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

[goteamwood]

I have been trying to keep up with the thread an all the great projects (and comment when I have time) but man was it a long, exhausting week last week.
My boys had their (first of probably many) preschool graduation ceremony last week, which was beyond adorable. And since I think they are cute and I am a proud Mommy AND I got a cute picture of them looking in the same direction, here is their graduation day pic. (for once not wearing something I made.)
We also had an ER visit when one kid bludgeoned the other with the nightlight (which they are not allowed to have in their room anymore) and there was SO MUCH BLOOD. It ended up being a smallish, not very deep wound and did not even require stitches or staples, but looking at their room you'd guess it was much more severe. (Twin boys are never dull.) And finally we wrapped up the week with our family's annual walk for the March of Dimes, which was great fun and my kids were so excited to help babies, and this year they even walked a little rather than just staying in the stroller like years past. (they did not walk the whole 5K).

And onto the things I made...
I don't think I posted these before, sorry if I did. I made this set for 6 month photos of a mom in my twins club for her boy/girl twins. She had been looking all over for matching outfits for them and wasn't having any luck, so I made some. I think they are so cute.

I did the simply sweet but used Diane's trick of doing the back of the bodice 1 size up and put elastic in it, so hopefully the little girl will be able to wear it for a while.

And I was commissioned to make a dress for a friend of a friend who had seen the Winnie the Pooh ruffle dress I made and asked if I could make a dress to match an existing hair bow she had. I forgot to take a picture of the bow with but it's pretty much an exact match. She loves it and has ordered a pirate-themed Peekaboo Ruffle dress for her daughter's pirate 5th birthday party in September.


I am busy planning our outfits for our trip and have started culling my fabrics and my to-do pile is growing. Not sure when I will have time to do it, but I am guessing it will be at the expense of sleep. I was at Joann fabrics this week and found new Monster's University fabric, which of course I bought 3 yards of immediately. I know we've all discussed how Joann's quality isn't great, but I searched far and wide for Monster's fabric last year and found a single FQ on ebay for $10 so I HAD to get it. I think I am going to make shorts for my kiddos and use some of the adorable Monsters U designs HeatherSue just released for a t-shirt for the movie next month. I have been prepping my kids for the movie theater experience, they've only been 1 time and it was a months-later showing of Wreck-it Ralph so we were literally the only 4 people in the theater! It didn't matter if they were noisy or had to go potty 22 times. I have a feeling Monsters will be different. But Monsters Inc is my all-time favorite Pixar movie so we will be going ASAP!

 

[pyrxtc]

My brother and SIL got my nieces 1st birthday pictures done and they used my dress. I do have to say that she looks absolutely adorable in it. They used the tulle dress too.

 

[goteamwood]

My brother and SIL got my nieces 1st birthday pictures done and they used my dress. I do have to say that she looks absolutely adorable in it. They used the tulle dress too.

So cute! I am glad they got the pictures done in the dresses you made. I remember you said there was some miscommunication and the mom didn't know they existed, so I am glad that got resolved. I made the Cubs bowling shirt for my nephew for his birthday and also made him a shirt with the #6 and his name to wear to his party, and sent it in plenty of time but my brother didn't check his mail for a few days that week (?) and didn't get it from the mailbox before the party. When he posted pics to FB of the party w/o the shirt I asked why he didn't want to wear it and my brother said "Ooops, I didn't check the mail this week." so I guess he can wear it to his NEXT 6th birthday?

 

[babynala]

If you don't have time to make the dress, just add the ribbon to a pink t-shirt and Bippity Boppity Boo - Instant Cinderella. T-shirt dresses work better for active children anyway.

Here's my latest t-shirt princess - Snow White


The skirt is a separate piece with shorts attached because my princess is quite the tomboy (fortunately she also loves pretty stuff)

So cute, great idea to make them shorts.

For those who were talking about matching/coordinating kids outfits......
I made my twin girls match until they were 6 (1st grade) & it hurt me bad when they didn't want to anymore!!! I still make them match/coordinate for holidays & special occasions even with their little brother. But other than that they rarely pick the same thing out to wear anymore!!!

I love seeing twins and siblings in coordinating outfits.

Hello again to my wonderful sewing inspirational friends. My twins have recently decided that napping is not for them and preschool is out for the summer so I havent been getting much accomplished recently even though we leave in just a few weeks for our trip. I am still frantically learning how to use my 770 to finish some shirts for the trip but the 1 hour increments where I get to work and have to put everything away makes it a challenge.

I was having terrible problems with my hoop not snapping in but ordered the Elipse hoop and it works so much easier.

Here is my one project that I have actually completed - A cindrella Simply Sweet.


I had a terrible time trying to attached the peblum and skirt - I broke three needles and I am sure it was because of all the gathers in the peblum - does anyone have any advice on that - I have a second one to make for my niece this week. I do tlove how it turned out as long as you dont look at the horrible seam on the inside!


Again - loving everything that everyone is making - just never enough time to come back and comment like I would like.

Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday and staying safe in all the crazy weather.

Kelly

This dress is lovely. As others have said, I would try a denim needle. I would also try to finish the seam of the bodice and the skirt layers before joining them together.

I have been trying to keep up with the thread an all the great projects (and comment when I have time) but man was it a long, exhausting week last week.
My boys had their (first of probably many) preschool graduation ceremony last week, which was beyond adorable. And since I think they are cute and I am a proud Mommy AND I got a cute picture of them looking in the same direction, here is their graduation day pic. (for once not wearing something I made.)


And finally we wrapped up the week with our family's annual walk for the March of Dimes, which was great fun and my kids were so excited to help babies, and this year they even walked a little rather than just staying in the stroller like years past. (they did not walk the whole 5K).

And onto the things I made...
I don't think I posted these before, sorry if I did. I made this set for 6 month photos of a mom in my twins club for her boy/girl twins. She had been looking all over for matching outfits for them and wasn't having any luck, so I made some. I think they are so cute.

I did the simply sweet but used Diane's trick of doing the back of the bodice 1 size up and put elastic in it, so hopefully the little girl will be able to wear it for a while.

And I was commissioned to make a dress for a friend of a friend who had seen the Winnie the Pooh ruffle dress I made and asked if I could make a dress to match an existing hair bow she had. I forgot to take a picture of the bow with but it's pretty much an exact match. She loves it and has ordered a pirate-themed Peekaboo Ruffle dress for her daughter's pirate 5th birthday party in September.

The boys are so cute in their little plaid pants and argyle shirts. I had to delete the part about the ER visit because I can't stand the thought of all that blood. I hope your DS is feeling better. I have a feeling you are very familiar with the sight of blood!
I love the turtle outfits. I'm glad there are other people out there that would try to find an outfit to match a bow so I don't feel crazy when I start with an accessory to try to find an outfit to match.

My brother and SIL got my nieces 1st birthday pictures done and they used my dress. I do have to say that she looks absolutely adorable in it. They used the tulle dress too.

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How sweet. It is so cool that she got to wear the outfits you made.

So cute! I am glad they got the pictures done in the dresses you made. I remember you said there was some miscommunication and the mom didn't know they existed, so I am glad that got resolved. I made the Cubs bowling shirt for my nephew for his birthday and also made him a shirt with the #6 and his name to wear to his party, and sent it in plenty of time but my brother didn't check his mail for a few days that week (?) and didn't get it from the mailbox before the party. When he posted pics to FB of the party w/o the shirt I asked why he didn't want to wear it and my brother said "Ooops, I didn't check the mail this week." so I guess he can wear it to his NEXT 6th birthday?

Ummmm ?????? If there mail box is at the end of their driveway then I have to say I am a bit confused by this, it is not that hard to get the mail. If they have to drive to town then I will give them a pass but I am still a little skeptical. I loved that baseball shirt and I'm sure your nephew will love it now that he has finally gotten it.

 

[goteamwood]

Ummmm ?????? If there mail box is at the end of their driveway then I have to say I am a bit confused by this, it is not that hard to get the mail. If they have to drive to town then I will give them a pass but I am still a little skeptical. I loved that baseball shirt and I'm sure your nephew will love it now that he has finally gotten it.

I can't say I get it either. I do think their neighborhood has those community mailboxes 1/per block, but his is only a few doors down, so really doesn't make much sense, especially since I texted him and told him it was coming. Sigh.

 

[erieckers]

Oh my... You all make such wonderful things!! I want to make wonderful things. Although it seems my machine won't cooperate.
So question, I have (or am borrowing rather) a brother Innov-is 900d. I have tried hopping tshirts several different ways. (Even the one at the beginning of this form) every time it works fine for a little bit, just enough to get my hopes up, them all of a sudden the machine starts eating my shirt! Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong??
I did take some sewing lessons in high school but that's been a while. I really want to make some cute outfits for my little boy but I'm becoming frustrated.
Thanks for your help!

 

[pyrxtc]

Here's my latest t-shirt princess - Snow White

[/URL]The skirt is a separate piece with shorts attached because my princess is quite the tomboy (fortunately she also loves pretty stuff)

So cute ! I like the idea of having it with shorts, then you don't have to worry too much about skirts getting in the way.

Hello again to my wonderful sewing inspirational friends. My twins have recently decided that napping is not for them and preschool is out for the summer so I havent been getting much accomplished recently even though we leave in just a few weeks for our trip. I am still frantically learning how to use my 770 to finish some shirts for the trip but the 1 hour increments where I get to work and have to put everything away makes it a challenge. I was having terrible problems with my hoop not snapping in but ordered the Elipse hoop and it works so much easier.
Here is my one project that I have actually completed - A cindrella Simply Sweet.

[/URL]I had a terrible time trying to attached the peblum and skirt - I broke three needles and I am sure it was because of all the gathers in the peblum - does anyone have any advice on that - I have a second one to make for my niece this week. I do tlove how it turned out as long as you dont look at the horrible seam on the inside!Kelly

Sorry about the no naps, i remember going through that. It is definitely an adjustment for Moms. Cindy looks cute. I can't help with the peplum since I haven't done it yet. I can sympathize with the broken needles. I broke 4 today sewing through 3 layers of flat fabric for a seam. Was trying my Aunt's machine before I give it back and it didn't want to work right. Good luck !

I have been trying to keep up with the thread an all the great projects (and comment when I have time) but man was it a long, exhausting week last week. And onto the things I made...
I don't think I posted these before, sorry if I did. I made this set for 6 month photos of a mom in my twins club for her boy/girl twins. She had been looking all over for matching outfits for them and wasn't having any luck, so I made some. I think they are so cute.

I did the simply sweet but used Diane's trick of doing the back of the bodice 1 size up and put elastic in it, so hopefully the little girl will be able to wear it for a while.

And I was commissioned to make a dress for a friend of a friend who had seen the Winnie the Pooh ruffle dress I made and asked if I could make a dress to match an existing hair bow she had. I forgot to take a picture of the bow with but it's pretty much an exact match. She loves it and has ordered a pirate-themed Peekaboo Ruffle dress for her daughter's pirate 5th birthday party in September.


I am busy planning our outfits for our trip and have started culling my fabrics and my to-do pile is growing. Not sure when I will have time to do it, but I am guessing it will be at the expense of sleep. I was at Joann fabrics this week and found new Monster's University fabric, which of course I bought 3 yards of immediately. I know we've all discussed how Joann's quality isn't great, but I searched far and wide for Monster's fabric last year and found a single FQ on ebay for $10 so I HAD to get it. I think I am going to make shorts for my kiddos and use some of the adorable Monsters U designs HeatherSue just released for a t-shirt for the movie next month. I have been prepping my kids for the movie theater experience, they've only been 1 time and it was a months-later showing of Wreck-it Ralph so we were literally the only 4 people in the theater! It didn't matter if they were noisy or had to go potty 22 times. I have a feeling Monsters will be different. But Monsters Inc is my all-time favorite Pixar movie so we will be going ASAP!

Great picture of the boys. Be prepared for lots of bloody incidents until they are older. My 9 yr old still damages himself all the time and I carry band aids everywhere with me. Cute turtle outfits. I love that had you make a dress to match a hair bow, it's usually the other way around, although I have bought a dress to match great shoes I had. Great dress ! Your Dh might have to take the boys out for a day so you can get some serious work done before your trip. I like the MU fabric, Joann's has it out of stock online already but hopefully my store has it in stock when I go this weekend for fabric to make couch cushion covers. I hope they come out with regular Monster's Inc fabric so it's not just tied to this movie.

I spent my morning learning how to make and making a nursing cover for my sister. I have one more to make and then we will see how she likes them. It seems too easy but I tried it on and it seems like it will work. I had bought the fabric a while ago with nothing in mind so i grabbed it and I am now working on the Cinderella one for her with fabric that I had originally bought to make a carrier. The only thing I had to purchase was the boning and the D rings.



I started packing up my sewing room and not much is being kept out. The movers come to pack up my house on June 17th. I will be taking my sewing stuff with me though but it still needs to be packed.

 

[goteamwood]

Oh my... You all make such wonderful things!! I want to make wonderful things. Although it seems my machine won't cooperate.
So question, I have (or am borrowing rather) a brother Innov-is 900d. I have tried hopping tshirts several different ways. (Even the one at the beginning of this form) every time it works fine for a little bit, just enough to get my hopes up, them all of a sudden the machine starts eating my shirt! Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong??
I did take some sewing lessons in high school but that's been a while. I really want to make some cute outfits for my little boy but I'm becoming frustrated.
Thanks for your help!

Maybe this will help:



This one is on my machine currently. It's a size 2T so the opening is small, I have to sort of move the "hole" around, if that makes sense.
I don't hoop the actual t-shirts, I hoop the stabilizer, which is cut-away, and then I spray a little adhesive on it, then I put the shirt on top, floating. I fold the shirt in half and iron it to "crease" the center line, then I line that up with the centering indicators in the hoop. The adhesive holds it mostly in place, though I sometimes add a basting stitch or use pins WAYYYY outside the stitch area if I am concerned about puckering. I hope that helps a little w/ the visual.

And on the topic of Monsters University: I just saw a friend post this on facebook and signed my duo up for it, they have classes at Lowes which are FREE for kids to make a monsters inc craft thing next month. And it looks like they will be having another project coming up closer to the movie but the registration isn't open for that one yet. http://www.lowesbuildandgrow.com/pages/default.aspx

 

[erieckers]

This is exactly how I have been doing the shirts. Today I put tear away interfacing in the hoop, sprayed that with adhesive, placed iron on interfacing on the back of the shirt, centered that over the hooped interfacing and pinned around the very edge. Problem came after the machine ran for a bit, it started to eat the bottom layer of interfacing, causing a hole (all this happened in 5 or 6 Seconds since I was sitting right there to stop it) maybe I need a thicker interfacing for the bottom layer?
Thanks

 

[goteamwood]

This is exactly how I have been doing the shirts. Today I put tear away interfacing in the hoop, sprayed that with adhesive, placed iron on interfacing on the back of the shirt, centered that over the hooped interfacing and pinned around the very edge. Problem came after the machine ran for a bit, it started to eat the bottom layer of interfacing, causing a hole (all this happened in 5 or 6 Seconds since I was sitting right there to stop it) maybe I need a thicker interfacing for the bottom layer?
Thanks

I think if you are doing knit (like t-shirts or anything stretchy) you should use cut-away, since the tear-away, well, tears. Someone else who as been doing this longer might want to jump in and correct me if I am wrong, but I use the medium cut-away on t-shirts, and haven't had the problem where it rips. if it is a particularly thick stitching area or fonts, I will sometimes even slide a layer or two of tear away under the cutaway for extra oomph. I have a minnie mouse mummy design that is SO dense in stitching I once had to do it 3x because it was puckering the t-shirt and becoming mis-aligned. Solved the issue with a few layers of the tear-away underneath the whole thing...

 

[smittette]

Oh my... You all make such wonderful things!! I want to make wonderful things. Although it seems my machine won't cooperate.
So question, I have (or am borrowing rather) a brother Innov-is 900d. I have tried hopping tshirts several different ways. (Even the one at the beginning of this form) every time it works fine for a little bit, just enough to get my hopes up, them all of a sudden the machine starts eating my shirt! Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong??
I did take some sewing lessons in high school but that's been a while. I really want to make some cute outfits for my little boy but I'm becoming frustrated.
Thanks for your help!

T-shirts are really the hardest thing to embroider. There could be several things going wrong.

First thing I would do is to take the bobbin and bobbin case out to make sure there isn't a nest of thread down there.

Second, try stitching out your design on some woven fabric. That will tell you if it is the design causing the problem or the shirt.

If that stitches out fine, then try cut away stabilizer and make sure you use the basting or outlining feature on your machine. You can also add a layer of washaway stabilizer on top.

If stitching on woven fabric doesn't work, try a different design, different thread, etc.

One more thing, are you trying to resize the design? Depending on the designer and the machine, sometimes that just won't work.

 

[PurpleEars]

I am actually formulating a plan... I have a tee shirt that I wore on my last trip that I love - but it's a man's tee, and since it will be hot (and I prefer tank tops) - I've been trying to figure out how hard it would be to make it more girly and more of a tank top... I think I've come up with something - but Lord only knows when I will actually get to it... Maybe this weekend I will try??? After all - it is my "week off."

D~

I hope you will be able to upcycle the t-shirt!

I have been trying to keep up with the thread an all the great projects (and comment when I have time) but man was it a long, exhausting week last week.
My boys had their (first of probably many) preschool graduation ceremony last week, which was beyond adorable. And since I think they are cute and I am a proud Mommy AND I got a cute picture of them looking in the same direction, here is their graduation day pic. (for once not wearing something I made.)
We also had an ER visit when one kid bludgeoned the other with the nightlight (which they are not allowed to have in their room anymore) and there was SO MUCH BLOOD. It ended up being a smallish, not very deep wound and did not even require stitches or staples, but looking at their room you'd guess it was much more severe. (Twin boys are never dull.) And finally we wrapped up the week with our family's annual walk for the March of Dimes, which was great fun and my kids were so excited to help babies, and this year they even walked a little rather than just staying in the stroller like years past. (they did not walk the whole 5K).

And onto the things I made...
I don't think I posted these before, sorry if I did. I made this set for 6 month photos of a mom in my twins club for her boy/girl twins. She had been looking all over for matching outfits for them and wasn't having any luck, so I made some. I think they are so cute.

I did the simply sweet but used Diane's trick of doing the back of the bodice 1 size up and put elastic in it, so hopefully the little girl will be able to wear it for a while.

And I was commissioned to make a dress for a friend of a friend who had seen the Winnie the Pooh ruffle dress I made and asked if I could make a dress to match an existing hair bow she had. I forgot to take a picture of the bow with but it's pretty much an exact match. She loves it and has ordered a pirate-themed Peekaboo Ruffle dress for her daughter's pirate 5th birthday party in September.


I am busy planning our outfits for our trip and have started culling my fabrics and my to-do pile is growing. Not sure when I will have time to do it, but I am guessing it will be at the expense of sleep. I was at Joann fabrics this week and found new Monster's University fabric, which of course I bought 3 yards of immediately. I know we've all discussed how Joann's quality isn't great, but I searched far and wide for Monster's fabric last year and found a single FQ on ebay for $10 so I HAD to get it. I think I am going to make shorts for my kiddos and use some of the adorable Monsters U designs HeatherSue just released for a t-shirt for the movie next month. I have been prepping my kids for the movie theater experience, they've only been 1 time and it was a months-later showing of Wreck-it Ralph so we were literally the only 4 people in the theater! It didn't matter if they were noisy or had to go potty 22 times. I have a feeling Monsters will be different. But Monsters Inc is my all-time favorite Pixar movie so we will be going ASAP!

Your boys are so cute on the graduation day. It sounds like it is never a dull moment at your place with your boys! The twin outfits and the dress look great! I am sure the recipients will be very pleased with them. Hopefully your kids will do well at the movie theatre!

My brother and SIL got my nieces 1st birthday pictures done and they used my dress. I do have to say that she looks absolutely adorable in it. They used the tulle dress too.

The pictures look great! I am glad they got the tulle dress situation sorted out in time for the pictures!

I made the Cubs bowling shirt for my nephew for his birthday and also made him a shirt with the #6 and his name to wear to his party, and sent it in plenty of time but my brother didn't check his mail for a few days that week (?) and didn't get it from the mailbox before the party. When he posted pics to FB of the party w/o the shirt I asked why he didn't want to wear it and my brother said "Ooops, I didn't check the mail this week." so I guess he can wear it to his NEXT 6th birthday?

Oh no! That's frustrating! How can one go a few days without checking their mailbox? We check ours every day!

Oh my... You all make such wonderful things!! I want to make wonderful things. Although it seems my machine won't cooperate.
So question, I have (or am borrowing rather) a brother Innov-is 900d. I have tried hopping tshirts several different ways. (Even the one at the beginning of this form) every time it works fine for a little bit, just enough to get my hopes up, them all of a sudden the machine starts eating my shirt! Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong??
I did take some sewing lessons in high school but that's been a while. I really want to make some cute outfits for my little boy but I'm becoming frustrated.
Thanks for your help!

Welcome! I saw that people have suggested using cutaway stabilizer. I will also ask if you have checked the needle on the machine. Please make sure you use ball point needle when you are working with knits. Also, you may want to clean out the bobbin area to make sure there isn't lint or thread bits to cause problems. Depending on the material, sometimes I float a layer of water soluble stabilizer on top too.

I spent my morning learning how to make and making a nursing cover for my sister. I have one more to make and then we will see how she likes them. It seems too easy but I tried it on and it seems like it will work. I had bought the fabric a while ago with nothing in mind so i grabbed it and I am now working on the Cinderella one for her with fabric that I had originally bought to make a carrier. The only thing I had to purchase was the boning and the D rings.



I started packing up my sewing room and not much is being kept out. The movers come to pack up my house on June 17th. I will be taking my sewing stuff with me though but it still needs to be packed.

I am sure your sister will appreciate the nursing cover. Your move is coming up soon and I hope it will go smoothly!

This is exactly how I have been doing the shirts. Today I put tear away interfacing in the hoop, sprayed that with adhesive, placed iron on interfacing on the back of the shirt, centered that over the hooped interfacing and pinned around the very edge. Problem came after the machine ran for a bit, it started to eat the bottom layer of interfacing, causing a hole (all this happened in 5 or 6 Seconds since I was sitting right there to stop it) maybe I need a thicker interfacing for the bottom layer?
Thanks

Sounds like you are doing the steps correctly. Please see my reply above for other potential solutions.

 

[Lynnp]

First post here! I've been a lurker for a while now.

I had a question and I hoped that you guys could help! My daughter loves, no adores, Doc McStuffins. I'm making her an applique t-shirt for our Disney trip June 3rd (so excited! it is getting so close!) I have been stressing over what color to do the skin tone and hair. I was the kid who took four crayons out the box as a kid and stared at them. I hate matching stuff. I love applique because usually i can just pick whatever I want! It looks to me like a medium brown for the skin and a dark brown for the hair. Picture of Doc Has anyone tried this?

Second, my son really wants a dinosaur shirt for AK. Every dino thing I see is sorta babyish. Has anyone ever seen a plain silhouette of a dino done in animal fabrics (I have giraffe and zebra minky/cotton scraps) Would that be original or just wonky?

Love the group and the great ideas!

 

[goteamwood]

First post here! I've been a lurker for a while now.

I had a question and I hoped that you guys could help! My daughter loves, no adores, Doc McStuffins. I'm making her an applique t-shirt for our Disney trip June 3rd (so excited! it is getting so close!) I have been stressing over what color to do the skin tone and hair. I was the kid who took four crayons out the box as a kid and stared at them. I hate matching stuff. I love applique because usually i can just pick whatever I want! It looks to me like a medium brown for the skin and a dark brown for the hair. Picture of Doc Has anyone tried this?

Second, my son really wants a dinosaur shirt for AK. Every dino thing I see is sorta babyish. Has anyone ever seen a plain silhouette of a dino done in animal fabrics (I have giraffe and zebra minky/cotton scraps) Would that be original or just wonky?

Love the group and the great ideas!

I am not much help with Doc's coloring, I just sort of wing it when I pick fabrics. I usually do try to avoid patterns when making faces, FWIW.

For a Dinosaur, try emblibrary.com they have applique and embroidery files and a lot are not so babyish dinosaurs. Several photo-real filled designs, but I saw a cute but not baby t-rex. Maybe add Mickey ears to him? I thought about doing that for my boys' shirts but went a different way with our AK outfits.

 

[nannye]

If anyone who has made a Grace ruffle is interested in helping me out, please PM me! I haven't made one yet and I could really use some help with the overall design of it from someone whose made one.
Thanks!

 

[nannye]

No quotes I am taking the easy way out. Thanks for the suggestions on the pattern for a pink cindy dress. I am definitely most comfortable with the simply sweet!
The snowqhite

Love the blue Cinderella Simply Sweet!
pyrtxc : the dress for your niece is just adorable, I love the tulle one.

goteamwood: Your boys are freaking adorable! sorry about your nephews shirt. Very reminiscient of the Halloween skirt I made V last year. I was so ticked!

LynnP: that's what I did sort of a lighter medium brown for the skin and then a dark brown for the hair, but making sure it wasn't TOO close to black. Apparently I never posted a pic of the Doc shirt I made V.

 

[nannye]

Ok so I got some Dot fabrics at Joanne a month ago. We got black with white dots and red with white dots, black with small white dots.... you get the picture.

This material FEELS so weird. It's been washed and it has almost like this plastic feel to it. It is not soft like regular cotton, yet it is in with the quilting cottons. Any way to soften it up?
any ideas on my it is so weird?
Thaknks
Erin

 

[NiniMorris]

Ok so I got some Dot fabrics at Joanne a month ago. We got black with white dots and red with white dots, black with small white dots.... you get the picture.

This material FEELS so weird. It's been washed and it has almost like this plastic feel to it. It is not soft like regular cotton, yet it is in with the quilting cottons. Any way to soften it up?
any ideas on my it is so weird?
Thaknks
Erin

Unfortunately, Joann's has been purchasing not great quality fabrics in the last year. Fabric mills print fabric from several different quality of fabric (as well as different weights) I have almost stopped buying my fabrics at Joann's because of that!

I have some black and white dot fabric that I FINALLY washed enough to get it soft...but it looks more grey than black now. Sorry...I have no help in this...


Nini

 

[love to stitch]

I have been trying to keep up with the thread an all the great projects (and comment when I have time) but man was it a long, exhausting week last week.
My boys had their (first of probably many) preschool graduation ceremony last week, which was beyond adorable. And since I think they are cute and I am a proud Mommy AND I got a cute picture of them looking in the same direction, here is their graduation day pic. (for once not wearing something I made.)
We also had an ER visit when one kid bludgeoned the other with the nightlight (which they are not allowed to have in their room anymore) and there was SO MUCH BLOOD. It ended up being a smallish, not very deep wound and did not even require stitches or staples, but looking at their room you'd guess it was much more severe. (Twin boys are never dull.) And finally we wrapped up the week with our family's annual walk for the March of Dimes, which was great fun and my kids were so excited to help babies, and this year they even walked a little rather than just staying in the stroller like years past. (they did not walk the whole 5K).

And onto the things I made...
I don't think I posted these before, sorry if I did. I made this set for 6 month photos of a mom in my twins club for her boy/girl twins. She had been looking all over for matching outfits for them and wasn't having any luck, so I made some. I think they are so cute.

I did the simply sweet but used Diane's trick of doing the back of the bodice 1 size up and put elastic in it, so hopefully the little girl will be able to wear it for a while.

And I was commissioned to make a dress for a friend of a friend who had seen the Winnie the Pooh ruffle dress I made and asked if I could make a dress to match an existing hair bow she had. I forgot to take a picture of the bow with but it's pretty much an exact match. She loves it and has ordered a pirate-themed Peekaboo Ruffle dress for her daughter's pirate 5th birthday party in September.


I am busy planning our outfits for our trip and have started culling my fabrics and my to-do pile is growing. Not sure when I will have time to do it, but I am guessing it will be at the expense of sleep. I was at Joann fabrics this week and found new Monster's University fabric, which of course I bought 3 yards of immediately. I know we've all discussed how Joann's quality isn't great, but I searched far and wide for Monster's fabric last year and found a single FQ on ebay for $10 so I HAD to get it. I think I am going to make shorts for my kiddos and use some of the adorable Monsters U designs HeatherSue just released for a t-shirt for the movie next month. I have been prepping my kids for the movie theater experience, they've only been 1 time and it was a months-later showing of Wreck-it Ralph so we were literally the only 4 people in the theater! It didn't matter if they were noisy or had to go potty 22 times. I have a feeling Monsters will be different. But Monsters Inc is my all-time favorite Pixar movie so we will be going ASAP!

The boys are too cute! The outfits are adorable too.

My brother and SIL got my nieces 1st birthday pictures done and they used my dress. I do have to say that she looks absolutely adorable in it. They used the tulle dress too.

Your niece and her outfits are beautiful.

I spent my morning learning how to make and making a nursing cover for my sister. I have one more to make and then we will see how she likes them. It seems too easy but I tried it on and it seems like it will work. I had bought the fabric a while ago with nothing in mind so i grabbed it and I am now working on the Cinderella one for her with fabric that I had originally bought to make a carrier. The only thing I had to purchase was the boning and the D rings.



I started packing up my sewing room and not much is being kept out. The movers come to pack up my house on June 17th. I will be taking my sewing stuff with me though but it still needs to be packed.

The cover looks very nice and I'm sure it will be very appreciated.

 

[DMGeurts]

Ok so I got some Dot fabrics at Joanne a month ago. We got black with white dots and red with white dots, black with small white dots.... you get the picture.

This material FEELS so weird. It's been washed and it has almost like this plastic feel to it. It is not soft like regular cotton, yet it is in with the quilting cottons. Any way to soften it up?
any ideas on my it is so weird?
Thaknks
Erin

I know exactly which fabric you are talking about ... And I am totally with Nini... The ONLY fabric I ever buy now at Joann's is Kona and any licensed fabric that catches my eye... The rest of their fabrics are too awful for quality and I can't use them in my bags at all.

I am at a loss about what you can do to soften that fabric... I' have tried several times with what I purchased, and I have not had any luck at all. It remains folded on the bottom of my fabric shelf -I don't know that I will ever use it. Hopefully someone here will have some ideas, because I would like to be able to use mine eventually too.

D~