I have two inspiration questions.
First I have this panel fabric and want to make something clothing or purse/luggage wise from it. It's kind of on the thin side.
Second, I need inspiration for EPCOT. I have this adorable fabric but I don't know what to do with it or even if I want to use it for EPCOT.
I think the fabric can work w/ either epcot or small world. It's really cute. I do think adding all the flag mickey heads might be overkill though. I like the dress rtruba posted, it's subtle and could go either way (or both!)
I hope Chiara and baby are resting comfortably tonight!
Yay for getting all your ADRs, Flora!
Here's what I made this week with my new "name brand" fabrics. They were really nice to work with! I can see a new addiction in the making!
The dress is the Usha Twirl by Tikatuly and the hair bow is an in the hoop flower set from Embroidery Garden.
Regards,
C.
The dress is adorable. I am sure your daughter loves the twirling.
I generally only use the high-quality designers fabrics for quilts since I feel like those will stick around longer. I have lots that I get as scraps for embroidery though from fatquartershop when they have their grab bags of end-of-both scraps. Plus it gives a huge variety of designs I would probably not otherwise have. I am addicted to their FQ precut selections too for quilts, I think I have 3 bundles waiting patiently for me to make quilts from them. I did get a few cuts for my kids' outfits for our disney trip, though, since I couldn't resist.
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I don't know if this worked or not, but this is what I did with similar fabric
Rebekah
I think this is really cute and like I said before, could be a great Epcot or Small world.
I seldom post here but I am always lurking and love seeing everyone's creations.
I bought an applique from someone and it was put on top of fleece. I havE sewn many appliques on clothes before but never one that is on fleece so I am stumped how to sew it on. The fleece is white but it will be going on a colored t-shirt. Do I trim the fleece before I sew it on and do I need to use stabilizer with it?
My trip is in 2 weeks and I am coming down to the wire.
I would imagine it is on fleece for the same reason people do things on felt, since it doesn't fray. I would think you can just stitch around the border, leaving the fleece in place (unless it isn't trimmed to the shape of the outline, in which case I would do that first.)
I had an epic series of mishaps when I was trying to finish up last-minute AK shirts for my family, I messed mine up 3x. I was able to salvage though, by doing my Minnie head on felt and cutting the felt a tad larger than the outline and stitching it over one of the messed up ones on the shirt. It's 3" thick approx with all those layers, but it was fine for what it was. I just used a little glue stick to stick it over the one I wanted to cover up to hold it in place, then stitched around with a straight stitch on my sewing machine. (You could use spray adhesive also)
(this was the best one I could find, but you can sort of see how Minnie on my shirt has a tan outline the others don't have. That's because I did the felt then stitched it on.)
I'm so happy to have found this thread! We are probably going to the World in September with our daughter. She will be 21 months so of course I want to doll her up.
Thing is, I am lousy with a sewing machine. I tried to make her a hockey jersey last fall and gave up on the project three times and that was even after I started to use fabric glue. Finally, I just thread a needle and started doing it by hand. Go figure it only took me half an hour to finish the thing to my satisfaction.
Does anyone here sew by hand? I want to make her stuff, but I'm worried I'll end up going through the jersey mess all over again and since we're fairly short on time... I'm wondering if I should just do it by hand from the start.
I am lousy by hand, I hand stitched buttons on shirts for our disney trip last year that fell off on the way to the airport! But depending on the fabric you used for the hockey jersey, you might find that sewing w/ quilters cotton for dresses for your daughter might be a better experience. Maybe start w/ a simple pillowcase dress? I have used this
pattern/tutorial and it really was very easy. No lining, gathering, shirring, ruffling, etc. That most dresses require. There area also tons of tutorials on
youtube and craftsy.com that might get you started. I took a quilt start-to-finish class a couple years ago at my local quilt/fabric shop which was great, and not too expensive for a 6 week class. They offer lots of other beginner classes to at my local shop, perhaps look into that? Either way, good luck and welcome!
Thanks
Somehow it makes the trip "more real" when I have ADR's.
Now that we have ADR's, we can spend the next 180 days prepping ourselves for sharing a table with other families at Biergarten.
Congrats on your ADRs. We were happy to get all that we wanted, but my wish list had some of the big-ticket places like CRT and BoG, so I felt great that we got everything we wanted! I agree it does feel more real when you have reservations. I just bought our tickets and dining plan (since we are staying DVC this time we don't qualify for
free dining even if it is announced.) I had read the prices were going to increase so I just pre-paid both. We still don't have a flight, but everything else is in place!
We did eat at Biergarten and it wasn't that weird sitting with other people. I have certainly sat that close to other patrons who were at other tables in restaurants before. We had a party of 6 so we had only room for 2 extras at our table, we were with a nice older couple who were there celebrating retirement. I was less concerned about us feeling uncomfortable and more about the other people regretting they had to share a table with us if my kids were acting like wild animals. Thankfully we kept the kids stuffed w/ delicious pretzel rolls and all was well.
And for my semi-regular update: I have not gone back to the sewing store again this week, I spent some time with my kiddos, and yesterday we had the preschool nature thing in the morning which was fun and we learned about Ants and hunted for bugs in the woods. In the afternoon a friend came to watch my kiddos while I was able to work on some projects and try to get caught up (not quite there yet but getting better) and yesterday afternoon the owner of the sewing store called me, from out of the country, to profusely apologize for all I have been through and could not believe all the problems I have had and that no one had alerted her that I was having so much trouble. She wants to meet with me and make it right, which is great, BUT... She is out of the country until 6/25 so I have to wait out 2 more weeks without that machine.
I definitely feel better knowing that SOMEONE is willing to help make the situation right. In the meantime my little PE770 and I are working working working. And I am SO GLAD I never got around to selling it, I would be so sunk.
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