Disboutiquers Part 20 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[princesskayla]

This board is addictive when I first read that warning when I found this site I thought yall where exaggerating. There is so much pretty stuff on this site!! This is the conversation I had with my dh this morning:

I do not shop at WalMart very often so when he was reconciling the checkbook there was a WalMart charge for $55.

He called and said what did you buy at WalMart for $55?

I said - Oh they had a huge clearance on Fabric and I got a bunch of really good deals. (mostly Disney)

after a long pause he said - you know you don't have a sewing machine yet, right?

I had no logical explanation to this.

JoEllen

You just made my day!!!

 

[princesskayla]

A bunch of great additions!!!

Let see - Love the Mary Poppins and Belle dress. The cowboy romper is so cute!!! (Did you modify it to look less bubbley?) The twirl skirt is fab. I really like the ribbons added to the tiers. The peter pan outfit is so cute. I preordered that fabric from somewhere. I guess I should check my email!!! It is probably ready to buy.

 

[aimeeg]

Here are the next two Princessified Simply Sweet Dolly Dresses! I think that Tiana is my absolute favorite! Last on the list of projects beginning this afternoon is a Snow White made from a Precious Dress pattern...

Belle:


Tiana:

Belle is very pretty but . . .

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the Tiana dress. You did a fantastic job. I think I am going to add the Tiana dolly dress to my to do list.

 

[RMAMom]

PLease helpme. I have been a lurker for a long time and love everyone's designs. I have a sewing machine and want to start making my DD5 some clothing. I am inexperienced and need guidence. I have only made a pillow for our dog. What is the best thing to make for my first time? and should I get patterns and if so, which ones are the easiest?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Just want to add my vote to the Carla patterns. I agree with Nini, start with an A-line dress and thn try the simply sweet and easy fits. I think you'll love them. Don't forget to sign up for the You can make this newsletter, they will send you a free pattern for a purse that a few of us have made and enjoyed.

This board is addictive when I first read that warning when I found this site I thought yall where exaggerating. There is so much pretty stuff on this site!! This is the conversation I had with my dh this morning:

I do not shop at WalMart very often so when he was reconciling the checkbook there was a WalMart charge for $55.

He called and said what did you buy at WalMart for $55?

I said - Oh they had a huge clearance on Fabric and I got a bunch of really good deals. (mostly Disney)

after a long pause he said - you know you don't have a sewing machine yet, right?

I had no logical explanation to this.

JoEllen

Now thats funny, I don't care who you are!

I got an email from the sewing shop that my machine is finally fixed. I'm on my way to pick it up so maybe I can get some embroidery projects done this weekend!

 

[ncmomof2]

I wanted to post a few things that I have made in the last few months. I am enjoying Carla's portrait Peasant pattern!

This is Lily's Christmas outfit.

Britta's Christmas outfit. It is a patchwork twirly skirt.

I made this shirt for Britta after she broke her arm. The sleeves were nice and big for the cast.


Here are some of the purses I made:

 

[h518may]

Those are adorable!

Where oh? Where did you find that adorable Peter Pan Fabric? I love it! Peter Pan is one of our favorite Disney Movies.

I know someone else answered, but yes I ordered mine from fabric.com I also have this
http://www.fabric.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=f9bfdda5-4ad6-45c0-9197-d2025502dc81

I also have this material cut out to make a vida.

Thank you everyone on the nice comments on the shirts. I now have some more t-shirts to make for Easter.

 

[DisneyKings]

Anyone know where I can sell used cloth diapers these days? I know ebay no longer allows it....
I had a lot from Megan, but Im not CDing Hannah, so its time to purge my stash.

diaperswappers.com has a for sale or trade forum board--I've had good success selling mine there!

 

[kteesmumma]

Wow just love everyones stuff...I have been a designer of Childrens Boutique Clothing for 3 years now. The end of last year I basically stopped creating...I still on occassion design and I will do orders for my past customers if they ask.

I thought I would share a few of my favorite past designs

 

[Eyore4Ever149]

Try diaperswappers.com. There are lots of people on that forum willing to buy used diapers. BTW, what do you have to sell?

Lauren wants to add some smilies:
flower3:

Hey Snubie,
I will do that, I have to take photos of everything first.
I have just about everything....let me try and think...
Jamtots, Bumkins, babykangas, fuzzibunz, i think I have a couple blueberries
wool covers, bumkin cover, happy hempy
fitteds, etc
Im getting rid of everything I own.
i decided not to cloth diaper Hannah
I can barely get our laundry done- cloth diapers would be really low on the totem pole.
I really, really loved using them the first time with Megan, I used them with her right up to when we switched to pull ups.

I will check out diaperswappers after I photograph everything

 

[SallyfromDE]

She asked to watch Mary Poppins for the 100th time.

Luishen, age 5, has watched The Princess and The Frog at least 4 times a day since I bought the video on Saturday.

I am an RN in a kids ER. Can I tell you how many kids we see that have put something up their nose? Polly pocket shoes/gloves, hot wheels tires are pretty common as are beads, candy and peas. But I LOVE the red hot story! My fav was when a little one put a rhinestone ( the half ones that you put on shirts or jackets) about nickel size up there ----Me: "how did it get up there?" her: "i don't know. I threw it away and it jumped out of the trash can and up my nose"

My sister works at he Childrens hospital. She had a boy come in with a pencil stuck up his nose. He was running and fell. Another time, a young girl was glueing fake nails on, rubbed her eye and glue her eyes shut. Both of them had to have surgery. And this wasn't an accident. Sort of, there was a 12 year old in having a baby.

Here are the next two Princessified Simply Sweet Dolly Dresses! I think that Tiana is my absolute favorite! Last on the list of projects beginning this afternoon is a Snow White made from a Precious Dress pattern...

Belle:


Tiana:

You've got the best Fancy Nancy in town. I love both. I'm going to have to make our Sweet Betty a Tiana.

)

after a long pause he said - you know you don't have a sewing machine yet, right?

I had no logical explanation to this.

JoEllen

You saved him money by getting it on sale, before hand.

Clear as mud, right?

Weren't you sort of worried about making clothes for the kids? So you practiced on the Doll? Great job with the free form work!! Now you know your a boutiquer.

I wanted to post a few things that I have made in the last few months. I am enjoying Carla's portrait Peasant pattern!

This is Lily's Christmas outfit.

Britta's Christmas outfit. It is a patchwork twirly skirt.

I made this shirt for Britta after she broke her arm. The sleeves were nice and big for the cast.


Here are some of the purses I made:

I love everything. I've been wanting to make myself a bag for the last 2 years. But there always seems to be something more important to do first.

 

[teresajoy]

Part of the joy of having girls with birthdays 2 days apart is that you have one crazy birthday weekend and then you are done for the year.

Can you guess what the theme was this year?

Darla made Sierra's Alice Kingsley dress. Sierra had a party at the movie theater she and her friends watched Alice in Wonderland.

They look adorable!!! Darla, you did a great job, as usual!!! And, WHAT A DEAL on that outfit!!!!

Tell me more about these charms...

I am not 100% new to sewing, but mostly I have just done baby blankets and burpies and such...I did just inherit a serger, so that has been the new toy that I have been practicing with.

For the Tiana dress, I used the simply sweet pattern with the scrunched elastic straps. I used the yellow fabric for the front bodice and the skirt, and then the matching green for the back bodice. To make the leafy things on the bodice, I laid the green fabric on top of the bodice. I cut the bottom and the arm hole to match the bodice so it could be sewn in together with the bodice pieces. I free-handed the arch of the leaves across the middle so that there would be a little yellow showing through, but that they would partially overlap. I sewed the arch and the top point of the leafy bodice pieces then turned right side out. Then placed them inside the bodice pieces and assembled the bodice as she describes...armholes first, then scrunched straps (while moving the leaf points out of the way), turn right side out, side seams.

For the skirt, I cut the yellow as she describes in the pattern directions. For the leaves, I cut squares of fabric that were one inch shorter than the LENGTH of the skirt. So, my skirt pieces were 9x15, so I made 8x8 squares. I made 12 of them, for a total of six leaves. I made a pattern to round the bottom edges to form the leaf points on each. Sewed the leaves together, turned them right side out, pressed. They were too thick to use basting stitches, so I had to gather it manually to attach to the bodice. Then zig zagged it to set the gathers. Gathered the yellow skirt, attached to the bodice and sewed through all layers.

For the flower, I used THIS tutorial...

Clear as mud, right?

Could I pretty please put these directions in the Disboutiquers Blog?

Thank you. I hope someone puts this in the bookmarks. .

I'm on it!

Sure do wish I could!

Aww, shoot!
Remember we always go Timeshare Week 19 (starting on Saturday).

YES, MONTHS! (this according to my Grandma)

I made this shirt for Britta after she broke her arm. The sleeves were nice and big for the cast.

Beautiful!!! The girls, the outfits and the purses!

Wow just love everyones stuff...I have been a designer of Childrens Boutique Clothing for 3 years now. The end of last year I basically stopped creating...I still on occassion design and I will do orders for my past customers if they ask.

I thought I would share a few of my favorite past designs

Hello! You have some really cute designs!

My sister works at he Childrens hospital. She had a boy come in with a pencil stuck up his nose. He was running and fell. Another time, a young girl was glueing fake nails on, rubbed her eye and glue her eyes shut. Both of them had to have surgery. And this wasn't an accident. Sort of, there was a 12 year old in having a baby.



You've got the best Fancy Nancy in town. I love both. I'm going to have to make our Sweet Betty a Tiana.

A TWELVE year old???? That is so sad.

Sweet Betty will look adorable in her Tiana dress!

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

Thank you all for your kind words. I had not picked up a needle in so long, I was not sure if I had done good enough job or not.

Great job Mom!!!! Wanna know how I can tell she's thrilled???? Yes, the smile of course...... but take a look at the excitement in those little toes!!!!

so true!!

lorilais_mommie

I don't know if it's due to global warming, the HINI virus, or "operator error" but I don't seem to have the know-how to copy photos. Regarding Mary Poppins - the dress and the model . . .

wow!

don't be so hard on yourself....
If i can do it anyone can.

Luishen, age 5, has watched The Princess and The Frog at least 4 times a day since I bought the video on Saturday.
.

I feel your joy/pain it depends on if you like the movie.
We moved on to that today!! She keep falling asleep so i have to restart it when she wakes up. I've restared it about 6 times already and
I already know all the words to "All Most There"



Anyways again Thank You to all the posters who said such nice things about the dress and my DD.

 

[RMAMom]

Where do you find your appliqués for a Vida?

I thought I might like to make one for Emily but I need a spring design I was thinking a basket of flowers or something but I can't find anything to use online so I thought I'd ask where you all find your appliqué designs.

Thanks

 

[billwendy]

This board is addictive when I first read that warning when I found this site I thought yall where exaggerating. There is so much pretty stuff on this site!! This is the conversation I had with my dh this morning:

I do not shop at WalMart very often so when he was reconciling the checkbook there was a WalMart charge for $55.

He called and said what did you buy at WalMart for $55?

I said - Oh they had a huge clearance on Fabric and I got a bunch of really good deals. (mostly Disney)

after a long pause he said - you know you don't have a sewing machine yet, right?

I had no logical explanation to this.

JoEllen

Ahhhh - what a silly bunch of Sisterchicks we are!!!!

I wanted to post a few things that I have made in the last few months. I am enjoying Carla's portrait Peasant pattern!

This is Lily's Christmas outfit.

Britta's Christmas outfit. It is a patchwork twirly skirt.

I made this shirt for Britta after she broke her arm. The sleeves were nice and big for the cast.

So nice to see you again!! I cannot believe how big Britta has gotten!! Poor baby, how did she break hear arm? Is the cast off???? Your creations are beautiful!!!

Love the stuff you folks have been posting!!! WOW!!!!

 

[jas0202]

Could I pretty please put these directions in the Disboutiquers Blog?

I can't multi quote at the moment for some reason, but all of your kind words have literally made my day!

Teresajoy...If you think that they are readable enough then go for it! I just kind of made it up as I went along so I hope people can understand it! You can use the photo too if you want, because the directions make a little more sense if you can compare it to the picture. I will try to remember to leave it in my photobucket account and not delete it! You might also include a link to THIS post by froggy33. It was my starting off point, so I want to make sure she gets plenty of credit too!

 

[glorib]

Then I had to do matching outfits for all 4 kids- I tried to use dress patterns the girls could wear as long as possible. These are the whimsy couture bow twirl dress:


Then I made some more baby things:
The ragazza bella bath apron, a changing mat (I'll have to look up the pattern designer, but it's from YCMT- one side is fleece and the other marine vinyl), and two flannel burpies using the free YCMT pattern:

close up of the burpies:


finally, another set of dresses for the girls- this time Carla's Cathy dress:


ok, I'm tired now- gotta go back to work.

WOW - you have been sewin' up a storm! Everything is great! I love the green contrast rolled hem on the Cathy dresses!

Here are the next two Princessified Simply Sweet Dolly Dresses! I think that Tiana is my absolute favorite! Last on the list of projects beginning this afternoon is a Snow White made from a Precious Dress pattern...

Belle:


Tiana:

Those are seriously awesome! My favorite is the Tiana! Absolutely FABULOUS!

Part of the joy of having girls with birthdays 2 days apart is that you have one crazy birthday weekend and then you are done for the year.

Can you guess what the theme was this year?

Darla made Sierra's Alice Kingsley dress. Sierra had a party at the movie theater she and her friends watched Alice in Wonderland.

I made hair bows for each goody bag. Hubby made the charms from the Disney family website. Each girl also got a charm bracelet.

So cute! Love both of those!

I wanted to post a few things that I have made in the last few months. I am enjoying Carla's portrait Peasant pattern!

This is Lily's Christmas outfit.

Britta's Christmas outfit. It is a patchwork twirly skirt.

I made this shirt for Britta after she broke her arm. The sleeves were nice and big for the cast.


Here are some of the purses I made:

Super cute! I made Ella a Christmas dress out of some of those same fabrics! Great minds think alike! I love, love, love the purses, also - especially that last one with all the ruching! AWESOME!

Wow just love everyones stuff...I have been a designer of Childrens Boutique Clothing for 3 years now. The end of last year I basically stopped creating...I still on occassion design and I will do orders for my past customers if they ask.

I thought I would share a few of my favorite past designs

Hi! Welcome! Those are all such cute sets! This household loves Phineas and Ferb, so that one's my favorite! It's fun to see boy stuff!


AAAAHHH! Sorry, I had to cut out some photos! I was over my image limit!

 

[ncmomof2]

So nice to see you again!! I cannot believe how big Britta has gotten!! Poor baby, how did she break hear arm? Is the cast off???? Your creations are beautiful!!!

Thanks! It is good to be back. She fell in our living room and landed on her arm! I could not believe it. She whinpered for about an hour so I decided to take her to the irgent care just be be safe. Sure enough, it was broken. She was a champ but she had the cast on for Christmas. It is off now.

Super cute! I made Ella a Christmas dress out of some of those same fabrics! Great minds think alike! I love, love, love the purses, also - especially that last one with all the ruching! AWESOME!

Thanks! I love that fabric. I am pretty picky. The first two purses were from free tutorials online and the other two I bought. i am not a big fan of the ruffle one but the other one is nice. It is called the Snazzy Bag, I believe. I made one for myself and one as a gift.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

Thanks for wondering. The school year is going well but it has been more difficult that expected with a baby around! We are taking spring break right now so it has been stress-free. I will post somethings I have been working on the past few months. I hope to be on here daily now. I love seeing what everyone is making! Everyone just keeps stepping it up a notch and I love to see what the new people are doing!!

Glad to hear it is going good. I can't imagine how hard it would be with a baby. I have a hard time with a 3 yr needing attention.

I wanted to post a few things that I have made in the last few months. I am enjoying Carla's portrait Peasant pattern!

This is Lily's Christmas outfit.

I made this shirt for Britta after she broke her arm. The sleeves were nice and big for the cast.


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lily is getting so big and poor Britta...I broke/fractured my wrist 3 times when I was younger. No fun! I hope she is all better now.

 

[NiniMorris]

I am not 100% new to sewing, but mostly I have just done baby blankets and burpies and such...I did just inherit a serger, so that has been the new toy that I have been practicing with.

For the Tiana dress, I used the simply sweet pattern with the scrunched elastic straps. I used the yellow fabric for the front bodice and the skirt, and then the matching green for the back bodice. To make the leafy things on the bodice, I laid the green fabric on top of the bodice. I cut the bottom and the arm hole to match the bodice so it could be sewn in together with the bodice pieces. I free-handed the arch of the leaves across the middle so that there would be a little yellow showing through, but that they would partially overlap. I sewed the arch and the top point of the leafy bodice pieces then turned right side out. Then placed them inside the bodice pieces and assembled the bodice as she describes...armholes first, then scrunched straps (while moving the leaf points out of the way), turn right side out, side seams.

For the skirt, I cut the yellow as she describes in the pattern directions. For the leaves, I cut squares of fabric that were one inch shorter than the LENGTH of the skirt. So, my skirt pieces were 9x15, so I made 8x8 squares. I made 12 of them, for a total of six leaves. I made a pattern to round the bottom edges to form the leaf points on each. Sewed the leaves together, turned them right side out, pressed. They were too thick to use basting stitches, so I had to gather it manually to attach to the bodice. Then zig zagged it to set the gathers. Gathered the yellow skirt, attached to the bodice and sewed through all layers.

For the flower, I used THIS tutorial...

Clear as mud, right?

Thank you so much for this info! I will admit at first didn't get it, but after really reading it (after kiddos were in bed) I see it perfectly! You have just made my life so much easier. I have a Tiana and a Cinderella to make for BBB this year. Now if I can just find the perfect fabric!


Nini

 

[NiniMorris]

Has anyone here made the Simple Sunday Dress by SewSensible? I just spent 6 hours working on this dress! I can make a Vida in an hour!

I'm trying to decide if it is just me or if the instructions are totally strange? I know Carla C has me spoiled with the simple instructions, but I was really disappointed in the instructions for this one. The dress itself was cute, but the construction was way too complicated for such a simple dress.

Of course, I felt the same way about her Boutique Easter Basket as well. I know others here said it was a good pattern, so I figured it was just me....

Then again, I may just be over tired! Six hours is an awfully long time to be working on one project for me!

Nini