Disboutiquers Part 27 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[tinkerbell3747]

Hi Everyone - been a rough couple of days this week - surely missing my Zoey girl more than I could imagine. Thank you for all the kind messages that you have emailed me and sent on Facebook - thank you for understanding that she was more than just my doggie, but my baby, my friend, my companion. We also will say goodbye to Bill's uncle on Monday - he and Zoey died within a few hours of each other on Thursday am - kinda crazy. Uncle Herb was Tim, Eliz and Hannah's grandfather. Thanks for all the prayers.

On another note - there are still some things up for grabs for Jayden's Big Give - I really hope we can make these twins feel extra special - so if you could come over and sign up, it'd be so great. I know they would appreciate it for sure
http://disbiggive.proboards.com/index.cgi

Wendy

Hi Wendy,

I've been super busy the past couple of weeks....so sorry for your losses. I am keeping your family in my prayers.

I'll have to go back and catch up on everything. I've been sketching out DD customs for our trip and freaking out cause I really need to get my supplies here ASAP including my PE770.

I know it will all work itself out though....I just have no patience

 

[billwendy]

Hi Wendy,

I've been super busy the past couple of weeks....so sorry for your losses. I am keeping your family in my prayers.

I'll have to go back and catch up on everything. I've been sketching out DD customs for our trip and freaking out cause I really need to get my supplies here ASAP including my PE770.

I know it will all work itself out though....I just have no patience

Thanks Girlie - I wish I could transport myself to Grand Cayman right now!!!

 

[weluvdizne]

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Bows & Clothes and SweetPeas have some and Heather has the Mickey Head with the Chef's hat.

I have purchased some designs from SweetPeas as she has some cute ones but I am not a fan of how many thread changes some of the designs call for.

thanks Michelle, good to know.

 

[weluvdizne]

Hi Everyone - been a rough couple of days this week - surely missing my Zoey girl more than I could imagine. Thank you for all the kind messages that you have emailed me and sent on Facebook - thank you for understanding that she was more than just my doggie, but my baby, my friend, my companion. We also will say goodbye to Bill's uncle on Monday - he and Zoey died within a few hours of each other on Thursday am - kinda crazy. Uncle Herb was Tim, Eliz and Hannah's grandfather. Thanks for all the prayers.


Wendy

Oh Wendy, I'm so sorry! I'm not on FB, so I didn't know. I know how important Zoey was in your life, and I am really sorry for your loss. Sorry about Bill's uncle as well. Lot's of hugs to your family.

 

[mommy2mrb]

Nyquil has been putting me to sleep - lol - I wanted to make sure I didnt wake up in the middle of the night

Prayers for you and Meg's today especially Lisa

do whatever you need to do to sleep my friend sleep is so important during a time like this!

thank you for our prayers too Wendy! helps knowing we have so many friends there for us

 

[LittleBlackRaincloud]

Double post...see below.

 

[LittleBlackRaincloud]

I bought the 780D. I think it's really the 770 with Disney designs. I would have gone to another shop to buy my machine, but my Mother was lending me the $$ for it and she liked to shop at this one store and she didn't have the 770 on hand, but the 780D was brand new. Who can argue with Mom? I used to have the 180 also and loved it, that's also why I stuck with the Disney machine. I had even converted my dear Mother into a fan.

I'll look into that one. Thank you! I love my 180, and don't know if I'll have have another Bernina, they are priced out of my range now that I have 3 kids! I think I'm going to ask for the embroidery machine for Mother's Day.
That Belle bag is fantastic! I've never made a bag. They look complicated. You all are making want to try one though.


Wendy-Hugs and prayers for you while you heal from the hurt of your loss. I'm so sorry.



You all said that you like pictures. I hope you don't mind a progress one. I just finished the smocking for DD's Mickey outfit, and I'm fixin to start embellishing it with bows, bullion roses, beads, and buttons. It's not completely even in this photo but I won't do the final blocking of it until after I embellish it. Does anyone else here smock?

 

[smile5sunshine]

Hi Everyone - been a rough couple of days this week - surely missing my Zoey girl more than I could imagine. Thank you for all the kind messages that you have emailed me and sent on Facebook - thank you for understanding that she was more than just my doggie, but my baby, my friend, my companion. We also will say goodbye to Bill's uncle on Monday - he and Zoey died within a few hours of each other on Thursday am - kinda crazy. Uncle Herb was Tim, Eliz and Hannah's grandfather. Thanks for all the prayers.

Wendy

oh wendy I am so sorry to hear about you loosing your sweet Zoey. Many thoughts and prayers coming your way.

Hello to everyone else! I joined back in November(?) I think but then I got swamped with life/Christmas/New Year stuff so have just been lurking along since I haven't had much time to even THINK about sewing. You all have created such amazing things there is WTMTQ! Keep up the wonderful job!

*back to lurking*
Sunshine

 

[mphalens]

Now that the recipient has received my latest Big Give items, I can share them here

We had a fabulous fabulous time at the Pirate's League on our trip, so when I heard that Keira & her little brother, Cooper, would be doing Pirate's League I jumped at the chance to make them coordinating pirate outfits

Keira's Outfit:

Just the shirt:

Brother's outfit:

Close up of t-shirt applique:

Back of vest:

Both outfits together:

The items were all new patterns for me except for Cooper's Pirate Pants (those are Carla C's Easy Fit pattern and I used pinking shears on the bottoms for the jagged edges).
Keira's shirt is a Carla C's Portrait Peasant with the elongated bodice, ruffled edge neck and 3/4 length sleeve. I used Andrea's idea of bias tape inside the sleeve to make a casing for the elastic to give it the ruffled cuff (Thanks Andrea!!!).
The skirt is a Scrap Fabric Tutu. I used THIS tutorial that I found on Pinterest.
The corset is my own design but I looked at lots of different ones online for inspiration.
Cooper's vest is from THIS Pirate Vest Tutorial from DanaMadeIt.com. I used fleece bias tape for my red trip

Anyway, I had a blast making these and I really challenged myself with all the new things I had to do to make them - but the kids (and mom) love them, so I'm super super happy!


Now I need to make my boys their Valentine's Day shirts. It's so hard to come up with ideas!!! I don't have an embroidery machine or a serger . . .

I think I've decided on a Conversation Heart shirt for Finn (grey long sleeve shirt, pink heart, red letters that say KISS ME) and a Hershey Kiss with 25¢ on it for Phalen (he's harder - he is super picky because he doesn't want it to appear "girlie" ). . .anyone have a different idea???

 

[weluvdizne]

Keira's Outfit:

Just the shirt:

Brother's outfit:

Close up of t-shirt applique:

Back of vest:

Both outfits together:

I think I've decided on a Conversation Heart shirt for Finn (grey long sleeve shirt, pink heart, red letters that say KISS ME) and a Hershey Kiss with 25¢ on it for Phalen (he's harder - he is super picky because he doesn't want it to appear "girlie" ). . .anyone have a different idea???

WOW....JUST WOW!!!Those outfits are both super awesome! You did such an awesome job on both of those outfits. Nice job, and so sweet of you to help make their trip extra special.
Glad to hear you had such fun doing the pirate league. My oldest who is super shy and doesn't want any attention on him at all, has finally decided that he might try the pirate league on our next trip.


As for your boys V-day shirts, I think the ideas sound good. I don't think they are girly at all. It is so hard to keep things masculine enough for the boys anyway, but V-day always adds an added bit of difficulty. But, I think your ideas sound good! Can't wait to see the finished products. You do such a good job by hand, Im sure they will be great!

 

[Pocahontis]

Does anyone else here smock?

Wow, gorgeous smocking!! I just learned how to shirr, which is of course not smocking, but I am loving having this new option for the things I make. Someday I hope to learn how to smock. It looks so time consuming.

 

[Pocahontis]

Now that the recipient has received my latest Big Give items, I can share them here

We had a fabulous fabulous time at the Pirate's League on our trip, so when I heard that Keira & her little brother, Cooper, would be doing Pirate's League I jumped at the chance to make them coordinating pirate outfits

Keira's Outfit:

Just the shirt:

Brother's outfit:

Close up of t-shirt applique:

Back of vest:

Both outfits together:

The items were all new patterns for me except for Cooper's Pirate Pants (those are Carla C's Easy Fit pattern and I used pinking shears on the bottoms for the jagged edges).
Keira's shirt is a Carla C's Portrait Peasant with the elongated bodice, ruffled edge neck and 3/4 length sleeve. I used Andrea's idea of bias tape inside the sleeve to make a casing for the elastic to give it the ruffled cuff (Thanks Andrea!!!).
The skirt is a Scrap Fabric Tutu. I used THIS tutorial that I found on Pinterest.
The corset is my own design but I looked at lots of different ones online for inspiration.
Cooper's vest is from THIS Pirate Vest Tutorial from DanaMadeIt.com. I used fleece bias tape for my red trip

Anyway, I had a blast making these and I really challenged myself with all the new things I had to do to make them - but the kids (and mom) love them, so I'm super super happy!


Now I need to make my boys their Valentine's Day shirts. It's so hard to come up with ideas!!! I don't have an embroidery machine or a serger . . .

I think I've decided on a Conversation Heart shirt for Finn (grey long sleeve shirt, pink heart, red letters that say KISS ME) and a Hershey Kiss with 25¢ on it for Phalen (he's harder - he is super picky because he doesn't want it to appear "girlie" ). . .anyone have a different idea???

Super cute! Good job
Maybe Phalen wouldn't mind a heart with an arrow through it! And the phrase "Just call me cupid." An arrow is not girliy at all, ha

 

[miprender]

I'm not sure what a grace dress is or a crisscross dress, but they sound interesting, anyone got a pic of these dresses?

Thanks again for your suggestions, I'm starting to get excited now

You can find those patterns on YouCanMakeThis.com They have some awesome patterns.

Here is the CrissCross dress I did for my DD

My niece Courtney is leaving for Disney Sunday morning and I wanted to do a Belle bag for her as a surprise. I can see not, there is a smudge right in the middle of my lens when I took the picture. Oh well, back is at Courts getting ready for vacation. I could have used D to help me with the fabrics, because I couldn't find thing in the yellow gold family and was totally stumped for the lining. She does such a great job at that.

It wasn't complicated. I can usually just look at a pattern and put it together. But I had to follow the steps as I went for this one. Kirsta wants one, and I think I need a Tinkerbelle for myself. But I bet D's wasn't this involved.

That came out great.

Now that the recipient has received my latest Big Give items, I can share them here

We had a fabulous fabulous time at the Pirate's League on our trip, so when I heard that Keira & her little brother, Cooper, would be doing Pirate's League I jumped at the chance to make them coordinating pirate outfits

Keira's Outfit:

Just the shirt:

Brother's outfit:

Close up of t-shirt applique:

The items were all new patterns for me except for Cooper's Pirate Pants (those are Carla C's Easy Fit pattern and I used pinking shears on the bottoms for the jagged edges).
Keira's shirt is a Carla C's Portrait Peasant with the elongated bodice, ruffled edge neck and 3/4 length sleeve. I used Andrea's idea of bias tape inside the sleeve to make a casing for the elastic to give it the ruffled cuff (Thanks Andrea!!!).
The skirt is a Scrap Fabric Tutu. I used THIS tutorial that I found on Pinterest.
The corset is my own design but I looked at lots of different ones online for inspiration.
Cooper's vest is from THIS Pirate Vest Tutorial from DanaMadeIt.com. I used fleece bias tape for my red trip

Anyway, I had a blast making these and I really challenged myself with all the new things I had to do to make them - but the kids (and mom) love them, so I'm super super happy!


Now I need to make my boys their Valentine's Day shirts. It's so hard to come up with ideas!!! I don't have an embroidery machine or a serger . . .

I think I've decided on a Conversation Heart shirt for Finn (grey long sleeve shirt, pink heart, red letters that say KISS ME) and a Hershey Kiss with 25¢ on it for Phalen (he's harder - he is super picky because he doesn't want it to appear "girlie" ). . .anyone have a different idea???

Those came out "wicked" good! Love those outfits

 

[dianemom2]

You all said that you like pictures. I hope you don't mind a progress one. I just finished the smocking for DD's Mickey outfit, and I'm fixin to start embellishing it with bows, bullion roses, beads, and buttons. It's not completely even in this photo but I won't do the final blocking of it until after I embellish it. Does anyone else here smock?

That's awesome! I've never done any hand smocking but I have done some machine smocking that turned out great. There used to be a website where the woman sold a lot of Disney themed embroidery machine smocking designs. It has disappeared but I bought several while she was still around. I'll see if I can find a picture of one of my projects. I have several more projects planned but never seem to get to them. LOL! I have a friend with a smocking pleater and she said she'd pleat the front of a dress for me to do in the embroidery machine.

Both outfits together:

The items were all new patterns for me except for Cooper's Pirate Pants (those are Carla C's Easy Fit pattern and I used pinking shears on the bottoms for the jagged edges).
Keira's shirt is a Carla C's Portrait Peasant with the elongated bodice, ruffled edge neck and 3/4 length sleeve. I used Andrea's idea of bias tape inside the sleeve to make a casing for the elastic to give it the ruffled cuff (Thanks Andrea!!!).


Anyway, I had a blast making these and I really challenged myself with all the new things I had to do to make them - but the kids (and mom) love them, so I'm super super happy!

I think I've decided on a Conversation Heart shirt for Finn (grey long sleeve shirt, pink heart, red letters that say KISS ME) and a Hershey Kiss with 25¢ on it for Phalen (he's harder - he is super picky because he doesn't want it to appear "girlie" ). . .anyone have a different idea???

The pirate outfits turned out adorable! My daughter just walked by and said, "Those are sooooooooo cute!" It is great that you challenged yourself with all these new things and it turned out so well. I would imagine that the kids were thrilled with what you sent!

I love the ideas for your boys Valentine's Day shirts. Can't wait to see them.

Ok, I just looked around on the computer and found the pictures of the smocking that I did on the embroidery machine. I was pretty happy with how it turned out. Obviously no where near as nice as hand smocking but since I don't know how to do that, this worked for me.

 

[lovesdumbo]

Hi Everyone - been a rough couple of days this week - surely missing my Zoey girl more than I could imagine. Thank you for all the kind messages that you have emailed me and sent on Facebook - thank you for understanding that she was more than just my doggie, but my baby, my friend, my companion. We also will say goodbye to Bill's uncle on Monday - he and Zoey died within a few hours of each other on Thursday am - kinda crazy. Uncle Herb was Tim, Eliz and Hannah's grandfather. Thanks for all the prayers.

On another note - there are still some things up for grabs for Jayden's Big Give - I really hope we can make these twins feel extra special - so if you could come over and sign up, it'd be so great. I know they would appreciate it for sure
http://disbiggive.proboards.com/index.cgi

Wendy

Wendy I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

[billwendy]

That princess smocking is AMAZING!!!

So I was trying to stitch, and my embroidery machine wheel stopped turning and made an awful sound and the safety device was activated....what the heck is going on here - I cant do anything right at all lately!!! UGH!!

Could really use some help with Jayden's big give - fleece blankets, scrapbook, pin trading stuff, backpacks - what ever you'd like to give - thanks friends -

 

[Meshell2002]

I'll look into that one. Thank you! I love my 180, and don't know if I'll have have another Bernina, they are priced out of my range now that I have 3 kids! I think I'm going to ask for the embroidery machine for Mother's Day.
That Belle bag is fantastic! I've never made a bag. They look complicated. You all are making want to try one though.


Wendy-Hugs and prayers for you while you heal from the hurt of your loss. I'm so sorry.



You all said that you like pictures. I hope you don't mind a progress one. I just finished the smocking for DD's Mickey outfit, and I'm fixin to start embellishing it with bows, bullion roses, beads, and buttons. It's not completely even in this photo but I won't do the final blocking of it until after I embellish it. Does anyone else here smock?

I smock too! it looks great.....I posted DD3's bishop the week of Christmas on this thread (page 125)....you might be my sewing twin since we both have a 180 and smock

I've been going through my patterns for smocked items to get ready for spring....best thing to do when its cold outside.

Have to be careful though.....DH already knows I bought some smocked dresses at the semiannual clothing cosignment (its cheaper to buy gently used than make it myself sometimes). I got like 4 dresses for $10 each! If I use patterns I already have he'll be ok w/ it

That's awesome! I've never done any hand smocking but I have done some machine smocking that turned out great. There used to be a website where the woman sold a lot of Disney themed embroidery machine smocking designs. It has disappeared but I bought several while she was still around. I'll see if I can find a picture of one of my projects. I have several more projects planned but never seem to get to them. LOL! I have a friend with a smocking pleater and she said she'd pleat the front of a dress for me to do in the embroidery machine.



The pirate outfits turned out adorable! My daughter just walked by and said, "Those are sooooooooo cute!" It is great that you challenged yourself with all these new things and it turned out so well. I would imagine that the kids were thrilled with what you sent!

I love the ideas for your boys Valentine's Day shirts. Can't wait to see them.

Ok, I just looked around on the computer and found the pictures of the smocking that I did on the embroidery machine. I was pretty happy with how it turned out. Obviously no where near as nice as hand smocking but since I don't know how to do that, this worked for me.

I had no idea machines could smock....does it still have to be pleated? looks like it to me.

 

[PatchPixie]

We had a great (but too short) trip in December, but came home to a flooded basement and a lot of hassle I haven't been sewing a whole lot since we've been back, but I plan to soon!!
Everyone loved the girls' outfits They did look adorable, I must say!!

I loved the occasional hand-made outfit I'd see in the parks! Seems like you see them a lot more than just a few years ago.

I love the Pirate outfits!!!!! Wish my girls were more into pirates.... I'm impressed by smocking but I'm totally clueless about it - looks very hard!!

Hoping to keep the magic of our trip alive by still allowing Disney to influence my sewing/designing here and there. I'm hoping I'll be able to contribute to a Big Give sometime soon as well.

Looking forward to warmer weather so I can do more dying/batiking - I miss it!!

 

[RMAMom]

WENDY~ I am so very sorry for your loss of Zoey. I know how heart breaking it is to lose your baby and I know the void you have without her. My prayers for peace to you and Bill for the loss of your furbaby and Uncle Bill.

 

[VBAndrea]

My niece Courtney is leaving for Disney Sunday morning and I wanted to do a Belle bag for her as a surprise. I can see not, there is a smudge right in the middle of my lens when I took the picture. Oh well, back is at Courts getting ready for vacation. I could have used D to help me with the fabrics, because I couldn't find thing in the yellow gold family and was totally stumped for the lining. She does such a great job at that.

I added 2 padded pockets to the inside, my Fossil bag has this, and I love it. Works great, camera one side, cell the other. All I had to do was reach inside. Nice deep pocket in the front for park maps.

I know D will find it hard not thinking I stole her idea, but I had been thinking of this for awhile. It was this style, or the one with the flap. I came across both patterns and was trying to decide when D posted her fabulous handbags. Which pushed me even more to want to work on a bag for Courtney.

I did change the pattern up some. I didn't like that the embroidered peice goes under the bag, so I added a band at the bottom. And I wanted to use stapping for a handle. Don't ask why, I just like that. I wanted to make a small loop in the back part of the bag, so it could be hung or picked up. Something I like. But I didn't get enough strapping. You can see on Kirsta it's kind of long. But Court is a pretty tall girl and it works great for her.

It wasn't complicated. I can usually just look at a pattern and put it together. But I had to follow the steps as I went for this one. Kirsta wants one, and I think I need a Tinkerbelle for myself. But I bet D's wasn't this involved.

That turned out gorgeous! Beautiful applique, fabrics and love the pockets! I still need to find the time to make myself a new bag. I promised myself this year I would only sign up for every other BG and it already backfired as I'm doing two in row (I didn't do much for one though so that's my justification).

Hi Everyone - been a rough couple of days this week - surely missing my Zoey girl more than I could imagine. Thank you for all the kind messages that you have emailed me and sent on Facebook - thank you for understanding that she was more than just my doggie, but my baby, my friend, my companion. We also will say goodbye to Bill's uncle on Monday - he and Zoey died within a few hours of each other on Thursday am - kinda crazy. Uncle Herb was Tim, Eliz and Hannah's grandfather. Thanks for all the prayers.

On another note - there are still some things up for grabs for Jayden's Big Give - I really hope we can make these twins feel extra special - so if you could come over and sign up, it'd be so great. I know they would appreciate it for sure
http://disbiggive.proboards.com/index.cgi

Wendy

Marianne told me about Zoey but I am so sorry for the loss of Bill's Uncle as well. My thoughts are with you during this very difficult time.

do whatever you need to do to sleep my friend sleep is so important during a time like this!

thank you for our prayers too Wendy! helps knowing we have so many friends there for us

I tried to post a quick note to you on Judy's TR yesterday and Dis was uncooperative, but please know I have been thinking of you and Megan as well.

You all said that you like pictures. I hope you don't mind a progress one. I just finished the smocking for DD's Mickey outfit, and I'm fixin to start embellishing it with bows, bullion roses, beads, and buttons. It's not completely even in this photo but I won't do the final blocking of it until after I embellish it. Does anyone else here smock?

Wow! Very impressive! I do not smock -- I think it would try my patience a wee bit too much and I would be cursing instead of smocking (and I'm not one to curse!). I am amazed at how awesome that looks!

Now that the recipient has received my latest Big Give items, I can share them here

We had a fabulous fabulous time at the Pirate's League on our trip, so when I heard that Keira & her little brother, Cooper, would be doing Pirate's League I jumped at the chance to make them coordinating pirate outfits

Keira's Outfit:

Brother's outfit:

Back of vest:

The items were all new patterns for me except for Cooper's Pirate Pants (those are Carla C's Easy Fit pattern and I used pinking shears on the bottoms for the jagged edges).
Keira's shirt is a Carla C's Portrait Peasant with the elongated bodice, ruffled edge neck and 3/4 length sleeve. I used Andrea's idea of bias tape inside the sleeve to make a casing for the elastic to give it the ruffled cuff (Thanks Andrea!!!).
The skirt is a Scrap Fabric Tutu. I used THIS tutorial that I found on Pinterest.
The corset is my own design but I looked at lots of different ones online for inspiration.
Cooper's vest is from THIS Pirate Vest Tutorial from DanaMadeIt.com. I used fleece bias tape for my red trip

Anyway, I had a blast making these and I really challenged myself with all the new things I had to do to make them - but the kids (and mom) love them, so I'm super super happy!


Now I need to make my boys their Valentine's Day shirts. It's so hard to come up with ideas!!! I don't have an embroidery machine or a serger . . .

I think I've decided on a Conversation Heart shirt for Finn (grey long sleeve shirt, pink heart, red letters that say KISS ME) and a Hershey Kiss with 25¢ on it for Phalen (he's harder - he is super picky because he doesn't want it to appear "girlie" ). . .anyone have a different idea???

Those were the little smilies that were missing on the BG board! I will have to go peek at the ptr because I bet the kids look great in the outfits. Did the skirt take absolutely forever to do? I know you said the pinking was tedious. How many strips did you have to do? I have that skirt marked on pinterest. And don't you love the Portrait Peasant -- it's so easy and very versatile. I always doctor it up.

I am stumped for boys for VD. I just make dd things and dress ds in a plain red shirt.

That princess smocking is AMAZING!!!

So I was trying to stitch, and my embroidery machine wheel stopped turning and made an awful sound and the safety device was activated....what the heck is going on here - I cant do anything right at all lately!!! UGH!!

Could really use some help with Jayden's big give - fleece blankets, scrapbook, pin trading stuff, backpacks - what ever you'd like to give - thanks friends -

on the embroidery machine! I get so scared that mine will do that one of these days.