Disboutiquers Part 29 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[PurpleEars]

Like I said I have not sewn much for a bit only because of how hectic things have been lately. We got the diagnosis for my 3 yo son FINALLY, not that I am happy with it, but to know what we are dealing with and having the right team of physicians working with us at Boston Children's has made this a lot easier. He was diagnosed with the rare disease called Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD). October is actually PCD awareness month so I ask everyone who is reading this, PLEASE take just a few minutes and learn a bit about the disease by going to the PCD Foundation's website (don't think I can list it here) but if you put together PCDFoundation and add dot org to it, maybe YOU actually know one of the thousands who are undiagnosed and can help spread the word as well...ok back to my projects I recently started back up...non-Disney of course as our Sesame trip is this weekend and Bubble Guppies birthday is coming up!

The Bubble Guppies shirt is still a work in progress still but don't need it for another week and a half so I should have plenty of time. I have another birthday shirt to work on as well. The Sesame shirt he is all excited to wear this weekend for the 1st time!

I am glad that you finally got a diagnosis for your son so you can start advocating for him. The Sesame shirt looks great. I can't wait until the Guppies shirt is done!

Thanks you! I am really enjoying sewing, it is a great relaxation aid for me. I also make hair bows which is also relaxing, it takes just enough of my mind so that I cant fret about other things but not enough that it is overly stressful.

Well I should say not overly stressful when things are cooperating LOL I learned my machine does not like cheap thread and my machine does not like nearly empty bobbins. Bad things happen. Thank you for the recommendation for the Carla C patterns I see a lot of cute things to make. I would like to make my sons stuff too and I love those bowling shirts. First though is to get through this Christmas dress, mostly I just don't understand the lingo and the pictures on the pattern do not "speak" to me. My MIL looks at them and is like okay this is what they want you to do and I am just like you got that from this little picture!!??

I LOVE the creations that have been posted here and it is very inspiring to see what can be done at home. I tend to forget that things at the store are actually sewn at some point!

I am glad that you are making progress in your sewing journey. It's always helpful to have someone to answer the sewing questions! I had to fight my own way through the sewing patterns when I started.

I love YouTube tutorials It along with the Heathersue tutorial are how I have got anything done thus far! The people on there are just fabulous for sharing their knowledge and on here too. I might be searching out the wrong thing for the patterns though because I have watched cutting pattern videos until my eyes bled and then moved onto marking the pattern videos (which is when the first call to MIL went out LOL) and now I am to putting the pieces together...hmmmm maybe search for "putting pattern pieces together??" I am on pattern number two though because I was happily cutting along and cutting all the wrong sizes out..grrrr...I knew from the YouTube that I should have circled my size on the packet but got ahead of myself and well the size medium I needed was cut to XS...learning learning learning...lesson number 599....

Too bad about the sewing pattern. I am too cheap to cut out the patterns so I trace them out on moving paper.

Well, the launch ended a little while ago and I am thrilled because I sold both of my items that were listed this time. I was happy about how they turned out. I am not a good photographer though and I don't have a model so portraying the dresses so that they look their best is a challenge that I still need to work on. Here are a few pictures of the two dresses that I had done for tonight:

You can probably see where a few of the scraps for the Mickey halter dress that I made two weeks ago came from now. LOL!

Great job on those dresses. Congrats on the sales!

Boy you all have been chatty the last few days.
We had a great time. I was so upset the day of MNSSHP, as we walked in around 4pm it started pouring and I thought the party was going to get rained out. Well all my praying paid off as it stopped raining about an hour later and never rained again. We even got to see the Headless Horseman

I am glad to hear that it stopped raining at the party. I look forward to seeing the pictures of your outfits in action.

Here's my launch outfit that sold

Great job on the outfit! Congrats on a successful sale at the launch!

 

[LilnStitchy]

The dress looks wonderful and I am very glad that you finished it with all your fingers intact! It didn't seem to take you very long to make and it looks adorable. Next time you might try using bias tape under the arms instead of trying to hem it by folding it. Bias tape works very well on curves. Try checking youtube for some videos that show you how to use it. It is pretty easy. For a first project, you did an amazing job! And your little girl is a real cutie!

You know I saw a tutorial with it and I *thought* it seemed easier to not do it Boy was I wrong. My mom suggested it too after I told her about my difficulties. Can't wait to try again.

 

[LilnStitchy]

These are my 2 machines...

Patience is my sewing machine - I do everything with her. But she is straight stitch only:

Mr. Rocket is my applique machine... He does all of my applique work:

I also have a serger, but I rarely use it (I really need to make a nicer cover for it... Hmmm... Maybe soon?)


D~

Loving your sewing room. It's so organized and relaxing. Also in love with that elephant.

 

[AQW]

Diane, my 7yo daughter and I looked through allllllll the launch outfits together last night and she liked this one best by far! I would CASE it if I were skilled enough to recreate it. So clever - great dress!

 

[BorkBorkBork]

Apologies everyone but I've been AWOL since Thursday due to DD's birthday festivities so there are so many great things I'm missing but I had some questions about these:

Made myself "4th trimester" dress....I'm about 32 weeks in this photo.....so couldn't wear the dress now cause the hem would ride up too much, but it will be great for next month!

This dress is fabulous! My little sister is pregnant now and this looks awesome. Do you mind sharing how you made it? Did you follow a pattern or tutorial?

You sure have been busy!

Well, the launch ended a little while ago and I am thrilled because I sold both of my items that were listed this time. I was happy about how they turned out. I am not a good photographer though and I don't have a model so portraying the dresses so that they look their best is a challenge that I still need to work on. Here are a few pictures of the two dresses that I had done for tonight:

You can probably see where a few of the scraps for the Mickey halter dress that I made two weeks ago came from now. LOL!

Congrats!! Your outfits were beautiful! Did you digitize the Lady and the Tramp title logo yourself?

Here's my launch outfit that sold

Love those outfits. So happy that they sold too.

Beautiful! Congrats on the sale!! I have the same question for you ...did you digitize those yourself and if not where did you get them?

 

[dianemom2]

Here's my launch outfit that sold

I'm so happy for you that you sold your outfits. I loved the Marie outfit.

You know I saw a tutorial with it and I *thought* it seemed easier to not do it Boy was I wrong. My mom suggested it too after I told her about my difficulties. Can't wait to try again.

The great thing about sewing is that you are constantly learning something new. And if you mess something up, all you have to do is use your seam ripper and rip out those seams.

Diane, my 7yo daughter and I looked through allllllll the launch outfits together last night and she liked this one best by far! I would CASE it if I were skilled enough to recreate it. So clever - great dress!

Awwww, thanks!

Congrats!! Your outfits were beautiful! Did you digitize the Lady and the Tramp title logo yourself?

No, I already had the Lady and the Tramp logo from a dress that I'd done a couple of years ago. I digitized the dog's snouts and the spaghetti for this dress.

 

[love to stitch]

Well, the launch ended a little while ago and I am thrilled because I sold both of my items that were listed this time. I was happy about how they turned out. I am not a good photographer though and I don't have a model so portraying the dresses so that they look their best is a challenge that I still need to work on. Here are a few pictures of the two dresses that I had done for tonight:

You can probably see where a few of the scraps for the Mickey halter dress that I made two weeks ago came from now. LOL!

Those are both beautiful dresses, glad to hear the launch went well for you.

Here's my launch outfit that sold

Love those outfits. So happy that they sold too.

That is adorable!

 

[DMGeurts]

Well, the launch ended a little while ago and I am thrilled because I sold both of my items that were listed this time. I was happy about how they turned out. I am not a good photographer though and I don't have a model so portraying the dresses so that they look their best is a challenge that I still need to work on. Here are a few pictures of the two dresses that I had done for tonight:

You can probably see where a few of the scraps for the Mickey halter dress that I made two weeks ago came from now. LOL!

Congratulations Diane! Your launch outfits are amazing!

Here's my launch outfit that sold

Love those outfits. So happy that they sold too.

Great job Michelle! I love your outfit too!

Loving your sewing room. It's so organized and relaxing. Also in love with that elephant.

Thanks! The elephant was actually made for me by my youngest dd - she was 12 at the time she made it, and I love that little guy too! A million times better than that darned rolling tomato that I used to have.

D~

 

[BabyRapunzel]

I am way behind in quoting. So much awesome stuff! Unfortunately, I can't remember what I wanted to comment on. Yesterdays are still fresh, so I love ALL of those launch outfits. They are all amazing!

Since my bad news, I have been sad and not wanting to do anything other than making it through work. However, we are going to the circus to see Ringling Brothers Dragons tonight, and late Tuesday night I decided I wanted DD2 to have an outfit. So the fabric was bought yesterday, and made last night. There were 2 shirt casualties, learning to embroider on knit. And I ran out of time, so once again no ruffle for now and a quick hem. This is my first official outfit, as the princess one still needs a ruffle.

 

[goteamwood]

I am way behind in quoting. So much awesome stuff! Unfortunately, I can't remember what I wanted to comment on. Yesterdays are still fresh, so I love ALL of those launch outfits. They are all amazing!

Since my bad news, I have been sad and not wanting to do anything other than making it through work. However, we are going to the circus to see Ringling Brothers Dragons tonight, and late Tuesday night I decided I wanted DD2 to have an outfit. So the fabric was bought yesterday, and made last night. There were 2 shirt casualties, learning to embroider on knit. And I ran out of time, so once again no ruffle for now and a quick hem. This is my first official outfit, as the princess one still needs a ruffle.

Very cute! We took my boys to the circus (ringling) last year for their 2nd birthday and they STILL talk about it, they loved it. Though their initial reports were, "We saw elephants and tigers and sat in chairs." since I think it was the first time they had to sit that long for anything.
I looked into it again this year but we are going to be in Disney World that week! I think I am OK skipping the circus this year for Disney... Hope you have a great time. We went about an hour early and you can go down on the floor and meet the clowns, take photos, try on their costumes, etc. It was a lot of fun and totally worth getting there early.

 

[miprender]

Thanks everyone. It was a great launch

Beautiful! Congrats on the sale!! I have the same question for you ...did you digitize those yourself and if not where did you get them?

The mom cat, Duchess is from MissKenzieMac.
The others are from Bows & Clothes but Heather now has Marie so I would have bought it from her if I had known.

 

[EEs*Mommy]

Lisa Funktional Threads is doing a fb group for people who have bought the pattern to get help/ideas etc. Maybe someone can link you. I'm not home or I would.

 

[EEs*Mommy]

Adding I bought 2 beautiful dresses last night at the launch. Love my MSB friends

 

[aboveH20]

Andrea. Just checking in to see how you made out yesterday.

 

[dianemom2]

Just adorable! I love Dumbo! I have some circus fabrics that I am saving for a Dumbo dress!

Lisa Funktional Threads is doing a fb group for people who have bought the pattern to get help/ideas etc. Maybe someone can link you. I'm not home or I would.

Here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/453727554678876/

Adding I bought 2 beautiful dresses last night at the launch. Love my MSB friends

Which two did you buy? If I had little ones, I'd have such a hard time choosing since they were all so beautiful!

Andrea. Just checking in to see how you made out yesterday.

That's why I just popped on here too. I hope that she's ok.

 

[4HppyCamprs]

I'm lost, what launch and where was it? The clothing looks super!!

Love the dumbo and skirt

 

[pyrxtc]

Well, the launch ended a little while ago and I am thrilled because I sold both of my items that were listed this time. I was happy about how they turned out. I am not a good photographer though and I don't have a model so portraying the dresses so that they look their best is a challenge that I still need to work on. Here are a few pictures of the two dresses that I had done for tonight:

You can probably see where a few of the scraps for the Mickey halter dress that I made two weeks ago came from now. LOL!

dresses look so great ! I never have a model for any of my dresses/outfits either, it gets hard to really show them.

Here's my launch outfit that sold

very cute. My sister loved the Aristocats when she was little.

Love those outfits. So happy that they sold too.

Since my bad news, I have been sad and not wanting to do anything other than making it through work. However, we are going to the circus to see Ringling Brothers Dragons tonight, and late Tuesday night I decided I wanted DD2 to have an outfit. So the fabric was bought yesterday, and made last night. There were 2 shirt casualties, learning to embroider on knit. And I ran out of time, so once again no ruffle for now and a quick hem. This is my first official outfit, as the princess one still needs a ruffle.

So cute for the circus. I wish I could go every year. We have gone only when a kid was 4 and then not again since another turned 4 and not again since. ticket prices are just too crazy here.

I'm lost, what launch and where was it? The clothing looks super!!

Love the dumbo and skirt

It's on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/MainStreetBoutiques


Picked up my serger today and found out that I had fabric waiting for me too ! I went to the Open house at his shop a couple of weeks ago and they had a contest where you had to guess how many inches were on the bolt and I guess 207 and it was actually 216. I got all 6 yards of fabric and don't have any clue what I'm going to make with it.

And when I got home, after grocery shopping, I realized that I don't have thread for my serger he didn't try to sell me some and I forgot when I was checking out. Guess I'll order some online. Where is the best place for cones ?

 

[4HppyCamprs]

I apparently picked out a pattern for a simple looking dress that is not so simple to sew. Mother in law kept asking if I was sure it was a beginner pattern and then switched to she is sure it is not for beginners and she will find me a simpler pattern. I think I will see about one if the Carla c dresses

 

[4HppyCamprs]

dresses look so great ! I never have a model for any of my dresses/outfits either, it gets hard to really show them.

So cute for the circus. I wish I could go every year. We have gone only when a kid was 4 and then not again since another turned 4 and not again since. ticket prices are just too crazy here.

It's on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/MainStreetBoutiques

Picked up my serger today and found out that I had fabric waiting for me too ! I went to the Open house at his shop a couple of weeks ago and they had a contest where you had to guess how many inches were on the bolt and I guess 207 and it was actually 216. I got all 6 yards of fabric and don't have any clue what I'm going to make with it.

And when I got home, after grocery shopping, I realized that I don't have thread for my serger he didn't try to sell me some and I forgot when I was checking out. Guess I'll order some online. Where is the best place for cones ?

Hooray for winning the fabric!

 

[dianemom2]

I'm lost, what launch and where was it? The clothing looks super!!

The launch was an sale on FB. It ended yesterday. There is one every couple of months or so. I think that there will be a mini launch in November and the next regular one will be in January/February.

dresses look so great ! I never have a model for any of my dresses/outfits either, it gets hard to really show them.

And when I got home, after grocery shopping, I realized that I don't have thread for my serger he didn't try to sell me some and I forgot when I was checking out. Guess I'll order some online. Where is the best place for cones ?

I could get my little niece to model them but it would get complicated because they live an hour away from us. Plus, while I adore her, she is not a "put together" looking child. She is a real cutie but her hair is always messy and she won't let you brush it. If there are ties on a dress, she won't let you tie them and her shirt is always untucked. I keep looking for somebody who lives closer to me and has a little girl who could model what I've sewn.

Hooray for winning fabric! I am sure you could come up with something very cute with that adorable doggy fabric!

Unless Joanns has a great sale, this is where I order my thread from:
http://sewtrue.com/Store/Maxi-Lock-Serger-Thread-AS-LOW-AS-2.00-EACH-P184.html

I apparently picked out a pattern for a simple looking dress that is not so simple to sew. Mother in law kept asking if I was sure it was a beginner pattern and then switched to she is sure it is not for beginners and she will find me a simpler pattern. I think I will see about one if the Carla c dresses

Oh no! Well, I highly recommend CarlaC's Simple Sweet dress. It has great directions, it is easy to sew and is a pattern that is so versatile, you will make it over and over again. I've made three of them in the last two weeks.