I plan to use this machine for a very long time and dont think it's possible to outgrown this machine.

So now I have it off my chest. I have a "new to me sewing machine"

All these questions about machines, I wanted to support the idea of buying a pre-loved machine. IF its the machine you want. I am really happy, I was able to get a whole lot more machine for the money. In fact, I was even able to have her include a Anita Goodesigns CD, and the Heirloom Kit, which comes with a whole bunch of other cool feet to use.

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......

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I think this is wonderful! I didn't think I liked this fabric when I saw the swatch the other day, but now that I can see it more clearly- I DO! I DO! I think this is perfect for her age. I just LOVE the feliz!

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

Nicole...don't apologize for getting a great machine, because like you said, it is new to you! When people ask me about sewing machines I always direct them away from the new ones at Walmart and into the trade-in section of my favorite local sewing store. Not only do you get more bang for your buck, you'll have tech support and possibly instruction classes for your "new" machine. I've always had handmedowns from my mother, my serger was the first "factory fresh" machine I've ever owned...and I went in to buy used but this was the better deal. I think you got a great machine, and I'm jealous of your ginormous hoop!!!

 

[Eyore4Ever149]

Nicole...don't apologize for getting a great machine, because like you said, it is new to you! When people ask me about sewing machines I always direct them away from the new ones at Walmart and into the trade-in section of my favorite local sewing store. Not only do you get more bang for your buck, you'll have tech support and possibly instruction classes for your "new" machine. I've always had handmedowns from my mother, my serger was the first "factory fresh" machine I've ever owned...and I went in to buy used but this was the better deal. I think you got a great machine, and I'm jealous of your ginormous hoop!!!

I'm okay with it being used, but feel guilty that we really dont have a lot of money for me to justify a sewing machine. We are doing speghetti dinners once a week now My Aunt told me- hey now you can make the kid's clothes instead of buying them.
DH doesnt seem to mind. Things have been up and down with the whole money thing. I am hoping we will come to some conclusions in the Spring and be able to move forward.

 

[h518may]

To start I love the Alice feliz, but have to admit that the feliz is one of my favorite dress patterns.

I have been working on several sewing things and finaly finished a couple. I made my second simply sweet.

Found the Pooh material at Hobby Lobby as a remnent just enough for a dress.


And I made my first reglan t-shirt, and my first strips.

 

[teresajoy]

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.

Your daughter looks so pretty in her gorgeous dress!

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

I'm sorry about her hair appointment! I agree, you should complain to someone!
And, that's so disappointing about the presents!

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-

I'm sorry about that!

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.......

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!

I love it!

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......

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This is beautiful!!! I love it!

Ooooh that would be perfect! If you can find it, I would love to see it- Thanks very much for the idea!

D'oh! I should have thought of the black Alice band idea, too. Just not thinking clearly, I guess- Thanks... completely OT, but did you know in Ireland they call headbands Alice bands? it's the generic name for all of them, and always makes me think of the story.

I didn't know that!

I just wanted to post that you are all so talented!! I thought so much of this was adorable! Go you!!

Stick around!

Finished up a Stitch outfit for Ella last night. I hope we get to meet him again this trip - he was so fun with Caleb last time! Ella wasn't really into meeting anyone but princesses last time, but she seems excited to meet some more characters this time.

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Lori, you are so talented! I just love everything you make! This is just adorable! I love the Stitch fabric, how cute is that!

Please activate my member ship for the Big Give. I really want to make something for this family, they have been through so much with their little one!

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Hi! Congratulations on the pageant!

Beautiful black dress!

Love the stitch outfit!

The Aice Vida is soooo beautiful! Alice is one of my favorite Disney characters and another one that is so hard to find stuff for. I know there will be a lot more now that the movie is coming out.

I figured since Piper posted her big give, I would post mine that I made for Phoebe's sister, Tessa. BTW, great idea Piper! The outfit is just adorable and the sisters will coordinate beautifully! Here it is on my Julia (who is about the same size as Tessa).

I have so much more to post...more coming soon.

So pretty!! Thank you for posting pictures here! We encourage everyone to do that.

I finally got my machine back!!!! Now off to sew - you might not hear from me for a hile again because I need to sew for our May trip and get T-shirts made for our Breast Cancer fundraiser!

Have fun! When will you be there in May?

Thank you to all who welcomed me. It is an honor even to post among the creativity I see displayed here daily. I leave for WDW tomorrow, but when I get back I'll be trying a couple CarlaC patterns I got recently. (My sons are grown which has taken some of the fun out of sewing. )

Two things on my agenda at WDW: I'll be scouring the crowds (what crowds?) for original T-shirts, customs, and lime green Mickeys. And, I told MAW/Big Give Piper that I'd get the place all "neat and tidy" for her trip, which starts the day after I leave.

CastleCreations - I like your avatar. Brett was the cruise director when we were on the Wonder a couple years ago. I loved his voice.

Off to finish packing.

Have a wonderful trip!

 

[DisneyKings]

OK, I found these 2 fabrics for my dds Easter dresses. What popped in my head when I saw them was CarlaC's precious dress for the top & attach the scallopini skirt for the bottom part--with the pink for the main dress & yellow peaking out below the scallops. What do you think? Is this doable? Anyone have a better suggestion? I have ALL of Carla's kids patterns & the vida.

 

[jessica52877]

Please activate my member ship for the Big Give. I really want to make something for this family, they have been through so much with their little one!

Sent you a PM!

 

[DisneyKings]

Here are my creations over the last month with my new machine:

Can you see Daisy on the flowered shirt?

I made these for a friend who was going for the first time:

I made these for a big give:

 

[Mom2SamandJames]

I don't have much time today so I am going to just say everything posted is absolutely gorgeous!!! You ladies are so talented, and thank you for giving me the push I need to try new patterns and ideas!

I also wanted let you all know that since getting our sweet dog, Biscuit, we have gotten 3 solid nights of sleep. Samuel has not had a night terror or even a bad dream since we got her. She flies up the stairs with him for bedtime every night. I know it has only been 3 nights, but it has been three blissful nights of sleep for us! I will try and get a picture of her up sometime this week. She will look better when we can give her a real bath after the stitches come out Saturday morning.

Dawn

 

[glorib]

Found the Pooh material at Hobby Lobby as a remnent just enough for a dress.


And I made my first reglan t-shirt, and my first strips.

Great job! That pooh fabric is cute and I love the hoodie!

Here are my creations over the last month with my new machine:

Can you see Daisy on the flowered shirt?

I made these for a friend who was going for the first time:

I made these for a big give:

You've been busy! Everything is awesome - my favorite is the monkey a-line!

I figured since Piper posted her big give, I would post mine that I made for Phoebe's sister, Tessa. BTW, great idea Piper! The outfit is just adorable and the sisters will coordinate beautifully! Here it is on my Julia (who is about the same size as Tessa).

I have so much more to post...more coming soon.

This is just too cute! I love the sash!

 

[*Toadstool*]

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......

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Gorgeous! I almost got some of this fabric, but I have the entire line of Alice from another distributor.. It is very similar. I'll try to post pictures. I did get some of the words though. They are so pretty!! LOVE this dress though. I usually don't like dresses with nothing on them... but these fabrics definitely stand alone on their own. I am always obssessed with adding a bunch of stuff to the fabric(applique and embroidery), but this is just gorgeous!!!

Finished up a Stitch outfit for Ella last night. I hope we get to meet him again this trip - he was so fun with Caleb last time! Ella wasn't really into meeting anyone but princesses last time, but she seems excited to meet some more characters this time.

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Oh this is beautiful!!! Love it!! That fabric is so fab. I'd love to get some but surely it will be sold out before I have the money to get it.
Best stitch outfit ever!!

I have so much more to post...more coming soon.

Beautiful dress! I love the bloomers too! What a little model you have there!

Love the hoody! she looks like a blast!!

Here are my creations over the last month with my new machine:


Can you see Daisy on the flowered shirt?

Wow!! you sure have been busy. It is great to see someone using their machine that much!!! I cand efinitely see Daisy! Love her!!

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

Almost forgot...I meant to post this pic here too after doing it on the Big Give site, and my internet was acting up and I forgot until now. This is a trial run, just for fun dress for Ali...the buttonhole on the side is for her G-tube to exit and run around to a backpack. Her mom said she loves dresses, but can't usually wear them. I wanted to do a test to see if this works, so this is some fabric I had in my stash. It met with the approval of my 4yo, who really didn't want to give it up! LOL The dress is a bit shorter now, the requested length was 12", and I read 21", oops!

This is the buttonhole on the left front.

Rebecca modelling Ali's dress...Ali loves animals, and mom says her favorites change often, this print had so many, I thought it would work. I'm just waiting for the address, and I'll mail it tomorrow!

 

[*Toadstool*]

Almost forgot...I meant to post this pic here too after doing it on the Big Give site, and my internet was acting up and I forgot until now. This is a trial run, just for fun dress for Ali...the buttonhole on the side is for her G-tube to exit and run around to a backpack. Her mom said she loves dresses, but can't usually wear them. I wanted to do a test to see if this works, so this is some fabric I had in my stash. It met with the approval of my 4yo, who really didn't want to give it up! LOL The dress is a bit shorter now, the requested length was 12", and I read 21", oops!

I was just thinking.. She must like the dresses really short huh? Seems really short to me!

 

[billwendy]

Speaking of Walmart............... our store in Wilmington is getting rid of the fabric before the on Rt13 (for those of you in the DE area). They said they can't do anymore ordering. What they have is it. But I noticed they had some cool flannel with Toy Story and Tink and Friends. I'll have to go back and make sure I get some to make Kirsta some sleep pants.

OH NO Not that one too!!!! Is it all on clearance???? Im sooo bummed!!

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

WOW that is soooo awesome!!!!

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Back:

Closeup of Stitch - this is a Frou Frou by HeatherSue design - stitched out great!

Sooo cute - love the fabric, the Stitch and your cutiepie girl!!! So adorable!

Piper - such a cute skirt/top!!
Julia is so cute in the Minnie Dress!!!