Disboutiquers Part 30 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[disneychic2]

Double thank you to "whomever" Great idea!

Ok, gotta rant -
I took the day off of sewing to take my husband's car to get a tune-up and oil change (We're driving his car to Florida, and he wanted me to get it done so we wouldn't run out of time - What does he think, that I'm a procrastinator, oh, wait, I am) Anyhoo, I posted earlier how I can hear my Cinderella fabric calling my name. Well, now I'm stuck an hour from home in a hotel for the night (a treat in any other circumstance) because they didn't put any oil BACK in the car!!!! Hubby thinks they left the plug off, but the end result is the same. No sewing for me!
Actually, my mother's brand new Ellissimo is in the car; along with some cute red fabric with white polka dots that I couldn't resist today. If the dang thing wasn't so heavy, I'd go get it and spend my night having a ball.

Sorry you got stranded unexpectedly. Hope your car recovered!

I have machine envy when it comes to the Ellissimo! I love that machine and hope to have one some day.

I'm just checking in since I haven't posted in quite a while!! The ladies on this thread (including my dear sister, teresajoy) got me sewing in 2007 and have led me to a wonderful career in digitizing embroidery designs! I'm so thankful to everyone for their encouragement through the years!! I love the Disboutiquers!

I just joined this wonderful group about a year and a half ago and have loved being a part of it. One of the best things about it was finding out about you and your fabulous designs! I got my embroidery machine in January and have bought many of your designs and been delighted with every one. They stitch out beautifully! Thank you!!

Hello Disboutiquers!!! First time poster here. I found out about Disboutiquers through one of mom2rtk's trip reports and thought I would join in the fun!

So without further ado here are some projects I just made. We are going on our first ever family WDW trip in 2 weeks and I have made two of each of the following dresses for my twin daughters. The dresses, as well as the entire trip, is a complete surprise for them, so it has been a challenge to work on the dresses while they're at school and hide the material before they get home.

For our first MK day, when we plan to meet Merida:



For our second MK day when we have breakfast reservations at CRT:

Very nice work! I love them! Have a magical trip!

Great job. I can't imagine keeping it a surprise while sewing two of everything. I have twin boys so making two of each thing seems totally normal to me, when I just sew one I feel off my routine... I am sure you girls will love the surprise and the dresses!


It really is a gateway drug, this thread. I too have added an embroidery machine (2 actually...) in the just-under-a-year I have been hanging around. Not to mention a small fortune in embroidery designs, enough fabric to make a slipcover for a small continent and the unending desire to go back to WDW and so we are planning another trip. ENABLERS, all of you!

I just got my 1st order (speaking of addictions.) from Girl Charlee for knits to make shirts for my boys for the trip. Branching out from my beloved bowling shirts, gasp! (I have at least 1 set of those in the agenda though, worry you not!) I really want to do Be Our Guest for their birthday, but even if we can't get a dinner reservation I am hoping we can do lunch. Anyway, I also got the "Jackson" raglan pattern from Funktional threads to try out. It seems to have a lot of great upcycling potential too. The knits are in the washer so I doubt I will get going on them tonight and tomorrow we have plans all day... Darn real life getting in the way of my sewing!

You crack me up...but speak the truth!!

Anyone made kids capes? If so, done anything Disney theme. My DD has been wearing a bag (cloth shopping bag) around her neck and calling it her cape. I'm thinking I should buy/make them (twins) one for their birthday.

Side note -- 10 days until our FIRST trip to WDW!! Can't wait!

Hope you're having fun on your trip! I made capes for my grandchildren and here is the tutorial I used as a jumping off place:
http://www.howdoesshe.com/super-hero-cape/

And here are a couple of the capes I made:



Hope this helps!


[QUOTE And finally, here are the Mother's Day gifts I made for my mom, mil, dh's grandma and his aunts. Burlap is messy! I'm still cleaning fuzz off my cutting table!

This is for my mil, but I plan to make one for our house too:

Now, I've got three pairs of shorts and 3-4 shirts to get done before we leave for the beach next Saturday. Totally doable, right?

Regards,
C.[/QUOTE]

I lost most of your quote, but everything is wonderful. Great job! Hope you got everything done for your beach trip tomorrow.

Love all the creations everyone has posted!!! I just got back from a week at WDW. It was me & my youngest DD(10). A coworker and her DD(10) joined us for 5 nights. My coworker had not been in 22 years and this was to be her DDs one & only trip. I made them some Ts to help make their trip special.

Nade them these Minnie ear Ts-fun to make as they are something my youngest would never wear.

Made them these (DD & I already had them).

I made us all Epcot Flower Fest logo Ts

Once my coworker had booked her trip I tried every day for a month to get us an ADR at CP before the park opened. Once I got that ADR I made us these Ts

I made a T for her DD of her favorite characters.

And one for my DD of her favorite

We had a great trip! Weather was near perfect most of the trip. Crowds were manageable. My DD & I went to Splitzville and had a blast. And I booked a Bounceback for my entire family for August.

Busy lady!! Everything is fabulous and I'm sure your friend and her DD loved everything you made for them. I'm so glad you had a great trip and have another one to look forward to. That always helps when you're feeling sad about leaving to know you're coming back.

These aren't Disney but I thought I'd share my most recent sewing projects for the grandkids.
My granddaughter picked out the dress fabric and pattern from my stashes and helped cut it out. Then she informed me that I could finish it for her. The fabric for my grandson was also from my stash and he liked all the trucks.

Very pretty dress. Love the fabric. Ditto for the grandson, well, maybe not pretty, but love the fabric and you did a great job! Way to use your stash.

I think I figured this out. Going to try & post pics for the first time.
I make hairbows. I just wanted to share some I made this weekend.

These are some bows I made to match my girls' softball uniform & some friends tball/softball uniforms.

These are just some bows that people had ordered from me. The bright colors are popular this year!!

Love these!! Good job!


I am so frustrated!! I replied to a bunch of quotes and when I entered it, I lost everything I had typed. I just tried to re-type everything and find I lost several of the original quotes I had commented on. Oh well, I'll just go with what I've got here.

I'm in Texas visiting my sister and will finally be back home on Monday. I got so far behind while I was gone, but there have been so many wonderful things made. I just love seeing everything! And Flora, I just wanted to say, DO NOT miss BOG when you go, even if it's just for lunch. We loved both lunch and dinner. I had the steak for dinner and it was fabulous! I can't recommend it enough!

D~ I lost your quote, but I love the new bag! As usual. And I hope you'll be able to make a decision regarding the embroidery machine. I couldn't believe you were contemplating coming to the dark side.

 

[GrammytoMany]

Oh My...on page one I said I'd keep up this time around. Don't know how you got up to page 19 before I checked in again. A lot of cute stuff posted

Sheila

 

[lynnanddbyz]

I order a fair amount online because I can't take my whirling dervish children to the fabric store most of the time or they wreck the place... I have used fabric.com and fatquartershop most, FQS is all very great quality quilt fabric, and they ship super fast. Fabric.com ships a lot slower and has a little of everything. They ship free over $35 which I NEVER have a hard time finding $35 worth of fabric I "need" and they have a decent amount of Disney/character stuff, and their prices are good.

Thanks I will have to check out fatquartershop I have never heard of them. I have used fabric.com before but I never know the fabric quality. Sometimes the quality is great and others not so much.

 

[lynnanddbyz]

Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh!!! I LOOOOVE fatquartershop.com!!!!!!! Thank you Thank you for telling me about it. Moda and Michael Miller and more!!!! And I found Minnie dot on clearance from moda here is the link.

http://www.fatquartershop.com/store...e_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=79656&Parent_Ids=

Lots of sales I am hooked! I will have to slow down. I am seeing all kinds of clothes for Disney. I even found potato head fabric on clearance. Thank you ladies. My pocketbook is not so happy. I will have to budget a little at a time for the trip this fall and other stuff too.

 

[goteamwood]

Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh!!! I LOOOOVE fatquartershop.com!!!!!!! Thank you Thank you for telling me about it. Moda and Michael Miller and more!!!! And I found Minnie dot on clearance from moda here is the link.

http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Shopper_id=8560517203198560&Store_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=79656&Parent_Ids=

Lots of sales I am hooked! I will have to slow down. I am seeing all kinds of clothes for Disney. I even found potato head fabric on clearance. Thank you ladies. My pocketbook is not so happy. I will have to budget a little at a time for the trip this fall and other stuff too.

Sorry. And you're welcome. I used that potato head fabric for bowling shirts for my boys for DHS last year. We got stopped a hundred times with those shirts.

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[mommy2AbIzEli]

Welcome back. I am happy to hear that you like your new house and you will get a new sewing room! Your nieces look cute!



How exciting! Please don't forget to post the pictures!

I will for sure as she gets it done!!


I have a question. Does anyone have a free pattern for a Jon-Jon type thing for my 2 yr old son? My mom is looking for one to make him for AK. She got a pattern at Walmart today but it was for babies. She's hoping she can just cut it bigger. It old her I'd check here to see what you ladies thought!! Thanks!!

 

[smittette]

Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh!!! I LOOOOVE fatquartershop.com!!!!!!! Thank you Thank you for telling me about it. Moda and Michael Miller and more!!!! And I found Minnie dot on clearance from moda here is the link.

http://www.fatquartershop.com/store...e_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=79656&Parent_Ids=

Lots of sales I am hooked! I will have to slow down. I am seeing all kinds of clothes for Disney. I even found potato head fabric on clearance.

I must have potato head fabric!!!!!


Ok, done drooling.
I've only got 18 days left before we leave, so I've had to get busy.

Jammies


The Hulk for that "other park" for little miss and brother





I bought t-shirts with the muscles off of Walmart's clearance rack - of course they didn't have the right sizes so I had to shrink one and used the other as an applique on a larger shirt.

 

[cogero]

***Warning Vent**
Sorry to blow off steam here but knew you guys would understand. I have heard all of you ladies voice your dislike of your local Joann's store over the years and thought how nice mine was. Big Joanns Etc. We moved last summer and had a tiny store in an OLD run down shopping center. But they were putting a new one in our mall. YEAH. Well when the new one opened they only had about half the fabric selection the store is now full of "craft" and scrapbooking supplies. The staff are clueless and rude. They never have the sale signs up and when they do they may be from 2 or more weeks ago.

You may think I exaggerate but today I went to buy quilt batting by the yard only had one wide enough for a king size quilt. I had the cutting lady check the price before she cut it. The signs said $5.99 a yard it rang up $10.99 on sale. the whole area with batting had sale signs everywhere. Cutting lady could not figure out what was wrong called a manager. She could not figure what was wrong but said she could not give me the price on any of the signs because they were all ringing wrong. She said I had to wait until Monday (3 days) until a regular manager came in and she if she could figure it out.

Really. I was so mad I told her forget it. That is the ONLY fabric store within and hour of here. I guess I will have to start ordering fabric online. I hate not to feel the fabric before I buy and hate to pay shipping. Any way as I am leaving I look real close at the signs. Some listed the sale date ending on 5-4 two weeks ago and the others said 5-11. All still up but nothing for this week anywhere I saw in the store.

Rant over sorry. I did call customer service when I got home. They will report it to the district manager.

I buy a lot of my fabric on line. I tend to be a fabric snob

I know I like name brands for their quality, also we only have Joanns and I find the fabric to be super thin for most things.

Here are some of my favorites: Fabric dot com, fat quartershop, hawthorne threads, etsy, hypernoodle fabrics.

I will tell you a lot of times I can get really good deals on etsy

Oh My...on page one I said I'd keep up this time around. Don't know how you got up to page 19 before I checked in again. A lot of cute stuff posted

Sheila

I know I try to read everything but it is getting hard to find the time.

 

[DMGeurts]

***Warning Vent**
Sorry to blow off steam here but knew you guys would understand. I have heard all of you ladies voice your dislike of your local Joann's store over the years and thought how nice mine was. Big Joanns Etc. We moved last summer and had a tiny store in an OLD run down shopping center. But they were putting a new one in our mall. YEAH. Well when the new one opened they only had about half the fabric selection the store is now full of "craft" and scrapbooking supplies. The staff are clueless and rude. They never have the sale signs up and when they do they may be from 2 or more weeks ago.

You may think I exaggerate but today I went to buy quilt batting by the yard only had one wide enough for a king size quilt. I had the cutting lady check the price before she cut it. The signs said $5.99 a yard it rang up $10.99 on sale. the whole area with batting had sale signs everywhere. Cutting lady could not figure out what was wrong called a manager. She could not figure what was wrong but said she could not give me the price on any of the signs because they were all ringing wrong. She said I had to wait until Monday (3 days) until a regular manager came in and she if she could figure it out.

Really. I was so mad I told her forget it. That is the ONLY fabric store within and hour of here. I guess I will have to start ordering fabric online. I hate not to feel the fabric before I buy and hate to pay shipping. Any way as I am leaving I look real close at the signs. Some listed the sale date ending on 5-4 two weeks ago and the others said 5-11. All still up but nothing for this week anywhere I saw in the store.

Rant over sorry. I did call customer service when I got home. They will report it to the district manager.

I also purchase almost all of my fabric online... Mostly from Etsy and Fabric dot com. Fabric dot com does ship very slowly... So - if I order from there, I seriously plan on not having it for 3 weeks from my order date, just to be safe. Most of the time, if I buy on Etsy - it's here rather quickly.

I agree with Chiara - I am a fabric snob too... But I sort of have to be... I cannot afford to skimp on fabric quality for my bags, I need to buy durable and quality fabric.

Really - the only fabric I buy from JoAnns is if I need a Kona quickly (fabric dot com is always cheaper) or if they have a cute character print. I've been able to streamline almost all of my business to online ordering - and since we live so far in the country - I'd rather pay shipping costs, than the cost of gas/time.



D~

 

[NiniMorris]

First of all...
I get to feeling a little under the weather and you move two pages on me...sheesh..at least I can now read from my phone. Something I have never been able to before. Special thanks to who ever I saw posting from the Disboard app for Iphone...loving my new phone more and more each day!

I also purchase almost all of my fabric online... Mostly from Etsy and Fabric dot com. Fabric dot com does ship very slowly... So - if I order from there, I seriously plan on not having it for 3 weeks from my order date, just to be safe. Most of the time, if I buy on Etsy - it's here rather quickly.

I agree with Chiara - I am a fabric snob too... But I sort of have to be... I cannot afford to skimp on fabric quality for my bags, I need to buy durable and quality fabric.

Really - the only fabric I buy from JoAnns is if I need a Kona quickly (fabric dot com is always cheaper) or if they have a cute character print. I've been able to streamline almost all of my business to online ordering - and since we live so far in the country - I'd rather pay shipping costs, than the cost of gas/time.



D~

I agree...being a fabric snob is another addiction! Although, since Fabric.com has a warehouse a few miles from me, I ALWAYS get my order within a day or two! I try to only buy from sales...because I am CHEAP!

I have noticed the fabric from Joann's is getting thinner and thinner. I have some of what I call the black Mickey Swirl...the black swirly fabric I love to use on my Mickey Heads...in the past I have been able to use it for actual garments. Now it is so thin I sometimes have to use a double layer on my appliques! Crazy... I just checked a dress where I had used it back in 2010...and the fabric is no where near the same quality.

Since I live in a fabric mill town (or at least close to it...I USED to live there) I know that the mills will print the pattern (even from some 'name brand designers' on several different weight cotton wovens. They are not allowed to sell the inferior to the name brand stores...and it sometimes ends up in places like WalMart and garage sales. But to realize that Joann's is now buying that off market fabric has been very disheartening.

I used to go to the mill salvage shops next to the mills. (It is not really salvage..just cheap fabric!) You used to be able to buy the fabric by the pound. I could get 20 yards of fabric for less than 10 dollars. Of that fabric only half of it was usable in what I was doing...so it was still a bargain. (I was not making clothes...) Anyway...I could get the designer fabrics but they were lightweight and not good for anything...

I hate that Joann's has decided to go that route with their fabrics. I have several Disney prints that I could never use for clothing, but I could not resist buying them...I now use them for back drops....


Sorry...rambling!


Chiara...if I remember correctly...you have a pretty good reason for not being able to keep up...you exhaust me just reading what you are up to...... rest...take it easy! That is a mommy order!



Nini <-----> who is sending this off without proof reading...sorry!

 

[lovesdumbo]

Thanks all I am probably more excited than I should be but this is only the third item I have sewn and the from a pattern where I didn't have to call and ask MIL to explain what they were really trying to say in the instructions. I did it from start to finish on my own there was a heck of a lot of gathering. Thank goodness someone on here gave the tip for anchoring the thread as a figure 8 on the needle!

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You should be proud! Those commercial patterns have virtually no instructions. I think they don't want to pay to have too many words translated. You might want to try one of Carla's patterns(Scientific Seamstress or SisBoom) on youcanmakethis. I know I hesitated to spend $10 for her Easy Fit pants pattern when you can buy commercial patterns for $1 on sale but her patterns are so worth it. They are like a sewing lesson. I use her methods for other patterns too. And you get multiple sizes in each pattern. I have conservatively used that pattern at least 25 times.

Sounds like your 10 year old is like me in terms of clothing choices. I guess you may have to make her clothes when she outgrows the girls' sizes. Fortunately baggy clothes were "in" when I was a teenager so I managed to get away with store bought clothing.

I am looking forward to your review of BoG!

Thankfully yoga pants are popular in the middle school here so she'll probably wear those (but Old Navy not the $100 Lulu Lemon that many girls here wear)

I'm looking forward to having another strawberry cupcake from BOG.

Saw this dress and had to post! I love this butterfly fabric!!! I just finished the Grace Dress from YCMT for my niece (18mos) using this same fabric and some purple. I had left over fabric from another Grace Dress that I am making for DD with this same fabric as one of the ruffles. Oiy, those ruffles take a while.

I really like the pattern you used though, looks very comfy! Which pattern is it, I think I have seen it around?

Here's a couple of pictures of the Grace dress I made for DN. I hand-appliqued the butterfly's on with my machine, 1st time using my machine for the applique. Labor of love:

How cute! You did a great job on the butterflies and they really make the dress!

So many tons of things have been posted and all I did was go to Texas to see my new house and I missed so much ! Everything looks so amazing and I can't wait to make more things but I don't think I will be doing any more of my own stuff anytime soon. Maybe I will make a nursing cover for my sister since she had her baby last week and I didn't want to leave when I visited. My new niece is so cute ! Me with my two nieces.

I also gave my brother my other nieces outfits for her birthday. I tried them on her and they fit her perfectly.

I sent my brother home with all 3 things and when I made the offer to my SIL to ask her photographer if she would trade the tutu and tulle dress for photographs, she responded that she didn't know she had them. She had seen the pic on facebook but didn't realize that I made them for her DD and it was at her house. She is looking forward to when her DH finally gives the box to her.

Texas is wonderful and I can't wait to go, I might be saying the opposite in a year or two but so far I love it ! My new house is gorgeous and passed inspections with only little things like burnt bulbs, nothing major. I even got to hit a moving sale and brought home about 50 yards of fabric that I only paid $20 for. Most are 1 and 2 yard increments but I got 5 or 6 3-5 yard pieces of some great colors and designs including some cars and some Rudolph. It's a pity it will all get packed away for the move before I use any of it. My new sewing room is huge though and really tall ceiling so it will be fun to decorate.

All these upcoming Disney trips are making me want to go too. I received a Figment my DS designed in my email yesterday. He sent it to me about 17 months ago when we were in Epcot for Christmas 2011. It was delayed a little bit.

The girls are so precious! Love the tutu.

Just stopping by to post a quick hello. The girls did a fantastic job at their bat mitzvah last weekend. I was so proud of them. The party also went off without a hitch. We still have a house full of company and will for another several days. Then they will start departing for home. Hopefully I can catch up on here in the next few days.

D- I saw that you might be getting an embroidery machine. Even if you do your appliques by hand, the help with the lettering will be fantastic!

Nice to hear things went so well!

Thanks do you know what easy shirt you did? The first thing I made was a bubble skirt from a tutorial. Then the part where I did things backward lol I took on "hand appliqueing". Turned out pretty decent for zero previous sewing experience (does sewing on a button count?) then I picked a really cute outfit that had a zipper and lots of gathering and tiny armholes that also needed gathering. My MIL guided me and helped with the cap sleeves but I did it! She said I picked a pretty difficult one for my first. I have not done button holes yet but I think that is in my near future. So far I have done snaps on the few things that called for buttons.

Glad I am not the only one that has to call for translation! Sometimes it seems as if the skipped important words and the pictures don't make up for those words!

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Carla's Bowling shirt pattern has you put the button holes in the placket before attaching to the shirt. That way if you have any problems with the button holes you only have to redo the placket-the entire shirt isn't ruined.

I purchased a tutorial from the Etsy shop "toosweetspatterns" - sugar ruffle tank. The first attempt I sewed the front and back panels together the wrong way, so it was too skinny (oops) , but once I figured that out, I made her 2 more eventually. The tutorial has several sizes, I bought the lager sizes for DD and adjusted down a bit since she was 5T at the time. It is super cute. I remember being so intimidated by the ruffle at the top. Now I love ruffles, but man, they are a killer on a size 6 Grace ruffle dress!

Here's the Tink top I made with the pattern for our Disney trip:


Oh and button holes are crazy - I took out like 10 sets of stitches on the button holes before being satisfied with the placement! I need more practice on those for sure! (none on the shirt above, but they are on the Grace dress pattern)

The gathering I haven't conquered quite yet. I did a VERY tricky Kwik Sew dress pattern where I added gathers. I ended up needing my mom's help on the gathers and zipper appearance (Belle-inspired sundress), and in the end it's still too big/wide in the bodice for DD.

Hand (hand) appliqueing is super fun, and I've done some of that before taking on a sewing machine, now I am on to conquering hand (sewing machine) appliqueing. It's much more tricky, but love that it can be done much more quickly. I see so many embroidered designs on here, that I just can't resist trying it out on my own when I can. Plus my mom has a (fancy) embroidery machine but lives 3 states away. I love to just buy embroidery designs and have her send them to me to sew on things so I don't have to worry about her placement of said designs, etc.

Cute!

***Warning Vent**
Sorry to blow off steam here but knew you guys would understand. I have heard all of you ladies voice your dislike of your local Joann's store over the years and thought how nice mine was. Big Joanns Etc. We moved last summer and had a tiny store in an OLD run down shopping center. But they were putting a new one in our mall. YEAH. Well when the new one opened they only had about half the fabric selection the store is now full of "craft" and scrapbooking supplies. The staff are clueless and rude. They never have the sale signs up and when they do they may be from 2 or more weeks ago.

You may think I exaggerate but today I went to buy quilt batting by the yard only had one wide enough for a king size quilt. I had the cutting lady check the price before she cut it. The signs said $5.99 a yard it rang up $10.99 on sale. the whole area with batting had sale signs everywhere. Cutting lady could not figure out what was wrong called a manager. She could not figure what was wrong but said she could not give me the price on any of the signs because they were all ringing wrong. She said I had to wait until Monday (3 days) until a regular manager came in and she if she could figure it out.

Really. I was so mad I told her forget it. That is the ONLY fabric store within and hour of here. I guess I will have to start ordering fabric online. I hate not to feel the fabric before I buy and hate to pay shipping. Any way as I am leaving I look real close at the signs. Some listed the sale date ending on 5-4 two weeks ago and the others said 5-11. All still up but nothing for this week anywhere I saw in the store.

Rant over sorry. I did call customer service when I got home. They will report it to the district manager.

How frustrating!

I must have potato head fabric!!!!!


Ok, done drooling.
I've only got 18 days left before we leave, so I've had to get busy.

Jammies


The Hulk for that "other park" for little miss and brother





I bought t-shirts with the muscles off of Walmart's clearance rack - of course they didn't have the right sizes so I had to shrink one and used the other as an applique on a larger shirt.

Cute PJs. Love the Hulk outfits-very clever!

 

[mommy2AbIzEli]

I must have potato head fabric!!!!!


Ok, done drooling.
I've only got 18 days left before we leave, so I've had to get busy.

Jammies


The Hulk for that "other park" for little miss and brother





I bought t-shirts with the muscles off of Walmart's clearance rack - of course they didn't have the right sizes so I had to shrink one and used the other as an applique on a larger shirt.

I love the pjs! Cute!

 

[mommy2AbIzEli]

My mom got the first outfit done & it's for my 2 yr old son!! I love it!!! So excited for her to get the rest done!!

 

[4HppyCamprs]

My mom got the first outfit done & it's for my 2 yr old son!! I love it!!! So excited for her to get the rest done!!

Adorable

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[mommy2AbIzEli]

Adorable

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Thank you!!! I think so too. He tried it on & it looks so much cuter on!! I'm so excited!!!!

 

[PurpleEars]

Just stopping by to post a quick hello. The girls did a fantastic job at their bat mitzvah last weekend. I was so proud of them. The party also went off without a hitch. We still have a house full of company and will for another several days. Then they will start departing for home. Hopefully I can catch up on here in the next few days.

D- I saw that you might be getting an embroidery machine. Even if you do your appliques by hand, the help with the lettering will be fantastic!

Glad to hear that the Bat Mitzvah went well and your girls did a great job. I hope your family had a great time visiting with family and company in the last few days.

I purchased a tutorial from the Etsy shop "toosweetspatterns" - sugar ruffle tank. The first attempt I sewed the front and back panels together the wrong way, so it was too skinny (oops) , but once I figured that out, I made her 2 more eventually. The tutorial has several sizes, I bought the lager sizes for DD and adjusted down a bit since she was 5T at the time. It is super cute. I remember being so intimidated by the ruffle at the top. Now I love ruffles, but man, they are a killer on a size 6 Grace ruffle dress!

Here's the Tink top I made with the pattern for our Disney trip:


Oh and button holes are crazy - I took out like 10 sets of stitches on the button holes before being satisfied with the placement! I need more practice on those for sure! (none on the shirt above, but they are on the Grace dress pattern)

The gathering I haven't conquered quite yet. I did a VERY tricky Kwik Sew dress pattern where I added gathers. I ended up needing my mom's help on the gathers and zipper appearance (Belle-inspired sundress), and in the end it's still too big/wide in the bodice for DD.

Hand (hand) appliqueing is super fun, and I've done some of that before taking on a sewing machine, now I am on to conquering hand (sewing machine) appliqueing. It's much more tricky, but love that it can be done much more quickly. I see so many embroidered designs on here, that I just can't resist trying it out on my own when I can. Plus my mom has a (fancy) embroidery machine but lives 3 states away. I love to just buy embroidery designs and have her send them to me to sew on things so I don't have to worry about her placement of said designs, etc.

The top looks nice. I think the trick to button holes is to practice, practice, and practice some more. You should have seen my first button holes, good thing I was just using scraps to learn how to do it.

***Warning Vent**
Sorry to blow off steam here but knew you guys would understand. I have heard all of you ladies voice your dislike of your local Joann's store over the years and thought how nice mine was. Big Joanns Etc. We moved last summer and had a tiny store in an OLD run down shopping center. But they were putting a new one in our mall. YEAH. Well when the new one opened they only had about half the fabric selection the store is now full of "craft" and scrapbooking supplies. The staff are clueless and rude. They never have the sale signs up and when they do they may be from 2 or more weeks ago.

You may think I exaggerate but today I went to buy quilt batting by the yard only had one wide enough for a king size quilt. I had the cutting lady check the price before she cut it. The signs said $5.99 a yard it rang up $10.99 on sale. the whole area with batting had sale signs everywhere. Cutting lady could not figure out what was wrong called a manager. She could not figure what was wrong but said she could not give me the price on any of the signs because they were all ringing wrong. She said I had to wait until Monday (3 days) until a regular manager came in and she if she could figure it out.

Really. I was so mad I told her forget it. That is the ONLY fabric store within and hour of here. I guess I will have to start ordering fabric online. I hate not to feel the fabric before I buy and hate to pay shipping. Any way as I am leaving I look real close at the signs. Some listed the sale date ending on 5-4 two weeks ago and the others said 5-11. All still up but nothing for this week anywhere I saw in the store.

Rant over sorry. I did call customer service when I got home. They will report it to the district manager.

So sorry to hear about the problems at your Joann store. That's not acceptable and I hope the situation will get fixed soon.

I made capes for my grandchildren and here is the tutorial I used as a jumping off place:
http://www.howdoesshe.com/super-hero-cape/

I'm in Texas visiting my sister and will finally be back home on Monday. I got so far behind while I was gone, but there have been so many wonderful things made. I just love seeing everything! And Flora, I just wanted to say, DO NOT miss BOG when you go, even if it's just for lunch. We loved both lunch and dinner. I had the steak for dinner and it was fabulous! I can't recommend it enough!

D~ I lost your quote, but I love the new bag! As usual. And I hope you'll be able to make a decision regarding the embroidery machine. I couldn't believe you were contemplating coming to the dark side.

Thanks for posting the link for the capes. I may need to whip up a few capes in the next few weeks (for adults) so your post was timely. We have a birthday club at work and during our May "meeting" that we decided the birthday people *need* to wear capes at the meeting so we know who is having a birthday that month. I guess I will have to make some capes!

I hope things are going well for you despite travelling quite a bit in the last month. I will have to reconsider BoG for our December trip - we will need to check out the menu closer to the time and make a decision. DH and I are both picky eaters (in our own ways), so it could be hard to find somewhere that both of us enjoy.

I have a question. Does anyone have a free pattern for a Jon-Jon type thing for my 2 yr old son? My mom is looking for one to make him for AK. She got a pattern at Walmart today but it was for babies. She's hoping she can just cut it bigger. It old her I'd check here to see what you ladies thought!! Thanks!!

I am not aware of a free pattern (but I usually don't sew for a 2 year old). I know Carla has a jon-jon pattern on youcanmakethis but it is certainly not free! I hope someone else can help you out with that.

I've only got 18 days left before we leave, so I've had to get busy.

Jammies


The Hulk for that "other park" for little miss and brother





I bought t-shirts with the muscles off of Walmart's clearance rack - of course they didn't have the right sizes so I had to shrink one and used the other as an applique on a larger shirt.

Cute jammies. You did a great job with the Hulk outfits. They look super cool!

First of all...
I get to feeling a little under the weather and you move two pages on me...sheesh..at least I can now read from my phone. Something I have never been able to before. Special thanks to who ever I saw posting from the Disboard app for Iphone...loving my new phone more and more each day!




I agree...being a fabric snob is another addiction! Although, since Fabric.com has a warehouse a few miles from me, I ALWAYS get my order within a day or two! I try to only buy from sales...because I am CHEAP!

I have noticed the fabric from Joann's is getting thinner and thinner. I have some of what I call the black Mickey Swirl...the black swirly fabric I love to use on my Mickey Heads...in the past I have been able to use it for actual garments. Now it is so thin I sometimes have to use a double layer on my appliques! Crazy... I just checked a dress where I had used it back in 2010...and the fabric is no where near the same quality.

Since I live in a fabric mill town (or at least close to it...I USED to live there) I know that the mills will print the pattern (even from some 'name brand designers' on several different weight cotton wovens. They are not allowed to sell the inferior to the name brand stores...and it sometimes ends up in places like WalMart and garage sales. But to realize that Joann's is now buying that off market fabric has been very disheartening.

I used to go to the mill salvage shops next to the mills. (It is not really salvage..just cheap fabric!) You used to be able to buy the fabric by the pound. I could get 20 yards of fabric for less than 10 dollars. Of that fabric only half of it was usable in what I was doing...so it was still a bargain. (I was not making clothes...) Anyway...I could get the designer fabrics but they were lightweight and not good for anything...

I hate that Joann's has decided to go that route with their fabrics. I have several Disney prints that I could never use for clothing, but I could not resist buying them...I now use them for back drops....


Sorry...rambling!


Chiara...if I remember correctly...you have a pretty good reason for not being able to keep up...you exhaust me just reading what you are up to...... rest...take it easy! That is a mommy order!



Nini <-----> who is sending this off without proof reading...sorry!

I am sorry to hear that you are not feeling well Nini. I hope you will feel better soon! Thank you for the lesson on fabric quality over the years. I seriously thought it was just me when I start to notice fabric that are practically see through. It's really too bad that the quality has gone down hill! I guess that's another good reason to sew from the stash!

Thankfully yoga pants are popular in the middle school here so she'll probably wear those (but Old Navy not the $100 Lulu Lemon that many girls here wear)

I'm looking forward to having another strawberry cupcake from BOG.

I have to laugh at your comment about the yoga pants. I remember a few years ago when one of my co-workers complained about her daugther's Lulu pants. My sew my own yoga pants because I am too cheap to buy them!

My mom got the first outfit done & it's for my 2 yr old son!! I love it!!! So excited for her to get the rest done!!

Great outfit! I can't wait to see the rest of them.


So some of you may remember that I have a Brother CS-8060 in addition to my 270D but it was skipping stitches in a major way about a year ago. I finally decided to take it apart today and try to fix it. Guess what? I managed to fix it after taking it apart and cleaning it out (the amount of lint in there was incredible even though I cleaned it regularly). I am super happy that I can use that machine again!

 

[DMGeurts]

Just stopping by to post a quick hello. The girls did a fantastic job at their bat mitzvah last weekend. I was so proud of them. The party also went off without a hitch. We still have a house full of company and will for another several days. Then they will start departing for home. Hopefully I can catch up on here in the next few days.

D- I saw that you might be getting an embroidery machine. Even if you do your appliques by hand, the help with the lettering will be fantastic!

I am so happy it went well Diane - I've been wondering how it all went. Your pictures looked amazing - will you have more to show us?

Yes - I really think I am going to end up with one... I can just think of so many instances where I could use it for letters... And I may not use it for my bags - but I could use it for other things the girls and I would like to wear. Now I need to find the best place to get some great files - besides Heather Sue - of course.

So some of you may remember that I have a Brother CS-8060 in addition to my 270D but it was skipping stitches in a major way about a year ago. I finally decided to take it apart today and try to fix it. Guess what? I managed to fix it after taking it apart and cleaning it out (the amount of lint in there was incredible even though I cleaned it regularly). I am super happy that I can use that machine again!

That is so awesome Flora! I am so glad you got it working again!

D~

 

[mommy2AbIzEli]

Thanks PurpleEars, I found a Jon Jon in his closet that she is going to use as a pattern.

 

[sewdisney]

My mom got the first outfit done & it's for my 2 yr old son!! I love it!!! So excited for her to get the rest done!!

Totally cute!

 

[disneychic2]

I must have potato head fabric!!!!!


Ok, done drooling.
I've only got 18 days left before we leave, so I've had to get busy.

Jammies


The Hulk for that "other park" for little miss and brother





I bought t-shirts with the muscles off of Walmart's clearance rack - of course they didn't have the right sizes so I had to shrink one and used the other as an applique on a larger shirt.

Those are stinkin' cute!!! Great job!

My mom got the first outfit done & it's for my 2 yr old son!! I love it!!! So excited for her to get the rest done!!

Yay for the first outfit being done. It is absolutely adorable, and I'm sure it looks super cute on your son!

Thanks for posting the link for the capes. I may need to whip up a few capes in the next few weeks (for adults) so your post was timely. We have a birthday club at work and during our May "meeting" that we decided the birthday people *need* to wear capes at the meeting so we know who is having a birthday that month. I guess I will have to make some capes!

I hope things are going well for you despite travelling quite a bit in the last month. I will have to reconsider BoG for our December trip - we will need to check out the menu closer to the time and make a decision. DH and I are both picky eaters (in our own ways), so it could be hard to find somewhere that both of us enjoy.

So some of you may remember that I have a Brother CS-8060 in addition to my 270D but it was skipping stitches in a major way about a year ago. I finally decided to take it apart today and try to fix it. Guess what? I managed to fix it after taking it apart and cleaning it out (the amount of lint in there was incredible even though I cleaned it regularly). I am super happy that I can use that machine again!

Glad you can use the tutorial. They are super quick and easy!

Here are pics of our lunch at BOG:

The all important dessert:



My braised pork with mashed potatoes and green beans:



Dan's tuna nicoise salad:




I'm so glad you were able to fix your machine. I'm sure that felt like such a great accomplishment! Good for you.