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

[peachygreen]

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 first outfit I didn't make, I bought it on Etsy from stitchesnbows.

One of these days I will either a) learn how to applique or b) get an embroidery machine of my own and I could do this myself.

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.

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

Thanks - I loved those outfits.

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.

 

[MomtoAlexnWilliam]

Love the bright yellow. I agree, I think a monogram would look great.

Thanks!

That is so pretty! I love the cheerful color! The dress would definitely look great with something appliqued on the front.

Thanks!

This turned out so nice - I love the bright yellow! I think that a monogram would look fabulous!

D~

Thanks!

Those came out great. Hope your ankle gets better.

Sweet. I think this dress would be perfect for any type of embroidery.

Thanks!

ooh I have this pattern on my pile. I totally love your colors.

I loved it and have plans to make another. This one I will make wider because I want it to be fuller. I am also going to add a 3rd fabric at the sides -- kind of a modified Vida.

It is just a beautiful dress.

Thanks!

We have decided that since it has a bit a retro look to it we are going to put a big ol' retro A applique in red on the front. I can't wait to get it on there but I am just too darn tired tonight.

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!!!!

It happens!!! I have done similar things and gotten super upset. It's just fabric and it will get better!!!

Those colours look nice and cheery. I think either option will work.=

 

[chellewashere]

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!

All so beautiful..cant wait till I can do this. Lucky little girls

 

[Miz Diz]

to those of you who digitize.... what software do you use? I downloaded stitch era and can do names with it, but have no clue how to use it otherwise.

I am using Stitch Era, but getting frustrated with it. It does not always stitch out well. I just did something for someone and the lettering didn't look that great. It does not digitize all fonts that well. I am also trying to create an applique with letters and can not get the O to applique right. It keeps giving me a running stitch for the middle part of the O, instead of the applique stitch.

I did the Embird trial and did not care for it.

I think I'm going to bite the bullet and buy the Floriani Suite. It is expensive, but the plus is that you do not have to pay for any upgrades. They also let you install on more than 1 computer.

 

[Tweevil]

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

 

[Waybuloo]

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 blessings your way Tweevil

 

[DMGeurts]

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 am praying for you Tweevil... I hope your surgery is a success and your recovery is quick.

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 first outfit I didn't make, I bought it on Etsy from stitchesnbows.

One of these days I will either a) learn how to applique or b) get an embroidery machine of my own and I could do this myself.

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.

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

Thanks - I loved those outfits.

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.

Cute, I love everything! That photo of your littlest dd is just adorable - I love how she is looking at the camera.

D~

 

[NiniMorris]

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

Tweevil,

Prayers for swift surgery and speedy recovery!

Nini

 

[VBAndrea]

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!

It's pretty easy. The two main stitches I use are the 5 thread safety stitch and the 2 thread rolled hem. If you are staying in white it's easy peasy. You just take out one needle and remove three threads. There are few dials etc. . . you have to change also. If you change colors it takes a little more time but it's not that bad. Once you get a feel for the machine it's pretty user friendly.

The one other thing I like about this Singer is the manual. It is very easy to follow. In addition to having in-depth instructions it also has an easy to follow chart. It's a cheat sheet for all the stitches.

I personally like the five stitch safety stitch the best. It eliminates a lot of the straight stitching on the sewing machine- not all but a lot. It combines an overlock stitch with a double chainstitch. It is a very strong stitch. For example. I don't sew strips for stripworks on the sewing machine first. Here are a few pictures of what it does. (I did not press the strips yet.)

Front

Underside

OMG that's gorgeous! Telling myself now that a refrigerator is more important than a new serger. My cheap serger works just fine. Ugh!

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!!!!

Joann's had a fabulous sale last week and I think it continues to this week. I grabbed lots of flyers last week b/c I think they had a 50% off coupon. I want some knits to try some new things.

And I am about ready to cry as well. My buttonholer gave me a couple of issues when I was doing numerous button holes for Kade's Give on his books, but I thought I fanagled it into working again. So last night I add a buttonhole to an entirely completed BG dress for a G tube and it stopped working and my button hole looks horrid! I feel like I should never make another outfit for a BG again. I swear I'm signing up for a tote the next time!

Always TMTQ, but awesome fab stuff, especially love the belle and snow white outfits, the fabulous dresses with the new sisboom fabrics and carlac pattern, and the AG princess outfits, truly, everything posted has been awesome! Welcome Garry BTW!

Speaking of Sisboom, I finally got the courage to cut into some of mine instead of it looking pretty on the shelf: This is the Lydia dress by Pink fig. It went together well, although I didn't like some of her construction or shirring directions, so I pulled a Sinatra and did it my way LOL. If anyone else is thinking of making it, I would recommend lengthening the sleeves; they're a bit too short and the seams have come undone and need to be repaired- and I had seriously reinforced them. Otherwise, I liked it fine.

Also realized Friday night that I hadn't made outfits for the rodeo Saturday, so here's what a couple of hours and a stash did- it was my first time using the knit yoke skirt pattern from ycmt, but will def. not be the last; super easy, love her construction ideas took just over 30 minutes including cutting and ironing; nuff said:

oh, here's a randm pic of an ariel outfit a couple of gives back- I don't think I posted here:

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

Beautiful shirring! What a gorgeous outfit! And I love the rodeo set as well.

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!

Everything is beautiful! Seeing that name embroidered so makes me want a new embroidery machine. "Must keeping thinking new refrigerator" -- and did I mention we are switching to stainless steel so I really need a new stoe and microwave too now (thankfully already got the stainless steel dishwasher when that broke last year!).

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 first outfit I didn't make, I bought it on Etsy from stitchesnbows.

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

Sorry i ran out of space to quote all the pics. I can't beleive your wardrobe for the trip! You had to have done an outfit changes everyday. You had soooo many nice things!

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

Good news is under general you'll never remember those 4-5 hours of your life. I hope your recovery goes smoothly.

 

[NiniMorris]

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!




OMG that's gorgeous! Telling myself now that a refrigerator is more important than a new serger. My cheap serger works just fine. Ugh!




And I am about ready to cry as well. My buttonholer gave me a couple of issues when I was doing numerous button holes for Kade's Give on his books, but I thought I fanagled it into working again. So last night I add a buttonhole to an entirely completed BG dress for a G tube and it stopped working and my button hole looks horrid! I feel like I should never make another outfit for a BG again. I swear I'm signing up for a tote the next time!




Everything is beautiful! Seeing that name embroidered so makes me want a new embroidery machine. "Must keeping thinking new refrigerator" -- and did I mention we are switching to stainless steel so I really need a new stoe and microwave too now (thankfully already got the stainless steel dishwasher when that broke last year!).

I know how you feel....we have a chest type deep freeze that after 10 years of faithful service has decided it doesn't like to maintain a constant temp! We really need to replace it.

We also started replacing all our 'builder grade' appliances last year. I now have a new dishwasher and stove (my baby!...LOVE it!) all stainless. After I pay off the stove I get a new refrigerator. I am also interested in your refrigerator answers.

That serger is making me really want to get one...but the one I have...well, so far it does my seam finishing, but that is all. I was able to get the rolled hem stitch to work on the first day I had it, but cannot get it to do it again to save my life!

I guess since I have been an enabler so many times, I can't complain too much! LOL


Nini

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

Andrea, sorry about the no quote, it's that ipad thing...if I was going to replace my fridge, a bottom freezer is exactly what I'd get. DH grew up with that style, and he prefers it, especially for the pizza issue. If you think about it, it does make sense, hot air rises so a bottom freezer would stay colder in theory. My fridge is 16 years old, and I'm ready for a new one, but can't bring myself to spend the $$ because there's nothing wrong with it other than the ice maker, which makes ice but doesn't dispense any more. Not worth spending the 2k to get the one I want. The style I like is the bottom freezer, but has side by side fridge doors with ice and h2o dispensers too. Pretty much the most expensive one at Lowes, lol.

If it makes you feel any better, the last BG I sent with a feeding tube hole had a crummy button hole too. I took it out 3 times but still couldn't get t perfect. It was ok, I didn't send a mess to the family, but I know it could have looked better!

 

[ireland_nicole]

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

Praying for you now!

I will quite on the other great stuff posted when I get to the computer- quoting from the iPhone is a bear!

 

[RMAMom]

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

Prayers for a quick and successful procedure and a peaceful, speedy recovery!

 

[cogero]

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:

Thanks for looking!

I absolutely love the Jessie outfit. I did a very similar one for a give and one for my DDs dance costume.

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 first outfit I didn't make, I bought it on Etsy from stitchesnbows.

One of these days I will either a) learn how to applique or b) get an embroidery machine of my own and I could do this myself.

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.

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

Thanks - I loved those outfits.

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.

Adore the cruise outfits.

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

Many prayers being sent your way.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

I am constantly getting signed out on this site. I click the remember me box but it still keeps signing me out which makes it impossible to quote. Anyone else having this problem?

Disneygirlsandandrew...super cute stuff! Sorry for the lack of a quote, but I'm on my iPad, and I'm still not good at making long quotes with pics work well. . I like the skirts you made...is it the Insa? I like them, and know its something I want to make for Rebecca at some point.

Thanks! Yes, it is the insa which is a really easy pattern.

I love everything... the dresses you made for your girls are just precious - I love the colors!

The Ag outfits are cute - we have the AG version of the zebra print dress - and yours is an excellent replica!! Great job! Did you make the girl dress to match? I love the little tshirts too!

D~

Thanks. I tried to come as close to the AG dress as possible. I didn't make the girl dress to match b/c the mom who asked me to make it said they didn't need it, but now my oldest DD is begging me to make her one.

All so beautiful..cant wait till I can do this. Lucky little girls

Thanks!

I absolutely love the Jessie outfit. I did a very similar one for a give and one for my DDs dance costume.

.

Thanks! I was pleased with how it came out since I am usually more of a ruffle and frou frou person. But my sister and her daughter are not so I kept it toned down. I guess she loved it though and twirled and twirled when she put it on so that makes me feel good.

 

[dianemom2]

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!




OMG that's gorgeous! Telling myself now that a refrigerator is more important than a new serger. My cheap serger works just fine. Ugh!




And I am about ready to cry as well. My buttonholer gave me a couple of issues when I was doing numerous button holes for Kade's Give on his books, but I thought I fanagled it into working again. So last night I add a buttonhole to an entirely completed BG dress for a G tube and it stopped working and my button hole looks horrid! I feel like I should never make another outfit for a BG again. I swear I'm signing up for a tote the next time!




Everything is beautiful! Seeing that name embroidered so makes me want a new embroidery machine. "Must keeping thinking new refrigerator" -- and did I mention we are switching to stainless steel so I really need a new stoe and microwave too now (thankfully already got the stainless steel dishwasher when that broke last year!).

I know how you feel....we have a chest type deep freeze that after 10 years of faithful service has decided it doesn't like to maintain a constant temp! We really need to replace it.

We also started replacing all our 'builder grade' appliances last year. I now have a new dishwasher and stove (my baby!...LOVE it!) all stainless. After I pay off the stove I get a new refrigerator. I am also interested in your refrigerator answers.

That serger is making me really want to get one...but the one I have...well, so far it does my seam finishing, but that is all. I was able to get the rolled hem stitch to work on the first day I had it, but cannot get it to do it again to save my life!

I guess since I have been an enabler so many times, I can't complain too much! LOL


Nini

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.

 

[Diz-Mommy]

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

You got it!! Prayers being sent for a successful surgery and speedy healing!

 

[Piper]

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

Prayers are being said that your surgery be successful and healing is quick.

 

[billwendy]

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

Oh Val! Praying for you - please update us (or have Danny update us - lol) on how you are doing!!!! I hope it goes well!!!

THanks to everyone who commisserated with me!! lol....Im heading out to Joann's today for some more yellow fabric, newseam rippers and maybe some thread if the sale is good enough(whats this new buy 2 get one free stuff??).

 

[T-rox]

fun little technique i employed....

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