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

[jessica52877]

You can go to usps.com and find shipping rates. Usually I'm amazed at how cheap it is to mail overseas. I agree about Canada. (My last BG cost $21.95 and was less than 2 pounds.)

I like you thread racks. I think that's next on my list. I have a sewing "quadrant" in our unfinished basement. It has a full size window which is nice but it's not heated. It's been 57 degrees down there and I'm too cheap to use a space heater.

There can be such a huge gap in shipping overseas and their prices, kind of like Canada. Once you hit a certain pound the price skyrockets!! Sometimes it is cheaper to ship 2 package to Canada vs 1 large one. Usually overseas anymore it seems you need to ship priority or it takes forever as in months!

Our basement is finished, but not heated. It is atleast carpeted and insulated though so it isn't horrible most of the time. I ended up having to move from the basement to the guest bedroom when DH worked nights a few years ago. I am glad now that I didn't really set up everything down there!

I'll use a kerosene heater sometimes, DH runs a little space heater. Drives me bonkers. Usually we just suck it up which is funny because I am always freezing!

I have now finished my taxes and have time to sew again!

I would like to start on a Nemo Vida dress for my niece. Here are the fabrics that I have collected, I also have black and white to make the stripes on Nemo.

I was thinking of appliquing Nemo on the fabic with the orange material. Is it going to be too much blue? Should I get some white or a solid light blue fabric? When doing Nemo should I start with the orange fabric and add the stripes and then applique Nemo to the fabric for the dress (more like a patch) as I don't want to line the dress. The white will probably show the orange underneath, is there anything I can do to make it look more white?


I was thinking of using the large print with fish as the main panel in the back with the blue bubble print as the side panels. The shell print as the bodice pieces and the bottom piece. Unless anyone thinks yellow or orange broadcloth might look better.

You can never have too much blue for Nemo!

I think my space could possibly rival yours... I am currently using my new serger on a bar stool!

D~

LOL! Mine is a on a kids wooden table and I use a little tikes chair to sit in (the wooden ones weren't nearly as comfy).

Ok - My Babylock is not being nice right now! I can see my bobbin thread while I am embroidering! I cleanned everything, rewound my bobbin, made sure the bobbin thread is in the groove when threading it, made sure the upper thread is threadeed correctly. It is not fixing it! Looks like I have to take it in Uggggg! stinks working nights when something like this happens! I will have to come home in the morning, pick up my daughter and fight my way back up to Collingswood through morning traffic! stinky, stinky, stinky!


Thanks for letting me vent.

I know this isn't a real fix and the machine shouldn't be doing it but my friend just uses colored bobbin and you would never know the difference. Hers pulled through everything.

I'm asking here because I think someone may know the answer...how does payment between two PayPal people work if one of them is in Scotland? The reason I'm asking is for my cruise group, every year we have a group donation of some sort, last year it was collecting school supplies for the new school in Haiti that Royal Caribbean built. This year we want to collect musical instruments, but since many of the members don't have an actual instrument to donate, many said they'd rather make a monetary donation. Our group leader is in Scotland, and many of the group are also from across the pond, as well as Canada. The group leader has a PayPal account already, we just weren't sure how that worked with international payments. Any info is appreciated.


To the mods...I'm not soliciting funds here, just info, thanks!

I have gotten paid many times from other countries. I do think the fees are different but nothing that was that I really noticed. Otherwise it worked the same.

The pattern lists size 2T - 8. It is not too hard to make, only hard part is the calculations for the strip widths and the waistband size, since it is not gathered, the width of the skirt after pleating matches the bottom of the waistband piece, then use elastic to make it fit the waist. For the skirt part it is like a strip work skirt, then fold the seams of every other strip to the center of the adjacent strip to form a pleat. Baste in place, then attach to the waistband piece. Clear as mud?

Reading this made my head spin. I am sick though so I am sure that has alot to do with it! But I thought it was funny when you got to the end and said clear as mud and I was thinking what! LOL!

Thank you so much for responding my question! Did you do the letter too?

I have used a cricut to cut fabric a few times. I found it way more annoying and time consuming then just doing it myself.

I'm so EXCITED ya'll!! We signed a lock in contract with a builder today...guess what this room is gonna be!!??

Love the room! Our dining room we have a dining room table (not fancy one) and it has houses all our computers and printers. I wanted a useful room, not one to dust.

Question for anyone that made a t-shirt for Kaleb's mom. She has listed Medium or Large. Which size did you make? I don't want it to be too little. Nothing like waiting until the last minute, huh?

LOL! I did mine today too! Great minds think alike! I only made shirts for the kids though.

It was a pretty busy weekend for us. I did manage to finish two tops. I had a request for a blond mermaid. I love her because she has my hair. I also did an Easter tee which I adore. It is one of my favorites!!!

Super dee duper cute as always!

 

[MomtoAlexnWilliam]

Mine has always been like that. I didn't know it was a problem.

Mine will do that sometimes too!!! I played with the tension all weekend as well.

2 things i did this weekend.
1) fought the embroidery machine and lost

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2) at least my sewing machine was working

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AWWW....I feel your pain! My machine ate a shirt last week too!!! UGH!!!

Your sewing turned out beautifully!

It was a pretty busy weekend for us. I did manage to finish two tops. I had a request for a blond mermaid. I love her because she has my hair. I also did an Easter tee which I adore. It is one of my favorites!!!

Too cute!

 

[MomtoAlexnWilliam]

I did these last week. These Razorback goodies are for Ole Miss fans!

I was looking for an Easter door decoration and found this online. Turns out it was made by some moms at my kids' school who are making these to sell but they also had the instructions on how to make them online. Here is my attempt! Here are the instructions if you want to do one yourself: www.myheartsdesireblog.com/2011/moss-covered-cross-tutorial.html

Here is the one I made!

 

[miprender]

Thank you so much for responding my question! Did you do the letter too?

Yes I did use the Cricut to cut out the minniemouse wording too.

I'm so EXCITED ya'll!! We signed a lock in contract with a builder today...guess what this room is gonna be!!??

Wow...to have a room to yourself for sewing. Right now I sew in the family room in our downstairs. I have an office desk which is now cluttered with my machines

Love the mermaid.

2 things i did this weekend.
1) fought the embroidery machine and lost
2) at least my sewing machine was working

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Ouch too bad about the shirt. It happens so quick too and I always panic and can't seem to find the button to stop the machine

Love that dress.

I did these last week. These Razorback goodies are for Ole Miss fans!

Thanks for the link.

 

[VBAndrea]

I'm probably not the one the stabilizer question is aimed at, but I'll tell you what I do, and have really good luck with. On t-shirts I use the heaviest cutaway I can find, its something I get at my sewing machine store, and there isn't a name brand on it, just a store name. I'm sure its something they have packaged especially for themselves. I think it's similar to the Floriani (sp?) brand I bought at another higher end sewing store. The stuff from JoAnn's just doesn't seem to work well for me, its not as stiff as this stuff, and the designs got a little wonky. I don't like tear away on t-shirts, the design doesnt seem to look as nice for some reason, especially after washing, and the kids complained it was itchy. Though that was before I found the smooth cover iron on stuff, which I now use on everything anyway. I hoop my stabilizer and float my shirts with spray adhesive, and always use a basting stitch...a freebie on SWAK. I'm so used to floating my embroidery that today I actually hooped something for the first time in quite a while and struggled with it long enough I wish I had just floated it. On items that aren't embroidered on knit I will use tearaway, but only if its something that will show and won't be lined, like a skirt. If its going to be a lined bodice, like a Simply Sweet, I'll use lightweight cutaway. I really don't like tearaway if I can avoid it, I always seem to struggle getting it just right when its something that matters the position of the embroidery.

Now for the shirring, what I'm talking about may be just something with the bobbin on my machine...when I load that there's a channel the thread runs in, and a thread cutter that makes the entire thread disappear into the channel before putting the cover on. With the elastic thread I don't do this, I hold the needle thread in my left hand, turn the flywheel with my right until it catches the elastic bobbin thread, which I then pull to the top. My machine has a locking stop stitch, so I use that to keep everything from pulling out, I never thought about backstitching because I have this option, which essentially does the same thing, and I forgot to mention that I do it. Sorry about that, bad tute teacher here. One tute I did read said to tie the tails together if you need to reload your bobbin again during shirring, like when working on an entirely shirred bodice, you may need to reload a few times. Tying the tails in a square knot will hopefully keep everything from coming undone. As for the Pink Fig patterns, I've only done one, I think it's called the Lydia...Teresa posted a pic of it recently. That one was easy, if you don't mind shirring, there was alot of that. The rest of the sewing was straight stitching. The sleeve measurements are way off...I think Teresa mentioned that too, so it wasnt just me!

Thanks for the info. I didn't even know there was an iron on cover. I only hand applique but I have noticed the tear away doesn't give a good grip -- it's too slippery. And I have a heavy cut away stabilizer but I'm not sure where I got it -- likely Joann's or Walmart. I will ook at all brands hv9920 and perhaps try that next.

Thanks for all the shirring tips. Of course Hancock's was out of elastic thread so I didn't get to practice tonight. I'm so hoping Walmart has it, but if not I'll head to Joann's today. One other question, how much longer should I make my fabric that I am shirring? I'm trying to do my own creation and was thinking the shirring maybe pulls the fabric together a couple of inches? I'll do practice swatches before the real thing so I'll get a better idea.

I use the tear away. I prefer when I can use a heavier/nicer T. I've never tried the cut away.

Maybe that's my problem -- I just buy cheap t-s b/c I'm afarid of ruining them! Now that I think of it, I bet it was Jessica who uses the cut away and leaves it in place. I don't think my kids would like that though. I will have to look for some of the stuff you iron over the completed project.

I always use cut away on the t-shirts. I think the design lasts longer and looks nicer. I hardly ever use tear away on any type of fabric. I don't think it looks nice after the item has been washed. I mostly do t-shirts. The stuff they sell on the bolt at Joanns seems to work great for me. I buy two or three yards at a time. I get the heavy weight for t-shirts. It has been a long time since I've had any problems embroidering anything.

Thanks. Now that I think of it, a couple of my Vidas look a little wrinkly in the appliqued area and I bet I used tear away on those.

I have now finished my taxes and have time to sew again!

I would like to start on a Nemo Vida dress for my niece. Here are the fabrics that I have collected, I also have black and white to make the stripes on Nemo.

I was thinking of appliquing Nemo on the fabic with the orange material. Is it going to be too much blue? Should I get some white or a solid light blue fabric? When doing Nemo should I start with the orange fabric and add the stripes and then applique Nemo to the fabric for the dress (more like a patch) as I don't want to line the dress. The white will probably show the orange underneath, is there anything I can do to make it look more white?


I was thinking of using the large print with fish as the main panel in the back with the blue bubble print as the side panels. The shell print as the bodice pieces and the bottom piece. Unless anyone thinks yellow or orange broadcloth might look better.

I love your fabric choices and I think it will look great. If you want to add more white you could always do so in trim, like a band of white ruffles at the base of the apron or the jumbo white ric rack. I can't wait to see your completed project. And I would NOT add any solids. I like the muted prints better than a solid -- sort of like the light blue you already have. Looks perfect!

Here are the dresses that I made for January and her sister they got their package today

Cute, cute and more cute!

I did these last week. These Razorback goodies are for Ole Miss fans!

I was looking for an Easter door decoration and found this online. Turns out it was made by some moms at my kids' school who are making these to sell but they also had the instructions on how to make them online. Here is my attempt! Here are the instructions if you want to do one yourself: www.myheartsdesireblog.com/2011/moss-covered-cross-tutorial.html

Here is the one I made!

I like your Razorback goodies!

 

[NiniMorris]

T-Rox...


Last week, I had my machine get hungry and ate a customer supplied shirt...on the first stitch! Luckily it was a much easier to find shirt than I thought it would be and managed to get it finished on time...

(my shirt had too much spandex in it! I had so much stabilizer in the final product I thought it would never look right! LOL)

I can sooooo feel your pain!




I made it back to the studio yesterday and I think I fixed the serger. I think I am going to make a sign that hangs above it reminding me that if the thread breaks more than once in a row...to take it apart and clean out all the thread bits that are hiding....this is the third time this has happened...looks like I would learn!


Dora is still kicking my behind! I have managed to get everything cut, embroidered, and partially put together. (I think the dress is on its fourth or fifth incarnation) While I am not loving the fabrics together as much as I had hoped...this is the way it is going to be! A few more minutes today and it should be ready to ship...

I can normally knock out two Simply Sweets in less than a day... we won't talk about how long these have taken me... I guess I really just don't like Dora at all!

I'm not sure if my next project will be going back to my working on my DS Animal Kingdom inspired bedroom redo or just jump into our next trip in 6 months. I need something easier!



Nini

 

[ellenbenny]

Yes I did use the Cricut to cut out the minniemouse wording too.

Well because I need more to do I went and bought a Cricut yesterday. I played with it last night and I love it , but I was wondering about whether you can cut fabric with it? Are there any special tricks to cutting fabric, or do you just stick it down to the mat and cut it like you would paper? OR do you iron on heat and bond first and then cut? Or do I need a higher end Cricut to do it? I bought the Personal Electronic Cutter which is the cheapest one.

Sorry for so many questions, need to learn how to best use my new toy, it seems like so much fun so far!!

 

[aboveH20]

Here are the dresses that I made for January and her sister they got their package today

Those are great. They say summertime picnic and fun. The family will love them and get a lot of use out of them, I'm sure. Nicely done.

I use the hv9920 cut away I love it about to order some more

Gotta look into that. I'm still a "770 newbie" and learning my way around stabilizers. I see more puckering than I would like.

Our basement is finished, but not heated. It is atleast carpeted and insulated though so it isn't horrible most of the time. I ended up having to move from the basement to the guest bedroom when DH worked nights a few years ago. I am glad now that I didn't really set up everything down there!

I'll use a kerosene heater sometimes, DH runs a little space heater. Drives me bonkers. Usually we just suck it up which is funny because I am always freezing!

I never thought about kerosene. We're talking about finishing the basement, but in the mean time I'm happy with my space -- except for the cold and not wanting to pay the electric bill for a space heater. And, I suppose a bathroom in the basement would be nice.

I did these last week. These Razorback goodies are for Ole Miss fans!

Great job. I especially like the font on the blanket.

I'm not sure if my next project will be going back to my working on my DS Animal Kingdom inspired bedroom redo . . . .

Nini

Oooooooo. I want to see that finished.

 

[ttfn0205]

Well because I need more to do I went and bought a Cricut yesterday. I played with it last night and I love it , but I was wondering about whether you can cut fabric with it? Are there any special tricks to cutting fabric, or do you just stick it down to the mat and cut it like you would paper? OR do you iron on heat and bond first and then cut? Or do I need a higher end Cricut to do it? I bought the Personal Electronic Cutter which is the cheapest one.

Sorry for so many questions, need to learn how to best use my new toy, it seems like so much fun so far!!

Ellen,
I have a cricut and an expression and have not cut fabric with either yet. The cricut site has a chat area and many people have great ideas and suggestions pertaining to it's use. I am hoping to use mine for some patterns for hand appliqueing myself. And of course scrapbooking. Enjoy your new toy

 

[VBAndrea]

I never thought about kerosene. We're talking about finishing the basement, but in the mean time I'm happy with my space -- except for the cold and not wanting to pay the electric bill for a space heater. And, I suppose a bathroom in the basement would be nice.

When we finished our basement in our RI house we put in the floor mat radiant heating. My dh also put all the heating duct work into the rafters and I think we had regular gas heat supply the basement as well. You can put the floor radiant heating on timers so if you go down at a certain time each day you can set it to go on an hour or so ahead of time. We tiled part of the basement and the radiant heating was heavenly on the tile. I didn't notice it as much on the carpeted areas.

We also put a bathroom in We spent about $25K finishing the basement b/c my dh was able to do most all the work himself. Then we tried to sell the house for less than we paid for it. We still own the house We're renting it at a huge loss, but it helped our tax return!

 

[RubberDuckyRanch]

I know this isn't a real fix and the machine shouldn't be doing it but my friend just uses colored bobbin and you would never know the difference. Hers pulled through everything.

Oh trust me I almost did that! But I was too afraid I would screw up my machine. So I will take a nap while Evie watches Tangled or "Punzel" since I stopped and picked it up on my way home, then off to the sew & vac where I bought my machine. I think I will ask them about DensityWorks & studioplus while I am there.

ETA: is it bad that we have 4430points in Disny Movie Rewards? Is it wrong to keep saving them tp try to eventually get the tour? Has anyone ever gotten to 15,000 & gotten the tour?

 

[jessica52877]

I use cut away and just leave it on the back. I have never had anyone mention anything about it itching or what not. It is very soft in my opinion. When we just went to Disney in January I didn't have any cut awa so used tear away (but it cut it), it sews the same but is scratchier in my opinion. I noticed when I got home and washed them they were wrinkled mess! Usually I can put them out of the dryer and wear, these had to be ironed. Not a huge deal because sometimes I'll run the iron over them quickly anyways, just the design, too lazy to iron the entire shirt!

Well because I need more to do I went and bought a Cricut yesterday. I played with it last night and I love it , but I was wondering about whether you can cut fabric with it? Are there any special tricks to cutting fabric, or do you just stick it down to the mat and cut it like you would paper? OR do you iron on heat and bond first and then cut? Or do I need a higher end Cricut to do it? I bought the Personal Electronic Cutter which is the cheapest one.

Sorry for so many questions, need to learn how to best use my new toy, it seems like so much fun so far!!

I can't wait to see what you do with your cricut. I dust mine off alot! LOL! Look into sure cuts alot if you decide you want lots of cartridges. It is a program where it will cut any true type font from your computer and then you can also make your own designs. I have hardly played with it but did make a Minnie Mouse a LONG time ago! It voids the warranty but I don't get too uptight over stuff like that. Most of the time the manufacturer wants to argue anyways over replacing something. I think it is about $90, worth it for the font usage alone.

I have cut fabric, first I cut sponge bob fabric scraps and LOVED how it cut! I had heat n bond ironed on and left the paper then attached it to the mat. The next things I cut were letters for the backs of monkey shirts.

It worked pretty well the first time. But after the 3rd or 4th time it seemed to not work nearly as well. I assume it has to do with either the mat not being as sticky or the blade not as sharp. By the end I peeled off the backing to the heat n bond and just laid it down, but along the edges it would pull the heat n bond when I peeled it up. I could use the inner letters though. Long story short, I just stopped using it for fabric. I only liked it if I had alot to cut otherwise it took me too much time to prep everything. My cricut is right next to my laptop here but there is always junk in the way that I had to move. So for simpler things I cut them just as fast. Lots of letters like that probably are worth the time and effort.

I never thought about kerosene. We're talking about finishing the basement, but in the mean time I'm happy with my space -- except for the cold and not wanting to pay the electric bill for a space heater. And, I suppose a bathroom in the basement would be nice.

We have a bathroom and almost everyone I know (friend wise) walks right by it and comes upstairs to use the bathroom. I guess they don't think about it being there. The bathroom was the very last thing we finished. We literally had every other room done and just walked by an unfinished bathroom. Of course we also walked through the unfinished basement to 3 different finished rooms for probably 4-5 years! I told DH when we bought the house that it had to have a basement, that we could wait 10 or so years to finish it but it had to have one. I think I lasted maybe a year before I pushed to start finishing it. We did it all ourselves, with help from my mom's husband in the bathroom and we paid to have the carpet installed. We worked better finishing a basement then we can putting up a tent! LOL!

We are in Georgia too so it isn't that incredibly cold most winters.

 

[ellenbenny]

I can't wait to see what you do with your cricut. I dust mine off alot! LOL! Look into sure cuts alot if you decide you want lots of cartridges. It is a program where it will cut any true type font from your computer and then you can also make your own designs. I have hardly played with it but did make a Minnie Mouse a LONG time ago! It voids the warranty but I don't get too uptight over stuff like that. Most of the time the manufacturer wants to argue anyways over replacing something. I think it is about $90, worth it for the font usage alone.

I have cut fabric, first I cut sponge bob fabric scraps and LOVED how it cut! I had heat n bond ironed on and left the paper then attached it to the mat. The next things I cut were letters for the backs of monkey shirts.

It worked pretty well the first time. But after the 3rd or 4th time it seemed to not work nearly as well. I assume it has to do with either the mat not being as sticky or the blade not as sharp. By the end I peeled off the backing to the heat n bond and just laid it down, but along the edges it would pull the heat n bond when I peeled it up. I could use the inner letters though. Long story short, I just stopped using it for fabric. I only liked it if I had alot to cut otherwise it took me too much time to prep everything. My cricut is right next to my laptop here but there is always junk in the way that I had to move. So for simpler things I cut them just as fast. Lots of letters like that probably are worth the time and effort.

Love the shirts!! Believe it or not I bought the cricut thinking I could use it to make tags and cards to go with my big gives. I always just scratch a quick note on a scrap of paper, and it seemed to me like I should do something a little nicer. So I bought a disney cartridge with it to make mickey heads and such. I don't know that I want or need to cut fabric with it, just thought I would ask though, in case I ever feel like trying it. I mostly just use my embroidery machine anyway.

I will have to look at that software though, that might be fun to use for fonts and such, but first I just need to figure out what all I am going to use my cricut for. I am going to go back to the store today and get extra mats and blades and some extra cardstock, I found I didn't have any black or white at home, and I need those to make a lot of the characters on my mickey cartridge.


So much to do, so little time, this day job really gets in the way some times!

 

[cogero]

I love my Cricut. I use it for making Mickey Head Gift tags for Gives a lot lately.

I want to make a stash of cards for gives. I hate just writing on a piece of computer paper.

 

[chellewashere]

Wow miss a couple of days and fall wayyyy behind.
Just wanted to say loved the Animal Kingdom dresses. And the toy story things.

No offense but its nice to see that not only newbies have problems with the sewing machines
Wow things you can do with a cricut I only thought they were good for scrapbooking.
My DH is impressed that I have actually kept up with sewing that he has been on ebay looking for a serger cause I told him I absolutely need to have one now

So here is what I have been working on lately. My daughter picked the pattern, material and all for her ROCKSTAR outfit as she calls it. I made a DSi pouch to carry her game in and also made the hairbow this AM

The complete look

The RockStar!!

Bow I made

Zipper pocket for games

DSi holder pouch

 

[basketkat]

I have heard that heat n bond is GREAT for cutting out fabric on your Cricut. I didn't have any one Saturday and I wanted to do a project right then! Ha! I tried to cut the material just by itself and it tore and didn't work very well. So I cut out the letters on card stock then traced them on the reverse side of my fabric and cut them out by hand. Kinda goes against the point of a Cricut, but I got my letters done!

 

[Diz-Mommy]

Sorry for the off topic question, but I'd love feedback from women and who better than the women of the Disboutiquers!?

What does everyone like for appliances in their kitchen? We're thinking either black or stainless. I like how stainless looks, but I'm worried its too much work to maintain and keep looking nice. Any thoughts are much appreciated! Sorry for the repeat for those that have friended me on FB, I was told to do my homework so I'm being thorough

 

[aboveH20]

The next things I cut were letters for the backs of monkey shirts.

We have a bathroom and almost everyone I know (friend wise) walks right by it and comes upstairs to use the bathroom. I guess they don't think about it being there. The bathroom was the very last thing we finished. We literally had every other room done and just walked by an unfinished bathroom. Of course we also walked through the unfinished basement to 3 different finished rooms for probably 4-5 years! I told DH when we bought the house that it had to have a basement, that we could wait 10 or so years to finish it but it had to have one. I think I lasted maybe a year before I pushed to start finishing it. We did it all ourselves, with help from my mom's husband in the bathroom and we paid to have the carpet installed. We worked better finishing a basement then we can putting up a tent! LOL!

We are in Georgia too so it isn't that incredibly cold most winters.

I love the monkey shirts.

I can't imagine living in a part of the country where they don't have basements! We've always had one and sometimes it's gotten rather full. My husband is itching to finish it himself and although he's handy (and cheap labor) part of me would like to have it done professionally. I just finished painting some shelves he made for me so other than the temperature, I'm all set.

So here is what I have been working on lately. My daughter picked the pattern, material and all for her ROCKSTAR outfit as she calls it. I made a DSi pouch to carry her game in and also made the hairbow this AM

The complete look

I love how the "complete look" has the rock star pout. Perfect!

 

[froggy33]

Thanks! This helps me a lot. How do I get the lettering I typed out transferred to my machine? Like how do I save it to PES format so I can put it on my USB and put it on my machine?


Thanks for the info! Any more tips?

To get the file on your machine first save the file as a dsg. Then in the drop down save menu select export and export it as a PES. Then transfer this pes file to your machine (I use a memory stick). It'll show up on your machine and you're good to go.

When I do letters/words, I've found it's best to use the pre digitized ones. But ones you download do work. (Like Disney fonts)

Good luck!

ETA: is it bad that we have 4430points in Disny Movie Rewards? Is it wrong to keep saving them tp try to eventually get the tour? Has anyone ever gotten to 15,000 & gotten the tour?

I had something like 3000 points and one day when I logged on to enter more, they were listed there and then just disappeared. Literally gone! I think it was around the time they updated the webpage. I tried emailing them, but never heard back. In fact I'm gonna try again. So beware, don't lose all your points!

 

[DMGeurts]

And then some... LOL

First - this is one of the sets of fabric that "spoke" to me. It said "Please make me into a Rosetta!" But it came in 3 colors... Teal, purple and red - I couldn't decide which one I liked the best - so I ordered all 3! You can look forward to seeing these items, and maybe more in the other two colors.

Here's the full set: The Rosetta, a large tri-fold wallet, a smaller credit card wallet (pattern on YMCT) and a key fob (I can't remember who posted these recently - but thank you!)

I decided to put a zipper into my Rosetta, and I love how it turned out (I took pics for a tut later today - my first)

The interior has a pop of color when you unzip the zipper - you assume that the interior is going to be black, since that's the base color - then you smile because there's a cute coordinating fabric inside. There are 3 pockets (optional on the pattern) I made my own binding to put on the top of them - so they are easily noticable when you're digging in your bag. I also added a pen loop on the side (I don't think you can see it) and a key holder.

The designer of this fabric (Jennifer Heynen) actually started out making ceramic buttons on Etsy... then she was approached to design her own fabric and finally her own matching ribbon. The name of this fabric is "Happy" and I love how everything coordinates so well together! Oh, and I made the fabric portion of the flower myself.

I decided to try to make a wallet before I tried to make the Rosetta - I wanted to practice. I found a tutorial for the large wallet online. It was an easy pattern that went together smoothly... my only issue was the snap placement (which could just be me) but when it was all said and done, one portion of the snap should have been slightly higher, because the wallet closes a bit tight. It annoys me, but others probably wouldn't notice.

I also wanted a cc wallet, because that is what I normally carry the most. I loved the looks of this one on YMCT - so I purchased the pattern. It was a lot of fun to make - but I wouldn't rate it a beginner pattern... the directions are a bit hard to follow and the pictures don't make a lot of sense (a lot of the pics are 2 or 3 different steps in one photo - so you really have to pay attention). But if you are willing to go slowly and be patient - you should be OK. I ended up making two of these - and the second one took less than 2 hours, including cutting time. The pic does look lopsided, but I think that's just the angle of the camera - it doesn't look that way irl.

The key fob was also a free online tutorial - I wanted to find one that I could just make out of fabric, with out any webbing... and I found this one - it took me less than 30 minutes to make. Easy peasy and a fun little accessory you can make with scraps.

That's all. I super duper love this bag and I can't wait to make the purple and red versions!

D~ <--- who is going back to making dolly clothes now.