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

[RMAMom]

Well... I am very new to sewing more than a pillow case dress LOL so anything is confusing to me. I think I get the general idea. Thanks! What size did you make that for? My daughter is only 4months old. Does anyone know of a pattern or picture tutorial that is similar to this? I am always terrified of cutting my fabric for something new if I haven't seen many pictures to explain it to me lol

Have you checked the website youcanmakethis.com That is where a lot of the people started sewing. Anything from Carla Crimm is highly recommended for beginners and you will probably recognize some of the patterns. Just type Carla C in the search box on the website.

SO CUTE! I just made a skirt for Barbara's auction and used a few of the same fabrics. I love that you matched it with the grinch fabric.... When I was done with the back I said, all the ruffles remind me of the grinch.


This is a beautiful set. The Insa skirt pattern is by Fabernmix and you can find it in the Sewing Clothes Kids Love book. I do not believe you can buy the pattern separately, but I could be wrong. Its an awesome pattern, with endless possibilities. The book has more patterns in it and a few that you will frequently see made here.
I am really bad about checking the photobucket account, so I can't tell you offhand about the Simba Lion King dresses. I'll have to peek over though. I suppose I could add some of my stuff to the account.

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

front

back

Your Christmas set is adorable. I love the applique on the shirt!

 

[juliebug]

SO CUTE! I just made a skirt for Barbara's auction and used a few of the same fabrics. I love that you matched it with the grinch fabric.... When I was done with the back I said, all the ruffles remind me of the grinch.


This is a beautiful set. The Insa skirt pattern is by Fabernmix and you can find it in the Sewing Clothes Kids Love book. I do not believe you can buy the pattern separately, but I could be wrong. Its an awesome pattern, with endless possibilities. The book has more patterns in it and a few that you will frequently see made here.
I am really bad about checking the photobucket account, so I can't tell you offhand about the Simba Lion King dresses. I'll have to peek over though. I suppose I could add some of my stuff to the account.

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

front

back

tooo cute! i love it

so here is the dress i made my daughter she refuses to wear because she doesn't want ribbon for sleeves guess it is going to her best friend

 

[ivey_family]

I love this! Can you tell me what pattern or tutorial you used? Please please please don't say that you just whipped it up without a pattern or directions lol. I want to make my daughter a skirt but I have no idea how to! And does she have babylegs? Because she could wear the diaper cover with the babylegs instead of wearing tights. I am newly obsessed with babylegs lol

I just bought a pair of giraffe print babylegs for dd. They are super cute! I'm not obsessed with them yet, though. Dh wasn't thrilled with the look.

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

This is so cute! I love all the fabrics! I really want to pick up some of that Mickey Christmas print for future use before it's gone.

Regards,
C.

 

[PurpleEars]

Managed to get more done this weekend than I thought I would be able to accomplish.

After making the crayon roll -- I think I'll make some as Christmas gifts for a few great-nephews and nieces.

Here's my Big Sister and Little Sister dresses and my first Taggie. So many projects running through my head...wish I could clone myself.


Maggie and Evy Dresses by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr


Evy's Taggie by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Sheila

Great job on the dresses and the taggie!

If you heard a little scream coming from half way between Atlanta and Athens about an hour ago...don't worry...it was just me. After I finished piecing two king size quilts for Christmas presents, my oldest daughter informs me that she wants a quilt in different colors!

I don't have the time or money to get more fabric and piece another quilt...not by Dec 10!



Nini

Yikes! I am sorry to hear that!

Newbie here, just had to post because I'm excited about what I made for my daughter last night in time for our trip:

Now that I'm hearing it's been so hot, though, I wonder if she'll get a chance to wear them!

Welcome and great job on the jeans!

I finally got to make the chemo caps for my friend. Just in time too. Her hair is starting to fall out and she's coming over tomorrow so that I can shave her head for her. Here are a couple of pictures:

I made two of each color that I bought:

I still have enough fabric left to make two more of each color. I hope that they fit my friend. I used my measurements but when I was done the hats felt a little snug.

I hope your friend is feeling reasonably ok with the treatments. You are a good friend to help her through this difficult time.

I was supposed to spend today trying out my new machine, but that isn't happening. Now no snide remarks since I already *misplaced* the Mickey buttons.... I got my license renewal notification in the mail and I know I need to do more CE (continuing Education) so I went to my folder in the filing cabinet to see how many credits I had done already. My big file folder was right where it should be, but I have a subfolder with the current year's CE and printouts. IT'S MISSING!!!! I have spent the entire morning going through every folder and every paper and it's no where to be found. I am able to access 9 hours of credit on line and print up new forms, but I know there is at least one missing. Grrrr! So for those of you who pray, please say a little (or very BIG) prayer for me that I find the folder. I am honestly a fairly organized person so this is really ruined my day.

And sorry, I know that has nothing to do with sewing but I did take pics of some things this morning -- just no time to get them off my camera since I am having an anxiety attack over my missing folder! My day didn't start out good -- it was supposed to be ds's teacher's last day and I brought her gift in to her this morning and the sub was there!!!!!!!! A day early!!!!!!! She is supposed to stop in tomorrow though so I left the gift with the sub. Not a good day for me

I hope you were able to find that folder! I would be flipping if I lost the records of CE credits too!

HI! I've been lurking on and off for a while but I think I'd really like to join in on all your fun if you'll have me.

A little background about me:

I am a SAH, homeschooling mom to 4 kiddos DD(8), DD(6), DD(3) and DS(1). My grandmother taught me the basics of sewing and crochet when I was younger, however I didn't really start sewing until after my 1st DD was born, and even then it was just a project or two. I finally really started to take up sewing when my 3rd DD was a baby. She was my 1st baby who was cloth diapered and I learned to sew many of her diapers. But as my kiddos are getting older, I would really like to learn more about garment construction so I can sew clothing for them.

Here's a picture of my partner in crime, Lil'Blue. He's a pretty basic fellow with no bells and whistles, but so far he has gotten the job done for me every time:

Thanks to this group, I found CarlaC's patterns and sewed my very first pair of Easy Fits. They turned out great. I'm making some fleece pjs for my DDs:

Unfortunately, I was also trying to wing-it on making a top using another pj top as my pattern. I've done it before (but it's been over a year) and I sewed the sleeves on BACKWARDS! AAACKKK!

This is what happens when you stay up late sewing when you are sleep deprived! I'll have to wait until tomorrow night to try to fix it. Man and I HATE seam ripping fleece.

Can't wait to see what everyone else has been working on

Welcome. The PJ set looks warm and comfy. Hopefully you were able to get the top fixed.

"We" are about half way through the film shoot, so I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel and think I may survive. I had a number of projects leading up to the film shoot including my often CASEd plunger, tree stump (soon to be often CASEd), dragon puppet (which used up many brain cells that I will never get back), four costumes, meals, gophering, yadda yadda.

I've done a few disboutique drive bys, but haven't really lurked too much, so I'm way behind on "family" news and sewing creations.

Anywho . . . . Here's a brief glimpse into my recent world.

Notice the dolly tracks on the ground. They're 12' long and my son brought them home from NYC the weekend of the snow storm, sticking out the sunroof of my car.

Gotta run and put lunch on for them.

I'll be back.

Glad to hear that you are alive but busy. I look forward to hearing your tales of glam and glories of the movie scene.

So, I forgot to post pictures here - I finished the boys Mickey Decoupage Jeans (I did post about doing so, just not the pic

Great job on the jeans! I am sure they will look very smart in them!

Hi all! I had ask a question on the disABILITIES thread, and someone there kindly directed me here I have a dd that has intellectual disabilities and wants to be able to dress up like her little sister if we ever get to take her to disney. i know disney has something about older kids not dressing up or something ( she is in adult size clothing) . The person who sent me here said that some of you could give ideas on "special princess" clothing ideas. Thanks for your help!

I just want to say welcome! I, as an adult, wear "Minnie-inspired" outfits at the parks. I think it should be ok as long as your clothes don't look too similar to the princess clothes. I will answer your questions from a later post below.

With all the talk about old Singers and ruffles, I thought I'd show off 2 dresses that my mother made for me with her 1942 Singer. Both of them are made of taffeta and net.

The white one is 36 rows of ruffles all the way down the skirt. If anyone has ever tried to ruffle regular net, they know how difficult it was. The net was sewn to a net overskirt layered over taffeta. The bodice had tiny ruffles over the bust. My mother often made matching cummerbunds for me and my date (along with a bowtie for him) out of satin when he was wearing a tux. I had to wear 7 hoops with it--the short one that I wore under the red dress that had 2 hoops and the long one with 5 hoops! It had 1600 feet of ruffles on it!

She made all my clothes. I wish I had half her sewing ability!

Wow! 1600 feet of ruffles?! How long did it take for her to put that together?

I'm giving photo posting a whirl. Let's see if it works. If it does, you'll see my daughter and me in the blouses I made for our Disney trip in June. Here goes!

Lori in East Podunk

Nice blouses! I did blouses for our August trip too, but they were plain colour with embroidery instead of printed materials.

I finished my first Christmas skirt. I made a diaper cover to go with it, but I probably didn't need to do so. Wasn't thinking about granddaughter wearing tights with the skirt.

Christmas Skirt & Diaper Cover by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Now I need to think about what I should do for my next project...DH says my next project should be baking him an apple pie
Sheila
Sheila

Cute outfit! I actually thought able baking an apple pie today! Mind you, baking an apple pie is easy for me since I made 7 of them back when apples were in season. Oh well, we'll have apple cinnamon pancakes tomorrow anyway so it would be close enough.

Please pray for little Hannah - she now stops breathing even when she is awake, Mom is fearing the end of her battle is near, but they really just dont know - they re just besides themselves.....

I will continue to pray for Hannah's family.

Also...i have some more questions, yes i know,i am more annoying than a 3 yr old with the questions 1) I found where you can purchase the appliques to put on tshirts, etc......do you still use the heat bond stuff on the back of these and sew them on?

2) on the disboutique photobucket account, within the first few pages i believe, there was a GORGEOUS lion king/simba sundress that i must find or find a pattern for. I tried to get the pics to load on here but for some reason could not.

Thanks, you guys have me addicted to this now!!

Lisa

I saw someone already answered your question about the Insa skirt (Sewing Clothes Kids Love book). However, given your DD's size, I doubt you will be able to use the pattern straight from the book. I do quite a few adult sized clothing for myself and sometimes older sibs and parents/grandparents for Big Gives so I can direct you to a few adult patterns on YMCT. Easy Fits are great (I usually get them done in an hour including cutting). Meghan peasants are quite easy to do as well. They are very comfy and I actually wear the tops instead of T-shirts now (it has been over 5 years since I bought t-shirts). I have also made a dress version of Meghan. Another one that I like is the Jamie, but it is slightly more involved because there is a zipper (not that it is hard or anything).

In terms of applique, I would recommend Heather's embrodiery designs if you have an embrodiery machine. If you buy them from say, Joann's, you should be able to iron them on (check the package instructions). If you are doing the applique "by hand," I would use heat n bond light or fusible web on the back of each piece before stitching them down with satin stitch (dense zig zag stitch). I hope that makes sense! Feel free to PM me if you want to ask more specific questions about making adult sized clothes!

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

Beautiful! I hope it will do well at the auction!

so here is the dress i made my daughter she refuses to wear because she doesn't want ribbon for sleeves guess it is going to her best friend

Too bad about the dress. It looks very nice though!


Ok, I have been MIA since my last "live" TR. I got home safely Monday night. I had a very busy week(worked Tuesday to Thursday, plus unpacking, laundry, etc.). I then locked myself up in the sewing room the last couple of days to crank stuff out for the latest BG. They are done now so I can let myself on here again! Unfortunately I think my sewing machine has finally bid this world goodbye. It had a timing problem for a couple of years now and it was limping along. Now the timing issue is so bad that it is skipping stitches even when I am doing straight stitches with one needle. Thankfully my 270D can be used as a sewing machine so I used that machine to finish off my BG project. Sigh, I really can't afford a new machine right now, especailly since I bought a bunch of fabric at Fabricland today. They had a number of Disney prints at 70% off - that's $4.20 per metre of cotton fabric! I stocked up for future BG's and I left the pile in "Santa's workshop" so hopefully the fabric will magically appear at Christmas.

 

[smile5sunshine]

I'm giving photo posting a whirl. Let's see if it works. If it does, you'll see my daughter and me in the blouses I made for our Disney trip in June. Here goes!

Lori in East Podunk

Aww, I think your matching shirts are great! And that's wonderful that your DD actually LIKES to match with you

Well, here are my fabric finds -

For appliqué shirts for MVMCP:

For an outfit for DD and some gift bags...these have glitter on them:

For the boys...I love Maters tongue! Lol:

Now to wash it and start sewing!

Oh those are all cute! My JoAnn's didn't have any of the fun prints they have online

After spending the majority of the afternoon perusing the disboutiquers photobucket acct. i have a few questions ....To get an item to applique onto a tshirt or skirt, do you just cut that image out from another piece of fabric and use the bond on the back ? what do you recommend?

Lisa

I'm new at this too, but here's the link to HeatherSue's applique tutorial: http://disboutique.blogspot.com/2008/04/bestest-applique-tutorial.html

I finished my first Christmas skirt. I made a diaper cover to go with it, but I probably didn't need to do so. Wasn't thinking about granddaughter wearing tights with the skirt.

Christmas Skirt & Diaper Cover by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Christmas Skirt by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Sheila

Oh that's super cute! And I've let my DD's wear the diaper cover over their tights many a time. I think your granddaughter will get good use out of it.

Well... I am very new to sewing more than a pillow case dress LOL so anything is confusing to me. I think I get the general idea. Thanks! What size did you make that for? My daughter is only 4months old. Does anyone know of a pattern or picture tutorial that is similar to this? I am always terrified of cutting my fabric for something new if I haven't seen many pictures to explain it to me lol

Although I'm just starting out as well, I've had this bookmarked on my computer that explains how to do the math for those tiered skirts: http://www.kukyideas.com/journal/2006/07/tiered-skirt-tutorial.html

I hope that helps and doesn't end up confusing you even more!

This is a beautiful set. The Insa skirt pattern is by Fabernmix and you can find it in the Sewing Clothes Kids Love book. I do not believe you can buy the pattern separately, but I could be wrong. Its an awesome pattern, with endless possibilities. The book has more patterns in it and a few that you will frequently see made here.

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

front

back

I think I am going to be adding that book to my Christmas wishlist! Thanks for mentioning it! Also your auction item is SOOOO pretty

tooo cute! i love it

so here is the dress i made my daughter she refuses to wear because she doesn't want ribbon for sleeves guess it is going to her best friend

Silly girl for not wanting to wear it! It's very cute. I love the waves at the bottom.

Well, I ended up watching a movie with DH last night so no sewing then. But I did go out to JoAnn's today and picked up some of their clearance fabrics and a few items I needed to try the applique. However I forgot one (the Heat n' Bond lite paper) so I can't try that yet.

BUT, I did get some sewing done. It took me WAAAAAY too long (around 4 hrs), but I know from experience that I will get faster the more I sew. So here's my very first dolly sized simply sweet:

and on the model:

Oh and I just noticed that you can totally see the movie my kids were watching today! They BEGGED to start watching Christmas movies already. Goofy kids!

 

[Diz-Mommy]

Well after months of sewing and planning, we've finally found ourselves back at WDW. But I'm sitting up in bed watching my two youngest snore while my hubby waits in the ER with my precious Tyler... He bumped his head on the night stand and has a gash in his pretty little forehead. I know others have things so much worse than this and I'm feeling guilty for the pitty party I'm throwing myself right now, but I'm heartbroken for my sweet little boy right now. The first place DH took him to said it would be at least a 2 hour wait at 11:30pm, so at midnight DH decided to take him somewhere else. What a way to get this vacation going

 

[mphalens]

With all the talk about old Singers and ruffles, I thought I'd show off 2 dresses that my mother made for me with her 1942 Singer. Both of them are made of taffeta and net.

The red one has 3 tiers of ruffles and the bodice has chiffon over the taffeta and around the top. I wore it to Valentine's and Christmas dances.

The white one is 36 rows of ruffles all the way down the skirt. If anyone has ever tried to ruffle regular net, they know how difficult it was. The net was sewn to a net overskirt layered over taffeta. The bodice had tiny ruffles over the bust. My mother often made matching cummerbunds for me and my date (along with a bowtie for him) out of satin when he was wearing a tux. I had to wear 7 hoops with it--the short one that I wore under the red dress that had 2 hoops and the long one with 5 hoops! It had 1600 feet of ruffles on it!

She made all my clothes. I wish I had half her sewing ability!

GORGEOUS!!!

Hi! I'm always happy to meet another homeschooling mom! It took a little while for me to really find our homeschooling groove, but we finally did and I'm glad because it turned out to be the best fit for our family.



Your decoupage jeans turned out great! I'm always hunting for more ideas for sewing for the boys. It's so much easier to think of things for girls, but I don't want to leave my DS (and nephew) out on our upcoming trip.

I'm a homeschooling mom too! I totally hear you on "finding a groove" - in a lot of ways I think we're still trying to find ours, but I know it's the best choice for our family.

And I hear ya on the ideas for boys! My boys are content with easy fits and decoupage jeans for the most part, but they did request Carla C's bowling shirts in Cars fabrics with "cool pants" to go with (cool pants are equaling easy fits made from denim with cars "extras" ) . . .

Here's one more:

Lori in East Podunk (again!)

Great picture and shirts! I wish my mom would agree to wear matchy outfits!

These turned out so cute Marianne - I am so proud of you!!! The boys will be so adorable!



I am so sorry I worried you Marianne... It didn't even occur to me that you weren't reading my PTR. I am sure that someone forwarded you what happened... I am OK. I am still in a bit of pain, but I feel my crotchety ol' self coming back more and more every minute.

Thanks you everyone for letting Marianne know what was going on. I really appreciate it.

Thanks friend!!! You know your encouragement helps more than I can say!

And I'm just glad you're okay - it is so not fun to see "ER" in an email you're not supposed to really read!

ME! I LOVE CFA! But the closest one is over an hour away in the next state south.




Super cute! Where are the t-shirts from? I love the white face Mickey!

LOL - it might be a bit of a drive for you then, huh?

I bought the Mickey shirts at the Disney Store outlet store at Concord Mills Mall . . . not sure if that helps, but that's where they're from!

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

front

back

LOVE that outfit! Can you make it in my size? Well, maybe not, I don't know that the ruffle-butt look would really help MINIMIZE my behind, would it?

Well after months of sewing and planning, we've finally found ourselves back at WDW. But I'm sitting up in bed watching my two youngest snore while my hubby waits in the ER with my precious Tyler... He bumped his head on the night stand and has a gash in his pretty little forehead. I know others have things so much worse than this and I'm feeling guilty for the pitty party I'm throwing myself right now, but I'm heartbroken for my sweet little boy right now. The first place DH took him to said it would be at least a 2 hour wait at 11:30pm, so at midnight DH decided to take him somewhere else. What a way to get this vacation going

I hope he's ok!!! And that the rest of your trip is filled with pixie dust and not any more craziness!

 

[cogero]

BUT, I did get some sewing done. It took me WAAAAAY too long (around 4 hrs), but I know from experience that I will get faster the more I sew. So here's my very first dolly sized simply sweet:

and on the model:

Oh and I just noticed that you can totally see the movie my kids were watching today! They BEGGED to start watching Christmas movies already. Goofy kids!

I was listening to Christmas music on pandora while cleaning my bedroom last night. Love the outfit.

Well after months of sewing and planning, we've finally found ourselves back at WDW. But I'm sitting up in bed watching my two youngest snore while my hubby waits in the ER with my precious Tyler... He bumped his head on the night stand and has a gash in his pretty little forehead. I know others have things so much worse than this and I'm feeling guilty for the pitty party I'm throwing myself right now, but I'm heartbroken for my sweet little boy right now. The first place DH took him to said it would be at least a 2 hour wait at 11:30pm, so at midnight DH decided to take him somewhere else. What a way to get this vacation going

Oh so sorry your little one was hurt. Hope it turned into something minor and the rest of your vacation goes smoothly.

I am up at 4:30 in the morning. I am tired but cannot sleep debating the trek down 2 flights of stairs to sew.

 

[VBAndrea]

I'm finally ready to start making some Eye Spy Bags!

I have searched and can't find the tutorial I remember seeing months ago. I think I remember how. The person folded over the fabric for the top so that the vinyl wouldn't stick.

What kind of fabric do you use for the Eye Spy Bags? I was going to use cotton but it seems like none of the tutorials use that.

I did the mini tut, possibly last spring or late winter so search around that time frame. But yes, for me it was easiest to sandwich the vinyl between the fabrics. I tried tissue as one person had suggested to me and it was a PITA to remove. Never again. And I use cotton for all my eye spy bags.

Here is how I iron the fabric so I can sandwich the vinyl in between:

I put the tacky tape stuff on to hold the vinyl in place before sewing:

Here are the two short sides sew -- double seam everything for extra security (next you just add the long pieces over these

I hope that helps.

Oops, forgot to catch your name--but when I make my eye shy bags I use a soft fleece. Tip regarding the plastic window--have 3 layers -- bottom layer of tissue paper (I use the tissue paper that the clear plastic is wrapped in); middle layer the window and the top will be your fleece. The plastic tends to stick if you don't have anything under it.

I finished my first Christmas skirt. I made a diaper cover to go with it, but I probably didn't need to do so. Wasn't thinking about granddaughter wearing tights with the skirt.

Christmas Skirt & Diaper Cover by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr

Christmas Skirt by Sheila Grammy, on Flickr
Now I need to think about what I should do for my next project...DH says my next project should be baking him an apple pie
Sheila
Sheila

Adorable skirt -- love the Grinch fabric!

Love this. I am waiting for some grinch fabric to go with a T-shirt Miss C has.

I am seriously hoping today is a better day than yesterday with the boy. Yesterday was a bit rough

I have a bunch I want to accomplish and it has been slow going since by the time I put J to bed I am exhausted. Honestly I was in bed at 8:30 last night.

I hope you had a better day -- I got things accomplished but that was raking leaves, trimming bushes and washing the dogs! The kids helped raked though so it only took a couple of hours. And only about 1/5 of the leaves have fallen so we will be doing this a few more times. Company tonight so will be cleaning the house.

Well... I am very new to sewing more than a pillow case dress LOL so anything is confusing to me. I think I get the general idea. Thanks! What size did you make that for? My daughter is only 4months old. Does anyone know of a pattern or picture tutorial that is similar to this? I am always terrified of cutting my fabric for something new if I haven't seen many pictures to explain it to me lol

Do a Google search for twirl skirt -- there are tons of tutorials with pics to help you get started.
Here are some good tuts:
http://my-sweet-sunshine.blogspot.com/2009/05/okey-dokey.html

http://everythingyourmamamade.com/2008/12/03/64-girls-clothes-tutorials/

ok I absolutely adore this....anyone know if it is available in an etsy shop or where i could get a pattern for this. If i cant sew it i know a few people who can lol.

Also...i have some more questions, yes i know,i am more annoying than a 3 yr old with the questions 1) I found where you can purchase the appliques to put on tshirts, etc......do you still use the heat bond stuff on the back of these and sew them on?

2) on the disboutique photobucket account, within the first few pages i believe, there was a GORGEOUS lion king/simba sundress that i must find or find a pattern for. I tried to get the pics to load on here but for some reason could not.

Thanks, you guys have me addicted to this now!!

Lisa

The skirt is Insa by Farbenmix. I think the top is her own pattern.

I think HeatherSue made the Simba dress if it's the one I'm thinking of.

SO CUTE! I just made a skirt for Barbara's auction and used a few of the same fabrics. I love that you matched it with the grinch fabric.... When I was done with the back I said, all the ruffles remind me of the grinch.


This is a beautiful set. The Insa skirt pattern is by Fabernmix and you can find it in the Sewing Clothes Kids Love book. I do not believe you can buy the pattern separately, but I could be wrong. Its an awesome pattern, with endless possibilities. The book has more patterns in it and a few that you will frequently see made here.
I am really bad about checking the photobucket account, so I can't tell you offhand about the Simba Lion King dresses. I'll have to peek over though. I suppose I could add some of my stuff to the account.

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

front

back

That's adorable Ann. I need to get my tush in gear and make something this week -- I was thinking of doing Xmas as well. Let me guess, that shirt is for Gracie!

 

[VBAndrea]

Here are photos of the taggie and burp cloths I made for ds's teacher. She is having a girl (due Thanksgiving). I really wanted to put minky on one side of the taggie, but I also really wanted to do it with fabrics I had on had since I had to buy most of the flannel for the burpies and am really trying hard to budget.

Taggie (both sides -- Nini do not look -- I have no idea how to quilt so just did my best but not everything lines up right):

Diaper burpies (used a couple flannel scraps I had for one for one of them):

Rag flannel burpies (one I lined with an extra piece of flannel but I put a light flannelish batting in between the others):

And then I finally finished this outfit for dd. I made the jeans a couple of months ago, which you can't see well in the photos because of the stupid boots dd chose to wear with the outfit -- the jeans have mostly ribbon and trim on them that I got at a yard sale and all the fabrics were scraps. They're very cute -- just bad photos. But I finally took the time to make her the shirt and then when I finished she had the nerve to ask if I could do a Westie for her!

 

[VBAndrea]

tooo cute! i love it

so here is the dress i made my daughter she refuses to wear because she doesn't want ribbon for sleeves guess it is going to her best friend

It's adorable -- if you changed the "sleeves" to a strip of the fabric would she wear it?

I hope you were able to find that folder! I would be flipping if I lost the records of CE credits too!

Ok, I have been MIA since my last "live" TR. I got home safely Monday night. I had a very busy week(worked Tuesday to Thursday, plus unpacking, laundry, etc.). I then locked myself up in the sewing room the last couple of days to crank stuff out for the latest BG. They are done now so I can let myself on here again! Unfortunately I think my sewing machine has finally bid this world goodbye. It had a timing problem for a couple of years now and it was limping along. Now the timing issue is so bad that it is skipping stitches even when I am doing straight stitches with one needle. Thankfully my 270D can be used as a sewing machine so I used that machine to finish off my BG project. Sigh, I really can't afford a new machine right now, especailly since I bought a bunch of fabric at Fabricland today. They had a number of Disney prints at 70% off - that's $4.20 per metre of cotton fabric! I stocked up for future BG's and I left the pile in "Santa's workshop" so hopefully the fabric will magically appear at Christmas.

I never found my folder but I was able to cover most of the certificates as they were stored on line. But then our printer broke so I couldn't print them out again! I really only must have them printed if I get audited. And we have an old printer somewhere in the attic which I don't want to go look for.

I am so sad that your machine is no longer able to be nursed along. So now you have all this fabulous fabric and no machine to sew it on! I hope you can save up for a new one soon.

BUT, I did get some sewing done. It took me WAAAAAY too long (around 4 hrs), but I know from experience that I will get faster the more I sew. So here's my very first dolly sized simply sweet:

and on the model:

Oh and I just noticed that you can totally see the movie my kids were watching today! They BEGGED to start watching Christmas movies already. Goofy kids!

That turned out so cute! I'm a slow sewer too -- I think it would take me about that long to make a dress for an AG doll as well.

Well after months of sewing and planning, we've finally found ourselves back at WDW. But I'm sitting up in bed watching my two youngest snore while my hubby waits in the ER with my precious Tyler... He bumped his head on the night stand and has a gash in his pretty little forehead. I know others have things so much worse than this and I'm feeling guilty for the pitty party I'm throwing myself right now, but I'm heartbroken for my sweet little boy right now. The first place DH took him to said it would be at least a 2 hour wait at 11:30pm, so at midnight DH decided to take him somewhere else. What a way to get this vacation going

My dd did that to us one day when we were packing for a camping trip. So we had to head to the ER first and get to the campground late. They were just able to glue her forehead so hopefully your ds's gash isn't too deep and they can do that rather than sutures. I hope the rest of your trip is fabulous.

 

[cogero]

Here are photos of the taggie and burp cloths I made for ds's teacher. She is having a girl (due Thanksgiving). I really wanted to put minky on one side of the taggie, but I also really wanted to do it with fabrics I had on had since I had to buy most of the flannel for the burpies and am really trying hard to budget.

Taggie (both sides -- Nini do not look -- I have no idea how to quilt so just did my best but not everything lines up right):

Diaper burpies (used a couple flannel scraps I had for one for one of them):

Rag flannel burpies (one I lined with an extra piece of flannel but I put a light flannelish batting in between the others):

And then I finally finished this outfit for dd. I made the jeans a couple of months ago, which you can't see well in the photos because of the stupid boots dd chose to wear with the outfit -- the jeans have mostly ribbon and trim on them that I got at a yard sale and all the fabrics were scraps. They're very cute -- just bad photos. But I finally took the time to make her the shirt and then when I finished she had the nerve to ask if I could do a Westie for her!

Andrea they are all adorable. Love them.


Yesterday was as rough as friday. I am hoping today is better because my list just keeps getting longer and longer.

 

[tngal]

Purple-ears: Thanks for all your replies and offer for help..who knows i will probably have to take you up on the question-asking offer lol. I looked at the "you can make this" website and found a few things that i thought would be good to try for my oldest dd. The insa skirt i could def. try for my youngest dd though!! I can't afford a sewing machine, or and embroidery machine right now, but my mom has offered to let me use hers I havent sewn anything since high school lol so i don't know how all this will turn out , but i am def. looking forward to trying anyway!

Lisa

 

[DMGeurts]

SO CUTE! I just made a skirt for Barbara's auction and used a few of the same fabrics. I love that you matched it with the grinch fabric.... When I was done with the back I said, all the ruffles remind me of the grinch.


This is a beautiful set. The Insa skirt pattern is by Fabernmix and you can find it in the Sewing Clothes Kids Love book. I do not believe you can buy the pattern separately, but I could be wrong. Its an awesome pattern, with endless possibilities. The book has more patterns in it and a few that you will frequently see made here.
I am really bad about checking the photobucket account, so I can't tell you offhand about the Simba Lion King dresses. I'll have to peek over though. I suppose I could add some of my stuff to the account.

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

front

back

I am in love with this skirt... The Audrey is one of my all time favorite patterns, and it always turns out so cute!

tooo cute! i love it

so here is the dress i made my daughter she refuses to wear because she doesn't want ribbon for sleeves guess it is going to her best friend

Awww... I am sorry that she refuses to wear it - I think it's adorable - and if you can't get her to wear it, you can just send it to me - I'll wear it.

BUT, I did get some sewing done. It took me WAAAAAY too long (around 4 hrs), but I know from experience that I will get faster the more I sew. So here's my very first dolly sized simply sweet:

and on the model:

Oh and I just noticed that you can totally see the movie my kids were watching today! They BEGGED to start watching Christmas movies already. Goofy kids!

This turned out so cute! YOu did a great job! I love Christmas movies too - I begged dd to let me watch Home Alone the other day, and she wouldn't let me.

Well after months of sewing and planning, we've finally found ourselves back at WDW. But I'm sitting up in bed watching my two youngest snore while my hubby waits in the ER with my precious Tyler... He bumped his head on the night stand and has a gash in his pretty little forehead. I know others have things so much worse than this and I'm feeling guilty for the pitty party I'm throwing myself right now, but I'm heartbroken for my sweet little boy right now. The first place DH took him to said it would be at least a 2 hour wait at 11:30pm, so at midnight DH decided to take him somewhere else. What a way to get this vacation going

I am so sorry... I hope you were able to get him into the ER and the rest of your vacations goes off with out a hitch...

Here are photos of the taggie and burp cloths I made for ds's teacher. She is having a girl (due Thanksgiving). I really wanted to put minky on one side of the taggie, but I also really wanted to do it with fabrics I had on had since I had to buy most of the flannel for the burpies and am really trying hard to budget.

Taggie (both sides -- Nini do not look -- I have no idea how to quilt so just did my best but not everything lines up right):

Diaper burpies (used a couple flannel scraps I had for one for one of them):

Rag flannel burpies (one I lined with an extra piece of flannel but I put a light flannelish batting in between the others):

And then I finally finished this outfit for dd. I made the jeans a couple of months ago, which you can't see well in the photos because of the stupid boots dd chose to wear with the outfit -- the jeans have mostly ribbon and trim on them that I got at a yard sale and all the fabrics were scraps. They're very cute -- just bad photos. But I finally took the time to make her the shirt and then when I finished she had the nerve to ask if I could do a Westie for her!

I love all the baby items - so cute! And I think dd's outfit is awesome - I just love how those jeans turned out. Rofl about dd wanting a Westie shirt - that's something my dds would do - and at that time, I'd just throw the shirt at them and go work on something that's NOT for them. LOL I'd probably stomp my feet as I was walking away too... just for the added drama it would provide.

Andrea they are all adorable. Love them.


Yesterday was as rough as friday. I am hoping today is better because my list just keeps getting longer and longer.

I totally agree Chiara... I hope your day goes better too... My list isn't getting any shorter either.

D~

 

[dianemom2]

I haven't had time to get a lot of project done in the last couple of weeks. My mom fell about two weeks ago and broke her shoulder and pelvis. She came home from rehab on Tuesday. Then on Friday my dad had a heart attack. It has been a rough couple of weeks for our family. Luckily my dad was already in the ER for something else when he had the heart attack so they were able to minimize what happened. I have finished the latest BG. I was working on the last thing for it on Friday when I got the phone call about my dad.

Anyhow, I have a couple of projects stacked up that I need to get to this week. I am looking for a Baby Bop design. Does anybody know where I can find one?

 

[DISNEYJAZZ]

as some of you may remember my old camry bit the dust on the 17th of oct. so dh has been drivingabout 100 miles each day taking me to work and then picking me up at dd Brendi's...we spnt &400 on repairs but even car cod said it was a goner...
well my dsil decided to buy herself a 2005 durango ...beautiful white with red GA BullDAWG pin stripes and 'G'!!! really nice...
but what's even better is she had taken her car and had the oil changed and hooked to the diagnostic machine to check it out...needs an oxygen sensor?? ...manspeak to me...lol she then called a offered us the car!!!! a 2000 ford escort se...150,000 miles { poor old camry had 270,000+ and was a *91} we toook the camry to the junk yard and got $250 for it and that's a downpayment...and we can make small payments as we can!!! and she's only asking &900! carlot where she got her durango offered her $1200 so i feel very blessed that she thought of me and my need for a car...
I am truely blessed to introduce my new babygirl...Charlotte...so named for the itsey bitsey spider that dropped down to greet me as i drove it home yesterday...we gae her a vac and scrub at the carwash and cleaned the inside and put my junk in it so she is now resting quietly in the carport!

she has a/c! seatbelts in back lock! BOTH backdoors open from the inside! those are all things the camry couldn't do for me anymore...we also discovered the back seats fold down to make the trunk bigger for when i get a good haul at the thrift store/yardsales!
i am so happy that i don't have to be carless till feb/tax time! i can shop when and where i want and not have to ask Brenid or Joey to take me....here's my happy dance!

 

[VBAndrea]

I haven't had time to get a lot of project done in the last couple of weeks. My mom fell about two weeks ago and broke her shoulder and pelvis. She came home from rehab on Tuesday. Then on Friday my dad had a heart attack. It has been a rough couple of weeks for our family. Luckily my dad was already in the ER for something else when he had the heart attack so they were able to minimize what happened. I have finished the latest BG. I was working on the last thing for it on Friday when I got the phone call about my dad.

Anyhow, I have a couple of projects stacked up that I need to get to this week. I am looking for a Baby Bop design. Does anybody know where I can find one?

I am so sorry to hear about your parents. I hope both recovery quickly. I know you have projects stacked up, but take the time for your family now. The projects will always be there.

I have been doing tons of BG's -- I have been signing up for all of them and I just had to NOT sign up for this last one. I just needed a reprieve. I feel bad, but I also feel good that my dd finally got her outfit completed. I have three others to finish for her and have to get an auction item done, then Xmas presents....but sometimes making time for family should be the priority.

as some of you may remember my old camry bit the dust on the 17th of oct. so dh has been drivingabout 100 miles each day taking me to work and then picking me up at dd Brendi's...we spnt &400 on repairs but even car cod said it was a goner...
well my dsil decided to buy herself a 2005 durango ...beautiful white with red GA BullDAWG pin stripes and 'G'!!! really nice...
but what's even better is she had taken her car and had the oil changed and hooked to the diagnostic machine to check it out...needs an oxygen sensor?? ...manspeak to me...lol she then called a offered us the car!!!! a 2000 ford escort se...150,000 miles { poor old camry had 270,000+ and was a *91} we toook the camry to the junk yard and got $250 for it and that's a downpayment...and we can make small payments as we can!!! and she's only asking &900! carlot where she got her durango offered her $1200 so i feel very blessed that she thought of me and my need for a car...
I am truely blessed to introduce my new babygirl...Charlotte...so named for the itsey bitsey spider that dropped down to greet me as i drove it home yesterday...we gae her a vac and scrub at the carwash and cleaned the inside and put my junk in it so she is now resting quietly in the carport!

she has a/c! seatbelts in back lock! BOTH backdoors open from the inside! those are all things the camry couldn't do for me anymore...we also discovered the back seats fold down to make the trunk bigger for when i get a good haul at the thrift store/yardsales!
i am so happy that i don't have to be carless till feb/tax time! i can shop when and where i want and not have to ask Brenid or Joey to take me....here's my happy dance!

I'm sooooooo happy for you!!!! She's a beauty (even though it's not a sewing machine).

 

[SallyfromDE]

as some of you may remember my old camry bit the dust on the 17th of oct.
i am so happy that i don't have to be carless till feb/tax time! i can shop when and where i want and not have to ask Brenid or Joey to take me....here's my happy dance!

I know just where your coming from!! I had a Monte Carlo, bought new when they came out. My mechanic always told me I never drove it enough, which I never understood. It's not far to work, but since I had the new car, we used it for all the trips. Loved having it paid off. It was about 14 years old, still looked brand new, except for a few door dings. Just rolled 100,000 and the motor blew. Victim of GM's dexcool scam. I sure as heck couldn't afford another car, and my sister had an Izuzu Rodeo just sitting in her garage that she didn't know what to do with since someone gave her a brand new Jeep they didn't want. Now why I can't have that kind of luck? It has 150,000 and drives fine. Although I panic when ever I hear any sort of bump. I'm not used to high mileage cars. But I have to work with it since I can't afford another car. Yours is a beauty!!

 

[juliebug]

Well, I ended up watching a movie with DH last night so no sewing then. But I did go out to JoAnn's today and picked up some of their clearance fabrics and a few items I needed to try the applique. However I forgot one (the Heat n' Bond lite paper) so I can't try that yet.

BUT, I did get some sewing done. It took me WAAAAAY too long (around 4 hrs), but I know from experience that I will get faster the more I sew. So here's my very first dolly sized simply sweet:

and on the model:

Oh and I just noticed that you can totally see the movie my kids were watching today! They BEGGED to start watching Christmas movies already. Goofy kids!

love it takes me forever to sew too and with kids bothering you it doesn't help hey its close to Christmas break those movies out

Originally Posted by DISNEYJAZZ View Post
as some of you may remember my old camry bit the dust on the 17th of oct. so dh has been drivingabout 100 miles each day taking me to work and then picking me up at dd Brendi's...we spnt &400 on repairs but even car cod said it was a goner...
well my dsil decided to buy herself a 2005 durango ...beautiful white with red GA BullDAWG pin stripes and 'G'!!! really nice...
but what's even better is she had taken her car and had the oil changed and hooked to the diagnostic machine to check it out...needs an oxygen sensor?? ...manspeak to me...lol she then called a offered us the car!!!! a 2000 ford escort se...150,000 miles { poor old camry had 270,000+ and was a *91} we toook the camry to the junk yard and got $250 for it and that's a downpayment...and we can make small payments as we can!!! and she's only asking &900! carlot where she got her durango offered her $1200 so i feel very blessed that she thought of me and my need for a car...
I am truely blessed to introduce my new babygirl...Charlotte...so named for the itsey bitsey spider that dropped down to greet me as i drove it home yesterday...we gae her a vac and scrub at the carwash and cleaned the inside and put my junk in it so she is now resting quietly in the carport!




she has a/c! seatbelts in back lock! BOTH backdoors open from the inside! those are all things the camry couldn't do for me anymore...we also discovered the back seats fold down to make the trunk bigger for when i get a good haul at the thrift store/yardsales!
i am so happy that i don't have to be carless till feb/tax time! i can shop when and where i want and not have to ask Brenid or Joey to take me....here's my happy dance!:b anana:[/QOUTE]

awesome so glad your sister gave it to you

 

[miprender]

Well last night I was picking up sandwiches for DH and BIL and backing out and I backed right into a parked car. Of course it wasn't any car but a high end Lexus I had to track the lady down as she was walking to her car. She was actually nice about it but I felt so bad as her whole fender is crushed in.

i used different colored wrapping paper for my kids when they believed in santa,red+Candee,blue+ Brendi,Green +Austin...so they knew on Christmas morning even if i didn't have them all stacked together ,each his own room to rip into gifts...

I do the same thing. Every year each kid has the same themed wrapping paper. Makes it easy to make sure another kid doesn't grab someone else's present

Here is the outfit I finished for Barbara's auction. Size 7/8 and the top will be custom made with initial of choice

back

Beautiful outfit. I love the audrey skirt.

tooo cute! i love it

so here is the dress i made my daughter she refuses to wear because she doesn't want ribbon for sleeves guess it is going to her best friend

That came out nice. Bad girl for refusing but at least her friend will appreciate it.

BUT, I did get some sewing done. It took me WAAAAAY too long (around 4 hrs), but I know from experience that I will get faster the more I sew. So here's my very first dolly sized simply sweet:

Oh and I just noticed that you can totally see the movie my kids were watching today! They BEGGED to start watching Christmas movies already. Goofy kids!

That came out really cute.

Well after months of sewing and planning, we've finally found ourselves back at WDW. But I'm sitting up in bed watching my two youngest snore while my hubby waits in the ER with my precious Tyler... He bumped his head on the night stand and has a gash in his pretty little forehead. I know others have things so much worse than this and I'm feeling guilty for the pitty party I'm throwing myself right now, but I'm heartbroken for my sweet little boy right now. The first place DH took him to said it would be at least a 2 hour wait at 11:30pm, so at midnight DH decided to take him somewhere else. What a way to get this vacation going

Hope he heals quickly.

Here are photos of the taggie and burp cloths I made for ds's teacher. She is having a girl (due Thanksgiving). I really wanted to put minky on one side of the taggie, but I also really wanted to do it with fabrics I had on had since I had to buy most of the flannel for the burpies and am really trying hard to budget.

Taggie (both sides -- Nini do not look -- I have no idea how to quilt so just did my best but not everything lines up right):

Diaper burpies (used a couple flannel scraps I had for one for one of them):

Rag flannel burpies (one I lined with an extra piece of flannel but I put a light flannelish batting in between the others):

Andrea great job on everything. I have been trying to get to do some PJ pants but keep finding myself doing something else.

Purple-ears: Thanks for all your replies and offer for help..who knows i will probably have to take you up on the question-asking offer lol. I looked at the "you can make this" website and found a few things that i thought would be good to try for my oldest dd. The insa skirt i could def. try for my youngest dd though!! I can't afford a sewing machine, or and embroidery machine right now, but my mom has offered to let me use hers I havent sewn anything since high school lol so i don't know how all this will turn out , but i am def. looking forward to trying anyway!
Lisa

The audrey skirt is one that I found not to be that hard and would probably be great for your daughter. I made this outfit for my DD for our trip this past summer.

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Congrats on your new car.

I haven't had time to get a lot of project done in the last couple of weeks. My mom fell about two weeks ago and broke her shoulder and pelvis. She came home from rehab on Tuesday. Then on Friday my dad had a heart attack. It has been a rough couple of weeks for our family. Luckily my dad was already in the ER for something else when he had the heart attack so they were able to minimize what happened. I have finished the latest BG. I was working on the last thing for it on Friday when I got the phone call about my dad.

Hope things settle down for you soon.