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

[mommyof2princesses]

Thanks. It is so sad. I will keep him in my prayers as well as his family.

 

[GlassSlippers]

Hi everybody!

What a lot of super cute stuff has been posted lately! Love the AG doll clothes especially.

I have a quick question: If I'm doing a satin stitch for applique work on a regular sewing machine should I use regular thread or embroidery thread?

Thanks gang!

Lori in East Podunk, WI

 

[billwendy]

Hi everybody!

What a lot of super cute stuff has been posted lately! Love the AG doll clothes especially.

I have a quick question: If I'm doing a satin stitch for applique work on a regular sewing machine should I use regular thread or embroidery thread?

Thanks gang!

Lori in East Podunk, WI

I'd use embroidery thread if I had it.

Ugh - I cant find the right sized shirt in my stash for Wendy's Big Give, and today we are having a $0 dollar day so I cant go to the store!!!!! I joined up on the budget board, and we are going to try hard this year!! We have done the idea of zero dollar days over this past year, but havent kept track of them or anything. So we set a goal of 10 zero dollar days for January and will see how we do????? So, it will have to wait until Monday!!

Tomorrow is our big family wedding - my 21 year old nephew andrew (tim's big brother) is getting married!! And, they are heading to Florida to stay at his grandparents time share in Daytona for their honeymoon. They are still in college for 1 semester! I hope I have lots of cute pics of the kids all dressed up to show you guys!!! The other thing is that the inlaws are coming to stay with us till Thursday, so we have to CLEAN today

 

[visitingapril09]

Wendy, I like my 4x4, 5x7 and 6x10, although sometimes I use my 6x10 for a 5x7 because my machine might say a 5x7 is too large and really its not, its just close, but if I tell the machine Im using a different hoop, it will accept it no problem. If you have an interest in tiny designs (like say for baby socks- embroidery on the cuff is darling!) then a little hoop is helpful since 4x4 would still be too big to hold a baby sock in place.
Not sure if that helps you or not...

For those who have done Dainty Designs Portrait Peasant dress- did your sleeve and bodice piece match exactly or was the sleeve piece slightly more narrow? I have the pattern pieces cut out, but am apprehensive about cutting...

And on the dog front add me to the list! I've been searching daily for months (Started in Sept) and searched in vain for a Belgian Tervuren Shepherd (a dog 6m-2yr) or a German Shep- but the breed rescues around here want a fence or wont adopt to families with kids under 7. I went to meet 2 Tervuren, but they were out of control, then a GSD on the 24th, but just didn't click, he had some shyness issues. Then I found this girl- in a rescue/shelter just 10 miles away, we went to see her last night, I fell in love right away, shes not a Terv or a GSD. She's a collie mix and she certainly will needs some obedience training, probably housebreaking.
We are waiting to hear if we are approved....
Here's a little video DH took while we were there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIkRps5MsI

She is lovely! Good luck with the approval. Our Kody was a rescue adoption 4 years ago and he is the best dog our family could ever hope for.

 

[jessica52877]

I'd use embroidery thread if I had it.

Ugh - I cant find the right sized shirt in my stash for Wendy's Big Give, and today we are having a $0 dollar day so I cant go to the store!!!!! I joined up on the budget board, and we are going to try hard this year!! We have done the idea of zero dollar days over this past year, but havent kept track of them or anything. So we set a goal of 10 zero dollar days for January and will see how we do????? So, it will have to wait until Monday!!

Tomorrow is our big family wedding - my 21 year old nephew andrew (tim's big brother) is getting married!! And, they are heading to Florida to stay at his grandparents time share in Daytona for their honeymoon. They are still in college for 1 semester! I hope I have lots of cute pics of the kids all dressed up to show you guys!!! The other thing is that the inlaws are coming to stay with us till Thursday, so we have to CLEAN today

I should head over and follow along. I don't do well though because If I see a deal today I am going to buy it! And I don't go out that often so it is really easy most days to have $0 days! But I should make more of an effort. I have been having fun shopping for toys for tots lately on amazon!

Hi everybody!

What a lot of super cute stuff has been posted lately! Love the AG doll clothes especially.

I have a quick question: If I'm doing a satin stitch for applique work on a regular sewing machine should I use regular thread or embroidery thread?

Thanks gang!

Lori in East Podunk, WI

I would use embroidery also if you had it, if not, it isn't usually a big deal to use the other, but I would work on getting embroidery thread.

Im praying for them too - so hard, sounds like the time is very near. Im so glad they had some better days this past week to enjoy him. Praying for comfort and peace....

Your last line says it all, praying for comfort and peace. It is so sad but at this point he needs peace.

 

[woodkins]

Hi everybody!

What a lot of super cute stuff has been posted lately! Love the AG doll clothes especially.

I have a quick question: If I'm doing a satin stitch for applique work on a regular sewing machine should I use regular thread or embroidery thread?

Thanks gang!

Lori in East Podunk, WI

I do all of my applique work by hand on a regular sewing machine and always have used plain old Coats and Clark thread and havent' had any problems with it.

 

[Cibahwewah]

This little robot gave me fits. I was about 90% done when the arm outline started stitching out much higher than it should have been. Argh. I backed up the stitching to what I thought was the right point and it started to stitch the smile up above the eyes! I was nearly in tears at this point, I figured the shirt was ruined and that I'd paid a digitizer for a bad pattern. I took a picture in my frustration.

I turned the machine off and then on again to recenter it and went back to that step and it stitched out correctly. I think the arm of the embroidery machine got caught momentarily or something. Then I ran out of bobbin thread and when I put in a new one, it took three tries to get it to quit pulling up bobbin thread into the design, so there is a bit of lumpy outline with a tiny bit of white peeking through.

I think I salvaged the shirt. I left the half smile--it kinda looks like a smirky eyebrow. I also left the goofed up outline stitching on the arm, I thought it may look worse to try to take it out. I picked out each stitch from the ghost arm, and made one teeny tiny hole in the shirt. I showed it to some of my nurses at work, and they said they wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't pointed it out....What do y'all think? It's for a baby shower gift.

These are easyfit flannel pants in a size 1, and the shirts are Old Navy size 12-18 months. The nearest Old Navy store is 10 miles at least, so I wasn't inclined to go buy more shirts. I have socks too, and thought I'd do some matching mini-designs, but I'm taking a break from "Stitch" today.

And just because I'm in a laugh-at-myself mood here is a picture of my 4x4 hoop with new holes in the side because I was in 5x7 mode! Glad to know I'm not the only one who has done this!

 

[cogero]

I love your robot. I think the outfit is great.

 

[jessica52877]

Umm... maybe Stitch isn't the best name for your machine. You know, Stitch likes to eat things!

The outfits are just darling! They will be well loved and the shirt looks fine. You have me in the mood to make some easy fits. I just ordered 3 yards of Mickey fabric for surprise pj's for our disbou meet! I hope the boys like them.

 

[billwendy]

Umm... maybe Stitch isn't the best name for your machine. You know, Stitch likes to eat things!

The outfits are just darling! They will be well loved and the shirt looks fine. You have me in the mood to make some easy fits. I just ordered 3 yards of Mickey fabric for surprise pj's for our disbou meet! I hope the boys like them.

Awww - man!!! you mean if I came i'd get new jammies???????????

 

[livndisney]

Awww - man!!! you mean if I came i'd get new jammies???????????

Sounds like a good reason to me

 

[SallyfromDE]

First, I just want to thank each and every one of you - you have all been so inspriational!

I found you about 6 weeks ago, while you were all on part 22... I read all of that, then I wandered over to part 1 (a, b, c & d) - I was a bit discouraged that most of the photos were "red Xs" - so then I wandered to parts 21, 20, 19 and I just started 18 today. I don't think I will go back much further. But it is just so addicting to see all of your wonderful creations!

I've showed some of your items to my dds - who are 11 and 12 y/o - and they want nothing to do with mom sewing any great Disney clothes. I wish I would have found you all a decade ago - because I totally missed the boat on sewing clothes for my girls.

So, as I said earlier in this (hopefully not so long) post, you've all inspired me. About a month ago, I opened the door to my deepest, darkest, messiest closet - and there in the back was a sewing machine that my MIL had given me over 5 years ago. I knew nothing about it, except that it was taking up valuable space in my closet. I found the manual online, and I read it cover to cover twice, with the machine sitting here on my desk. I took it apart and gave it a nice oiling (I figured it needed it), and then I found an old pillow case to take it for a test drive... then I hemmed dd's curtains... and I hemmed my other dd's curtains... and I really wanted to do some disney sewing. My girls had no interest, as I said... so I turned to their massive AG collection... and I started sewing...

First was Goofy:

Next up is my rendition of Pluto. I have the pattern and the fabric purchased - I just need to find the time.


Oh, and my ticker is off. We had to reschedule our "girls only" trip indefinately - so right now were are tripless.

Anyways, I hope you all don't mind if I pull up my machine and hang out for a bit.

D~

I LOVE everyone of these. I wish Kirsta had "taken"to the AG dolls. She talks about going to NYC store all the time, but her AG doll collects dust. She has a smaller doll, that now sports dreadlocks. But she's always naked.

Kirsta will be 10 this month, and is out growing customs. But when in Disney, she likes to be Disneyized. So we have started to do outfits like this:

btw... if you right on those red X's, and click "show picture", I find that I get about 80% of them to show.

Hehe.. I don't think I want to go back in November. We were FREEZING!!! I had plenty layers of clothes and all that packed, but if I had known just how cold it is to stand in 30 and 40 degree weather all day I would have bought a down jacket or something much warmer.
Your outfits are gorgeous! I love how far along your sewing has come from when you first started posting here! The Stitch yetti has to be my favorite. Such a cute shirt!

I was watching this View rerun, andI think it was Versace that was on. She had this gorgous red coat. They asked if this one peice was removable. It was like a shawl collar, and then had ties that went down the front,(in fur) and the belt tied over top of it. And in my Disney thinking mode, I thought if we went on vac, and wore coats, that would work great. Versace called it a vest. But it looked more like a Sailor collar. Any shape would work for the back. Then hang down the front or tie.

Finally starting to get a sewing plan together for our trip in 30 days but now am wondering if I should put all the time and effort into outfits that may be covered up by coats the whole time! The idea of not doing some outfits is crazy though! Maybe I need to make a Disney themed coat!

One of my favorite projects. A sweatshirt:

Hey Guys

DH said he would get me some new hoops if I wanted for my PE 770 for my bday. Do you think its worth it? What would you suggest? Should I get a 4x4 and sell my 270D or what exactly is a multiposition hoop, and would that be helpful? There are times I want to put wording under a design but dont feel like rehooping....anyone else have different hoops for their machine?

I bought a 4X4, i figured I'd save on interfacing if nothing else. I just ordered it from Ebay and it got a ton cheaper. I think I'd like the multi position hoop. when money is no object.

 

[*Toadstool*]

And just because I'm in a laugh-at-myself mood here is a picture of my 4x4 hoop with new holes in the side because I was in 5x7 mode! Glad to know I'm not the only one who has done this!

It still looks pretty good considering the trouble you had. Try to be really careful with that embroidery arm. If it gets caught on something it can break and is very expensive to replace! If you knock it out of calibration sometimes it will recallibrate but if it bends it usually can't be recallibrated. I think this was part of the problem on my last machine I had.. I bought it used from a relative and it had huge callibration issues that couldn't be fixed. The outfit did come out adorable though! I've been there when I first started embroidery!
LOL about the hoop. I don't know how your needle made it through that many stitches.

 

[AlternateEgo]

Unsure where to post this, but figured it would be seen more here

I have been thinking about how I can help with the Big Give some more and I may have an idea.

I have often seen on ebay how certain groups get together to sell items for a cause. They usually have a "tag" in their description so others can search for it.

So I was thinking if I were to sell on etsy, I could put a "tag" such as "DisBigGive" "BigGive", etc... so that people could use those words to search.

Then of course those items that would carry that tag would disclose how much of each "dress" would go towards a big give and explain wha tthe big give does.

If there were a few that could get together and do a Big Give event, we could raise money to purchase gift cards to send with our Big Give families.

What does everyone else think? Is this even possible? Has it been attempted before and didn't pan out? Is it even allowed?

 

[*Toadstool*]

Unsure where to post this, but figured it would be seen more here

I have been thinking about how I can help with the Big Give some more and I may have an idea.

I have often seen on ebay how certain groups get together to sell items for a cause. They usually have a "tag" in their description so others can search for it.

So I was thinking if I were to sell on etsy, I could put a "tag" such as "DisBigGive" "BigGive", etc... so that people could use those words to search.

Then of course those items that would carry that tag would disclose how much of each "dress" would go towards a big give and explain wha tthe big give does.

If there were a few that could get together and do a Big Give event, we could raise money to purchase gift cards to send with our Big Give families.

What does everyone else think? Is this even possible? Has it been attempted before and didn't pan out? Is it even allowed?

We've raised money for families before for certain reasons. It was usually done through donations.

 

[billwendy]

Hey GUys - there is a dear mom who posted about her MAW trip and no one has made any comments - wanna go over and show a little support for them????

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=39372196#post39372196

 

[mom2rtk]

I would LOVE for you to post the picture. The one I have didn't come out great. I was having camera issues and Hannah is making a wierd face if I remember correctly. I'm Kira btw.
I was so shocked when we saw you guys on our way out!! Would have thought we had planned that! Katie's dress was gorgeous and my hubby even commented on how much it looked like the disney dress.

Hi Kira! Many thanks for the kind comments. It was a lot of fun to run into you guys, and I'm glad you came over and said hi! We had just arrived that afternoon, so it was a great way to start the trip!

 

[ms_mckenna]

I think I salvaged the shirt. I left the half smile--it kinda looks like a smirky eyebrow. I also left the goofed up outline stitching on the arm, I thought it may look worse to try to take it out. I picked out each stitch from the ghost arm, and made one teeny tiny hole in the shirt. I showed it to some of my nurses at work, and they said they wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't pointed it out....What do y'all think? It's for a baby shower gift.

I love this and I really like the little eye brow. I thought it was on purpose till I read. I think it gives him character!

Praying for Bryce I read it during my quiet time this morning and I just cannot imagine being where they are today. My heart hurts for them.

Said Hello on the report

 

[*Toadstool*]

Hi Kira! Many thanks for the kind comments. It was a lot of fun to run into you guys, and I'm glad you came over and said hi! We had just arrived that afternoon, so it was a great way to start the trip!

Oh your picture came out great!
Drizella(that's the right one huh?) screaming "It's me! It's me!" over and over was one of the funniest things on our trip. They are definitely the best actors Disney has. You were the only one I was able to run into our whole trip because Hannah got sick the next night. I didn't want to meet anyone else and get them sick! Katie was such a sweet little lady. I hope I didn't miss your pictures from your trip? Did you do a TR? I haven't posted pictures from mine yet.
Did you guys get to see Belle in her Christmas dress? We didn't get to because we were so sick that night we had to go back to the resort. :/

I'm off to go see Gulliver's travels. Maybe I'll search the house for the sd card when I get back. I want to post some pictures to share with you all! Still waiting(impatiently) on my photopass cd.

 

[mom2rtk]

Oh your picture came out great!
Drizella(that's the right one huh?) screaming "It's me! It's me!" over and over was one of the funniest things on our trip. They are definitely the best actors Disney has. You were the only one I was able to run into our whole trip because Hannah got sick the next night. I didn't want to meet anyone else and get them sick! Katie was such a sweet little lady. I hope I didn't miss your pictures from your trip? Did you do a TR? I haven't posted pictures from mine yet.
Did you guys get to see Belle in her Christmas dress? We didn't get to because we were so sick that night we had to go back to the resort. :/

I'm off to go see Gulliver's travels. Maybe I'll search the house for the sd card when I get back. I want to post some pictures to share with you all! Still waiting(impatiently) on my photopass cd.

Thanks Kira. I'll tell Katie what you said. Katie LOVED playing with Drizella that night. We have done that meal many times, and usually it turns out to be a highlight of our trip. This time did not disappoint.

I'm so sorry Hannah got sick! I hope she got over it quickly. I'm really sorry you had to miss Christmas Belle! Did you miss the entire party?

I haven't posted many pictures yet. I'm still working my way through them and trying to finish my journal. I don't know if I'll do a trip report yet, but I'll let you guys know if I do.

We had a hard time pinning down Snow White and Belle at the Christmas party. It drives me nuts when they have the characters swap out like that. There was no way to know when getting in line if they'd be there. But with the help of some great CM's we eventually found them both. The Belle gown turned out to be the favorite of both Katie and myself for the entire trip.