Disboutiquers Part 23 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[billwendy]

First up is an Avilo Tote (large size) for my Secret Santa at work -- she has a miniature daschund that is her life so I made her the tote with extra pockets and put something in each pocket -- one had the matching coffee cozy, one the matching dog scarf, another had the Christmas dog scarf, earrings were in the other pockets and dog treats in whatever pockets were left over. She loved it and couldn't believe I made it.

And sorry if the photo size isn't up to par -- nothing is working for me today -- I've had to log in NUMEROUS times today b/c I keep getting logged out even though I check the box to stay loggged in. And photobucket is not letting me resize

This is a close up of the earrings:

I LOVE IT all!!! That was so nice of you to make that!! its adorable!! Great job!!

We are doing great on Mallory's Big Give!!!! Anyone up for things like - toiletry bags, Eye Spy Bag for Mallory, Family Wish Shirts, Scrapbook....Come on over - we'd love to have you...Her Mom is super duper sweet - even if you cant participate by sending something physical, please head on over to her PTR and just offer them a little love and support!!
Web address of Trip Report: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2602026[/QUOTE]


Oh - and who was it that wanted to make Tutu's for Big Gives? We need her!!! Mallory would LOVE them!!!!!!

 

[SallyfromDE]

I got a Brother PE-180D for Christmas! I was so surprised I just started looking into them before Christmas so there is so much I don't know! I am super excited to try it out but want to make sure that I have everything I need before I start experimenting!

This machine needs a cable to transfer files from the computer to a memory card, then to my machine. I have seen several types out there and am not sure which one to go with. I know that to be able to purchase online for sure so this will be one of my first purchases!

I am also unsure about my bobbins and bobbin thread. Are there specific bobbins I need for my machine and specific bobbin thread? Do I need the bobbin thread to match the regular thread like when I am sewing or can I just use white? I received a pack of 40 different color embroidery thread as a gift so I am thinking I will be set with these for a couple weeks at least!

I know I need stabilizers depending what I am embroidering. Can anyone suggest types that you have had good luck with.

I have seen a lot of add on hoops sold for my machine. What sizes are useful and when would I need different sizes?

Lastly, I would love to hear about sites that you purchased designs from that you have liked!

Thank you for all of your help!

I had this machine and loved it. Actually, it was my Mother's and she didn't take to machine embroidery, and it was something she had wanted to do for years. So she sort of turned the machine over to me. I did take to machine embroidery and after about a year, I sold the machine and bought the 780D.

The machine takes a different bobbin. I used to pick them up at the sewing shop for 10cents each. It's flatter and has a white line around the center of it. I don't know about the sizes. I had never seen them in stores like JoAnne fabrics. And I found the machine was also picky on the bobbin thread I used. I could only use Janome or Brother bobbin thread. Anything else I tried, just jammed up the machine. But yet I could use the embroidery thread for Inthe hoop projects. Just doesn't make sense to me.

Your pretty much limited to the hoop you have, as the machine is a 4X4. Unless you look for a larger hoop so you don't have to rehoop something your working on. Lets say, you put the word Disney on one line, and want World on the next, you just move the hoop up so you use different brackets on the hoop. Does that make any sense?

I've used different types of stablizers. And they can be pretty pricey. Do you have a JoAnne fabrics? They have sulky stablizer in value packs. That way you can try a variety of different stablizers without breaking the bank.

I personally think it's a great machine. It's good and sturdy. You'll enjoy it. And you'll know if your ready to trade up to a larger hoop.

 

[Cibahwewah]

I just encountered the same thing with one of Heather Sue's designs last night. Why are there weird colors at the beginning of the pattern? Color me clueless.

Froggy 33 cleared it up, but picture me at my machine changing from yellow to red, yellow to red, yellow to red....
The instructions on applique in the Brother manual are completely different and way way way time consuming---ignore!
Go to Swakembroidery.com and click on SWAK 101--at the very bottom is a tutorial that shows multipiece applique tutorial.
Now I'm using a light colored thread and not changing colors until the satin stitching process, no more yellow, red, yellow, red...

 

[*Toadstool*]

Hey guys!
We had a good trip. Shame on me for not posting pictures yet, but we all got the flu at Disney and took me a while to recover! Now I am frantically cleaning the house in case our in laws show up next week. They are supposed to come, but I don't know when or if they will. (they said they were coming last year and didn't)
I'm anxiously waiting for my photopass cd! I loved photopass. It was a hassle to have to wait in line for so long and then have to take the camera out in a hurry when it got close to our turn.. so I totally took advantage of photopass. I hope they came out good!

Did anyone get their men some really awesome Christmas gift that isn't super expensive? My hubby wont give me any hints on what to give him. He says all he wants is me... He is so hard to shop for. We are having Christmas next week when he comes home. He has all the tools he wants and that kinda stuff so I am finally stumped on what to get him. Everything I ask him he says not to get. :/ He doesn't like me to buy clothes for him, so thats out too. I'd love some ideas.
I was going to post a photo, but my sd card is missing. Hubby took it before he went to work and no telling where he put it.

 

[*Toadstool*]

Froggy 33 cleared it up, but picture me at my machine changing from yellow to red, yellow to red, yellow to red....
The instructions on applique in the Brother manual are completely different and way way way time consuming---ignore!
Go to Swakembroidery.com and click on SWAK 101--at the very bottom is a tutorial that shows multipiece applique tutorial.
Now I'm using a light colored thread and not changing colors until the satin stitching process, no more yellow, red, yellow, red...

Aww!! Poor thign! Hehe.. I always wonder if people know they don't need to change the thread colors like that so I mention it to people when I can.

Did you figure out the font thing? When I have a predigitized font that is single letters I use Embird Basic to combine them into words then put them on my machine. There are some font softwares out there that will let you make your own designs with words though... I love Monogram Wizard and use it ALOT. It has alot of fonts. It doesn't use TTF fonts like some programs do, but because of that the stitch outs are perfect each time. They digitize the fonts manually.. and I really sound like a monogram wizard snob..
Embird has Font Engine that you can use TTFs that you download online for free to make your own fonts too, but you have to have Embird Basic and Font Engine to do it. Pretty much all of the expensive softwares can do this too. I have Explorations Lettering too. I really like pretty lettering software.
There are also a few sites that you can make your own phrases.. I can't think of any right now though.

 

[Stephres]

Did anyone get their men some really awesome Christmas gift that isn't super expensive? My hubby wont give me any hints on what to give him. He says all he wants is me... He is so hard to shop for. We are having Christmas next week when he comes home. He has all the tools he wants and that kinda stuff so I am finally stumped on what to get him. Everything I ask him he says not to get. :/ He doesn't like me to buy clothes for him, so thats out too. I'd love some ideas.
I was going to post a photo, but my sd card is missing. Hubby took it before he went to work and no telling where he put it.

My husband is super hard to shop for too. His favorite present was a little scrapbook that went through our life together, pictures of when we were dating, got married and had the kids. He cried at that and because it was small (6x6) it didn't take long to make.

This year I got him a memory foam pillow and made a pillowcase for it. He is on the road Monday-Friday so I thought that would help him sleep better in the hotel room. I used Steelers fabric for the pillowcase and he loved it. And it was quick and easy too.

 

[tricia]

To clear up any confusions about digitizing. At the beginning of the design, you have to have the placement stitches and the tackdown stitches (so that you know where to put the applique fabric and so that you can stitch it down to cut around). In a digitizing program, you change colors to let the machine know to both cut the thread AND to stop stitching, so that you can put the fabric in place and cut around it. It doesn't really matter what color you make the thread, so digitizers just pick two random colors, and then use them for the placement and tackdown stitches.

Hope that clears it up!

Actually, that does clear things up a little. I wondered why some digitizers use different colours for the placement and tackdown stitches, when others just use the same colour as the first one you will need for the satin stitches. Must be differences in the software they are using.

First up is an Avilo Tote (large size) for my Secret Santa at work -- she has a miniature daschund that is her life so I made her the tote with extra pockets and put something in each pocket -- one had the matching coffee cozy, one the matching dog scarf, another had the Christmas dog scarf, earrings were in the other pockets and dog treats in whatever pockets were left over. She loved it and couldn't believe I made it.

And sorry if the photo size isn't up to par -- nothing is working for me today -- I've had to log in NUMEROUS times today b/c I keep getting logged out even though I check the box to stay loggged in. And photobucket is not letting me resize

This is a close up of the earrings:

I love that tote, and have been giving it to the boys teachers for a couple of years now. everything looks wonderful, good job.

Hey guys!
We had a good trip. Shame on me for not posting pictures yet, but we all got the flu at Disney and took me a while to recover! Now I am frantically cleaning the house in case our in laws show up next week. They are supposed to come, but I don't know when or if they will. (they said they were coming last year and didn't)
I'm anxiously waiting for my photopass cd! I loved photopass. It was a hassle to have to wait in line for so long and then have to take the camera out in a hurry when it got close to our turn.. so I totally took advantage of photopass. I hope they came out good!

Did anyone get their men some really awesome Christmas gift that isn't super expensive? My hubby wont give me any hints on what to give him. He says all he wants is me... He is so hard to shop for. We are having Christmas next week when he comes home. He has all the tools he wants and that kinda stuff so I am finally stumped on what to get him. Everything I ask him he says not to get. :/ He doesn't like me to buy clothes for him, so thats out too. I'd love some ideas.
I was going to post a photo, but my sd card is missing. Hubby took it before he went to work and no telling where he put it.

Is he into music? I bought my DH a pair of Bose headphones and an Itunes card.

 

[NiniMorris]

I bought the organizers from polarnotions.com at the Houston Quilt show. I love them! I am not sure how many yards one organizer will hold, but I have put up to 3 different fabrics, 1-2 yards each, on one organizer. I only bought 50 because they are kind of pricey, but I plan to order more soon!

I spent way too much time on the internet yesterday ... thanks to your post! LOL! I really like these, and the video sent me to a lot of other ideas. Things I never even thought about. My DIL and I are going to order some of these next month and have fun!

Hey guys!
We had a good trip. Shame on me for not posting pictures yet, but we all got the flu at Disney and took me a while to recover! Now I am frantically cleaning the house in case our in laws show up next week. They are supposed to come, but I don't know when or if they will. (they said they were coming last year and didn't)
I'm anxiously waiting for my photopass cd! I loved photopass. It was a hassle to have to wait in line for so long and then have to take the camera out in a hurry when it got close to our turn.. so I totally took advantage of photopass. I hope they came out good!

Did anyone get their men some really awesome Christmas gift that isn't super expensive? My hubby wont give me any hints on what to give him. He says all he wants is me... He is so hard to shop for. We are having Christmas next week when he comes home. He has all the tools he wants and that kinda stuff so I am finally stumped on what to get him. Everything I ask him he says not to get. :/ He doesn't like me to buy clothes for him, so thats out too. I'd love some ideas.
I was going to post a photo, but my sd card is missing. Hubby took it before he went to work and no telling where he put it.

I have to say...this year's best Christmas present for my husband did not come from me. My kids got together and gave him and I a Keruig coffee machine and a gazillion K cups. We have used it multiple times each day and hubby has already decided it is going on all trips with him...of course that means he has to take ME on all his trips because I love it too.

I gave hubby a hoodie with his business logo on it. Since he owns his own business and works outside at it, he really needed a warm jacket that would wash well...he loves it!

I have an extremly hard to buy for hubby...I used to look at what he stopped to look at in stores. Only to discover that he sometimes stops just to look at stuff to kill time while I am shopping. He does NOT like the things he stops to look at...who knew!


Nini

 

[McDuck]

Did anyone get their men some really awesome Christmas gift that isn't super expensive? My hubby wont give me any hints on what to give him. He says all he wants is me... He is so hard to shop for. We are having Christmas next week when he comes home. He has all the tools he wants and that kinda stuff so I am finally stumped on what to get him. Everything I ask him he says not to get. :/ He doesn't like me to buy clothes for him, so thats out too. I'd love some ideas.
I was going to post a photo, but my sd card is missing. Hubby took it before he went to work and no telling where he put it.

My hubby likes video games, so I hit the clearance bins at Kmart and Best Buy. He was really excited about the single serve trial size bags of coffee I picked up out of Target's $1 bins and the Mickey-head Rice Krispy treat. Another big hit with him was another $1 bin find--a Lego pack of a Toy Story Army Man and Jeep. And this was probably just because it was kind of special to us--I got him two blown glass ornaments of a VW bug and VW van, to commemorate our year in Newquay (Cornwall, UK). Pretty simple, but he liked it all.

I spent way too much time on the internet yesterday ... thanks to your post! LOL! I really like these, and the video sent me to a lot of other ideas. Things I never even thought about. My DIL and I are going to order some of these next month and have fun!

Yes, thanks from me, too! I've got the Polar Notions website bookmarked for when our budget will allow me to order!

 

[billwendy]

My hubby loved is digital coin counting bank, his puffy slippers from Walmart, his Madden11 for the Wii and the $7 remote control car I got him from Zoey at Rite Aid!!!! lol....

We are going to Sight and Sound in Lancaster today for the Christmas show!! Cant wait!!

Still not sure what we are doing for NYE - whats everyone else doing?

 

[McDuck]

Still not sure what we are doing for NYE - whats everyone else doing?

We're baking cupcakes, probably watching movies or playing video games, then ringing in 2011 with sparkling cider. Oh the wild and crazy life we lead...

 

[mommyof2princesses]

Still not sure what we are doing for NYE - whats everyone else doing?

We are just staying home and hopefully keeping awake till midnight. Sara beth is all excited as this is the first year she is going to stay up. She is more excited than Christmas...I think! We bought some chips and treats and hopefully the kids aren't partying without us! I usually fall asleep around 11~

 

[jeniamt]

Thanks for the compliments on the Rudolph Feliz. I think I have retired my Feliz sewing for awhile. So much work and so much fabric. The ruffles nearly pushed me over the edge and I have a ruffler! I was going to make an Animal Kingdom Feliz but have decided to do something a little simpler as I just don't have the energy!

Here is the tote bag I made for my mom's Christmas gift. They are taking DD4 for her 5th birthday in February so I put together a little "Survival Kit" kit for them. The are also going on European Disney Cruise in September so I thought the bag would be cute for that as well. I even added some little pockets on the inside that will fit their Keys to the World cards perfectly. In retrospect, I wish I had closed it with a zipper so things wouldn't fall out on rides. Not sure how to do that though. Can anyone recommend a pattern for a tote that closes with a zipper? I didn't use a pattern for this, just winged it based on a Vera Bradley bag I have.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

Thanks for the compliments on the Rudolph Feliz. I think I have retired my Feliz sewing for awhile. So much work and so much fabric. The ruffles nearly pushed me over the edge and I have a ruffler! I was going to make an Animal Kingdom Feliz but have decided to do something a little simpler as I just don't have the energy!

Here is the tote bag I made for my mom's Christmas gift. They are taking DD4 for her 5th birthday in February so I put together a little "Survival Kit" kit for them. The are also going on European Disney Cruise in September so I thought the bag would be cute for that as well. I even added some little pockets on the inside that will fit their Keys to the World cards perfectly. In retrospect, I wish I had closed it with a zipper so things wouldn't fall out on rides. Not sure how to do that though. Can anyone recommend a pattern for a tote that closes with a zipper? I didn't use a pattern for this, just winged it based on a Vera Bradley bag I have.

What a great bag! I still have not finished a feliz. I started one over 2 years ago and now if i finish it it won't fi my daughter! I want to make one for our trip coming up, but not sure if i will have the time!

 

[littlepeppers]

I can't even beging to say how much I love all of the things that I have seen lately. I've been lurking due to time constraints. DH is back at work now & I have some free time again.

I haven't even posted out trip pics yet because I'm in a post-trip depression.

I think I just taked DH into a Nov 2011 trip again.!!!!! Let the planning begin.

Here are a few trip pics from our Nov trip.

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

Still not sure what we are doing for NYE - whats everyone else doing?

We are celebrating DS8's birthday...love having a NYE baby! It always gives us something to do! We may go to a friends house for a little, but for the most part we always spend it at home just the 5 of us.

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

How have you been? Haven't seen you around much...although I have been busy myself!

I am good...been around been I have been so busy! I think I have too many irons in the fire for my own good this year! But, with the holidays over, I can relax a little! I say that, but we did get a new addition to the family that will keep me busy for some time!

So, to introduce...here is Max, our new beagle puppy!

Katie only loves him just a little!

The hardest part is housebreaking with snow on the ground...no fun! But he is so smart and now that the snow has started to melt, he is getting the hang of it!

 

[jeniamt]

I can't even beging to say how much I love all of the things that I have seen lately. I've been lurking due to time constraints. DH is back at work now & I have some free time again.

I haven't even posted out trip pics yet because I'm in a post-trip depression.

I think I just taked DH into a Nov 2011 trip again.!!!!! Let the planning begin.

Here are a few trip pics from our Nov trip.

Your outfits are so awesome! The appliques are really amazing. Are you doing them by hand? Some seem too big for a machine. Looks like you guys had a nice time.

 

[littlepeppers]

Your outfits are so awesome! The appliques are really amazing. Are you doing them by hand? Some seem too big for a machine. Looks like you guys had a nice time.

Thank you so much. We had a great time, but 8 days wasn't enough.

The big ones were done by hand. I wish I had a huge hoop to pull those off. I must have been nuts to do 8 shirts for DS8 by hand, but I will do it again, if he will still wear them next year.

 

[littlepeppers]

So, to introduce...here is Max, our new beagle puppy!

The hardest part is housebreaking with snow on the ground...no fun! But he is so smart and now that the snow has started to melt, he is getting the hang of it!

He is so cute. It almost makes me want to give into DH. I keep telling him that I have two perfectly good kids, a husband, and old dog and a cat that kills everything in the fields and brings it onto the patio to clean up after.

I can't do another animal that I didn't birth. DS8 hasn't shown responsibility for animals enought to take on the responsibility yet. DH thinks I'm a grinch for it, but I clean up his mess too. LOL!!!