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

[NaeNae]

This is the new neat and clean seam.

Aimee, how do you keep from having a thread tail at the bottom/beginning of the seam?

 

[jeniamt]

I know its late and I am sure 3 straight hours of The Bachelor killed more than a few of my brain cells.... but I can't for the life of me remember where a lot of you order t-shirts online. Please help! I need a bunch of "feminine cut" shirts in size 5 and size 12. I remember hearing they run small so if have any experience ordering for a girl who normally wears those sizes, please let me know what size you would order.

I also need some for my baby boy Cameron who normally wears size 18mos -24mos. What size should I order for him?

Thanks for helping!

 

[aimeeg]

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

It's terrible isn't it!!! When I started sewing she just turned three. My youngest was 11 months old and she will be in Kindergarten this fall. I had no idea what I was getting into when I asked on the DIS for suggestions on Belle's Blue dress. Someone pointed me over here (thread #1) and the rest was history.

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.

You are very welcome! Us Annapolis girls need to stick together.

Aimee, how do you keep from having a thread tail at the bottom/beginning of the seam?

I have a tail but I just trim it very close to the edge. Having that chain stitch really makes a difference.

I know its late and I am sure 3 straight hours of The Bachelor killed more than a few of my brain cells.... but I can't for the life of me remember where a lot of you order t-shirts online. Please help! I need a bunch of "feminine cut" shirts in size 5 and size 12. I remember hearing they run small so if have any experience ordering for a girl who normally wears those sizes, please let me know what size you would order.

I also need some for my baby boy Cameron who normally wears size 18mos -24mos. What size should I order for him?

Thanks for helping!

I would love to know also. My DD has a very long torso and the 7/8 are too short but the 10/12 are too wide. The Phin shirt is a 10/12 from Target. I wish I could get a 9 in a tee shirt! UGH!!!

 

[weluvdizne]

I know its late and I am sure 3 straight hours of The Bachelor killed more than a few of my brain cells.... but I can't for the life of me remember where a lot of you order t-shirts online. Please help! I need a bunch of "feminine cut" shirts in size 5 and size 12. I remember hearing they run small so if have any experience ordering for a girl who normally wears those sizes, please let me know what size you would order.

I also need some for my baby boy Cameron who normally wears size 18mos -24mos. What size should I order for him?

Thanks for helping!

Not sure this is the one you are thinking of, but I have had great luck with Jiffy shirts. They ship so fast and their prices can't be beat! Sorry, but I can't help with the sizing questions. I have read some of the reviews of certain styles I was considering ordering and the reviewers sometimes let you know that a particular shirt runs big or small. I know Rabbit skins is one they say runs small from what I've read. Hope that helps some.

 

[Waybuloo]

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.

Wow, I've never seen them before - maybe they weren't a hit in Australia?

I wonder if my daughter would like some.. I'll google them - thanks for the advice

 

[teresajoy]

Ummm, yeah, I've cried over many a sewing project. You are not alone. I'm sending you a big hug via DisBoards. I just hate when a project goes to poo like that!

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.

Aww, that would be sad!!

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:

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I love the outfits!!! The rodeo outfit is so cute!!! And, I hadn't seen the Ariel one before, very pretty!

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:

Thanks for looking!

It was on a Saturday, it was a week or two ago. Someday, we just need to make plans to meet up!

I love the Jessie outfit!!!
And, your princess outfits are too cute!!!! My Mom had talked about taking us to Princesses on Ice, not sure what happened to that plan! It looked like it would be so much fun!

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.

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

GORGEOUS outfits!!! Your daughters are little dolls!

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 hope you are doing ok.

fun little technique i employed....

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Such a cute idea!!!!

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

I love this dress!!!! And your little cutie pie!

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 think the neckline on the smaller sizes goes up a little higher than the bigger sizes. When I made Lyddies (a 7/8 by her waist measurement, although she generally wears a 10 due to her height) I had to lengthen the straps and the elastic. Carla was going to add on some length to the straps though. Just make sure you try on the dress before sewing the straps in well. It makes things much easier to adjust if you don't have to pick out all that stitching!

Oh you guys are so sweet. I really didn't mean much by my "little" comment. I do think of that same widow in the Bible and try to live my life as close to that as possible. Such a hard thing to live up to with 4 kids and a husband who is so stressed about the security of his job. I guess that is what Faith is all about. I love participating in the Gives but also know my limitations! The last month was crazy for me and I knew what I had time to contribute.

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



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.

This is so cute!

So cute!!

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

And I did a Razorbac

I love these!!! The applique looks great on the dress!

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.

I KNOW!!!! I couldn't believe it when I saw that! I had to call Heather and tell her! There is a free tutorial on Family Fun.

Here it is: http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/weave-a-barrette-825018/

Aimee, I am NOT happy with you! I was perfectly happy with my serger until you started posting pictures of what yours does!!

Wow, I've never seen them before - maybe they weren't a hit in Australia?

I wonder if my daughter would like some.. I'll google them - thanks for the advice

I'll post that link again just for you! http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/weave-a-barrette-825018/

It was an 80's thing here. I loved making them. Did you guys have friendship pins? Safety pins that you put colored beads on, then gave them to your friends?

 

[Waybuloo]

I'll post that link again just for you! http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/weave-a-barrette-825018/

It was an 80's thing here. I loved making them. Did you guys have friendship pins? Safety pins that you put colored beads on, then gave them to your friends?

Thanks teresajoy!

Yup, we had those friendship pins And lots of friendship bracelets. Actually I'm thinking of making one today that is red, black and white to try to help me to remember why I'm wanting to lose weight... for Disney in November!

 

[kstgelais4]

Finished my Jessie inspired stripwork in time for our trip to Toy Story on ice. Actually made a few of these for customers and have a few orders to finish still. Lots of interest on the Jessie's.

Love it! I have had an idea for a skirt similar to this in my head for a while!

I finished a few more things today.

I really like how you used the vida for the top!

I will open the door by saying that women are wonderful!ou

Hi, my name is Garry. I noticed this board while trying to get some sewing ideas. Some amazing stuff on here that you ladies (I didn't see any men) have made. I'm not great, maybe not even good, but I enjoy sewing. I made these little bags for my daughter and a friends son for our next trip to WDW.

With all the sewing knowledge evident from the pieces displayed here, I was wondering what anyone might suggestions on fairly easy projects that a fat fingered guy could try to make? Mostly for my DD.

Just echoing the others, you are not alone! It is nice to have more guys here!
I will second starting with the easy fit pants pattern!

Wow, 30-odd pages while I was gone. You ladies have been busy! Far TMTQ but there were a few things I just had to comment on.

I love the Dr Seuss outfits! The fabrics are all so bright and lively.

The Perry dress is way too cute.

Andrea, the books for Kade's give are just amazing! It is wonderful how much time and care you put into those!

Love the Nemo shoes, but I'm afraid if I get started doing matching shoes I'll end up with a whole new (expensive) obsession.

I've got a few pics to share of my customs in action on our trip!

Love the action pics! Everything is great!

I made my DD a Sleeping Beauty dress from Carla C's Portrait Peasant, which can be found on YCMT. I just added the collar, which I designed myself, and followed Carla's blog directions for princess-ifying a Simply Sweet. I wanted a dress and not a sundress, but the idea works for both. The directons for the collar should be in the Bookmarks, but if they aren't, let me know. I'm sure Teresa planned to add them.
Here's a pic.

The first day she wore this, we had lots of people stopping us to ask where we bought it! The funniest part was one little girl on the playground under Splash that got mad when Rebecca wouldn't dance with her, she really thought she was Aurora. I make my DD's princess dresses out of comfortable calicos, it's not itchy and it's cooler than the fancier fabrics in this hot and sticky FL, but still gives them the princess look.

I haven't seen this before. I love this, and may CASE it if it's OK!

 

[kstgelais4]

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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.

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

I have been eyeing this pattern forever. The reason I haven't bought it is because I feel like I could figure it out pretty easily. Are the sleeves really just rectangles shirred along the edges? How are they attached to the bodice? Anyway, yours came out great!

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 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:

!

These are my favorite! I the skirt!

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.

looks like you had a fabulous time! All the outfits are great!

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!

the monogram made the dress! love it!

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

nice tute! Love the outfit. I just wanted to let you know that I totally know how you feel. My oldest just turned 12. I really did cry. I don't know where the time went. When I started reading this thread, My dd was almost 3 (she's almost 8 now) and I have had 2 babies since I have been a Disboutiquer. Time just flies.

Also, thanks for all the compliments on the other outfits ladies! Someone wanted to know what pattern the skirt was. It was the "once upon a time" skirt by Bananafana patterns.

 

[VBAndrea]

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.

I love this! How did you get the images on the fabric (the outline) b/f coloring it? Something like this would be fun to do for a Big Give.

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.

It reminds me of how people pay money for a pattern for a pillowcase dress when there are so many free tuts on line. Speaking of which, I've never made a pillow case dress but do need to try one (I have three tuts bookmarked).

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.

Thanks. I narrowed it down to a Samsung and a Whirlpool and let dh decide form there. Then I decided I liked the interior of the Samsung much better. DH picked the Whirlpool so WP it is. We have a WP in our garage that is 17 years old and still works like a charm, and DH's big beef is WP makes refrigerators, Samsung makes electronics! Good news is I can get the WP at the Navy Exchange = no tax plus I have a scratch off coupon which is an additional 5% off and the frig is on sale today for a hair less than $2K. I do have to pay $75 delivery though, so that kind of makes my 5% coupon null! And I forgot to ask if they haul the old frig away. If not dh knows someone with a truck that may take it and sell it as scrap metal for us.

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

Gee Aimee, thanks for making me incredibly jealous of your serger to start with and then to top it off I have to see photos of your embroidery machine as well! What kind of a friend are you?! J/K. It was actually really nice of you to post the tut and I love the resulting outfit. I guess you have to make sure your t-s have side seams to do that. The last t I bought for a BG (which I hand appliqued) did not have side seams. It was a 4T and I managed.

For girls t-s I have better luck buying my dd the girly cut with the cap sleeves. I can generally get them at Target and I know our ACMoore had some, but perhaps in ladies sizes only. They fit tighter so they are not so boxy looking.

And my dd had the nerve to turn seven on Christmas! Your dd should love her new outfit -- it's fabulous!

I know its late and I am sure 3 straight hours of The Bachelor killed more than a few of my brain cells.... but I can't for the life of me remember where a lot of you order t-shirts online. Please help! I need a bunch of "feminine cut" shirts in size 5 and size 12. I remember hearing they run small so if have any experience ordering for a girl who normally wears those sizes, please let me know what size you would order.

I also need some for my baby boy Cameron who normally wears size 18mos -24mos. What size should I order for him?

Thanks for helping!

I think I've seen Jiffy shirts mentioned here but I have never tried them so I can't help you at all on the sizing.

 

[jeniamt]

Not sure this is the one you are thinking of, but I have had great luck with Jiffy shirts. They ship so fast and their prices can't be beat! Sorry, but I can't help with the sizing questions. I have read some of the reviews of certain styles I was considering ordering and the reviewers sometimes let you know that a particular shirt runs big or small. I know Rabbit skins is one they say runs small from what I've read. Hope that helps some.

That is it! Thanks. There are quite a few reviews after each of the tshirts which should help with sizing. Thanks!

 

[DMGeurts]

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

Thanks for such an awesome Tut!!! I saved it in Word on my PC - so I don't have to search forever when and if I ever need it. Therea re some great serger tips and embroidery machine tips in that tut... and I am a total visual person - so that really helped.

The outfit turned out adorable!

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.

This is so cute!

D~

 

[chellewashere]

Ok this might be a dumb question and obvious but Im stumped. When you do an embroidery like this how do you get the fabric (with the designs/color) under it? I have some patterns that I have bought to to make on a skirt but Im lost how to get the fabric under the embroidery pattern when i upload it to the machine and stitch it on the skirt.

 

[cogero]

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

I love this tutorial. I so need to learn to use my serger.

Also that skirt is fabulous. what pattern is it.

 

[NiniMorris]

Ok this might be a dumb question and obvious but Im stumped. When you do an embroidery like this how do you get the fabric (with the designs/color) under it? I have some patterns that I have bought to to make on a skirt but Im lost how to get the fabric under the embroidery pattern when i upload it to the machine and stitch it on the skirt.

Try this ...

http://www.swakembroidery.com/swak-101-multi-appliquetutorial.htm

It will give you a step by step....

Nini

 

[aimeeg]

Ok this might be a dumb question and obvious but Im stumped. When you do an embroidery like this how do you get the fabric (with the designs/color) under it? I have some patterns that I have bought to to make on a skirt but Im lost how to get the fabric under the embroidery pattern when i upload it to the machine and stitch it on the skirt.

I am going to check out the SWAK link Nini posted but I looked on youtube when I first learned. I found a few helpful videos to get me headed in the right directions. I am not an expert by any means but I can take pictures the next time I applique something. Maybe I have a few tricks that might help out.

I think Heather's designs are the most user friendly. One of the first designs I did was her cupcake. It was a good one because it had a some color changes and fabric changes but it was not 35 steps.

 

[princesssfws]

I was finally able to make a dress for Little Miss C. It was much easier to sew w/o a baby but oh so fun to sew for one. Here is her first Minnie dress:

And here are some bags I made for my dds competitive volleyball team - 10 total - what was I thinking.

 

[GlassSlippers]

Try this ...

http://www.swakembroidery.com/swak-101-multi-appliquetutorial.htm

It will give you a step by step....

Nini

I had always wondered how that worked! Pretty nifty!

Lori in East Podunk

 

[snubie]

Who is ready for too many pictures????

Here is how I applique tee shirts-

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

Thank you for the tutorial Aimee.
And for those of us without a serger, you can do this too, it just won't be as neat and clean. I do the same technique as Aimee, I seam rip out one side seam (takes a few minutes), complete the design on the shirt, then sew up the side seam with a straight stitch followed by a "coversitch"-type stitch on my regular sewing machine.

Ok this might be a dumb question and obvious but Im stumped. When you do an embroidery like this how do you get the fabric (with the designs/color) under it? I have some patterns that I have bought to to make on a skirt but Im lost how to get the fabric under the embroidery pattern when i upload it to the machine and stitch it on the skirt.

I see someone already posted the link but if you Google "embroidery machine applique techniques" several sites have tutorials.

http://www.windstarembroidery.com/embroidery-information.cfm?File=Applique
http://www.annaboveembroidery.com/applique-technique.html

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

Once again, great stuff posted but TMTQ! I too made those ribbon barrettes in the '80s...one year I thought I was hot stuff because I made them in school colors and gave them as Christmas gifts to all my friends, they thought so too. we mad the friendship pins also...it was a big deal to collect them and wear them on your shoelaces, the more the better status you had. Ah, the simple things in life, lol.

Kstgelais4...you can case my Sleeping Beauty...truthfully it's a case of something from a big $$ seller on Etsy, I just redesigned the collar because I didn't like hers. I don't sell, I just create for my own DD, and for the Big Gives, so I don't feel too guilty for the case.

Teresa, love your Lydia in Lydia! I made that same pattern a while back and discovered the same issue with the sleeves. It seemed like I had to increase it almost double to make it fit. At the time I thought it was just me, so I'm glad to know it wasn't. I originally bought the pattern because it's just like one of rebecca's favorite cheapie Walmart dresses that she was fast outgroing, but the one I made wasn't knit and she hated it. I plan to try to remake it using knit...I've never tried to shirr that though. Anyone have any input on that?