Disboutiquers Part 24 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[weluvdizne]

fun little technique i employed....

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I love this! Super cute!

Im so far behind it's hopeless to quote..
Here is my test dress for the Marissa pattern in the little size


zipper

The dress looks great and your daughter is adorable!! How old is she now? she has such a sweet angelic face.

This is very good to know... I am a little nervous about making such a big purchase online... especially something that I know nothing about. I am also a little nervous about Singers in general - they seem to have gotten a pretty bad reputation in the last few years because of quality issues. I am really torn, because it seems that so many here have this model and have good experiences with it.

I am glad that my DH is making me sit on the purchase for another month - it will make me do more research and hopefully come to a better conclusion. I guess I don't mind spending money on a good product - but I am a thrifty person by nature - and I really want to get the best item I can get, for the best price point I can get it at.

D~

I have not had much luck with Singer sewing machines. I'm disappointed as I had higher standards for Singer. However, I lovemy Brother machine. It just stitches out so much nicer. All in all, it's a much more pleasant experience to use the Brother. Take my opinion as you will, because I only have sewing machines, not a serger, but someday, I hope to fit it in the budget.

 

[ireland_nicole]

Enabler Alert!!!!

CarlaC's new pattern for the gorgeous dresses we've been seeing lately- Including Teresa Joys, Lydias, and Hannahs- is available on the Sisboom website:
www.sisboom.com
Not on YCMT, but if anyone wants to buy direct from the source, I just checked on the patterns page and it's there- $10.00 each the kids runs from 6mo-13 yrs (Boy do I LOVE Carla) and then the womens picks up and goes to 3x.

Happy Shopping!

 

[jessica52877]

Hmm, pics are showing up now. Please tell me you edited and I'm not going insane.

I just have to get this pattern -- I adore it. Your neckline looks higher though -- is that just from the smaller size? I worry a higher neckline would irritate my dd.

I am interested to see how the one I made fits T's Vi in the neck. Hopefully she'll receive it today.

Hey everyone! I have a crafting question...

Have any of you ever used fabric markers before?

Last week I got my hands on some "color your own" Disney Princess pillow cases. They came with some crayons, but I would like to do something a lot more washable and permanent.

I've read that I can set the markers with an iron, but I'm worried I won't achieve the look I'm going for.

Any suggestions??

TIA!

Dallas has a color your own pillowcase and I loved coloring it but I love to color with crayons. We colored it, ironed it, washed it and then repeated. It has held up wonderfully.

I might have a trick for you. I cut the side of all of the tee shirts that I applique. It took me way too many ruined tees to figure out that if I just cut up the side seem of the shirt it would make appliquéing way easier. After the design is finished I unhoop the shirt and serge the side. Easy Peasy!

I open some seams on super tiny things. I have never just cut it, but I am not as brave as Aimee!

My go to girl for tee shirts is Jessica! She is the queen of the Disney Vacation shirt. On etsy and facebook her name is Magical Memories by Jessica. She can do anything. I have serious envy of her applique skills!

 

[SallyfromDE]

Thanks for looking!

Everything looks great! The colors in this are awesome. I recognize the pattern, but what did you use?

Hey everyone! I have a crafting question...

Have any of you ever used fabric markers before?

Last week I got my hands on some "color your own" Disney Princess pillow cases. They came with some crayons, but I would like to do something a lot more washable and permanent.

I've read that I can set the markers with an iron, but I'm worried I won't achieve the look I'm going for.

Any suggestions??

TIA!

You can heat press crayon. This was washed several times, and did some fading initally, but I had no real color loss. One panel, in the very front of course. I didn't do a good job of heat pressing the outline markings, and it ran. I think I used a sharpie or something like that.

 

[MomtoAlexnWilliam]

Im so far behind it's hopeless to quote..
Here is my test dress for the Marissa pattern in the little size


zipper

So cute!!

We decided on a single letter applique on DD's yellow dress. We thought it looked retro....

And I did a Razorback dress for football this fall -- early I know but our basketball team did so poorly this year we didn't even make the big dance!

 

[dianemom2]

That's the exact style frig I'm looking at -- called French doors. I found one at the Navy Exchange that I like -- no tax and tomorrow I have a 5% off coupon and Sears had one I liked too that is a Samsung closeout model (larger than the newer model they are replacing it with for the same price!). I need to research the Samsung and do a price comparison with tax. Sears is having a sale on Sunday for 15% off but the saleslady wasn't sure the closeout would be included If it makes or breaks the sale I'll bet they'll include it -- she even told me to call her cell b/c she is on vacation on Monday but would come in if I was going to purchase.

I looked at Lowe's too and their prices were steeper on everything.

I feel bad about my buttonhole b/c I also messed up the applique on the dress in one part and it looks a bit icky. That's why I think I might need to stick to tote bags from now on! I'll post pics here once the family recieves the items. The good thing about the buttonhole is it's really not in a terribly noticebable place.

And on my dd's Jasmine dress I completely messed up Jasmine's arm and Jasmine and Aladdin still loved it and probably gave my dd more attention over that outfit that anyone did over any of the other customs. The Aladdin we saw was beyond AWESOME though. Too bad my dh was with me



I don't get signed out too often anymore, but I had that problem awhile back and it was a NIGHTMARE to sign back in again. I'd sign in, it said welcome VBAndrea and then when I tried to reply to someone it wouldn't let me.


[Our fridge broke 3 days before Xmas. We got a very nice fridge at HH Gregg with free next day delivery. We'd had a side by side which I hated. No room for anything in that fridge! This time I got the french door fridge. I bought an LG that they had on a great sale and I have been extremely happy with it so far. We got black because all our other appliances were black too but it comes in stainless. It has ice and water in the door. I love it! There is so much room. I used to have stack everything up and we could never fit pizza in it. But now there is room for everything. Lowes had the same fridge for $20 less but couldn't deliver it for 2 weeks in black (they had it in stock in stainless). HH Gregg matched Lowes price.

Ugh -- the quote messed up on me but thanks for mentioning HH Gregg -- we just had one open in the area so I will peek there as well. We also have a Sears outlet that I want to look at. Sometimes the damage is minimal -- for example Sears replaced our stove because they dented the bottom of it!!! Had I known I would have just ased for a discount but our builders had already arranged replacement. Good news is we got to pick all our appliances -- bad news is we went over our allowance and had no clue the Maytag Wide by Side was worthless.


We had a side by side in RI that fit pizzas if you took them out of the box. I've also been having issues with veggies freezing though when placed on the side of the frig that abuts the freezer. In just looking this morning I definitely decided on a French door freezer on the bottom.


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Just FYI, Lowes will also price match plus they have free delivery and haul away of your old appliance. Sears charges for that so if you bring in the sale price to Lowes, you might be better off. HH Gregg will also price match. I am not sure if they have free delivery all the time or not. They did when I bought my fridge but they are new here too so I am not as familiar with them.

 

[jeniamt]

I open some seams on super tiny things. I have never just cut it, but I am not as brave as Aimee!

I was wondering how you do it b/c I know you do some big appliques on shirts. Can you do a 6x10 design on a size 5 tshirt? The design fits on the tshirt, I just can't figure out how to put the tshirt on the hoop.

 

[RMAMom]

Enabler Alert!!!!

CarlaC's new pattern for the gorgeous dresses we've been seeing lately- Including Teresa Joys, Lydias, and Hannahs- is available on the Sisboom website:
www.sisboom.com
Not on YCMT, but if anyone wants to buy direct from the source, I just checked on the patterns page and it's there- $10.00 each the kids runs from 6mo-13 yrs (Boy do I LOVE Carla) and then the womens picks up and goes to 3x.

Happy Shopping!

I was just coming to post this, she also has a free bowtie and a free frayed fabric rose pattern with purchase. I bought both patterns and picked up both freebies. Can't wait to make dresses for my girls.

 

[jeniamt]

I was just on YCMT looking for Carla's new dress and happened upon an epattern for braided ribbon barrettes. Okay, this just cracked me up...

https://www.youcanmakethis.com/info/whats-new/multi-colorbraidedslidebarrettes.htm

I made so many of these in the early 80's I could still make them today, with my eyes closed! Plus, there are a gazillione free tutorials on the web for them. Not sure why anyone would pay $6 for the epattern.

 

[Blyssfull]

I was just on YCMT looking for Carla's new dress and happened upon an epattern for braided ribbon barrettes. Okay, this just cracked me up...

https://www.youcanmakethis.com/info/whats-new/multi-colorbraidedslidebarrettes.htm

I made so many of these in the early 80's I could still make them today, with my eyes closed! Plus, there are a gazillione free tutorials on the web for them. Not sure why anyone would pay $6 for the epattern.

lol! That was such a blast from the past! I used to wear those ALLLLLL the time when I was little.

 

[dianemom2]

I might have a trick for you. I cut the side of all of the tee shirts that I applique. It took me way too many ruined tees to figure out that if I just cut up the side seem of the shirt it would make appliquéing way easier. After the design is finished I unhoop the shirt and serge the side. Easy Peasy!

I do the same thing. If the shirt is really small, I cut open both side seams. Then I flip the back of the shirt up and out of the way. When I am done, I use the serger to sew everything closed again. It works like a charm! It also took me many ruined shirts before I tried this.

 

[GlassSlippers]

Just in case I'm not able to get the new serger, I decided I should go ahead and get some more info on my serger.

I have the DVD for mine and pulled it out. I have not been able to get the rolled hem to work since the first day I got it...but I was able to get it to work! I am so excited. Now I might just decide to go ahead and try some of the other stitches it has.


I can't believe how much easier it is to make the Rosetta bag with only one layer of fabric per ruffle!


Nini

I don't have a serger but the last time I wanted a ruffle without the bulk of doubled fabric here's what I did. Before I cut out the strip of fabric, I used one of those markers that have the ink that disappears in a day or so to draw the ruffle strip on my fabric. Along the bottom edge I used the most narrow satin stitch I could do on my machine in a coordinating color. Then I cut out the strip, trimmed right up against the stitching and ruffled it. It was easy and I liked the end result. Not being an experienced seamstress like the rest of you, I tend to come up with my own methods in a pinch. Sort of like bees that shouldn't be able to fly, but do it 'cause nobody ever told them they couldn't. Since a serger isn't in the budget and isn't likely to be any time soon, I make do with zig zagging seams and doing this for ruffles. Maybe some day, though!

Lori in East Podunk

Lori in East Podunk

 

[miprender]

OK Nini... what's the scoop? I've never shopped at HSN before... how do I get the 15% off???
D~

Actually before you purchase anything set up an account on HSN and they will email you the coupon code. I wish I had known about this before I had purchased my serger.

Okay - so did anyone else ever just burst into tears when they are sewing and stuff? First, I figured out that I cut the bodice for the simply sweet out of the 2nd skirt for the Belle dress and of course now I dont have enough left and THEN my embroidery machine ate a shirt - how the heck a 4x got hooked up into that I'll never know!! Grrrrrr... IM so FRUSTRATED..in trying to get the shirt unstuck, I broke 2 of my best seam rippers!!!! AHHHH!!!!!

Okay - I think I feel a bit better now - lol - except now I need to go to Joann's tomorrow!! Hopefully they have a coupon and a good sale!!!!

That stinks I had a few of those days.

I'm doing a little of my own crying/pouting today...unrelated to sewing, but DH took down a bunch of my favorite pictures of our boys when they were babies today while I was up nursing the baby. We're prepping our house to put on the market and I knew they had to come down, but it just makes me sad. Sad I don't get to look at them every time I come down the stairs and sad I have to watch a house I truly love become less and less "ours". I just hate how you have to make a house look so impersonal so somebody else will want to buy it. I need an angel to come sit on my shoulder and whisper "craft studio" and "new bigger house" in my ear for about a week...or maybe a month.

Just keep thinking about your craft studio :sew:

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Thanks for looking, and I promise I will try to keep up...

All of them are just beautiful

I now am the proud owner of an Innov-is 80...did I mention how super awesome my DH is?

Congrats!!!

Thanks for looking!

Sweet!

The next set of outfits I also bought of Etsy from our very own EllenBenny

And finally I made Megan her Cinderella dress which she wore the last night when we celebrated her birthday.

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Great job to both you and Ellen.

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OMG that is too funny

Im so far behind it's hopeless to quote..
Here is my test dress for the Marissa pattern in the little size


zipper

That came out great.

I might have a trick for you. I cut the side of all of the tee shirts that I applique. It took me way too many ruined tees to figure out that if I just cut up the side seem of the shirt it would make appliquéing way easier. After the design is finished I unhoop the shirt and serge the side. Easy Peasy!

I would be so afraid to try that How far do you take it apart. Do you end at the collar?

[CarlaC's new pattern for the gorgeous dresses we've been seeing lately- Including Teresa Joys, Lydias, and Hannahs- is available on the Sisboom website:
www.sisboom.com
Not on YCMT, but if anyone wants to buy direct from the source, I just checked on the patterns page and it's there- $10.00 each the kids runs from 6mo-13 yrs (Boy do I LOVE Carla) and then the womens picks up and goes to 3x.

Happy Shopping!

Just purchased it!!!!

And I did a Razorback dress for football this fall -- early I know but our basketball team did so poorly this year we didn't even make the big dance!

I liked the dress before but it definately makes the dress POP.

Hi Guys,
If anyone has an extra prayer or blessing and wouldn't mind sharing can you send one my way? I am leaving now for the hospital for the surgery to fix my ulcerations/stomach/gut. It is supposed to be a long surgery and I wish I could say I was brave but I am not. Hopefully in 4-5 hours I will be out of the OR and on the right side of things.

Thanks

Sending prayers.

 

[PurpleEars]

Ugh! I just lost all of my quotes!

Teresa, I was in BC and even at hobby lobby on Friday. Were you? I could still use some pointers on the stitch era. I still can't figure out how to get the disney font in there and what size is good for lettering and how to get it to my machine, etc.

I haven't posted anything I have made in quite awhile so I thought I would post the things I have been working on this past week/weekend.
This is an outfit I made for my niece to wear to WDW this week. She only wanted Jessie:

A blanket and hat that I embroidered on for a friend that just had a baby:

I actually made these outfits for my girls to wear on our Disney trip back in September. I never posted a pic of all of those outfits. We just wore them to Disney on Ice Princess Wishes this past week so I thought I could post of pic of them wearing them there. They aren't the best pics of the outfits though. My oldest DD's has the 3 sleeping beauty fairies on her skirt and my youngest has heather's princess cuties on hers. We got a TON of compliments on them.

Here's a picture where you can kind of see the back:

An AG dress a friend asked me to make for her daughter's doll -

A tshirt for the same friend's daughter and her doll

Shirts for my girl's to wear for St. Patrick's day

Thanks for looking!

Wow. You have been busy! The princess skirts are totally cute!

Thanks for the comments on our cruise outfits. I ended up having to go out of town this week so I am finally back to post the rest of the weeks outfits.

This next outfit I threw together at the very last second and I loved how her Queen of Hearts Dress came together.

She was asked to play the White Rabbit in Tea with Alice.

My Alice wore her Alice costume from Halloween

Afterwards the Alice was very confused as to who she was if this was Alice.

And finally I made Megan her Cinderella dress which she wore the last night when we celebrated her birthday.

I guess now I can start thinking about outfits for our Thanksgiving trip in 2012.

Those outfits are great! Thanks for sharing!

Hi Guys,
If anyone has an extra prayer or blessing and wouldn't mind sharing can you send one my way? I am leaving now for the hospital for the surgery to fix my ulcerations/stomach/gut. It is supposed to be a long surgery and I wish I could say I was brave but I am not. Hopefully in 4-5 hours I will be out of the OR and on the right side of things.

Thanks

I know the surgery would be over by now, so I will say prayers for a speedy recovery.

OK, this is sort of off topic but not really because all of you who are getting to spend $$$ on new sergers and embroidery machines are making me jealous. The other night I opened our freezer to find water everywhere. We've had some freezer issues in the past and repairs, but the frig side bit the dust this time as well. Thankfully we have a spare frig in the garage so not all was lost. But I will be spending our $$$ on a new frig rather than new sewing appliances

Anyhoo, we had a wide by side (which they dfon't make anymore as apparently ours had a very long life (9 years) compared to others) and I don't know if I can go to a regular side by side as putting pizzas on their side bothers me. Are the bottom freezers workable or do those of you who have them find that you're digging to find stuff? Should I just get a cheap $1000 frig or go for the bells and whistles and spend $2000? The Whirlpool Latitude looks nice.

And my buttonholer went to buttonhole heaven last night as I was adding a buttonhole for a g-tube so now I have a really crappy looking BG gift to send! See, I need a new sewing machine now too -- the buttonholer was my favorite feature of my machine!

Sorry to hear about your fridge. I am sure the buttonhole will be fine - and don't you complain about "sub-standard" work - every piece of your work I have seen look great. I am sure the family will appreciate your work even if it is not perfect in your books.

fun little technique i employed....

That's great!

Im so far behind it's hopeless to quote..
Here is my test dress for the Marissa pattern in the little size


zipper

Oh this dress looks pretty on all the models we've seen!

So cute!!

We decided on a single letter applique on DD's yellow dress. We thought it looked retro....

And I did a Razorback dress for football this fall -- early I know but our basketball team did so poorly this year we didn't even make the big dance!

Oh the applique really makes the dress. Good job!

 

[ireland_nicole]

Ok, this is just not my night- was just finishing a multiquote and Poof! Anyway, I think the sewing gnomes are active today- I had to buy the right side d-rings, the zipper broke, my screwdriver is gone, my iron died (just to name a few issues) and I was on part 13-14 when the embroidery design mentioned to topstich the straps for the fanny pack. I have a combo machine but I thought ok, I'll use my backup- 1 hour later, no foot pedal. Great. So I very carefully remove the hoop, turn off the machine, take off the embroidery attachment, quick sew the straps, turn it off reverse the process and pray that it works. Thank goodness it did, and I now have a fanny pack I did in the hoop- I will make more, but gosh, I hope it goes easier now! I'm going to have some chocolate and diet coke now and watch a disney parks video- who's with me?

Also, thanks everyone for your kind comments about the outfits- Caitie really had a lot of fun wearing the rodeo outfit, and the other has become her fave church dress

 

[ireland_nicole]

OK, I'm trying again- then I have a date with Samantha Brown LOL.

Ugh! I just lost all of my quotes!

This is an outfit I made for my niece to wear to WDW this week. She only wanted Jessie:

A blanket and hat that I embroidered on for a friend that just had a baby:

I actually made these outfits for my girls to wear on our Disney trip back in September. I never posted a pic of all of those outfits. We just wore them to Disney on Ice Princess Wishes this past week so I thought I could post of pic of them wearing them there. They aren't the best pics of the outfits though. My oldest DD's has the 3 sleeping beauty fairies on her skirt and my youngest has heather's princess cuties on hers. We got a TON of compliments on them.

Thanks for looking!

Love everything, the Insa skirt sets are to die for!!

Thanks for the comments on our cruise outfits. I ended up having to go out of town this week so I am finally back to post the rest of the weeks outfits.

This next outfit I threw together at the very last second and I loved how her Queen of Hearts Dress came together.

The next set of outfits I also bought of Etsy from our very own EllenBenny

I guess now I can start thinking about outfits for our Thanksgiving trip in 2012.

Everything is so cute! It looks like you had a great time! My fave are the alice and queen of hearts dress- It's almost enough to make me go on a cruise- except that I get really seasick...

OK, this is sort of off topic but not really because all of you who are getting to spend $$$ on new sergers and embroidery machines are making me jealous. The other night I opened our freezer to find water everywhere. We've had some freezer issues in the past and repairs, but the frig side bit the dust this time as well. Thankfully we have a spare frig in the garage so not all was lost. But I will be spending our $$$ on a new frig rather than new sewing appliances

Anyhoo, we had a wide by side (which they dfon't make anymore as apparently ours had a very long life (9 years) compared to others) and I don't know if I can go to a regular side by side as putting pizzas on their side bothers me. Are the bottom freezers workable or do those of you who have them find that you're digging to find stuff? Should I just get a cheap $1000 frig or go for the bells and whistles and spend $2000? The Whirlpool Latitude looks nice.

We have a french door fridge w/ the bottom freezer- LOVE IT! It is super easy to access everything- we did end up eventually buying another freezer for the garage though, but we're a big family so no regular freezer is big enough.

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Cute!

Im so far behind it's hopeless to quote..
Here is my test dress for the Marissa pattern in the little size


zipper

So gorgeous! I'm def. getting the pattern when I get paid Friday!

So cute!!

We decided on a single letter applique on DD's yellow dress. We thought it looked retro....

And I did a Razorback dress for football this fall -- early I know but our basketball team did so poorly this year we didn't even make the big dance!

Really cute!

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

I'm loving the new CarlaC patterns, even though. Haven't ordered them yet but plan to. With the size range I can dress all 3 girls and maybe even me matchy matchy. Wouldn't that be fun for our cruise? Marissa, my oldest, wasn't impressed, lol, even though I told her the pattern was named just for her, lol. Her BFF who's spending the night said she'd wear it. . She's 18, so I guess matching your 14 & 5 yo sisters really isn't that cool.

I have made the bow ties already, I used them to embellish a dress for Rebecca. It's a super easy pattern, and they look great. I just used the bow, not the neck part, but the directions for that are simple too. Now I need to figure out what to use the roses on.

 

[aimeeg]

Who is ready for too many pictures????

Here is how I applique tee shirts-

First I cut the right side seam.

Then I hoop the shirt. You can see how the excess fabric sits on top of the arm of the machine. As long as you are careful the shirt should not get caught under the hoop.

Stitch out the design.

Here you can see that I left a bit of space between the cut and the armpit. That is so you have room to veer off when serging.

This is a close up of the 5 thread safety stitch. It's fantastic with knits!

This is the new neat and clean seam.

Here is the final product. It's a Birthday present for my daughter who is turning seven on Wednesday. Pardon me while I

 

[revrob]

Who is ready for too many pictures????

Here is how I applique tee shirts-

First I cut the right side seam.

Then I hoop the shirt. You can see how the excess fabric sits on top of the arm of the machine. As long as you are careful the shirt should not get caught under the hoop.

Stitch out the design.

Here you can see that I left a bit of space between the cut and the armpit. That is so you have room to veer off when serging.

This is a close up of the 5 thread safety stitch. It's fantastic with knits!

This is the new neat and clean seam.

Here is the final product. It's a Birthday present for my daughter who is turning seven on Wednesday. Pardon me while I

Great tutorial, Aimee! And what a precious outfit - for a little girl that can not possibly be turning 7!

 

[jeniamt]

Who is ready for too many pictures????

Here is how I applique tee shirts-

First I cut the right side seam.

Then I hoop the shirt. You can see how the excess fabric sits on top of the arm of the machine. As long as you are careful the shirt should not get caught under the hoop.

Stitch out the design.

Here you can see that I left a bit of space between the cut and the armpit. That is so you have room to veer off when serging.

This is a close up of the 5 thread safety stitch. It's fantastic with knits!

This is the new neat and clean seam.

Here is the final product. It's a Birthday present for my daughter who is turning seven on Wednesday. Pardon me while I

WOW Aimee, thank you so much!!! Its great to see what you described earlier in action. The outfit is beautiful and I am sure your DD will love it. Wish I could help you slow down the hands of time. The kids are just growing too fast! I remember joining this group when I was pregnant with my youngest and he turned 2 last month. How is that my baby is already 2? Can't be possible. Hang in there.