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

[Blyssfull]

It's a paper pattern. You have to trace your pattern pieces though. It seems like a lot to do at first but the traced pieces are easier to work with than the brown tissue paper pieces. Plus the Vida is pretty easy to put together and does not require a ton of fabric.

Thanks so much for the info! I might just have to try it out anyways.

 

[cogero]

I just bought the light pink minnie fabric at Joann's yesterday too. They seemed to be restocked, and also had more of the comicstrip mickey fabric that I had bought a couple of months ago. I used it on this drawstring backpack for a big give, and a couple of people had asked me where I got the fabric.

The licensed stuff was 40% off, and I know that mar 25 - 27 it is going to 50% off, but I was afraid that it would be gone so I bought the minnie.

Here is the comic strip fabric...

And since the family received these yesterday, I can also post the rest of the items for Lhea's give:

I did the drawstring backpack for big brother, a rosetta bag for big sister, and minnie princess outfits for the little ones.

Thanks for looking!

Ellen I really love those skirts. When I grow up I want to sew like you.

I am seriously thinking I need to get to Joanns for some fabric.

Rubberduckyranch sent you a PM

 

[MinnieVanMom]

I finally did it!!

Me and my mom went and bought fabric and a pattern about two weeks. Then it sat in my closet because I have never made a dress before or really used a pattern. My mom never seemed to have time to show me how, so tonight I took out the fabric (left the pattern in the bag) and decided to wing it.

Here is my first dress. I'm too excited to wait for my model to wake up to show a picture.

The minnie is a patch... not sure if I am going to use it or not yet. I don't really like that her bow is pink.

-nat

That is your first dress? You are a natural and did a wonderful job.

update: Still waiting on my machine to arrive...this is going to sound insane but I was itching to get busy on a simple project and ended up cutting 2 old shirts and making a simple drawstring bag BY HAND! I was proud of my ability to follow a tutorial even though I have NO proper cutting supplies and only one old lonely spool of white thread and a old dull sewing needle....talk about desperation. When the sewing bug bites it bites hard!

I'll post a picture tonight if you promise not to laugh...

I promise not to laugh and am sitting here impressed that you made a purse by hand!

This year I went for Spring of St. Patrick's Day.

Glad you did go for St. Patty's it is lovely!

Everyone has been posting such cute stuff. I am kind of sad that Gianna feels 8.5 is too old to wear customs anymore, but I do know that NONE of the kids at school wear anything close to a custom, it's all about Abercrombie, Hollister, etc.

I do have a new "venture", I have been making and selling cheer bows at the shop in my daughters all star gym. I just made bows for the 2 senior teams to wear to Nationals in Walt Disney World & they won!! So I guess my bows were good luck.

Anyway...at least today Gianna is wearing a cheer bow I made her for practice tonight & her Kermit the frog cheer sweats I made. Brady decided to get in the picture too, so here are both of my "Irish" kids

Very cute bow. They are big aren't they?

I was able to finish one more thing today. The pictures are too dark! UGH My DD loves the pocket and to be honest I want the straightees!!!! This outfit can from my unfinished projects box. After I redid my Art Room I have been working on getting to the bottom of that box!

So glad you are getting to the unfinished items. I love what you are getting done. I just have one quilt yet to finish.

couple of things I have made lately but hadnt had a chance to share yet: (sorry pics are huge and probably too many)

first 2 spidey man t-shirts for my littlest monkey

a spring cinderelly outfit w/matching bow:

minnie halter and twirly skirt:

next project...some flip flops for princess Zoe on the big give soon as the ribbon I ordered arrives!

thanks for letting me share

Ok, DS went nuts for the spider man. Is that a digitized design? Everything came out so nice.

okay just have to share. My mom came by today to drop something off. Miss C was still in her outfit. My mother was so impressed with the skirt and how it looked.

My mom could be a professional seamstress she is that good.

It made me so happy.

You are very very good and so glad that your family also noticed how well you sew! Is there an Estore in your future?

 

[NiniMorris]

The more I see that Roseta bag the more I love it! I don't think I have seen a bad fabric combination!

It is my new obsession!

Nini

 

[mommy2mrb]

Nini, hope your feeling better today!


Ellen, the outfit you made for Lhea's give are precious! they looked so beautiful in them!

Loving all the new stuff being posted to you all!

 

[ellenbenny]

Ellen I really love those skirts. When I grow up I want to sew like you.

Thank you, but I think you are already doing great. Those skirts are not too difficult, no gathering involved. The pattern is from tie dye diva on etsy or youcanmakethis, called peak a boo pleats skirt.

 

[NiniMorris]

Thanks, Lisa!

It is amazing what those pain pills will do for you. Maybe if I weren't so stubborn about taking them it wouldn't get to the point it did!

Of course, having to limit my time at the computer and being banned from the sewing studio is really rough!!!

LOL!!!


Nini

 

[mommy2mrb]

Thanks, Lisa!

It is amazing what those pain pills will do for you. Maybe if I weren't so stubborn about taking them it wouldn't get to the point it did!

Of course, having to limit my time at the computer and being banned from the sewing studio is really rough!!!

LOL!!!


Nini

just take it easy....I hurt my neck way back in high school and still get aches and pains in it!

 

[tricia]

Wendy - That news sound wonderful!!!!!


TESTERS WANTED!!!!i am just about finished Jessie and will be stitching her & Dumbo out this afternoon. I would love to have a couple testers. Either 6x10 or 5x7 but I would like to see the pics by Sunday night. I would like to list these 2 designs if they are meeting with user approval. Please PM me if you are interested.

Sent you a PM

I just bought the light pink minnie fabric at Joann's yesterday too. They seemed to be restocked, and also had more of the comicstrip mickey fabric that I had bought a couple of months ago. I used it on this drawstring backpack for a big give, and a couple of people had asked me where I got the fabric.

The licensed stuff was 40% off, and I know that mar 25 - 27 it is going to 50% off, but I was afraid that it would be gone so I bought the minnie.

Here is the comic strip fabric...

And since the family received these yesterday, I can also post the rest of the items for Lhea's give:

I did the drawstring backpack for big brother, a rosetta bag for big sister, and minnie princess outfits for the little ones.

Thanks for looking!

Awesome as always. Love the mickey fabric too. We JUST started getting licensed fabric at our fabricland. Way too expensive, but won't be bad if I get it on a members sale at 40% off. So far only Mickey and Pooh, can't wait till they get some princesses. I have had no Disney fabric in my stash for a while now, so have not been looking at the Big Gives. Now maybe I can get back to doing a couple of them.

 

[dianemom2]

Wendy - That news sound wonderful!!!!!


TESTERS WANTED!!!!i am just about finished Jessie and will be stitching her & Dumbo out this afternoon. I would love to have a couple testers. Either 6x10 or 5x7 but I would like to see the pics by Sunday night. I would like to list these 2 designs if they are meeting with user approval. Please PM me if you are interested.

I sent you a PM also.

 

[babynala]

And just to have something to share, I made these cupcake burb cloths for a neighbor, got the idea from Teresa! Mine came out a little too big, but still cute I think.

These came out really cute. Thanks for sharing the links for the cupcakes and the burp cloth. I think that might be a good use of all the extra flannel I have from making PJ pants.

I am hoping I can get the picture from Facebook to show up here...

This is my latest completion. It is for the Relay for Life in Walton County. It will be auctioned off by the Walker Park Elementary Beta Club.

ok...maybe this will work instead...

Well....that is really small. Not sure how to fix the size. (I am still surprised I got the picture to show up!!! LOL)

Wow, this came out really nice - I love the colors. Hope it gets lots of $$$ at the auction.

just posting the rest of the stuff I hadn't gotten around to posting...
these were the girls Christmas dresses. Nana's retro pinafore over the portrait peasant. Sorry for the horrible pics
I'll see if I can find a pic of the back ruffles.
Did this a LONG time ago, but I was just going through my pics and realized I never posted it. Strawberry shortcake patchwork skirt, and shirred portrait peasant.

and apparently I never took a pic of the front of Julia's Valentines outfit? So here is a teaser.

And since it is almost Easter, here are LAST years Easter dresses. LOL.

I think I am now caught up on sharing pics. hehe...

First off, your DDs are so cute. Everything is so cute. I really like the christmas dresses, birthday dress, valentines and Strawberry Shortcake outfits but I absolutely LOVE the Easter dresses. Looks like you have the whole year covered! Thanks for sharing

Aimeeg - thanks for sharing all the tutorials. Your pictures are so clear. I've never used the spray adhesive to put down the fabric for my appliques but I think I'm going to have to try it as my appliques always seem to come out with wrinkles.

I made a cupcake Vida for my DD's 7th birthday last January 2010. I do NOT have an embroidery machine. The clipart I used to make the cupcake had a cherry but my picky eater wouldn't allow me to put a cherry on her cupcake. I can't believe how much older she looks in just 15 months

Cute dress, and picture. I guess you can't have a cherry on top if you don't want to eat a cherry. Kids are so funny.

SisBoom has a new, free Bowtie pattern, super easy to make! I used it to embellish a dress, and with an extra one made a really cute hair accessory by sliding it onto a headband. This wasn't the dress I made the bows for, but it was a good match so she wore it today for pictures at school.

That dress is gorgeous. I love the idea of adding the bow to the hairband.

I thought I'd try uploading via facebook and see if it works....

Just a couple of things I made for my DD I ran out of pink ribbon on the watermelon outfit, so that's why the top is missing a bow

These are so sweet, perfect for summer.

Here is some green for today.

DS Shirt - I loved how this stiched out. Not sure if you can see but there is a Shamrock under the writing. I felt guilty not making him anything when DD had a whole outfit.

Him in his shirt. Any picture he isn't crying in is a good picture.

and here is DD in her entire outfit. I actually found a flower for a coordinating for this skirt.

Everything came out so nice. Perfect for St. Patrick's day. My DS used to scream as soon as he saw the camera. We had to "train" him to tolerate the camera for our first trip to Disney.

update: Still waiting on my machine to arrive...this is going to sound insane but I was itching to get busy on a simple project and ended up cutting 2 old shirts and making a simple drawstring bag BY HAND! I was proud of my ability to follow a tutorial even though I have NO proper cutting supplies and only one old lonely spool of white thread and a old dull sewing needle....talk about desperation. When the sewing bug bites it bites hard!

I'll post a picture tonight if you promise not to laugh...

wow, you must have a scar from that bite. Looking forward to seeing all of your creations.

First of all...TMTQ!
Third...to those of you who were around 6 months ago, know that I had some pretty major neck fusion surgery back in September. Things had gone pretty good on the recovery until yesterday. Long story short, I re-injured my neck late yesterday. This may mean I have to stay away from the sewing studio for a few days, but I am feeling better this morning (amazing what those pesky pain pills will do when you take them!)

Since sitting at the computer desk can also aggravate my neck, I may be off the computer for a few days....


Nini

I hope you are feeling 100% soon. Take care of yourself

This year I went for Spring of St. Patrick's Day.

This dress is so pretty, I love the fabrics.

Everyone has been posting such cute stuff. I am kind of sad that Gianna feels 8.5 is too old to wear customs anymore, but I do know that NONE of the kids at school wear anything close to a custom, it's all about Abercrombie, Hollister, etc.

I do have a new "venture", I have been making and selling cheer bows at the shop in my daughters all star gym. I just made bows for the 2 senior teams to wear to Nationals in Walt Disney World & they won!! So I guess my bows were good luck.

Anyway...at least today Gianna is wearing a cheer bow I made her for practice tonight & her Kermit the frog cheer sweats I made. Brady decided to get in the picture too, so here are both of my "Irish" kids

Didn't you tell your daughter that she is not allowed to grow up? Sounds like your bow making industry is taking off. Now you can advertise your product as the "Lucky Bows". Cute picture of Gianna and Brady in their green. The bows are cute and the Kermit pants are cool.

Go ahead and add them TJ.

I was able to finish one more thing today. The pictures are too dark! UGH My DD loves the pocket and to be honest I want the straightees!!!! This outfit can from my unfinished projects box. After I redid my Art Room I have been working on getting to the bottom of that box!

This is a great picture, your DD's smile is so heart warming. This outfit is so cute. The fabric is great and I love how you made it so the little girl on the top looks like she is sitting inside the pocket.

couple of things I have made lately but hadnt had a chance to share yet: (sorry pics are huge and probably too many)

first 2 spidey man t-shirts for my littlest monkey

a spring cinderelly outfit w/matching bow:

minnie halter and twirly skirt:

next project...some flip flops for princess Zoe on the big give soon as the ribbon I ordered arrives!

thanks for letting me share

Cute, cute, cute.

Big news in our famliy today. My nephew Andrew and his wife Jess (they got married Jan 2nd) are going to be leaving for China in August to go and teach English for a year!!! This is an awesome thing for them - hard for us to separate (especially his siblings - let me tell ya - Tim is going to BAWL his eyes out when they leave) but, its the perfect time in their life to do it. They will have just graduated from college, they have no house yet, no jobs yet, no kids yet - We truely feel God gave this oppurtunity to them. They have both been to China before - Andrew did a similar thing as a high school senior on a missions trip with our church, and Jess has 1 adopted brother from China and her parents are adopting 2 more children from China in the next few months. So they kind of know what they are in for (a little bit) as far as the food, climate, culture etc. Wowzer!!! I just hope they are home in time for Matt's graduation from High School next year - he would be devistated if they were not home for that (oh boy, Matt is going to BAWL his eyes out too - this is gonna be TOUGH)!!!

How exciting for Jess and Andrew, what a wonderful experience. Looks like Aunt Wendy will have to try and keep spirits high back in the US.

I'm all ready for our trip tomorrow. DH thinks I've gone overboard on sewing for the kids, but everything I made can be worn on the cruise in June, so I'm calling it an investment. I didn't even make new shirts for both big girls or myself for every day, so I really could have done more. I did treat myself and made a Rosetta bag in Minnie colors, and I just love it! I forgot to mention a while back I saw one when we were at MK, it was hanging n a chair at the Sleepy Hollow snack area. I think I saw it posted here at one point, so it might belong to one of you. I was too chicken to ask who it was, there wasn't a lady sitting at the table at the time, and I didn't want the guy to think i was a weirdo or something. I'll be sure to post pics when we get home.

Have fun on your visit!! It was nice you got to make something for yourself.

okay just have to share. My mom came by today to drop something off. Miss C was still in her outfit. My mother was so impressed with the skirt and how it looked.

My mom could be a professional seamstress she is that good.
It made me so happy.

I'm not surprised that your mom was impressed. I guess some of her skills were passed down. Everything you have made has come out really nice but its still nice to get a pat on the back - especially from mom.

I finally did it!!

Me and my mom went and bought fabric and a pattern about two weeks. Then it sat in my closet because I have never made a dress before or really used a pattern. My mom never seemed to have time to show me how, so tonight I took out the fabric (left the pattern in the bag) and decided to wing it.
Here is my first dress. I'm too excited to wait for my model to wake up to show a picture.

The minnie is a patch... not sure if I am going to use it or not yet. I don't really like that her bow is pink.
-nat

Wow, your first dress. It looks beautiful. GREAT JOB.

 

[tmh0206]

Ok, DS went nuts for the spider man. Is that a digitized design? Everything came out so nice.


they are digitized designs I got off etsy. One is by divas doodles and the other by qwada-badada. Both stitched out super easy. The divas doodles satin stitch was skinnier but still stitched out nice. the spidey head was so super easy to stitch, I was amazed because I had never bought from that digitizer before.

 

[aimeeg]

Thanks for all the compliments on my girls and their dresses. I was able to finish one more item from "the box." I hope it's long enough for my DD. It's was supposed to be a dress but I am thinking it will fit her more like a tunic top. I think she has some hot pink leggings that would look cute.

 

[RubberDuckyRanch]

For those that sent me a PM. I will send you files soon. Can you send me the type if you need something other than PES.

 

[Granna4679]

Everyone has been posting such cute stuff. I am kind of sad that Gianna feels 8.5 is too old to wear customs anymore, but I do know that NONE of the kids at school wear anything close to a custom, it's all about Abercrombie, Hollister, etc.

I do have a new "venture", I have been making and selling cheer bows at the shop in my daughters all star gym. I just made bows for the 2 senior teams to wear to Nationals in Walt Disney World & they won!! So I guess my bows were good luck.

Anyway...at least today Gianna is wearing a cheer bow I made her for practice tonight & her Kermit the frog cheer sweats I made. Brady decided to get in the picture too, so here are both of my "Irish" kids

Love the glasses! Very cute bow!

Go ahead and add them TJ.

I was able to finish one more thing today. The pictures are too dark! UGH My DD loves the pocket and to be honest I want the straightees!!!! This outfit can from my unfinished projects box. After I redid my Art Room I have been working on getting to the bottom of that box!

Girl, you are one busy woman! Love the outfit. Did you make the pants/leggings too?

couple of things I have made lately but hadnt had a chance to share yet: (sorry pics are huge and probably too many)

minnie halter and twirly skirt:

next project...some flip flops for princess Zoe on the big give soon as the ribbon I ordered arrives!

thanks for letting me share

Sooooo stinkin' cute!

That Minnie outfit is especially cute! how did you do the ruffle like that? I love it!!!!! And, thanks for making flip flops for Zoe!! She will love them!!


Big news in our famliy today. My nephew Andrew and his wife Jess (they got married Jan 2nd) are going to be leaving for China in August to go and teach English for a year!!! This is an awesome thing for them - hard for us to separate (especially his siblings - let me tell ya - Tim is going to BAWL his eyes out when they leave) but, its the perfect time in their life to do it. They will have just graduated from college, they have no house yet, no jobs yet, no kids yet - We truely feel God gave this oppurtunity to them. They have both been to China before - Andrew did a similar thing as a high school senior on a missions trip with our church, and Jess has 1 adopted brother from China and her parents are adopting 2 more children from China in the next few months. So they kind of know what they are in for (a little bit) as far as the food, climate, culture etc. Wowzer!!! I just hope they are home in time for Matt's graduation from High School next year - he would be devistated if they were not home for that (oh boy, Matt is going to BAWL his eyes out too - this is gonna be TOUGH)!!!

Wow Wendy....what an opportunity! I bet ya'll will miss them soooo much. But what a blessing they will be to the people in China! <<<<hugs>>> I know you will miss them.

We are neighbors!!!

We've been to Roger Williams Zoo once. We may try to get back there this summer. We seem to head over to Southwick Zoo instead.

I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. I picked up almost everything I need last night at Joann. I also finally found fabric with Minnies on it so I bought the rest of the bolt - it was only 4 yards.

If anyone is looking for cute plain tee shirts for applique, they had some at Target. They were in size 2T-5T (I didn't check the bigger girl section.) They are the Cherokee brand - $4 each - in white and darker pink. I think they are cute b/c they have a dainty trim around the neck and sleeves.

My daughter called last week and said "hey mom, Target has t-shirts in toddler sizes for $1.25...do you want any" UH YEAH!!! She got 10 of them for me. I should have had her buy all they had!

I just bought the light pink minnie fabric at Joann's yesterday too. They seemed to be restocked, and also had more of the comicstrip mickey fabric that I had bought a couple of months ago. I used it on this drawstring backpack for a big give, and a couple of people had asked me where I got the fabric.

The licensed stuff was 40% off, and I know that mar 25 - 27 it is going to 50% off, but I was afraid that it would be gone so I bought the minnie.

Here is the comic strip fabric...

And since the family received these yesterday, I can also post the rest of the items for Lhea's give:

I did the drawstring backpack for big brother, a rosetta bag for big sister, and minnie princess outfits for the little ones.

Thanks for looking!

Oh Ellen...love the skirt/shirt combos...so cute! I NEED to get some of that comic strip fabric. I love that.

Thanks for all the compliments on my girls and their dresses. I was able to finish one more item from "the box." I hope it's long enough for my DD. It's was supposed to be a dress but I am thinking it will fit her more like a tunic top. I think she has some hot pink leggings that would look cute.

Gorgeous.....beautiful fabric!

 

[ncmomof2]

Thanks for all the compliments on my girls and their dresses. I was able to finish one more item from "the box." I hope it's long enough for my DD. It's was supposed to be a dress but I am thinking it will fit her more like a tunic top. I think she has some hot pink leggings that would look cute.

Beautiful! I love your fabric choices!

 

[chellewashere]

It's a paper pattern. You have to trace your pattern pieces though. It seems like a lot to do at first but the traced pieces are easier to work with than the brown tissue paper pieces. Plus the Vida is pretty easy to put together and does not require a ton of fabric.

Hi to jump on the question. Do you know where I can get the pattern from? I have looked and looked all over line and cant seem to find it. Even bought a book full of Farbenmix (sp)patterns but no Vida. Thanks so much if anyone can point me in the right direction to downloading one or buying one

 

[tricia]

Thanks for all the compliments on my girls and their dresses. I was able to finish one more item from "the box." I hope it's long enough for my DD. It's was supposed to be a dress but I am thinking it will fit her more like a tunic top. I think she has some hot pink leggings that would look cute.

So pretty, love the fabric.

For those that sent me a PM. I will send you files soon. Can you send me the type if you need something other than PES.

Cool, then I can probably stitch one out tonight even.

My daughter called last week and said "hey mom, Target has t-shirts in toddler sizes for $1.25...do you want any" UH YEAH!!! She got 10 of them for me. I should have had her buy all they had!

That is great. Good thing she called. You would have hated to hear "oh by the way mom, I saw those on sale for peanuts last week"

Hi to jump on the question. Do you know where I can get the pattern from? I have looked and looked all over line and cant seem to find it. Even bought a book full of Farbenmix (sp)patterns but no Vida. Thanks so much if anyone can point me in the right direction to downloading one or buying one

http://www.banberryplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=395

 

[aimeeg]

Girl, you are one busy woman! Love the outfit. Did you make the pants/leggings too?

Yes, I used Carla's Easy Fit pattern. They are inspired from Matilda Jane.

Hi to jump on the question. Do you know where I can get the pattern from? I have looked and looked all over line and cant seem to find it. Even bought a book full of Farbenmix (sp)patterns but no Vida. Thanks so much if anyone can point me in the right direction to downloading one or buying one

I would search on etsy.

 

[ColoradoK]

Hi gals, I'm new here. I think I've posted once but was just saying "Hi". I'm a big time lurker, though! I recently "met" mom2rtk thanks to her trip report.

Anyway, mostly I CASE stuff! I'm really uncreative on my own, unfortunately and you all BLOW ME AWAY!!!

I recently had an idea for custom stuff for my 4 and 6 year old boys and wasn't sure if I should bother making them...thought I'd get some feedback from you people that have such a great eye, if you don't mind.

Woody Option #1

Woody Option #2

They would be bowling shirts, obviously. I just didn't know if they're too foolish or what...be honest. I don't want them walking around looking like complete dorks because their mother is trying too hard.