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

[cogero]

Wendy let me check my schedule tonite and see if I have enough shirts at home to possibly make the shirts. I am not promising anything though. This is a crazy week for me.

 

[VBAndrea]

QUESTION????

Has anyone been able to get the pattern for the Martha Stewart Reversible sun hat to print correctly? I particulary like the look of that hat as opposed to other's I've seen with free instructions but it is giving me a fit printing properly. I am on my third try and I know it's too big. I even looked in the store for the magazine hoping the template would be in there but all I can find are June issues. Grrrrr!!!!

 

[mphalens]

QUESTION????

Has anyone been able to get the pattern for the Martha Stewart Reversible sun hat to print correctly? I particulary like the look of that hat as opposed to other's I've seen with free instructions but it is giving me a fit printing properly. I am on my third try and I know it's too big. I even looked in the store for the magazine hoping the template would be in there but all I can find are June issues. Grrrrr!!!!

I haven't been able to try printing it yet ... but my Mom has the actual magazine and there aren't any templates in it either (just the web address to go print them out) ... I did notice online that the only two comments are that it's not printing properly

 

[froggy33]

This is adorable. Great job. You are so very talented. I can not wait to have an embroidery machine and a fabric stash.

WOW! You did an amazing job!

I LOOOVVVEEE this! Will you be selling the digital designs?

OMG!! That is amazing!! CASE-ing that baby!!

I just LOVE all the Steps outfits!!!! Yours is fabulous too!!! Love it!!!

Amazing! You are doing absolutely spectacular with your digitizing!

I just love this dress - I love all the colors and how it coordinates so well together. Someday, soon, I really want to try to do a big hand applique.

D~

Love it! Those appliques are great! Are you going to sell them?

Thanks all! I made one like this for my daughter a couple years ago for her first trip. Someone saw it and wanted me to recreate it. So I digitized the designs (easier for me than doing by hand!!) and went with it.

Steps customs are so fun, cause of all the colors and they are such a big hit with the characters! I will be selling the designs...of course I forgot to take individual pics, so I'll have to do some cropping!

D - these are actually done by embroidery machine. But I say go for it! I've found when appliqueing by hand that it is much easier if they are bigger. No tight corners and all that. And I just do the faces with paint!

 

[mphalens]

Does anyone want to be my friend on Facebook? I see people mention it every once in a while and always mean to ask...
I'm www.Facebook.com/marianne.ps.stern

 

[Meshell2002]

QUESTION????

Has anyone been able to get the pattern for the Martha Stewart Reversible sun hat to print correctly? I particulary like the look of that hat as opposed to other's I've seen with free instructions but it is giving me a fit printing properly. I am on my third try and I know it's too big. I even looked in the store for the magazine hoping the template would be in there but all I can find are June issues. Grrrrr!!!!

I haven't been able to try printing it yet ... but my Mom has the actual magazine and there aren't any templates in it either (just the web address to go print them out) ... I did notice online that the only two comments are that it's not printing properly

I had the same trouble...printing it to put in my collection....I did however find a tutorial with a girls hat w/ floppy brim....they show you how to make your own pattern pieces based on the head circ. When I get some more woven fabric I'm going to try to sew this.....it looks very do-able....you do need a little bit of knit for the band.....but it looks cute!free girls hat tutorial
Also found a free ottobre girl hat pattern....if you are used to their patterns and metric instructions!

 

[JMD1979]

WOW those are great bows. As for the watermark I have seen other Pics on different threads with them on so I don't think it's a problem.

Welcome to the thread and amazing work! Those Minnie dresses are ADORABLE!!

The bows are fantastic!! I wish I was better at making bows!

Those are beautiful. I detest making bows so I am especially in awe of yours!

Good job on all the outfits. I really like the colour combination you used for the "fun" outfits.

Cute bows! I really like the second one!

Thanks everyone. so much!

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OMGosh! that shirt is too cute! Love the little carrot car!

Rebecca asked for something Toy Story, and I managed to get this done at the last minute. She can wear it on the cruise too. It's a Simply Sweet with a tiers skirt to make it twirl well. We recieved tons of compliments yesterday, even from other kids who kept shouting "it's Jessie!". I love th SS pattern, this went together in just over 2, uninterrupted because everyone was asleep, hours.

Wow that is just awesome! I love the way you did the bodice! Very Clever.

I actually have something to share. This is a quick shirt I made DD for International Day she wanted something blue and saw this in my stash. It is pre-shirred so I just needed to sew a straight seam and add the ribbon.

Here are the 2 machines on the table we made. The table sits on 2 expedit shelves from IKEA I am going to put some of my fabric and projects in progress on the bookshelf and todays project is to clean the wall.There were bookcases across there for years.

Adorable shirt! And your machines look great! Your space is coming along great!

Thought I would share the one thing I have managed to sew in the last few months. Its from the Girl's World book and it turned out so cute! DD loves it and I would definitely make it again. The picture really doesn't do it justice.

I love this! The color is beautiful as is your DD!

Just finished up this Steps dress. These are some of the most involved designs I've digitized, but I am really pleased with how they turned out! Other than that the dress went together easy peasy - gotta love the simply sweet!

Oh My Word! this is fabulous! I am in such awe of all of these step outfit! Great Job!

Thought I'd share my first attempt at converting a pair of jeans with irreparable holes in the legs into something cute - DD2's Memorial Day parade outfit, inspired by the super-cute Minnie tee from Old Navy. Ignore the scraped-up face, DD had yet another mishap trying to keep up with her big brother & sister over the holiday weekend.

Awww this is so cute. The skirt is awesome. I still have not ventured into turning old clothes new again. You did a great job!

This is what I made this weekend

I will trim the ribbon later. Still have to top stitch, but I know some people were wanting a Rapunzel Dress. Sorry about Pippi in the photo-I think she wanted to play with the ribbon.

Adorable!

Question... I just read the Twirl Skirt tut on the bookmarks page. Can I put a hand appliqué on that? Would it show up? I want to do one for my daughter now that I've done the appliqué for the Give. I'm hooked!

You may want to wait for some more more experienced to answer but I just wanted to jump in and say that I have appliqued (machine) on twirl skirts before and it has always been a success for me.

 

[VBAndrea]

I haven't been able to try printing it yet ... but my Mom has the actual magazine and there aren't any templates in it either (just the web address to go print them out) ... I did notice online that the only two comments are that it's not printing properly

Good grief -- they can't even put the templates in the magazine! Thanks for letting me know -- I will at least stop looking for it.

I had the same trouble...printing it to put in my collection....I did however find a tutorial with a girls hat w/ floppy brim....they show you how to make your own pattern pieces based on the head circ. When I get some more woven fabric I'm going to try to sew this.....it looks very do-able....you do need a little bit of knit for the band.....but it looks cute!free girls hat tutorial
Also found a free ottobre girl hat pattern....if you are used to their patterns and metric instructions!

Bless your heart for the Ottobre pattern
I've never done an Ottobre pattern before, but I've done a tut for another sunhat and figure it should be similar. Also, I might be able to modify what I can print form the Marth Stewart pattern to make something work. I also found this knit beret pattern which looks adorable and the pattern prints properly:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49166470/The-Blue-Beret

but I couldn't find any knit fabric in the colors I wanted!!! I may just cut up a t-shirt, though it wouldn't be as soft.

 

[babynala]

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

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.

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

I love the Tigger set and your DD should be so proud of her hard work.

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.So, here it is. It's scrap fabric, so bear with the red bleeding through the super thin white.

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.

This came out really nice. As others have said you can tell it is Snow White and your stitching looks great.

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!

How exciting. I REALLY wanted to head to that book signing today but I just could not swing it. I did get my In Town Quilters fix a few weeks ago when the kids were still in school.

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!!!!

Great shopping. Those centerpieces sound really neat but I would never have the patience to make those. Don't forget to share pictures of your finished creations next year.

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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The bigger pictures really show off the romper. The birthday sets are cute too. The picture of your DGD is the sweetest. By now you have even fewer days to wait to hold your granddaughter.

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. Apparently I was more interested in my kiddos.

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

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

Your bows are amazing. I really like the red, white and blue one.

My Disney Trio - I somehow lost your quote but I really like the way you used the seersucker.

Greetings from WDW! DH got a rare weekend off and requested a short stay at the Beach Club. Who was I to say no?! lol

Rebecca asked for something Toy Story, and I managed to get this done at the last minute. She can wear it on the cruise too. It's a Simply Sweet with a tiers skirt to make it twirl well. We recieved tons of compliments yesterday, even from other kids who kept shouting "it's Jessie!". I love th SS pattern, this went together in just over 2, uninterrupted because everyone was asleep, hours.

Love this dress, and the picture of your DD. Hope you had a great time in WDW. How come my DH never says "lets go to Disney for the weekend"?

I love the seersucker outfits and the jessie outfit is just too too cute.

I actually have something to share. This is a quick shirt I made DD for International Day she wanted something blue and saw this in my stash. It is pre-shirred so I just needed to sew a straight seam and add the ribbon.

Here are the 2 machines on the table we made. The table sits on 2 expedit shelves from IKEA I am going to put some of my fabric and projects in progress on the bookshelf and todays project is to clean the wall.There were bookcases across there for years.

I really like this shirt. Your sewing room is coming together very nicely.

Thought I would share the one thing I have managed to sew in the last few months. Its from the Girl's World book and it turned out so cute! DD loves it and I would definitely make it again. The picture really doesn't do it justice.

Beautiful dress (and model).

Just finished up this Steps dress. These are some of the most involved designs I've digitized, but I am really pleased with how they turned out! Other than that the dress went together easy peasy - gotta love the simply sweet!

You did a wonderful job on this dress and the designs.

Thought I'd share my first attempt at converting a pair of jeans with irreparable holes in the legs into something cute - DD2's Memorial Day parade outfit, inspired by the super-cute Minnie tee from Old Navy. Ignore the scraped-up face, DD had yet another mishap trying to keep up with her big brother & sister over the holiday weekend.

This skirt looks really cute, great job.

This is what I made this weekend

I will trim the ribbon later. Still have to top stitch, but I know some people were wanting a Rapunzel Dress. Sorry about Pippi in the photo-I think she wanted to play with the ribbon.

This came out really nice. Thanks for sharing.

 

[DMGeurts]

Warning...I am on my way to install the nursery...wish me luck! I'm hoping to get some great pictures. I saw a sneak peak of the room, and they got it painted perfectly! The furniture is there and it is only waiting on my handiwork to complete...

This little guy is going to be surrounded by so much love! Even his older brother (all of 4 years old) helped to paint and 'place' the furniture. And his two older sisters picked the colors of the room.

Now, we are off to throw a 'put together the nursery ' party and lunch. (two moms and 6 kids)




Nini

I can't wait to see all the pictures! I know you've been working so hard on this project!

I am SO grateful you said this!!! I didn't even THINK about oiling or cleaning the machine. I am going to a fabric store today for practice and pillowcase materials--I will make sure to ask them to also hook me up with oil or mini brushes or anything I might need to clean the machine.

I'm happy to have reminded you. Actually, I know I am kind of new to sewing, but I really thought it was important for me to know how my machine functions and how to do basic maintenance on it. However, if my machine was a newer computerized model - I don't think I would feel the same way and I'd leave it to the professionals. However, if there were only a few screws to undo - I'd probably investigate to see if I could do it. LOL Sometimes I am way more visual than I should be.

D - these are actually done by embroidery machine. But I say go for it! I've found when appliqueing by hand that it is much easier if they are bigger. No tight corners and all that. And I just do the faces with paint!

That's good to know too... since somday I hope to own an embroidery machine too... It didn't come for my birthday... but I did get some cash to put a dent in the price tag, and make it halfway sort of affordable.

Does anyone want to be my friend on Facebook? I see people mention it every once in a while and always mean to ask...
I'm www.Facebook.com/marianne.ps.stern

I sent you a friend request on FB... I love having all my Disboutiquers as friends - cause then I get to see all there projects more.

D~

 

[SallyfromDE]

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I have never thought to cut the shirt apart. The way I learned was to turn it inside out and either hoop or spray onto the stabilizer the area your are going to monogram. Does that make sense. Check out appliquecafeblog. Rosemary is really good at explaining things like this. I guess I am allowed to post that. If not I can take it off.

What size shirt are you working on and the size of the hoop? Maybe we can get a better picture of what your having trouble with.

Thanks everyone so much for the advice everyone! I'm convinced to start with a basic pillowcase. The PJ pants sound like such a nice idea--with the big bonus of having PJ pants at the end, so that will be next, after a few pillowcases.

I do think I'll start with this pillowcase and donate them if they turn out well--I found another more basic pattern here... (of course I miss the "BASIC" one... haha) and I found the diagram pretty helpful. Question.. on conkerrcancer.org they mentioned making sure that you fix the seams to keep from fraying. Does that mean to just, like, use fraycheck? I know my grandma swears that her overcaster is necessary for EVERYTHING but that seems unlikely. I'm not sure what's an acceptable standard!

Lesson #1 learned: Michael's (at least the one near me) does not carry fabric. Haha. I'll let you guys know how the pillowcases go this week, once I find some fabric downtown!!! Thanks again! Your stuff is so inspirational to me!

It would probably be okay to just zigzag the seams. I think that is what we did back in the olden days, before sergers.

 

[DisneyTeacher01]

Does anyone want to be my friend on Facebook? I see people mention it every once in a while and always mean to ask...
I'm www.Facebook.com/marianne.ps.stern

I sent you a friend request

~Jennifer

 

[mphalens]

I sent you a friend request on FB... I love having all my Disboutiquers as friends - cause then I get to see all there projects more.

D~

Thanks! That was totally my thinking

And thanks to the other friend requests I saw in my email too... Off to Facebook now and I can't wait to "see" you all there too!

 

[micki1881]

Thank You everyone for the responses to my hooping t shirt problem. I was able to successfully applique a tank top yesterday so that boosted my spirits. I just need to continue to fiddle around with my machine and the t shirts, till I find my stride.

 

[jas0202]

Popping in with some photos of what I made for my best friend's trip to Disneyworld next month. She had massive heart surgery and was away from her kids in ICU for a month, and is finally healthy. She promised her kids that when she got healthy that they would go to Disney. This has been a long road and I wanted to make a few things to make their trip extra special.

These are for the mom...family minnie head (Heather's) tank, medium rosetta bag, and a tank with heather's princess motif.

For the dad, he gets a family mickey head tee. He didn't want anything else, but I had comic strip mickey fabric, and found this easy toiletry bag pattern and did his monogram in disney font on the side, it's hard to see...doesn't show up the best. Oops!

Their oldest child was a former student in my kindergarten classroom. He's now going into 6th grade! He also gets the family mickey head tee, then a few star wars disney tees (digitalbydesign)

The oldest girl is going into 4th grade, she gets the family minnie head tank, then heather's disney girl on a tee with a matching twirl skirt, and a halter simply sweet with a belle twist (Kira's belle)

And finally for the youngest, she's entering kindergarten, and has the same as her big sis, except a rapunzel halter SS dress.

This was so much fun for me, and I just can't wait to see them in all of the clothes. I shipped it last week and heard that the box came to them today, they are waiting for their dad to come home to open it!

 

[DMGeurts]

Yes, two days in a row - I am quoting myself... Stay tuned for an apology...

I sent you a friend request on FB... I love having all my Disboutiquers as friends - cause then I get to see all there projects more.

D~

Well, I confess, one of my biggest pet peeves is the improper use of "there, their, they're" and "to, too, two"... so I went and did it myself.

No, I am not an English teacher. And I would never think to correct anyone on it... but whenever I see it the wrong way, mentally, I correct it. I don't know why, I just do.

So, I apologize to anyone else out there, who might be just like me, reading this and seeing that I spelled "there" instead of "their"... consider this me correcting mysef.

Back to your regularily scheduled programming.

D~ (thanks for being so accepting of my, somtimes, strange ways)

 

[DMGeurts]

Popping in with some photos of what I made for my best friend's trip to Disneyworld next month. She had massive heart surgery and was away from her kids in ICU for a month, and is finally healthy. She promised her kids that when she got healthy that they would go to Disney. This has been a long road and I wanted to make a few things to make their trip extra special.

These are for the mom...family minnie head (Heather's) tank, medium rosetta bag, and a tank with heather's princess motif.

For the dad, he gets a family mickey head tee. He didn't want anything else, but I had comic strip mickey fabric, and found this easy toiletry bag pattern and did his monogram in disney font on the side, it's hard to see...doesn't show up the best. Oops!

Their oldest child was a former student in my kindergarten classroom. He's now going into 6th grade! He also gets the family mickey head tee, then a few star wars disney tees (digitalbydesign)

The oldest girl is going into 4th grade, she gets the family minnie head tank, then heather's disney girl on a tee with a matching twirl skirt, and a halter simply sweet with a belle twist (Kira's belle)

And finally for the youngest, she's entering kindergarten, and has the same as her big sis, except a rapunzel halter SS dress.

This was so much fun for me, and I just can't wait to see them in all of the clothes. I shipped it last week and heard that the box came to them today, they are waiting for their dad to come home to open it!

WOW!!!!! I love everything! What a fabulous thing you did for this family! I love the little dresses and skirts for the girls... and the toiletry bag - EVERYTHING!!!

You'll have to tell us how much they love it when they open the box!

Oh and I almost forgot about the Rosetta bag... A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!! But everyone knows how much I love the Rosettta - I don't think I've ever met one I didn't like! Hehehehe.

D~

 

[dianemom2]

I just bought instructions for the rosetta bag a couple of weeks ago. I have a bunch of other projects in line before I start on it but I am looking forward to trying it out.

Today I finished two shirts for a customer and another romper for dd's teacher. This same teacher had my older daughter last year and was WONDERFUL to her. Gave her lots of extra time and attention which helped her move ahead to an advanced math class. My older daughter's favorite animal is the flamingo, so I made a flamingo romper for the teacher's baby. Here are a few pictures:

Here is the reverse side:

Then I found the cute little socks that match the material when I was at Joanns this morning buying what I needed for the new BG. The BG items are next on my to do list.

 

[mphalens]

Popping in with some photos of what I made for my best friend's trip to Disneyworld next month. She had massive heart surgery and was away from her kids in ICU for a month, and is finally healthy. She promised her kids that when she got healthy that they would go to Disney. This has been a long road and I wanted to make a few things to make their trip extra special.

These are for the mom...family minnie head (Heather's) tank, medium rosetta bag, and a tank with heather's princess motif.

For the dad, he gets a family mickey head tee. He didn't want anything else, but I had comic strip mickey fabric, and found this easy toiletry bag pattern and did his monogram in disney font on the side, it's hard to see...doesn't show up the best. Oops!

Their oldest child was a former student in my kindergarten classroom. He's now going into 6th grade! He also gets the family mickey head tee, then a few star wars disney tees (digitalbydesign)

The oldest girl is going into 4th grade, she gets the family minnie head tank, then heather's disney girl on a tee with a matching twirl skirt, and a halter simply sweet with a belle twist (Kira's belle)

And finally for the youngest, she's entering kindergarten, and has the same as her big sis, except a rapunzel halter SS dress.

This was so much fun for me, and I just can't wait to see them in all of the clothes. I shipped it last week and heard that the box came to them today, they are waiting for their dad to come home to open it!

That is so sweet of you to do for them! Everything looks fabulous too!

I love that Mickey comic strip fabric... I wish I could find it!

Yes, two days in a row - I am quoting myself... Stay tuned for an apology...



Well, I confess, one of my biggest pet peeves is the improper use of "there, their, they're" and "to, too, two"... so I went and did it myself.

No, I am not an English teacher. And I would never think to correct anyone on it... but whenever I see it the wrong way, mentally, I correct it. I don't know why, I just do.

So, I apologize to anyone else out there, who might be just like me, reading this and seeing that I spelled "there" instead of "their"... consider this me correcting mysef.

Back to your regularily scheduled programming.

D~ (thanks for being so accepting of my, somtimes, strange ways)

LOL! I was an English major and I have to confess, I didn't notice until you pointed it out. What's that thing that goes around Facebook every so often? It talks about how our brain fills in when we read so as long as the idea is there the brain reads it correctly?

 

[OhStuffandFluff]

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. Apparently I was more interested in my kiddos.

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

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

Those bows are adorable! The outfits and girls in them are adorable as well!! You are sooo talented!!