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

[belle41379]

I finished my decoupage princess jeans!!! WooHoo! One item done, many many more to go!

These are so cute! Perfect for a winter Disney trip. How did you make them????

Wanted to share what I made for Barbara's auction now that it is posted.

Sometimes you need to sew just to be creative and destress

I love how this came out.

Now I need to work on some other projects and I still need to make a list of things for our trip in about 50 days.

this is darling! I'll be going shopping for Christmas fabrics very soon. As you can see in my signature...not much time left!!

We're back...well, we've been back for almost 2 weeks. I got sick in Disney and then it got worse when we got back so I haven't done much of anything! We did have a great time! and I will post pics of my daughter whenever I finally get them on my computer! Plus I have a lot of catching up to do on here! I've been MIA for about 3 weeks!
I did make another princess dress for a customer right before we left..I like the way it turned out.

And I just finished up her last order early this week. (It took me about a week to get enough strength/motivation to get back to sewing). I love how this turned out! I don't do much applique by hand anymore, but wanted this one to be big and I am so pleased with how it turned out!

Thanks for looking! Now back to the thread for me!

These turned out very beautiful.

 

[billwendy]

Hi Everyone! I know you are all very busy this time of the year! But I was wondering if a few more friends could come over and help with Evan's Big Give???? His Mommy could use a rosetta bag, and his baby sister Kiera could use a disney diaper bag! There are other things they could use too - these little ones LOVE the characters! There are also people who are making the tops and are hoping someone will help with the bottoms and vice versa. Please consider helping this little cutie pie!!!

Thanks for considering!

 

[aksunshine]

Working on my PTR!!!! Only FOUR weeks!!!!!!!!!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2791612

 

[aksunshine]

Wendy, I can whip up kids pants quick and easy!! I would offer a pair per child, but I don't see where they are needs. Only tops???? I will be there when they are!! I hope I run into them~!

 

[billwendy]

Wendy, I can whip up kids pants quick and easy!! I would offer a pair per child, but I don't see where they are needs. Only tops???? I will be there when they are!! I hope I run into them~!

Maybe to match their gingerbread mouse shirts? or, mommyof2princesses
is making a dress for Kiera and a shirt for Ev, so maybe a pair to match that top? They are going to MVMCP (a generous gift from a Big Giver) so I want to make sure they are decked out!!! ( : Let me know!!

 

[cydswipe]

I am having trouble figuring out my new machine. I am messing around before I do something "great" or expensive or anything out of my league.

I am having a horrible time. Help. Right now, I'm just using yellow thread w/ white bobbin thread. When it comes to the satin type stitch, it's ALL white. I've done the + - buttons and taken out the bobbin and "thought" I turned the screw correctly.

Any help out there! I could throw this machine at the wall.

 

[PurpleEars]

A few pics of recent stuff:
Easy-Fit Jeans I made dd:

The Christening gown I made "in action":

No homemade costumes this year, but here's our little Dragon Family heading out tonight:

Happy Halloween!
C.

Great outfits! What a cute dragon family!

I'M FINISHED!

Got everything done for our trip. Good thing cause we leave Sat.

Here's the last full outfit for DD.

I guess I missed it....but I never saw discussion about the last week of PR so I thought I'd show you which one was mine.

Now I get to finish packing, clear off the camera, get my oil changed tomorrow, and have a day or 2 to relax before we leave.

When we get back I have to finish a few more fall outfits for DD, and myself (all of these are non disney), and DD dress coat.

love all the outfits! TMTQ!

Both outfits are beautiful! I really liked the Toy Story dress!

Hey everyone! Love, love, love seeing all the Halloween cuteness! Thought I'd pop in and share my pirates! I made both their costumes - all except Caleb's hat and Ella's pettiskirt.

What a pair of cute pirates!

I finished Lydia's Grace Ruffle Dress the other day (AND found a camera AND batteries AND the card reader!!!). I love this pattern! Lydia decided to test my patience and picked the version with "ruffles ALL the way around!!!" (she said this while twirling around the living room, it was pretty cute!).

We then had some opposing ideas on the fabric placement (my version would have been more brown) which she won. I love the way it came out though, I think having green the prominent color really accents her pretty hair.

We are both thrilled with the dress!

This is beautiful!

Here is Alexa's Rapunzel dress. Definitely not my best work. I finished it in a few hours and she wasn't around to try it on as I sewed. Oh well, she loves it and that's all that matters, right?

I hope she had a great time as Rapunzel!

they went down to the swing so i snapped this from the carport...

~Beth~

That's super cute!

I just found this thread and can't help but quote my favorite mouse "oh boy!" I am def a novice seamstress but have a thing for fabric. I have hundreds of dollars worth of Disney fabric that was purchased for something special but got pushed aside. I'm hoping to dig through all of the threads and find some inspiration from you guys.

I was thinking of using most of the fabric I have to make a quilt and have solids on the quilt signed by the characters at the park. Has anyone ever done this?

I have done one with embroderied signatures that I collected and digitized. It wasn't too difficult to do.

Wanted to share what I made for Barbara's auction now that it is posted.

Sometimes you need to sew just to be creative and destress

I love how this came out.

Now I need to work on some other projects and I still need to make a list of things for our trip in about 50 days.

This set looks beautiful!

We're back...well, we've been back for almost 2 weeks. I got sick in Disney and then it got worse when we got back so I haven't done much of anything! We did have a great time! and I will post pics of my daughter whenever I finally get them on my computer! Plus I have a lot of catching up to do on here! I've been MIA for about 3 weeks!
I did make another princess dress for a customer right before we left..I like the way it turned out.

And I just finished up her last order early this week. (It took me about a week to get enough strength/motivation to get back to sewing). I love how this turned out! I don't do much applique by hand anymore, but wanted this one to be big and I am so pleased with how it turned out!

Thanks for looking! Now back to the thread for me!

Beautiful dresses! Sorry to hear that you were not feeling well.

I finished my decoupage princess jeans!!! WooHoo! One item done, many many more to go!

Great job on the jeans!

Coming out of lurkdom again...

So, it looks like the stars may be aligning, and I could possibly get my first embroidery machine. I know it's been discussed over and over and over on this thread (and even recently), but I would love recommendations since my parameters are a little different. There's about $1000 to play with here, but, of course, I'd like to spend the least amount possible. The leftover will go in the WDW fund. I'm sure I'll want the biggest hoop possible, but I also want to be able to pop in here with the (unavoidable) questions I'm sure I'll have. I was looking at the PE770 on Overstock after reading here and chatting with the oh-so-helpful Wendy a little bit last year, but I wanted some more thoughts, as I'm always second-guessing myself.

Aaaand, should I wait 'til after Thanksgiving? Ever see any deals? I definitely want to go the corporate route. I'm too paranoid to spend this much on eBay or Craigslist.

Don't have any suggestions but I want to say congrats!

These are just the Beatles outfits I made for the Fab Faux concert (still need to get some better pics of Halloween costumes). ETA I swear I resized the pics in Photobucket so I have no clue why they remain huge!

Wow! Those outfits looked great!

Okay here is the finished crayon roll

Rolled up

That looks great too!


Attending this conference has taken a lot more energy than I had anticipated (hence the reason why I haven't kept up with this thread). Having 2 presentations on back to back days probably didn't help. At least I got positive feedback from the audience for the work. I got to meet a lot of people too (over 2000 attendees) so it was wonderful. I didn't get into the parks as much as I would have liked, but at least I got to ride a few headliners over the last week. The last hour or 90 minutes before park close was very productive. A number of CM's and guests commented on my Minnie Rosetta bag. I saw Minnie last night too but my camera batteries died! I only got a terrible cell phone pic as a result. Tomorrow is the last day at the conference and it will be a half day. Unfortunately it will be raining so I don't know if I will be up for running around the parks. At least DH and I will be back in Feb, so it's no big deal if I don't get to do as much as I would have liked. I guess I should plan my sewing for that trip!

 

[aksunshine]

Maybe to match their gingerbread mouse shirts? or, mommyof2princesses
is making a dress for Kiera and a shirt for Ev, so maybe a pair to match that top? They are going to MVMCP (a generous gift from a Big Giver) so I want to make sure they are decked out!!! ( : Let me know!!

Christmas pants would be perfect!! Let me know what colors! I can do the pair for MVMCP!! I am swamped with my trip coming up or I would do all 3.

 

[RMAMom]

I am having trouble figuring out my new machine. I am messing around before I do something "great" or expensive or anything out of my league.

I am having a horrible time. Help. Right now, I'm just using yellow thread w/ white bobbin thread. When it comes to the satin type stitch, it's ALL white. I've done the + - buttons and taken out the bobbin and "thought" I turned the screw correctly.

Any help out there! I could throw this machine at the wall.

If your saying that your bobbin thread is showing on top than that is a tension issue. It is also a problem that I have when I try to use the pre wound bobbins from Marathon. My 770 will only let me use bobbins that I wound myself with Brother bobbin thread. I had to take my machine into the shop the first week I had it to have the tension adjusted. I just can't use the pre wounds even though several on this board use them with no problems.

If your machine is new it should still be under warranty if you have to take it in. I'm sorry your having problems with it, I know how frustrating that is.

 

[2girlsmommy]

I don't have any to show, but I have a few ideas. Do they want dresses or shorts/pants?

I'm open to either! I just don't have any SW themed fabric and it seems hard to get and I'm running out of time... Our trip is right after thanksgiving...
Thanks in advance!
Erica

 

[GrammytoMany]

I did it...I made a crayon roll tonight. Thanks to Nini and her help

Crayon Roll B by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Crayon Roll A by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Sheila

 

[billwendy]

Christmas pants would be perfect!! Let me know what colors! I can do the pair for MVMCP!! I am swamped with my trip coming up or I would do all 3.

Awesome!! She hasnt posted them on the BG board yet, this give just opened up the other day. Keep an eye out!! Thanks!

I did it...I made a crayon roll tonight. Thanks to Nini and her help

Crayon Roll B by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Crayon Roll A by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Sheila

 

[JMD1979]

Hey everyone! Thought I'd pop in tonight to say I'm still alive! I guess I kinda go in posting spurts! I know I always say I'm going to try to keep up, but it's no use trying anymore! LOL! I get sooo busy and I let it slip away! I don't even remember which thread I left off on! Anyway just letting you all know I'm back for a bit and I try my best to pop in often! I didn't get a chance to go through everything, but everything I did see is stunning as usual!

Jeana

 

[teresajoy]

Okay here is the finished crayon roll

It looks great Chiara, I love the fabric!

I am having trouble figuring out my new machine. I am messing around before I do something "great" or expensive or anything out of my league.

I am having a horrible time. Help. Right now, I'm just using yellow thread w/ white bobbin thread. When it comes to the satin type stitch, it's ALL white. I've done the + - buttons and taken out the bobbin and "thought" I turned the screw correctly.

Any help out there! I could throw this machine at the wall.

I had tension trouble with my first 770. I would just take it back and get another one. That's what I did and haven't had any problems with the new one. You shouldn't have to mess with the tension at all.

I did it...I made a crayon roll tonight. Thanks to Nini and her help

Crayon Roll B by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Crayon Roll A by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Sheila

It looks wonderful!!! Great job!

Hey everyone! Thought I'd pop in tonight to say I'm still alive! I guess I kinda go in posting spurts! I know I always say I'm going to try to keep up, but it's no use trying anymore! LOL! I get sooo busy and I let it slip away! I don't even remember which thread I left off on! Anyway just letting you all know I'm back for a bit and I try my best to pop in often! I didn't get a chance to go through everything, but everything I did see is stunning as usual!

Jeana

Nice to see you again!

 

[VBAndrea]

Andrea I love the Beatles outfits. Fabulous job.

I love the jeans, they turned out great! As did the other parts of the outfit.

Love the Beatles outfits!

The outfits turned out fabulous! I can see why the jeans took so long. They are wonderful. The kids look great and must have gotten lots of attention!

All the outfits are great!!!!!

Love everything about these outfits. Great job on upsizing the bowling shirt. The colors are amazing and everything came together so nice. How funny that your dog's are Beatles fans too

Andrea!! Great job on those outfits!!!!!!

Andrea great job on the Beatles stuff.

WTMTQ- ESP love the Beatles outfits- just finished a nie nie skirt- lets just say I won't be making another for a long long time...

Andrea - the Beatles outfits came out great!

Wow! Those outfits looked great!

Thanks for all the compliments on the outfits. The kids loved them and love wearing them to school now. They are educating all their classmates on who the Beatles are lol! I am not the Beatles fan, dh is, though since having The Beatles rock band on Wii I have grown to appreciate them a little more.

Okay here is the finished crayon roll

Rolled up

I know that Andrea did a colored pencil roll up and matching tote a little while ago. She put a pad of paper and other art supplies into the tote. It was really cute!

I think Andrea made something like that last year.

I did it...I made a crayon roll tonight. Thanks to Nini and her help

Crayon Roll B by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Crayon Roll A by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Sheila

Great roll ups! The pattern I use takes a little longer because you shift the fabric for the pockets so that it lays flat when unrolled, but the good news is there is no turning inside out. The pattern is for colored pencils but I also adjusted it for roll up crayons. For those who put regular crayons in don't the crayons mark the fabric? And do you make anything to hold a sharpener?

This is the tut I used if anyone is interested:
http://yougogirl.typepad.com/you_go...-has-passed-and-valentines-isnt-yet-here.html

I have never made the notebook holder with it though I do have some tuts marked as I want to try it someday. Diane is correct -- I made the pencil holder as a birthday gift and made a coordinating tote and filled it with a sketch pad and some other art supplies for a birthday gift.

Has anyone seen any patterns or tutorials for Advent or Christmas calendar countdowns. I would have sworn that I saw one with little Christmas stocking or elf shoes on a ribbon but I cant find it now and don't seem to be finding anything that is sewn. Maybe I'm not searching with the right words or phrases.

I swore I had some bookmarked, but this is the only one I have and it is not sewing:
http://xtremeteamduty.blogspot.com/2009/11/toilet-paper-roll-advent-calendar.html

I will try a Pinterst search and see if I can come up with any others. BRB......

I'm back:
http://katieemrich.blogspot.com/2010/12/advent-complete.html

no tut but the pic tells all:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32907973@N07/4147584457/

http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2008/11/20/embroidered-felt-advent-calendar.html

http://cannycrafter.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-countdown-project-20-advent.html

http://kimberlypetersen.typepad.com/photos/things_i_made/advent.html

There are way too many to post -- go on Pinterest and do a serach for "advent" and you'll get a bunch of ideas that pop up. HTH.

 

[VBAndrea]

BTW, forgot to let you all know I have a new to me sewing machine. It is a SInger that is approximately 20-22 years old. It does a straight stitch and a zig zag. It was gifted to me by an optician at work that rarely uses it. I have yet to try it -- working on cleaning my sewing space and have no table space to even put it (grrr!!!). I have no manual for it and it has no accessories, but I'm hoping to take it for a spin this week.

Have to work on burp cloths and a taggie for ds's teacher whose last day is the 10th b/f going on her maternity leave. Then must work on an item for the auction. My poor kids get zilch. I have to bottoms done for dd so I am hoping to embroider two shirts for her very soon -- both bottoms have been done since August. I did not sign up for the recent BG hoping that if I cut back a wee bit on those my poor kids can get some things of their own to wear. I feel really bad neglecting them so much.

 

[cogero]

I did it...I made a crayon roll tonight. Thanks to Nini and her help

Crayon Roll B by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Crayon Roll A by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Sheila

It came out adorable.

BTW, forgot to let you all know I have a new to me sewing machine. It is a SInger that is approximately 20-22 years old. It does a straight stitch and a zig zag. It was gifted to me by an optician at work that rarely uses it. I have yet to try it -- working on cleaning my sewing space and have no table space to even put it (grrr!!!). I have no manual for it and it has no accessories, but I'm hoping to take it for a spin this week.

Have to work on burp cloths and a taggie for ds's teacher whose last day is the 10th b/f going on her maternity leave. Then must work on an item for the auction. My poor kids get zilch. I have to bottoms done for dd so I am hoping to embroider two shirts for her very soon -- both bottoms have been done since August. I did not sign up for the recent BG hoping that if I cut back a wee bit on those my poor kids can get some things of their own to wear. I feel really bad neglecting them so much.

Can't wait to see the new machine. I am on the hunt for a new old machine but am really waiting until January because I plan on redoing my space a bit then.

 

[GrammytoMany]

Chiara,
OOPS!!! Please except my apologies...when I posted the pictures of my crayon roll last night....I typed Nini's name instead of yours!!! That will teach me not to post when I'm half asleep
Thanks for your help.
Sheila

 

[DMGeurts]

I am so far behind! But I am making an honest effort to catch up.

Happy Halloween everybody! Super busy tomorrow but wanted to step out of lurkdom to wish everyone a day of fun with lots of tricks and treats!!

(have to share a pic of my monkey all dressed up too!)

Super cute!

Thought I'd pop in to share my first completed Halloween costume of the year. I'm very proud of it - it was my first go-round with costume satin and I can now say that I have honestly mastered my serger! Don't mind the petti peaking out, I had to take that in about an inch in the waist after yesterday's fitting/pictures but it was clearanced at Target and for $7 it was easier to go a size up for length and alter the waist than to make one from scratch!

Tomorrow I'll have pics of older DD's Elizabeth Swan from At World's End, complete with duct tape armor, but right now the paint is still drying on the overcoat and my model is fast asleep.

AMAZING! I just love this - and I really love the broom too!

as somE of you may remember my dd Brendi and her new dh David recently lost their 1st baby { ectopic/cyst/endometriosis} in early sept. at abut 6 weeks & when she went back to schedule surgery on cyst/endo it was ALL GONE!!! so no surgery,doc asked what church she went too he had no other answer for whathad happened...
he told them to wait to affter her next cyckle and then they could try again ...i realized that the baby had been a surprise but it had helped them decide to try now rather than in the next year or so as planned...
well dd called last night to tell me she had a POSOTIVE pregnancy test yesterday morning! she had to wait to call me because i told her his parents should hear 1st..this will be their 1st g'baby and my 9th!
dsil had to go to atlanta to pick his mom up form the hosp. { she has rods in her spine and had to have work done to replace some things in there} his dad can't drive anymore,has ms and it's starting to progress...so David is a good son and takes them to docs and such...anyways Brendi couldn't tell me till after he told hisparents!
the only thing that gets to me is now we can find out these things sooo early...makes the waiting and praying longer!
she is about 3 weeks and due date is july 12th by her calculations.her b'day is july 14th!
...i think their romantic weekend in the mountians a few weeks ago did the trick!
so now i am praying and counting down the days till she goes to the docs and also till she gets to the 2nd trimester! not sure when she will tell Elli & Blaze who are SOOOO ready for a baby brother or sister!
Brendi & David have already been playing the name game,tossing around names like Ivy/Landry and Declan/Deagan and Cooper which i dearly love! but a girl at work just announced her new baby will be Cooper...and i alrady had a plan to call the lil guy cooper sooper pooper! hehe,...
no matter the wee ones name it willl be another blessing for us all....
thank you for letting me go on and on...excited and scared all at the same time...

Beth - I am praying for an easy pregnancy for Brendi. And congratulations.

My Mother always wanted an embroidery machine. When my Dad passed, she went out and bought one, it was the "new" Brother 180D. Well, she had it a year, and rarely used it. She just didn't take to it. I ended up with it. I think I used it about a year, maybe more, when I started to get hoop envy. But, I was able to make quite a bit with it. I made these really great key chains.

I later sold it and bought the 780D, which is similar to the 770. I wish they would make a larger hoop that was embroidery only. But I only occassionaly find something that I wish I could make with a larger hoop.

I really think that starting with the smaller hoop, made me comfortable with machine embroidery. And then wanting to learn more. Just think of the expense, if you get the larger machine, and decide it really isn't something you want to do. That is my take.

Please stop!!! I still want a 770 in a bad way....

I think it may depend on how well you can stick within your budget. I have a 4x4, I have hoop envy, and yet I am still happy with what I have and I create lots of things with that machine. Having said that, I am a very frugal person and I know I won't spend the money on a new machine until I can afford to do so.

One thing to keep in mind is that 4x4 = 16, whereas 5x7 = 35. You are getting twice the "embroiderable" area with a 5x7.
.

ACK!!! You are not making me feel any better... LOL

Glad you went to ride a ride too! I know I would have... Actually, I probably would have skipped my meeting and rode rides all day.

A few pics of recent stuff:
Easy-Fit Jeans I made dd:

The Christening gown I made "in action":

No homemade costumes this year, but here's our little Dragon Family heading out tonight:

Happy Halloween!
C.

Super cute! And the cristening gown is amazing!

I'M FINISHED!

Got everything done for our trip. Good thing cause we leave Sat.

Here's the last full outfit for DD.

I guess I missed it....but I never saw discussion about the last week of PR so I thought I'd show you which one was mine.

Now I get to finish packing, clear off the camera, get my oil changed tomorrow, and have a day or 2 to relax before we leave.

When we get back I have to finish a few more fall outfits for DD, and myself (all of these are non disney), and DD dress coat.

love all the outfits! TMTQ!

Love both!!! Especially the TS outfit - I just love TS!

Hey everyone! Love, love, love seeing all the Halloween cuteness! Thought I'd pop in and share my pirates! I made both their costumes - all except Caleb's hat and Ella's pettiskirt.

and here are their mean pirate faces!

Love the pirates! You did an amazing job on their costumes!

I finished Lydia's Grace Ruffle Dress the other day (AND found a camera AND batteries AND the card reader!!!). I love this pattern! Lydia decided to test my patience and picked the version with "ruffles ALL the way around!!!" (she said this while twirling around the living room, it was pretty cute!).

We then had some opposing ideas on the fabric placement (my version would have been more brown) which she won. I love the way it came out though, I think having green the prominent color really accents her pretty hair.

We are both thrilled with the dress!

This turned out beautiful - and you are right - it looks great with her hair!

Here is Alexa's Rapunzel dress. Definitely not my best work. I finished it in a few hours and she wasn't around to try it on as I sewed. Oh well, she loves it and that's all that matters, right?

THis turned out great!

D~ <---- Reminder to self: Don't ever slack on the Disbou thread over Halloween!

 

[NiniMorris]

Chiara,
OOPS!!! Please except my apologies...when I posted the pictures of my crayon roll last night....I typed Nini's name instead of yours!!! That will teach me not to post when I'm half asleep
Thanks for your help.
Sheila

LOL! I didn't even notice that! Chiara is always helping out so much! (how sad is it that I didn't even seem y own name?)



Nini