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

[dianemom2]

We are taking our daughter for the first time when we go down in September but from the dresses I've seen that are sold at the parks, I don't like any of them. I want her to have a dress that looks like it has a petticoat underneath it and poofy, more princessy like a ball gown I guess. Does anyone know where I can find a dress like that? I've considered making one myself for her but I don't know if I'm THAT talented, I make her other dresses but it might be a bit harder to make such a dress. I really love the limited edition dresses disney comes out with that sell for around $150 and they only make 2000 of them but I can't anymore anywhere, obviously. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. TIA!

A lot of people on this board make the Simply Sweet dress from CarlaC on You Can Make This. There is a way to princessify them. They look terrific. I haven't tried one but I don't think that they look too difficult. If you have been able to sew her other dresses you can probably make her these dresses. A nice bonus to making your own dress is that you can make it out of comfortable cotton fabrics which are much nicer in the Florida heat. Remember that Florida in September is still gong to be pretty hot. A polyester dress with a petticoat probably won't be too comfortable for your daughter to wear all day.

 

[Diz-Mommy]

My daughter designed this set. I think she did a pretty good job.

I love it!! While I love ruffles, I think there's just something about a straight cuff that looks so nice and sharp.

Question for you... Did you make a half pink and half blue Sleeping Beauty dress once upon a time? I've been on a search for a picture so I can CASE, but have not found one anywhere!

For my boys (4 and 3) I do easy fit pants and appliqued tees. They always match one another because otherwise they'll argue over who wears what I have yet to try the bowling shirt pattern. One of these days I'll give it a go ! We went to WDW in January and I did shirts with Lightning McQueen, Heffalump (Lumpy from Pooh), Stitch, Ice Cream Mickey, Phineas and Ferb, Star Wars Mickey and Prince Charming Mickey shirts. I used a lot of Disney Fabric to make them easy fit pants to go with their tops.


I finally finished my first Vida! Yay! That was the first time I'd put buttons and button holes on with my machine. WOW! was that easy or what!! I am already planning on making more!

My son was five on our last trip. I did a combo of easy-fit shorts, appliqued tees and bowling shirts for him to coordinate with his sister.

Lovely sets!! I too would love to see the front of that Mickey Bowling shirt, I'm thinking those would be good matches for the boys since I'm almost done with Annabella's Mickey Inspired dress.

 

[aimeeg]

Beautiful! I have been looking all over for Tangled fabric, I can't even find it online!

I bought this fabric at Jo Ann's.

Your dd did a great job designing that set! I always love to look at everything you make - you do such an amazing job!

Ask your dd if she has any ideas for what my dds should wear to a wedding in the Netherlands??? LOL I am really struggling with this... can't do Disney for this one though.

D~

LOL! If my the country is not in Epcot my DD has no idea where it is. I am hoping Kindergarten will take care of that problem! LOL She had fun picking out the fabric. I have always loved having my girls involved in the design process. My youngest normally places orders but she also loves to fabric shop. My oldest likes to make dresses on the wire dress form out of my scraps.

Netherlands . . . I would have to do one outfit with a tulip and windmill!

OK...I have been meaning to ask you and keep forgetting (has something to do with I'm so busy salivating over your creations I keep forgetting to ask!)

Where did you find the cute dress form...and what size is it? I have been looking everywhere and the ones I find aren't so cute! I did find one at Joanne's, but it needs to have some of the decoration taken off...and hubby said he didn't think it would come off easily...



Nini

It's a decorative dress from Home Goods. I really fits 2T size clothes the best. Here is what it looks like nekkid.

 

[tricia]

Great outfits. Love, love, love this one.

My daughter designed this set. I think she did a pretty good job.

Beautiful.

Very pretty, I love the Vida

These are so cute! I love that Mickey shirt!

Y'all are tempting me to try an applique shirt. I have soem jungle print fabric with big pictures of a zebra, cheetah, tiger, and giraffe. I could cut out a Mickey head with one animal in the center of each and maybe applique it to a shirt. When you applique, do you use some of the iron-on stuff to fix it to the shirt and then just do a satin stitch (is that the right name?) to sew it on? Any tips or tricks to add?

Check out the Super Awesome Tutorial by HeatherSue on the first page. I think that is where many of us learned to applique.

Ask your dd if she has any ideas for what my dds should wear to a wedding in the Netherlands??? LOL I am really struggling with this... can't do Disney for this one though.



D~

Feliz's, maybe in a fabric to co=ordinate with parents, so that the pictures look super awesome.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

My daughter designed this set. I think she did a pretty good job.

This is great! The applique looks HUGE! What size hoop do you have?

 

[aboveH20]

My son was five on our last trip. I did a combo of easy-fit shorts, appliqued tees and bowling shirts for him to coordinate with his sister.

Love them all, but especially the bowling shirt since that's getting to the top of my list of things to make. There are so many ways to do it, and I really like yours.

My daughter designed this set. I think she did a pretty good job.

Agreed!

I finally finished my first Vida! Yay! That was the first time I'd put buttons and button holes on with my machine. WOW! was that easy or what!! I am already planning on making more!

Wonderful fabrics. Buttons and zippers scare so many people, but you're right -- once you do them you realize they're not so bad (most of the time).

 

[cogero]

Okay I am much too lazy to quote right now.

AimeeG

I love the dress form I have been looking for one HA HA HA. I totally love the Rapunzel outfit.

MY dd loves picking the fabric for her outfits too. Since she is 9 it is one way to keep her wearing them.

Love all the boy outfits. I totally have my wheels turning now.

 

[tricia]

Now that my Big Give gifts have been received I can post them here.

A Simply Sweet Halter for January

A baby Bubble for Kaitlyn

And some other stuff I have been up to too.

Easter Table runner for a friend.

Easter table runner for my mom.

Simpsons wrist cuff for my DS9 (on my wrist for photo)

Wrist cuffs for some other family members.

 

[billwendy]

My son was five on our last trip. I did a combo of easy-fit shorts, appliqued tees and bowling shirts for him to coordinate with his sister.

These are ALL so cute - but that last bowling shirt!!! AMAZING!!!

Chiara - how do you do it all!! Are there 2 of you? You are just so great!

 

[tricia]

Sew Mama Sew, is having a series on How to Buy and Use PDF Patterns (epatterns) Thought it may be useful for the newbies who aren't too sure about spending the $10 on one of CarlaC's or a Sisboom pattern.

http://networkedblogs.com/gdqKl

 

[cogero]

Wendy,

I like to be busy at night. DH works midnights but leaves at 9:40. I don't really watch many TV shows so this works.

I also work well with deadlines

 

[VBAndrea]

My daughter designed this set. I think she did a pretty good job.

I'll have to say I'm not a fan of the Rapunzel fabric as I don't think it shows enough of Rapunzel, but on your skirt it does and paired with that AWESOME shirt (WOW!) it looks stunning! Well done!

Thank you so much for correcting my 2 mistakes, I didn't actually look at the pattern when I posted what it was called

I always call the Aivilo tote bag Avilo and the Dortje trousers I never spell correctly (those this time I looked it up b/c my book is right here!).

For my boys (4 and 3) I do easy fit pants and appliqued tees. They always match one another because otherwise they'll argue over who wears what I have yet to try the bowling shirt pattern. One of these days I'll give it a go ! We went to WDW in January and I did shirts with Lightning McQueen, Heffalump (Lumpy from Pooh), Stitch, Ice Cream Mickey, Phineas and Ferb, Star Wars Mickey and Prince Charming Mickey shirts. I used a lot of Disney Fabric to make them easy fit pants to go with their tops.


I finally finished my first Vida! Yay! That was the first time I'd put buttons and button holes on with my machine. WOW! was that easy or what!! I am already planning on making more!

Such pretty colors -- really beautiful

Wow... great job on everything and I don't see anything with the bill

You need your eyes checked
Daisy's bill looks like it was smashed by a hammer -- that's all

I totally mucked up Jasmine's arm on a dress for dd and Jasmine and Aladdin loved it anyway.

 

[fortheluvofpooh]

I have not been on this board for ages, kind of got out of sewing. HOWEVER I am back. We are going to wdw in August so I want to do up a few of the tank top dresses for DDs and DN. For a ribbed tank top what fabric do you suggest to use for the skirting? Would you use a stiff cotton or a poly blend ?

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

A lot of people on this board make the Simply Sweet dress from CarlaC on You Can Make This. There is a way to princessify them. They look terrific. I haven't tried one but I don't think that they look too difficult. If you have been able to sew her other dresses you can probably make her these dresses. A nice bonus to making your own dress is that you can make it out of comfortable cotton fabrics which are much nicer in the Florida heat. Remember that Florida in September is still gong to be pretty hot. A polyester dress with a petticoat probably won't be too comfortable for your daughter to wear all day.

I totally agree with Dianemom...we live in FL, and those pretty pretty princess dresses are too hot, and often scratchy too. We get tons of compliments on the calico version of the princess dresses I make for my DD. A pettiskirt will make them more poofy, but increase the hot factor. I recently made my DD a cotton petti...not a poofy as the real thing, but not as hot either, and she was thrilled with the look and increased twirl factor it gave her dresses. It was super easy, I made it out if white broadcloth, decided how long I wanted it, divided that number by the number of rows, and essentially made an all white twirl skirt. My only mistake was measuring the length of the shortest dress I knew it would be under...it was a waist length bodice, and I measured from that, pretty much the same as the skirt length. I didn't haves Rebecca try it on with the dress, and it was when we were at WDW I discovered she preferred to wear it on her hips, lower by several inches than the dress. Oops! But at least the dress was white, and it didn't really show that much. We still got stopped and asked where we bought the dress a dozen times, so it mustn't have looked too bad. The petti is currently in the wash, but if anyone wants to see it, I can take a pic later today.

 

[VBAndrea]

Made this for dd ~ it's all cat fabric from Joann's Debbie Mumm collection that I bought BEFORE the big sale (it was 40% off, but had I only known I owuld have waited longer!). And sorry the photos are fuzzy -- I forgot to change the camera setting.

Dress (Frankenpatterned Simply Sweet assembly and sizing, but kind of made up the rest of it):

With Purse:

Purse (mini messenger bag) alone:

And the inside:

I used an on line tut for the bag but completely revamped it. I assembled it like the Aivilo tote rather than per the way the tute did it and I added a magnet snap and pocket inside. I also did interfacing on the body of the bag (it really needed it especially due to adding the snap). It was easy to make a dd loved it -- I will definitely make more.
http://www.falafelandthebee.com/?p=4931

 

[fortheluvofpooh]

I have not been on this board for ages, kind of got out of sewing. HOWEVER I am back. We are going to wdw in August so I want to do up a few of the tank top dresses for DDs and DN. For a ribbed tank top what fabric do you suggest to use for the skirting? Would you use a stiff cotton or a poly blend ?

 

[chellewashere]

I totally agree with Dianemom...we live in FL, and those pretty pretty princess dresses are too hot, and often scratchy too. We get tons of compliments on the calico version of the princess dresses I make for my DD. A pettiskirt will make them more poofy, but increase the hot factor. I recently made my DD a cotton petti...not a poofy as the real thing, but not as hot either, and she was thrilled with the look and increased twirl factor it gave her dresses. It was super easy, I made it out if white broadcloth, decided how long I wanted it, divided that number by the number of rows, and essentially made an all white twirl skirt. My only mistake was measuring the length of the shortest dress I knew it would be under...it was a waist length bodice, and I measured from that, pretty much the same as the skirt length. I didn't haves Rebecca try it on with the dress, and it was when we were at WDW I discovered she preferred to wear it on her hips, lower by several inches than the dress. Oops! But at least the dress was white, and it didn't really show that much. We still got stopped and asked where we bought the dress a dozen times, so it mustn't have looked too bad. The petti is currently in the wash, but if anyone wants to see it, I can take a pic later today.

Yes Please!! What is broadcloth?

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

Yes Please!! What is broadcloth?

Will do the pic later today. Broadcloth is a poly/cotton blend. It comes in a variety of solid colors and doesn't wrinkle easily...if you pull it right from the dryer and hang it right up, sometimes you can even skip the iron. It's rather inexpensive too, usually less than $3.00/yd, and often goes on sale at Joann's for $1.99. I tend to stock up on white when it does, it seems to get used alot around here.

 

[chellewashere]

Will do the pic later today. Broadcloth is a poly/cotton blend. It comes in a variety of solid colors and doesn't wrinkle easily...if you pull it right from the dryer and hang it right up, sometimes you can even skip the iron. It's rather inexpensive too, usually less than $3.00/yd, and often goes on sale at Joann's for $1.99. I tend to stock up on white when it does, it seems to get used alot around here.

Thank you will have to check it out and get some. I stocked up on cream colored muslin (sp) to do the underlinging of shirts and skirts is it basically the same?

 

[TinkerbelleMom]

Thank you will have to check it out and get some. I stocked up on cream colored muslin (sp) to do the underlinging of shirts and skirts is it basically the same?

Muslin is usually 100% cotton, and other than the wrinkle factor after washing, I can't see that it would matter, though you might want to see how it looks under something white, since the cream color might show through a bit.