Disboutiquers Part 28 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[TinkNH]

How cool! I'm in Lee - close to UNH and the Seacoast

We go to some farm in Lee every fall for their corn maze...the kids love it!

 

[cogero]

I need to come on here and gush about how much I am in love with my serger. I LOVE IT!!!

Sunshine

I love my serger so I definately understand.

 

[Mom in Heels]

We do too! Coppal House Farm is less than 5 minutes from us

 

[Sandi S]

Sandi- I have a question for you. I sat down to trace out some of the Ottobre patterns. There are so many patterns on each sheet, what do you do to make sure you are tracing the right pattern, in the right size etc???? It was so overwhelming that I put it away to think about another day. But in the good news department, I did finally trace the pattern for the Insa skirt and for the Imke shirt from the Sewing Clothes Kids love book. I traced the Imke shirt for both boys and girls. Now you might figure out what I am doing with some of the new knits that I bought.[/QUOTE]

When I trace the Ottobre patterns (and I buy 100 ft rolls of translucent paper at AC Moore for about $9 with a coupon), I always keep the magazine handy for reference. Pay attention to the color listed as well as the number and the shape of the piece you need. When you look at the pattern sheet, there are numbers at the bottom. Look for the number of the piece you need in the correct color and then scan up from where it is...there will be your piece! if you are concerned about tracing the correct size, start tracing near where a number is printed and follow the lines carefully in good light. Once you have done it a few times, it will be pretty easy. I was intimidated at first, but now I am used to it, so it is not a problem.

On a side note, I am stitching out the 3 bears from Brave in soft brown velvet - so cute!

 

[iluvwdw4ever]

Pictures from our recent trip....

 

[visitingapril09]

Pictures from our recent trip....

Just gorgeous!! I love them both!!

 

[cogero]

Pictures from our recent trip....

These are stunning I love your fabric choices.

 

[dianemom2]

Pictures from our recent trip....

Wow, I love both of the outfits! Your appliques are just amazing! And the colors are beautiful! Super job!

 

[VBAndrea]

We live in MD and certainly have hot and sticky summers here. But I've never had an issue with the leather sofas getting stuck to us. However, we definitely use the a/c in the warm weather. My in-laws down in Florida also have leather sofas and they haven't had an issue either. I get leather seats in my cars for the same reason, you can wipe them down and the kids can't ruin them.


Love the bag and the Mad Hatter fabric. The embroidery is really cute too! Horrway for multi-quoting!


Have a great trip! We leave on Friday morning for FL but we aren't going to Orlando this time. We are heading to the Keys for a week and to see my in-laws in Sarasota for a week. I think we are heading down there just in time to have a brush up with Tropical Storm Debby. I hope she blows through more quickly than expected.

Enabler Alert Aivilo is having a sale on her Etsy site. 4 pattern for $12 which is much less expensive than her normal prices. I bought the messanger bag, the pocket tote bag and anothe tote bag pattern. I'm not sure which one I will make first. I guess they will all have to wait until I get home from vacation.

Also, I stopped into Joanns yesterday to check out the knit fabric that was on sale. I bought 3 different patterns and two solids. The patterns came out to $6.49 a yard and the solids were $4.99 per yard. Both of those are good prices for knits. I have a few ideas in mind of what I will do with them.

Sandi- I have a question for you. I sat down to trace out some of the Ottobre patterns. There are so many patterns on each sheet, what do you do to make sure you are tracing the right pattern, in the right size etc???? It was so overwhelming that I put it away to think about another day. But in the good news department, I did finally trace the pattern for the Insa skirt and for the Imke shirt from the Sewing Clothes Kids love book. I traced the Imke shirt for both boys and girls. Now you might figure out what I am doing with some of the new knits that I bought.

I have to add to the leather comments -- we have a couple of leather chairs and they are not sticky. Real leather never gets sticky -- it's very soft. Pleather is what gets sticky.

Quit posting any enabler alerts or fabric deals until I have $$$!!!!!!! Maybe I just need to take a break from the boards b/c there is so much I want to buy and can't.

I have a couple of Farbenmix patterns that are a hot mess. What I do to make tracing easier is trace each size on the actual pattern in a colored marker -- different colors for each size. Then I trace them onto freezer paper. It's a thousand times easier for me having a colored line to trace.

Did you make an Insa yet? I may make one more in a corduroy I have and then retire it for awhile -- my dd has soooo many Insas now. I can't recall if I told you or not but I cut a circle skirt in the lightweight cord and it hangs beautifully. All I have left to do on it is attach the elastic waistband but I want to wait and get a pretty colored elastic from Joann's. I then want dd to try it before I make anymore just to make sure I did all my math right!

Have a great time in the Keys! I didn't know about the tropical storm -- I usually don't follow them until they are headed our way.

Sunshine, per your request, a close up of the Mad Hatter fabric (and tea embroidery) and a tote bag I made that I'm thinking of sewing x10 for my adult FE gifts in August...

and I previewed this, multi-quote and multi-pictures I think worked!!! Yay!

I really like that tote!

Pictures from our recent trip....

Lovely as always! Does Lisa pick all the fabrics and designs or do you give her guidance as to what you'd like? I'm assuming you just let her have her way with things since she has such a great eye for fabric combos. No pics of the boys this time???

 

[cogero]

does anyone know who has any cruise Chip and Dales

 

[HockeyMomNH]

Next up I wasn't sure if I would fit it in but I barely finished this evening. A camera bag for me. My inspiration was the one hockeymomNH posted a few weeks ago. The pattern I used was for a small bag so I scaled it up but I think I made it a tad too big but it will work. It might even fit my laptop in it, I'll have to try when I get off the computer. If in does I will have to improvise a pocket but I'm sure I could do it. If not the laptop the Ipad will fit. Here's the front.

Back

Front with the flap open

Inside

The bag looks great. I'm so excited to have inspired someone, since you all are so inspiring to me. I really like how you added the seam to make the front into two pockets. You'll have to let me know if your laptop fits. I want to make a laptop bag soon.

Hope you have a great trip!

Pictures from our recent trip....

These are fab! Did you make the necklaces?

 

[Disney52303]

Pictures from our recent trip....

Those are stunning!! Love love love the Star Wars one!!

 

[GlassSlippers]

Trying to figure out why the Disney Merida costumes are so decorative when the clothing she wears in the movie is very plain. Specifically the green dress.

Disney's costume

and the movie dress

I'm also noticing that in WDW Merida has a really decorated outfit on also. It is decorated quite different than both other dresses though. She has plaid on her belt.

I'm a Disney Store CM so I actually have an answer instead of a bone-headed beginner question this time! The reason they glitter up the costumes is that most little girls love it. The plainer the costume, the less it sells even if it's more like the movie to be simple. We have to make money to stay in business, so we do what sells or there won't be a Disney Store.

While I'm here, yes, hair spray works as a glitter fixative. I'd use the kind in a can rather than a pump because the spray tends to be finer so it gets between the glitter and fabric better. Aquanet would work well for that reason. You can use it on charcoal or chalk drawings too. It works like a charm!

HTH!

Lori in East Podunk

 

[TwinMamaTastic]

Im having some problems with my Brother SE400 and embroidering. I had NO trouble with it sewing, but when I embroider, the bobbin thread is on top, and not the top thread. I called Brother, and they said to check the tension, and needle. The tension is set between 4 and 5. I tried adjusting it higher and lower, and neither solved the problem. The needle is also new. Im using embroidery bobbin thread on the bottom, polyester embroidery thread, and water soluble stabilizer.

Has anybody had this problem before, or does anybody know what the problem might be, so I can fix it? I attached a bunch of pics, in case Im hooping it wrong, or setting something up wrong. This way you can hopefully see everything and have a full picture of what may wrong. TIA!

 

[dianemom2]

Quit posting any enabler alerts or fabric deals until I have $$$!!!!!!! Maybe I just need to take a break from the boards b/c there is so much I want to buy and can't.

I have a couple of Farbenmix patterns that are a hot mess. What I do to make tracing easier is trace each size on the actual pattern in a colored marker -- different colors for each size. Then I trace them onto freezer paper. It's a thousand times easier for me having a colored line to trace.

Did you make an Insa yet? I may make one more in a corduroy I have and then retire it for awhile -- my dd has soooo many Insas now. I can't recall if I told you or not but I cut a circle skirt in the lightweight cord and it hangs beautifully. All I have left to do on it is attach the elastic waistband but I want to wait and get a pretty colored elastic from Joann's. I then want dd to try it before I make anymore just to make sure I did all my math right!

Since you told me to quit posting enabler alerts, I guess that I shouldn't tell you that Fabric.com has a bunch of new Mickey and Minnie fabrics they just listed. I understand how hard it is when you want to make something and you just can't spend the money. We were in that situation last year!

Thanks for the advice about tracing the patterns. That's how I do my Farbenmix patterns and it works really well. The Ottobre pattterns have like a million patterns and they overlap them. They are color coded so that you know which pieces you need to trace but it was still overwhelming to me.

I have the Insa cut and I designed some new appliques to put onto it. But I ended up being sick two days this week and then Sara was sick for a day. Between that and getting ready for vacation, I didn't have much sewing time. The circle skirt sounds nice. I'll be watching for a picture of it. I had actually been thinking of doing a poodle type circle skirt for my niece with some of that corduroy. I loved the one somebody made last year with Pluto on it.

Im having some problems with my Brother SE400 and embroidering. I had NO trouble with it sewing, but when I embroider, the bobbin thread is on top, and not the top thread. I called Brother, and they said to check the tension, and needle. The tension is set between 4 and 5. I tried adjusting it higher and lower, and neither solved the problem. The needle is also new. Im using embroidery bobbin thread on the bottom, polyester embroidery thread, and water soluble stabilizer.

Has anybody had this problem before, or does anybody know what the problem might be, so I can fix it? I attached a bunch of pics, in case Im hooping it wrong, or setting something up wrong. This way you can hopefully see everything and have a full picture of what may wrong. TIA!

Try re-threading the machine and also change your stabilizer. You may not have chosen something heavy enough. Also try a different design. Maybe there is some problem with how your machine wants to stitch out that particular thing. Take off the needle plate and look around for loose threads or fluff underneath it. Clean it out good because even one loose thread can really mess things up. I hope some of this advice helps.


Sandi- I didn't grab your quote but thanks for the advice for how to trace the Ottobre designs. There are like 4 different things that I want to make from the magazine but I have to get the patterns traced!

 

[pyrxtc]

Since you told me to quit posting enabler alerts, I guess that I shouldn't tell you that Fabric.com has a bunch of new Mickey and Minnie fabrics they just listed. I understand how hard it is when you want to make something and you just can't spend the money. We were in that situation last year!

Just checked out Fabric.com... thanks but I can't buy anything either. So much I want but nothing I can buy

 

[Sandi S]

I went to the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo in Raleigh today. I had a great time. I got some nice stuff from vendors. I took a class on machine embroidery/digitizing.

Oh, and I won the GRAND PRIZE DRAWING!!!!

I'm going to bring this baby home on Saturday. They wanted to keep it on display and I am coming back to the expo Saturday to volunteer in some classes. Plus, it was pouring when I left and I was parked two blocks away.

It is a Project Runway (Brother) sewing & embroidery machine. It comes with the nifty Project Runway rolling tote, too. I'm going to keep it at my mom's house for her to use (and as a back-up for whenever my machine has an emergency).

They called THREE people before me, but none of them were there. When they called my name, I jumped up and hollered!

 

[McDuck]

I went to the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo in Raleigh today. I had a great time. I got some nice stuff from vendors. I took a class on machine embroidery/digitizing.

Oh, and I won the GRAND PRIZE DRAWING!!!!

I'm going to bring this baby home on Saturday. They wanted to keep it on display and I am coming back to the expo Saturday to volunteer in some classes. Plus, it was pouring when I left and I was parked two blocks away.

It is a Project Runway (Brother) sewing & embroidery machine. It comes with the nifty Project Runway rolling tote, too. I'm going to keep it at my mom's house for her to use (and as a back-up for whenever my machine has an emergency).

They called THREE people before me, but none of them were there. When they called my name, I jumped up and hollered!

Congratulations!!!!!!

 

[DiznyDi]

Sorry I'm late with this, but miprender, I hope you have a really rest trip and make lots of wonderful lasting memories!

iluvwdw4ever Your daughters dresses are beautiful! Your color and fabric choices are great and your appliqués are exceptional. Very nicely done!

TwinMamaTastic It is so frustrating when this type of thing happens. Hopefully the advice Diane gave has solved your problem. I have a Viking machine. When I use the large (5500 meters) spools, they often don't feed properly and I will have similar results. My husband made me a stand that holds the large spool and feeds the thread to my machine which has nearly eliminated my problem. Good luck with your design.

 

[DiznyDi]

I went to the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo in Raleigh today. I had a great time. I got some nice stuff from vendors. I took a class on machine embroidery/digitizing.

Oh, and I won the GRAND PRIZE DRAWING!!!!

I'm going to bring this baby home on Saturday. They wanted to keep it on display and I am coming back to the expo Saturday to volunteer in some classes. Plus, it was pouring when I left and I was parked two blocks away.

It is a Project Runway (Brother) sewing & embroidery machine. It comes with the nifty Project Runway rolling tote, too. I'm going to keep it at my mom's house for her to use (and as a back-up for whenever my machine has an emergency).

They called THREE people before me, but none of them were there. When they called my name, I jumped up and hollered!

WOW! Congratulations on your big win!