Disboutiquers Part 25 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

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As most of you know my son is in the USAF and stationed in OK with my DIL and my 2 grandchildren.My grandson will be 1 yr on Sunday. DH and I are saving every penny to host all 8 of us in Disney for 10 days in Sept so we couldn't spend the $1000 it would cost the 2 of us to fly out for the weekend. My oldest Dd decided she was going so we bought a ticket for our youngest (just turned 18) DD and the two of them went out today and will be back on Monday. basically they are there for the weekend. My Grandaughter will be 3 the first week of July so the plan was to celebrate both birthdays this weekend.

Here are a few outfits I sent for the kids.
I posted this before but the picture was small and a few of you asked for a larger pic.
Carla's reversible romper
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Carla's newest pattern...
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Edward's first birthday, a T-shirt with denim easy fit shorts
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Emily's birthday outfit.
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And the last one is my youngest with my granddaughter when they arrived. Emily was so happy to see them. 89 days untill I can hold her like this1
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I don't even know you and that last picture brought tears to my eyes :sad1::lovestruc
 
Okay, I need your honest opinions. I coundnt find the Snow White fabric I wanted for the Give blanket I'm making, so I thought I'd try my first appliqué. I decided to do a simple silhouette and to practice it first.:thumbsup2 So, here it is. It's scrap fabric, so bear with the red bleeding through the super thin white. :)

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Does it look okay? Can you tell who it is? My plan is to do the silhouette in yellow on blue fabric, and put a red ribbon bow on her head. Does that sound okay? Please be honest. :) Im not sure how to make her hands look less pointy. Lol I'm so uneasy since it's my very first appliqué... Here is a close up of some of it. I'm just using a regular ol machine.

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Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. I don't want to make her something that looks bad.

I think it looks great...and yes, I could tell it was Snow white right away. You did a great job on the satin stitch from what I can tell.

I finally have something to post. This is what I did yesterday for a first birthday party.

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I signed Alexa up for a "Sewing without Stitches" class at our community college. They made no-sew fleece blankets. She was really proud of it. I tried to get her to hold it up for a pic but she wanted to wrap up in it.

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I don't know why that posted upside down, I rotated it in photobucket!

What a neat class to put your DD in. I didn't know those existed. My DGDs would love that. She did a great job.

So I finally have pictures of my models in their outfits!!!! The girls looked so cute, and they wore their skirts to church at the beach and got lots of questions and comments about them!

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Those are adorable. They look so cute in them. I really like the M&M outfits...so cute!


Thanks everyone for the compliments on my Jamie dress!

Someone (Teresa maybe?) asked about the shrug that I was wearing in the pic. I got it from QVC. The label name is "Effortless Style". It came in black, white and khaki? maybe? I had looked several places for a shrug like this and hadn't completely found one that I thought would work until I saw this one. It works for me and I'm glad I bought it.

I got to put the dress to use today! I met... wait for it... JENNIFER PAGANELLI today! At a book signing event in Atlanta. I happen to be here for a conference, so I was able to get to the store for her event. She is a SWEETHEART! I absolutely loved meeting her!

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That is so cool that you got to meet Jennifer. What a lucky lady you are!

I have my in-laws here visiting so I can't comment on everybody's posts today. Everything looks terrific! Just wanted to tell everybody what we did today. We went to the Offray Ribbon Outlet!!!!! It is the big twice a year sale. This is the first time I ever went. I bought so much ribbon!!!! They had huge rolls (between 25 and 50 yards) of grosgrain ribbon for $2. They also had some spools of ribbon 3/$1. Then they had gift wrap ribbon where you could take a bag and stuff it as full as possible. The whole bag, stuffed full was 99 cents! I stuffed that bag until I thought it would burst. I have a plan to make the centerpieces for my girl's bat mitzvahs with the ribbon I bought today. That should save us a HUGE amount of money. Now I just have to store the ribbon for about a year until I actually start working on the centerpieces ;) What fun!!!!

I would love to go there. My DD uses so much ribbon for bows, it gets really expensive. Someday....I will make it to the NE. Maybe I can put that on my list of things to do....:) Great bargains!!

It was me who got the great deal on fabric at Hancocks. I guess this is just my week for bargains. But now that my in-laws are here. Everything is on hold until they go home. I am planning to make Patricia tunics for me and the girls to wear to the beach when we go to Florida this summer.




The ribbon outlet is in Hagerstown, MD. If you buy that much ribbon, it might be worth a trip down here for their sale. I ran into two ladies who came to buy ribbon for their stationary store. They said that they tie the stationary with it.

I am planning to make foam balls covered in ribbon loops. I think I am going to put them on those very tall vases. Here is the tutorial for how to make the ribbons balls:
http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/ribbon-pomanders

Those are really pretty. Thanks for sharing the link.

As most of you know my son is in the USAF and stationed in OK with my DIL and my 2 grandchildren.My grandson will be 1 yr on Sunday. DH and I are saving every penny to host all 8 of us in Disney for 10 days in Sept so we couldn't spend the $1000 it would cost the 2 of us to fly out for the weekend. My oldest Dd decided she was going so we bought a ticket for our youngest (just turned 18) DD and the two of them went out today and will be back on Monday. basically they are there for the weekend. My Grandaughter will be 3 the first week of July so the plan was to celebrate both birthdays this weekend.

Here are a few outfits I sent for the kids.
I posted this before but the picture was small and a few of you asked for a larger pic.
And the last one is my youngest with my granddaughter when they arrived. Emily was so happy to see them. 89 days untill I can hold her like this1
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That was so sweet of you to make sure your daughters got to go to the birthday weekend. I am sorry you couldn't go but I know you will be happy you saved the money when you all get to go to Disney together...what fun!
That last picture is sooo sweet......made me want to cry when I read "only 89 days until I can hold her like this"....:hug:
 
Love Everyones Creations. I finally finished a couple of small projects. My son finishes up Kindergarten next week so I have been trying to get some end of the year gifts made. He had such a wonderful year that I wanted to thank all the teachers. I decided to make sunglass cases for his specials teachers. I still need to come up with something for his music teacher, because it is a man. (I don't think he would appreciate this. LOL) Now I just need to finish up his classroom teachers.

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I appliqued this beach towel for a birthday party my son is going to tomorrow. I think this is such a cute little Rapunzel. I am a little disappointed in the quality of towels Target put out this year. It seems like in the past they were much better.

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Thanks everyone for the compliments on my Jamie dress!

Someone (Teresa maybe?) asked about the shrug that I was wearing in the pic. I got it from QVC. The label name is "Effortless Style". It came in black, white and khaki? maybe? I had looked several places for a shrug like this and hadn't completely found one that I thought would work until I saw this one. It works for me and I'm glad I bought it.

I got to put the dress to use today! I met... wait for it... JENNIFER PAGANELLI today! At a book signing event in Atlanta. I happen to be here for a conference, so I was able to get to the store for her event. She is a SWEETHEART! I absolutely loved meeting her!

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You caused a nice disagreement between DH and I this evening! Once I saw your picture I really lit into him about the car and not letting me know! I was a bit nicer to begin with. I always get the bad end of the stick though.

Question....

Oh boy you all are if for it! I'm new here and I'm already diving in with the questions. :rolleyes1

So here goes, I mentioned that I recently got a new sewing machine which I LOVE! It is also an embroidery machine which came with a 4x4 and a 6x10 hoop size. I purposely got this machine due to the larger hoop, but now I am finding that I really wish I had something in between the two. (5x7) My question is how do I go about finding the best way to embroider a child's size T-shirt with the 6x10 hoop.... The 4x4 is just waaaay too small. The 6x10 can be a bit tricky since it is so big and the shirt is quite small. :confused:

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeana

Someone help me out here, but what about a super hoop or hoop it all or the hoop that you don't really hoop. I don't have a clue what the heck the name of it it. It is supposed to be universal and fit many machines. Would it work for this?

Thanks so much for your response. As of right now my machine does not offer the 5x7 hoop. :sad2: It's a Husqvarna viking h class 600e. When I took my owners class I had asked if there were any plans to offer different hoops and I was told yes, but it would be a mega hoop. So sad. LOL! I thought I would love having the 6x10, lately not so much.
I would be eternally grateful if you would share the blog with me!:goodvibes

Jeana

Why make a machine and not a 5x7 hoop size for it! there is a HUGE difference between the other two sizes.

Okay I am all done with Etsy. :sad2:

Who sells iron on appliques please PM me.

Thank You :cool1:

Oh no! What happened. Sorry!

Ladies and Gents, for your amusement, the much anticipated :rotfl2:photos of my sewing quadrant in the basement. Tomorrow will be two years in this house. When we moved in, the first year was Year of the Furniture, the second year was Year of the Lawn (looks like that will be a multi-year project) and the third year was going to be the Year of the Finished Basement. As we thought more about that, we decided what we really needed was the basement for storage, not living, so I've been gradually "making do" with my quadrant. It's not pretty, but it's mine :cloud9:

Welcome

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To your left

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Straight ahead (I Frankensteined a computer so I could "see" CarlaC patterns which I have, but am hesitant to use it because I have soooo many extension cords.)

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To the right

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As you can see, I have all the hot water I need -- only have to go upstairs to get it

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My sewing machine (which is one hissy fit away from being replaced), serger, and all that's currently left of my embroidery machine :sad1:

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Base model Cricut and my collection of serger trims (gotta go to Walmart and get one of those big barrels of pretzels to continue my collection :laughing: )

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I have three of these plastic drawers things under the table -- very handy

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My husband made the twin bookcases. This is my inspiration . . .:love:

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Sandwiched between them is an old dresser -- each drawer has different fabrics (categories are probably invisible to the naked eye, but I know!)

There it is. My very functional (with the possible exception of electrical issues) sewing quadrant.

:upsidedow I don't know why some of the photos are so big. I tried resizing them, but sometimes photobucket has its own ideas.

I'm being really lazy and not fixing the pictures. I love the room and especially the shelves and all the organization! The other day we cleaned out the garage and I had way too much junk. There was a bag of bags with adorable bags inside and I had DH recycle most of them. There were old disney store bags that would have been so cute to add to your collection. I knew I should have kept them! I have been hoarding them for years and years! I think there were also some 25th anniversary DW bags, remember the magic ones. Which I might have kept a few. I don't remember and was really trying to let the things go that I didn't need!
 

Okay, I need your honest opinions. I coundnt find the Snow White fabric I wanted for the Give blanket I'm making, so I thought I'd try my first appliqué. I decided to do a simple silhouette and to practice it first.:thumbsup2 So, here it is. It's scrap fabric, so bear with the red bleeding through the super thin white. :)

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Does it look okay? Can you tell who it is? My plan is to do the silhouette in yellow on blue fabric, and put a red ribbon bow on her head. Does that sound okay? Please be honest. :) Im not sure how to make her hands look less pointy. Lol I'm so uneasy since it's my very first appliqué... Here is a close up of some of it. I'm just using a regular ol machine.

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Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. I don't want to make her something that looks bad.

I can't believe that's your first hand applique! I knew right away that it was Snow White! I think it looks great. I wouldn't mess with the hands too much. They look really good and it's too easy to mess them up with tweaking the design. If you want another "clue" as to who it is, you could put an a red apple on the opposite corner. You know, on the diagonal. It doesn't really need it because it's a very good likeness, but it might be cute.

Lori in East Podunk
 
I have been working on the baby bedding for my DDs baby. Making progress. I will post pictures of it when it is all done, but in the meantime, I finished a few little things for her. Here are some of them.

Burp cloths (I flipped the corners so you could see the fabric on the back):
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A newborn romper with CarlaC's romper pattern:
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And the whole set (romper, bib, and burp cloth)
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And a little onesie. I had to put this saying on something since her husband just got an award in boot camp for marksmanship :)
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I am sure there are many more things to come but for now...that is all I have pictures of.

Such cute ideas for your little one to be!
 
Teresa-yep, it's a very light version on Cinderella (if it were pink, it would look like the one the mice made her :goodvibes). She wants everything to be princess related. I had the blue fabric in my closet, so decided to make this. It's my third dress, and all w/o a pattern. :) as soon as she saw it, she said "it's Cinderella!!!". I'm having my friend who has an embroidery machine look to see if she has a coach or glass slipper we could put on it.

It is so pretty! Heathersue has a coach and slipper design if your friend needs one.

Here is the cinderella dress I made for my daugther. I found pictures on this site that inspired me to make this dress and thanks to whomever the pictures were from!! My daughter loves it!!
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The dress and your daughter are beautiful!

WOW!! I am in such awe! I just got through reading all 106 pages of this thread! (it took me 2 days) Obviously there is just TMTQ. (I think I got that right. You all are just amazing!! I am a long time lurker on the Dis and my family has just recently been bitten by the Disney bug! For now we are only swinging it once a year (for the past 3 years) but I long for the day we can go twice a year! : I have made a few posts and even one here in the disboutiquerscloud9: section. Unfortunately sewing didn't really click for me until after our last trip. Which was in march so I have a loooong time to wait until our next trip. I can't wait though cause I will be a sewing fool as it draws near! Anyway I thought I would share some pictures of some of the recent items I have made. Sadly they are not all Disney. :

The blurry spot on the last 3 pics is where my water mark was. I was unsure if it was against dis rules to have it on there so I just blurred it out.

This is a pic from our last vacation right before our breakfast at the castle. Making these dresses is when the whole sewing thing really clicked in my head and became more enjoyable than a headache! :idea: I used this tutorial http://makeit-loveit.com/2010/10/cinderella-dress-halloween-costume.html and it was fabulous!
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Dresses I made for my cousins girls for their upcoming Disney World Trip
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Just some fun non Disney sets
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Thanks so much for looking and for being such an inspiration! I'm looking forward to spending a lot more time here!

Jeana

The outfits are beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I would really love to see the pictures a bit bigger though!

I LOVE these!!!! They are so cheery looking!


I did it! I did it! I made a pair of Easy Fits!!!!

Of course, after I cut them out (using "practice material we dug out of the depths of my mom's sewing closet ... once upon a time this material was bought to make AG Kirsten some clothes :: ) I realized I hadn't cut them from my pattern piece, but from the taped together pieces you use to MAKE the pattern ... so they're a little short ... but not bad overall.

I used these as my "practice EVERYTHING" pair ... so I tried my hand at "hand applique" as well ... and I "decoupaged" the patches on with zig zag stitches, so the edges should fray nicely!

He's quite proud of his new pants, can you tell?
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Your little guy is just too adorable!!! Great job on the pants!
Hi all! Remember me? Hi to all the new friends we have! I have been gone because to say life has been hectic is an understatement.

I did want to update those who have been around for a while. Last I was on, hospice had been called in for my FIL...DH had traveled to OH to visit and things were at the least, grim. Well...GOOD NEWS! Yesterday he was released from Hospice and it looks like he may be going back on the lung transplant list. He has agreed to allow his wife to call 911 if he has another attack, but he still will not agree to be intubated again. He has to have a few more test done in Cleveland next week and then hopefully he will be back on the list. He is up and walking and all. He says that when we arrive in OH week after next he wants to out to dinner with us to get out for a little. The kids are so excited!

My Grandmother that fell and fractured her pelvis is back home as of Tuesday and doing well. We told her no more standing on chairs! She did however cook my father an entire dinner last night with cake for dessert! She will not be put down....gosh I hope I am that way at 85!

I hope to get a little sewing done this next week before the kids get out of school. Great stuff you all of done...as always!

I have been wondering how you guys were! This is really wonderful news!!!!
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I finally have something to post. This is what I did yesterday for a first birthday party.

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I don't know why that posted upside down, I rotated it in photobucket!

How sweet!!!!!
Okay, I need your honest opinions. I coundnt find the Snow White fabric I wanted for the Give blanket I'm making, so I thought I'd try my first appliqué. I decided to do a simple silhouette and to practice it first.:thumbsup2 So, here it is. It's scrap fabric, so bear with the red bleeding through the super thin white. :)

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Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. I don't want to make her something that looks bad.

I love it! I think it's a great idea!

I e-mailed GKTW a couple of weeks ago to inquire about the possibility of using the tie-dye/marbelized flannel instead of a solid flannel and I finally received a reply today. Good news as this is the reply for those who are interested (I also posted this on the BG site):

Andrea,



Yeah, we are always looking for additional pillow angels!



As long as everything matches, marble/tie-dyed is great! As for the prints, as long as a child will enjoy them and everything matches, it will work J.



We prefer that you do not pre-wash first as some of our children might be allergic to a certain type of laundry detergent. However, if you have some material that is already pre-washed, just place them in a separate bag and mark as such.


Thanks so much and have a wonderful weekend!



Philip E. Torres

Support Services Manager

Give Kids The World

210 S Bass Road

Kissimmee, FL 34746

407.396.1114 ext.4280

philipt@gktw.org
:hug: Thank you so much for posting this!!!! :woohoo: I'm so glad we aren't limited to just solids!!!!!

So I finally have pictures of my models in their outfits!!!! The girls looked so cute, and they wore their skirts to church at the beach and got lots of questions and comments about them!

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Wendy, they look SOOOO adorable!!!!!! I love seeing pictures of these kids! They always look so happy!

Thanks everyone for the compliments on my Jamie dress!

Someone (Teresa maybe?) asked about the shrug that I was wearing in the pic. I got it from QVC. The label name is "Effortless Style". It came in black, white and khaki? maybe? I had looked several places for a shrug like this and hadn't completely found one that I thought would work until I saw this one. It works for me and I'm glad I bought it.

I got to put the dress to use today! I met... wait for it... JENNIFER PAGANELLI today! At a book signing event in Atlanta. I happen to be here for a conference, so I was able to get to the store for her event. She is a SWEETHEART! I absolutely loved meeting her!

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! (that's me screaming in excitement for you!!) How wonderful that you got to meet Jennifer!!!! Everyone says she is just the sweetest person!! And, you two look so pretty!!! Yes, that was me aking about the shrug. Thanks so much for the information! I just checked QVC, and they aren't available right now. Hopefully they will have them again! It really is so pretty and such a nice compliment to the dress.

I have my in-laws here visiting so I can't comment on everybody's posts today. Everything looks terrific! Just wanted to tell everybody what we did today. We went to the Offray Ribbon Outlet!!!!! It is the big twice a year sale. This is the first time I ever went. I bought so much ribbon!!!! They had huge rolls (between 25 and 50 yards) of grosgrain ribbon for $2. They also had some spools of ribbon 3/$1. Then they had gift wrap ribbon where you could take a bag and stuff it as full as possible. The whole bag, stuffed full was 99 cents! I stuffed that bag until I thought it would burst. I have a plan to make the centerpieces for my girl's bat mitzvahs with the ribbon I bought today. That should save us a HUGE amount of money. Now I just have to store the ribbon for about a year until I actually start working on the centerpieces ;) What fun!!!!

Oh, that sounds like SOOO much fun!!!! Do you have pictures?

As most of you know my son is in the USAF and stationed in OK with my DIL and my 2 grandchildren.My grandson will be 1 yr on Sunday. DH and I are saving every penny to host all 8 of us in Disney for 10 days in Sept so we couldn't spend the $1000 it would cost the 2 of us to fly out for the weekend. My oldest Dd decided she was going so we bought a ticket for our youngest (just turned 18) DD and the two of them went out today and will be back on Monday. basically they are there for the weekend. My Grandaughter will be 3 the first week of July so the plan was to celebrate both birthdays this weekend.

And the last one is my youngest with my granddaughter when they arrived. Emily was so happy to see them. 89 days untill I can hold her like this1
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Aww, add me to the teary eyed club!!!



Love Everyones Creations. I finally finished a couple of small projects. My son finishes up Kindergarten next week so I have been trying to get some end of the year gifts made. He had such a wonderful year that I wanted to thank all the teachers. I decided to make sunglass cases for his specials teachers. I still need to come up with something for his music teacher, because it is a man. (I don't think he would appreciate this. LOL) Now I just need to finish up his classroom teachers.

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I appliqued this beach towel for a birthday party my son is going to tomorrow. I think this is such a cute little Rapunzel. I am a little disappointed in the quality of towels Target put out this year. It seems like in the past they were much better.

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love the sunglass holders!!! Very pretty!!!
And, that Rapunzel IS adorable!
 
I hope you don't mind me posting on your thread. I often look at all your ideas, but I've not joined in before.

I've seen this dress and I'd like to make something similiar. Do you know if there is a pattern on the YCMT website? I've looked but there are 100s on there. I know it looks quite simple, but I'd be happier with something to work from, iyswim.
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I finally have something to post. This is what I did yesterday for a first birthday party.

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I signed Alexa up for a "Sewing without Stitches" class at our community college. They made no-sew fleece blankets. She was really proud of it. I tried to get her to hold it up for a pic but she wanted to wrap up in it.

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I don't know why that posted upside down, I rotated it in photobucket!
Very cute birthday outfit but I really adore the pic of Alexa snuggled up in her blanket. She must be very proud of her first creation. I like the fabric she used as well.

Okay, I need your honest opinions. I coundnt find the Snow White fabric I wanted for the Give blanket I'm making, so I thought I'd try my first appliqué. I decided to do a simple silhouette and to practice it first.:thumbsup2 So, here it is. It's scrap fabric, so bear with the red bleeding through the super thin white. :)

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Does it look okay? Can you tell who it is? My plan is to do the silhouette in yellow on blue fabric, and put a red ribbon bow on her head. Does that sound okay? Please be honest. :) Im not sure how to make her hands look less pointy. Lol I'm so uneasy since it's my very first appliqué... Here is a close up of some of it. I'm just using a regular ol machine.

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Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. I don't want to make her something that looks bad.
The applique looks great and I think it will look super in the colors you plan on using. I like Lori's idea of adding an apple as well. And I think the hands look fine -- I wouldn't worry about them at all.

So I finally have pictures of my models in their outfits!!!! The girls looked so cute, and they wore their skirts to church at the beach and got lots of questions and comments about them!

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Everything looks great on! I really do adore those skirts! Your shorts look really good too -- did you taper the legs a little? Or perhaps it's just the trim on them, but they look more like board shorts than typical easy fits. Tell me your secret please!

FYI, I have been eyeing Bridget's give and sadly do not have much time this week and work the week of the ship date. I will keep perusing it though and see if I can fill in somewhere with a little something. I saw an adorable hat tutorial but a poster gave it a really poor review so I hate to make it and not have it functional.

It was me who got the great deal on fabric at Hancocks. I guess this is just my week for bargains. But now that my in-laws are here. Everything is on hold until they go home. I am planning to make Patricia tunics for me and the girls to wear to the beach when we go to Florida this summer.




The ribbon outlet is in Hagerstown, MD. If you buy that much ribbon, it might be worth a trip down here for their sale. I ran into two ladies who came to buy ribbon for their stationary store. They said that they tie the stationary with it.

I am planning to make foam balls covered in ribbon loops. I think I am going to put them on those very tall vases. Here is the tutorial for how to make the ribbons balls:
http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/ribbon-pomanders
Well it sounds like your week for deals! Truly our Hancock's had crap. And their selection of cottons is pathetic compared to Joann's Calico Cottons. I do find things there, but our Walmart scores better than our Hancock's! And I love the ribbon covered balls -- those will look super!

As most of you know my son is in the USAF and stationed in OK with my DIL and my 2 grandchildren.My grandson will be 1 yr on Sunday. DH and I are saving every penny to host all 8 of us in Disney for 10 days in Sept so we couldn't spend the $1000 it would cost the 2 of us to fly out for the weekend. My oldest Dd decided she was going so we bought a ticket for our youngest (just turned 18) DD and the two of them went out today and will be back on Monday. basically they are there for the weekend. My Grandaughter will be 3 the first week of July so the plan was to celebrate both birthdays this weekend.

Here are a few outfits I sent for the kids.
I posted this before but the picture was small and a few of you asked for a larger pic.
Carla's reversible romper
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The other side...
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Carla's newest pattern...
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Edward's first birthday, a T-shirt with denim easy fit shorts
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Emily's birthday outfit.
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And the last one is my youngest with my granddaughter when they arrived. Emily was so happy to see them. 89 days untill I can hold her like this1
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Yay for bigger pics! I love the new outfits too -- that birthday fabric is really sweet! I so wished you could visit as well, but in 89 days you may just forget all about it! We are contemplating a trip out west this summer to visit dh's side of the family but flying a family of four out there is going to kill us, especially since I want to take dd to Disney next spring!

Love Everyones Creations. I finally finished a couple of small projects. My son finishes up Kindergarten next week so I have been trying to get some end of the year gifts made. He had such a wonderful year that I wanted to thank all the teachers. I decided to make sunglass cases for his specials teachers. I still need to come up with something for his music teacher, because it is a man. (I don't think he would appreciate this. LOL) Now I just need to finish up his classroom teachers.

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I appliqued this beach towel for a birthday party my son is going to tomorrow. I think this is such a cute little Rapunzel. I am a little disappointed in the quality of towels Target put out this year. It seems like in the past they were much better.

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The glass cases are awesome and I think that Rapunzel applique is so sweet too.
:hug: Thank you so much for posting this!!!! :woohoo: I'm so glad we aren't limited to just solids!!!!!
You are welcome. Of course, he had the nerve to e-mail me back a week after I bought 5 yards of solid flannel. The tie-dye flannel was on sale too and I was so tempted, but decided to play it safe. The tie dye is considered a snuggle flannel print so it goes on sale fairly often.

I hope you don't mind me posting on your thread. I often look at all your ideas, but I've not joined in before.

I've seen this dress and I'd like to make something similiar. Do you know if there is a pattern on the YCMT website? I've looked but there are 100s on there. I know it looks quite simple, but I'd be happier with something to work from, iyswim.
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It looks like a peasant dress style and the pattern I would recommend is the Portrait Peasant from Carla C. Her pattern offers tons of options in styling and goes together very quickly and easily.
 
I hope you don't mind me posting on your thread. I often look at all your ideas, but I've not joined in before.

I've seen this dress and I'd like to make something similiar. Do you know if there is a pattern on the YCMT website? I've looked but there are 100s on there. I know it looks quite simple, but I'd be happier with something to work from, iyswim.
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Thats a peasant dress...the best pattern for a peasant dress or blouse is Carla C's Portrait Peasant, which is on YCMT. She has many options for a bunch of different looks in it, this one looks like it's super easy. All you'll have to do is decide the finished length and how wide you'd like the bottom band, subtract the band measurement from the finished length to get the main part of the dress cutting length. Be sure to add your seam allowance too. The appliqué directions can be found in the bookmarks on page 1 of this thread. I know there is. Mickey template, you might have to free hand the bow. Or cheat like I do and go for the 3D effect and stitch on a ribbon bow. :rotfl:
 
Thats a peasant dress...the best pattern for a peasant dress or blouse is Carla C's Portrait Peasant, which is on YCMT. She has many options for a bunch of different looks in it, this one looks like it's super easy. All you'll have to do is decide the finished length and how wide you'd like the bottom band, subtract the band measurement from the finished length to get the main part of the dress cutting length. Be sure to add your seam allowance too. The appliqué directions can be found in the bookmarks on page 1 of this thread. I know there is. Mickey template, you might have to free hand the bow. Or cheat like I do and go for the 3D effect and stitch on a ribbon bow. :rotfl:


Thank you both! I knew there would be a pattern but I was a bit overwhelmed with all the options. I like the idea of a ribbon bow :)
 
Thanks to everyone for the sweet words on my dresses! I am having so much fun sewing. My original love is hair bows, but I must admit once sewing clicked for me I have kinda been ignoring the bows. :rolleyes1

I finally have something to post. This is what I did yesterday for a first birthday party.

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I signed Alexa up for a "Sewing without Stitches" class at our community college. They made no-sew fleece blankets. She was really proud of it. I tried to get her to hold it up for a pic but she wanted to wrap up in it.

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I don't know why that posted upside down, I rotated it in photobucket!
Very cute! What an awesome class to sign your DD up for! I would love to find things like that in my area.

Okay, I need your honest opinions. I coundnt find the Snow White fabric I wanted for the Give blanket I'm making, so I thought I'd try my first appliqué. I decided to do a simple silhouette and to practice it first.:thumbsup2 So, here it is. It's scrap fabric, so bear with the red bleeding through the super thin white. :)

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Does it look okay? Can you tell who it is? My plan is to do the silhouette in yellow on blue fabric, and put a red ribbon bow on her head. Does that sound okay? Please be honest. :) Im not sure how to make her hands look less pointy. Lol I'm so uneasy since it's my very first appliqué... Here is a close up of some of it. I'm just using a regular ol machine.



Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. I don't want to make her something that looks bad.
It looks fantastic! I am in awe of all the hand appliqueing. This is fabulous for a first try! I also could tell who she was at first glance.

So I finally have pictures of my models in their outfits!!!! The girls looked so cute, and they wore their skirts to church at the beach and got lots of questions and comments about them!

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OMGosh! so adorable. I can see why you received so many comments on them!

I have my in-laws here visiting so I can't comment on everybody's posts today. Everything looks terrific! Just wanted to tell everybody what we did today. We went to the Offray Ribbon Outlet!!!!! It is the big twice a year sale. This is the first time I ever went. I bought so much ribbon!!!! They had huge rolls (between 25 and 50 yards) of grosgrain ribbon for $2. They also had some spools of ribbon 3/$1. Then they had gift wrap ribbon where you could take a bag and stuff it as full as possible. The whole bag, stuffed full was 99 cents! I stuffed that bag until I thought it would burst. I have a plan to make the centerpieces for my girl's bat mitzvahs with the ribbon I bought today. That should save us a HUGE amount of money. Now I just have to store the ribbon for about a year until I actually start working on the centerpieces ;) What fun!!!!
Oh Wow! I am officially jealous! You are one lucky lady! I would have been in heaven!

Love Everyones Creations. I finally finished a couple of small projects. My son finishes up Kindergarten next week so I have been trying to get some end of the year gifts made. He had such a wonderful year that I wanted to thank all the teachers. I decided to make sunglass cases for his specials teachers. I still need to come up with something for his music teacher, because it is a man. (I don't think he would appreciate this. LOL) Now I just need to finish up his classroom teachers.

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I appliqued this beach towel for a birthday party my son is going to tomorrow. I think this is such a cute little Rapunzel. I am a little disappointed in the quality of towels Target put out this year. It seems like in the past they were much better.

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CUTE! Love that idea for teacher gifts! And the towel is darling!

Why make a machine and not a 5x7 hoop size for it! there is a HUGE difference between the other two sizes.

I know right? It's really starting to get to me! :headache: I'm half tempted to go buy a new machine just to have the 5x7 hoop! :rolleyes:


Jeana
 
D - I checked out all of your pictures the other night on my Ipad (which DS was waiting to use) He kept asking just how many pictures you took, cause the slide show lasted over 15 minutes (I enjoyed it). Nemo looked really fun, my guys would love that, the skirt looked really cute, and everyone looked like they had a great time. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much... LOL I took lots of pictures. I probably missed out on a lot because I always had the camera stuck to my face. :rotfl2: I didn't exactly count, but I would have to guess I ended up with over 1500 pictures - I know I filled a 4 gig memory card and still had 3 days left of our trip. Thanks for all the comments on my pictures though. I really didn't expect so many people to look at all of them. :)


I still love how these outfits turned out! They are so lucky to have you making them such cute things! And the Audrey skirt is one of my favorites - I just love the fabrics you chose for this one. :)

I got to put the dress to use today! I met... wait for it... JENNIFER PAGANELLI today! At a book signing event in Atlanta. I happen to be here for a conference, so I was able to get to the store for her event. She is a SWEETHEART! I absolutely loved meeting her!

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How awesome that you got to meet her! I would be so excited too! :)

And the last one is my youngest with my granddaughter when they arrived. Emily was so happy to see them. 89 days untill I can hold her like this1
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Awww... this is just the sweetest picture. Brought a tear to my eye... I can't wait for you to hold her like that too! :)


I love the sunglass cases... those are so nice. And that applique is adorable! :)

FYI, I have been eyeing Bridget's give and sadly do not have much time this week and work the week of the ship date. I will keep perusing it though and see if I can fill in somewhere with a little something. I saw an adorable hat tutorial but a poster gave it a really poor review so I hate to make it and not have it functional.

Andrea... I just wanted to say - I know you were looking for a free tutorial, and I have not run across anything free. However, I did break down and buy TieDyDiva's Sunny Days sun hat pattern at YCMT. I will say that the pattern was very easy to make, very easy to put together and the instructions were great - especially if you have a bit of sewing under your belt. I also improvised and added a chin strap to mine - which was very easy to do. I guarantee that I will be using this pattern a lot. So, maybe this would be an option for you? Here's a photo of the one I did with this pattern:
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Yes, I am quoting myself. :)

Andrea... I just wanted to say - I know you were looking for a free tutorial, and I have not run across anything free. However, I did break down and buy TieDyDiva's Sunny Days sun hat pattern at YCMT. I will say that the pattern was very easy to make, very easy to put together and the instructions were great - especially if you have a bit of sewing under your belt. I also improvised and added a chin strap to mine - which was very easy to do. I guarantee that I will be using this pattern a lot. So, maybe this would be an option for you? Here's a photo of the one I did with this pattern:
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D~

I forgot to add, that this hat is fully lined. :)

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Well I shared the couple outfits I have made recently, but I figured I might as well share what started it all for me! Custom Hair Bows. I tried and tried to find pics of the bows I made for our last Disney trip but every angle pic I had didn't do anything for seeing the bows. :confused3 Apparently I was more interested in my kiddos. ;)

Anyway here are a couple of my latest creations....

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I just realized that I did not take my watermark off of these pictures. If this is not allowed please let me know and I will redo the pics.

Thanks,
Jeana
 
Well I shared the couple outfits I have made recently, but I figured I might as well share what started it all for me! Custom Hair Bows. I tried and tried to find pics of the bows I made for our last Disney trip but every angle pic I had didn't do anything for seeing the bows. :confused3 Apparently I was more interested in my kiddos. ;)

Anyway here are a couple of my latest creations....

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I just realized that I did not take my watermark off of these pictures. If this is not allowed please let me know and I will redo the pics.

Thanks,
Jeana

These bows are beautiful! I love them! :)

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D- WELCOME HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! We missed ya!!!

Andrea - I went down a size for each kiddo - for Eliz instead of a 10 I made an 8 ect and then I tried to get the length right above the knee. We were trying for the board short look since we were at the beach. Thanks!!! Bridgie's mom says they are having a hard time finding her hats because her head is sensitive ( I remember Daniel going through this as well) and she wants soft!!!! Thanks for thinking of her, what a little trooper she is!!!!!

Love the sunglass cases - GREAT idea for a BIG GIVE gift :rolleyes1 for Mom's and the older girls (they can be hard to think of things for)

Love the Rapunzel towel!!! I know I want to get my girls new beach towels for their bdays, saw some cute ones at 5 below -anyone know if their quality is okay????

We leave for Camp Promise 3 weeks from TODAY!!!!!!! Im excitedly nervous! We have our yard sale next Saturday, our training day the following Saturday and then our Coins for Camp Promise campaign ends 2 weeks from tomorrow! DH says I can start looking for the carnival games we want to purchase /make for camp after we see how full the coin jar is getting at church tomorrow! I got a real nice email from Cricut yesterday that they are considering donating a Cricut (and hopefully some cartridges) to camp. It would be such a blessing, especially this year when the lessons revolve around holidays! It would be so nice for the majority of the campers to have things already cut out for them so they can paste their craft together! Im not sure when I'll here back from them, but keeping my fingers crossed!!!

Im hoping to get some sewing done today. Got some fabric that is different, its like of like a knit and is like layered light ruffles???? It was in the clearance section at Joann's. Im not quite sure how to work with it - lol - but am hoping to get an Ariel and a Rapunzel outfit out of it for the girls!

Have a GREAT Saturday and thanks for helping with Bridgie's Big Give!! If anyone would like to help, we actually need family wish shirts and maybe a CRT shirt for Mom??? and some other fun things to fill in like hair bows and maybe flip flops!!! She also has a very loved American Girl Doll that maybe could use an outfit????? Oh, and if anyone would like to make a bag that could hang on Bridgie's Liberty Special Needs Stroller that Bridgie could then use later when they got back home, it'd be GREAT!!!!:hippie:
 
beautiful bows.

The first attempt at creating a table for the embroidery machine and duetta did not work. Need to figure something else out because I have some projects to work on this weekend.
 
beautiful bows.

The first attempt at creating a table for the embroidery machine and duetta did not work. Need to figure something else out because I have some projects to work on this weekend.

Dont' give up, you will get the table to set the machines on and it will be perfect.
 
For those looking for free sun hat patterns...
I opened my beautiful Martha Stewart Living July issue and there are directions on page 64 for how to make a reversible sun hat. If you go to Martha's website and search hat patterns it should be the 3rd result. The direct link from mag wasn't working for me.
There are directions and templates for adult and child hats. Hope this helps!
:)Kazzy
 
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