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

[DMGeurts]

3 amigos at the Chip & Dale's campfire.

All of everything is just adorable!!! Seriously... Your kids are just precious and their outfits are just TDF!!!!!!!!!!

That's a great tutorial! I think I can do that.


I think I am just going to keep adding length every year until they are in high school. Hope they stay skinny.



Great job on all of them. I love the Prince Charming and the Mickey ones!

Here are a couple projects I have finished up this week, the first two are outfits for a friend's daughter who turns one in August.




And a quilt I just finished that is a graduation gift for a friend's cousin (I am a little late on getting this done) I LOVE the way it turned out. The flag was a design I made and printed from spoonflower.com and the rest of the fabric is from a London collection that was out around the olympics a couple years ago. I stitched around the flag even though it is printed and it looks a little like it was pieced, which is great and MUCH easier than piecing the Union Jack.




And the back:

Since it was older fabric, I couldn't get enough of the red or blue so I just made it work.

Love, love, love... The quilt is amazing!!!

D~

 

[scrap_heaven]

Now for my "where do I find" request... I have a friend who has asked me to make princess dresses for her two daughters for their early sept disney trip, one Cinderella and one Tiana. I found Carla C's tutorial for Cinderella, and I found a disboutique tutorial for Tiana, which I think will work modding the simply sweet but I have two questions:

1. How to I estimate how much fabric I will need? I am ordering the fairy frost from fabric.com and want to make sure I have enough. The cinderella dress is 5/6 and the Tiana 4/5. 3 yards total? 4? I was thinking the Cinderella 3 yards blue, 1, white, Tiana 2 and 2? It seems like a lot, but I always find dresses use a lot more fabric than I think they will.
2. I want to add the lily (?) or whatever flower is on her waist, I want to do an appliqué that maybe detaches for washing? The kid is 3, so washing is essential. And I am stumped where to find an appliqué like that. Thoughts? I suppose I could go buy a fake flower at Michaels and call it a day, but I thought the applique would be a nice touch.

When you said tiana flower that is removable this is what I automatically thought of.

I would use this - https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/119...als?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=Hair
This is Shelby Nicole image she uses for selling the ITH embroidery

I would make the cream petals slightly smaller than do another row behind of green and the light yellow centre. Have it attach with snaps.

 

[Maggie at the Fort]

Prince Charming jonjon and sister Cindy!




"Tangled" dress - her fav!




3 amigos at the Chip & Dale's campfire.




Mickey/Minnie inspired dresses and Mickey jonjon.

Love it all but especially these! Love seeing your pics around the Fort. Can't wait to be back there. I love your jonjon ideas. My son will be just turning 1 while we are there. I may need to CASE your ideas if you don't mind!
Also where did you get the chip and dale marshmallow applique? LOVE it!

 

[sewmess]

Prince Charming jonjon and sister Cindy!

These family sets are fabulous, and the adorable models just add to the fabulousness!

 

[KatieFrederickTX]

Have it attach with snaps.

Yes! Thank you for mentioning this! I have some Minnie bows I'm adding (and some flowers) to some of our shirts and my DD's dresses and was worried about washing them, but I'll just do this and remove them before washing!

 

[KatieFrederickTX]

OK. Let's try posting a picture... I have 11 posts now, so hopefully it'll work!

Here is the set of Epcot shirts we'll wear our first day there.

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[GSUJillybean]

I didn't see this listed in the first post, but if I missed it, it's totally okay to make fun of me.

Is there a thread where you guys list any etsy shops you have? I would like my kiddos to have cute clothes for the trip, but I am the least crafty person ever.

 

[nannye]

I just saw Full-body Jake at Sweet Peas Place. ABout 5 minutes ago when I was looking for something ...

Hmmm I'm sure I checked sweat peas, must have missed it ill look again.

 

[nannye]

OK. Let's try posting a picture... I have 11 posts now, so hopefully it'll work!

Here is the set of Epcot shirts we'll wear our first day there.

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Awesome!

 

[nannye]

This thread is a little slow right now but it will pick up when the kids get back to school. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create, please make sure you come back and post pictures.


Not sure about the rest but I'm pretty sure my full body Jake came from Glitzy Stitches.

Thanks!

 

[PurpleEars]

Yikes PurpleEars, looks like there is a lot of work to be done.

We had a large meeting for our city with lots of mayors (old, new and from other cities) since the flood happened out your way. They are trying to put together a plan so our city is safer. We have had flood watches here since I moved out to the valley 8 years ago.

It is going to be a long road before High River is back to "normal." I am just grateful that I have an opportunity to pitch in and help!

I am so sorry that you are living through that. I have been through a few natural disasters myself (hurricanes) it's not easy.

Flora... Sorry - I thought I grabbed your post... WOW!!! I just can't believe the destruction! Did you have much in your area - or is this your area?

D~

Thankfully the pictures were taken in a town called High River, about 30 minutes from the south edge of Calgary (which means it actually takes us an hour to go there since we have to cross the city first). Our house was totally fine as we don't live near a river (cannot afford to do so since the houses along the river are $$). The entire town of High River (population 13000) was evacuated for over a week. Three weeks later, there are still houses with water in the basement. The ground is so saturated that water just flow back into those houses as you try to pump the water out! I am not sure if those houses is safe to live in again. We as the volunteers are just trying to salvage the ones that are still structurally sound.

Hey guys - I don't post too often, (how do I do smaller pics? Webshots used to let me choose the size but I don't see a choice on photobucket - def willing to make smaller!!) but here are some pics of our trip last week. I didn't do as many different customs as I would have liked to have done but the addition of one more kid made that much more work!!!



Hard to catch all 3 together!



3 amigos at the Chip & Dale's campfire.



Mickey/Minnie inspired dresses and Mickey jonjon.

Your children look so cute in those outfits. You did a great job on them. Thank you for sharing the pictures. It looks like your family had a great time there!

Here are a couple projects I have finished up this week, the first two are outfits for a friend's daughter who turns one in August.




And a quilt I just finished that is a graduation gift for a friend's cousin (I am a little late on getting this done) I LOVE the way it turned out. The flag was a design I made and printed from spoonflower.com and the rest of the fabric is from a London collection that was out around the olympics a couple years ago. I stitched around the flag even though it is printed and it looks a little like it was pieced, which is great and MUCH easier than piecing the Union Jack.




And the back:

Since it was older fabric, I couldn't get enough of the red or blue so I just made it work.

The outfits and the quilt are just beautiful! I am sure the recipients will be very pleased with them!

OK. Let's try posting a picture... I have 11 posts now, so hopefully it'll work!

Here is the set of Epcot shirts we'll wear our first day there.

They look great! I am sure people will be asking you where you got the shirts!

I didn't see this listed in the first post, but if I missed it, it's totally okay to make fun of me.

Is there a thread where you guys list any etsy shops you have? I would like my kiddos to have cute clothes for the trip, but I am the least crafty person ever.

Welcome. We are not allowed to sell here, but many of us have etsy shop names in the signature. I would say that's probably the best way to find someone to make something for your family. (Disclaimer: I don't have an etsy shop so I am not in a conflict of interest here)

 

[GSUJillybean]

I am so sorry! I didn't know! Thanks for telling me!

All this stuff is so pretty! I think what I'm going to do for me, is, I have a friend who embroiders, and pretty much all I wear are Land's End polos, so I'm going to have her take a few of them and embroder a tiny logo on them like, Polo pony sized, but make them, like, a castle, or a wand or something princessy. Will that look dumb, do you think?

 

[PurpleEars]

I am so sorry! I didn't know! Thanks for telling me!

All this stuff is so pretty! I think what I'm going to do for me, is, I have a friend who embroiders, and pretty much all I wear are Land's End polos, so I'm going to have her take a few of them and embroder a tiny logo on them like, Polo pony sized, but make them, like, a castle, or a wand or something princessy. Will that look dumb, do you think?

No worries. I think your idea is great. I have done designs with similar size on polo's for DH and he happily wears them every day (he wears them to work too). Some of the designs I have done for him are the Lego minifigure, the Incredibles logo, and the pi symbol. They certainly don't look goofy or anything like that!

 

[nannye]

In search of The Incredibles applique has anyone used one? preferably Mr. and Mrs. Incredible.
Thanks

 

[babynala]

Oh, I think I lost a bunch of quotes because I have been restarting my machine since it is giving me grief so I apologize if I missed anyone. I know I wanted to quote those cute dresses, including the fireworks one and the toy story ones. Also wanted to say that the stroller bag was a great idea.

Loved the birthday boy all dressed in his hat and jon-jon. What a cutie.

Some of you are friends with me on FB, so pardon the duplicates...
Working on outfits for our upcoming trip. Decided to try a Preppy Skort to match a WDW shirt we already had for dd3. Really like the way it turned out!

This came out really cute. I have this pattern but have never made it. Was the skort part hard to make?

And, I am getting caught up on some unfinished projects. I mentioned a while back that all my bowling shirts I made last year are getting too short on my boys. I think I figured out why! I made the Buzz lightyear one first, which still fits. Then I made the cars one which had DIRECTIONAL, VERTICAL (You see where this is going...) fabric. I could only eek out two shirts from 1 yard of fabric if I used the SHORTEST version of the pattern. So I cut the pattern. And then I used that same pattern for the rest of the shirts I made. I had an order for the next size up so I tried it on my kids and it was HUGE! Theirs still fit width, but are too short. I have since re-printed the pattern and am making them all the longest of the previous size, but have to buy 1&1/8 yards of directional fabric to squeeze two shirts. Mystery solved! I can still get 2 shirts from 1 yard of each of 2 fabrics if I use the horizontal arrangement.

All this to say I fixed my favorite ones! I added a couple inch band to the bottom and voila! They fit, and will hopefully last through another growth spurt!
(the rest of the shirts don't fix as easily due to the design/fabric, I think they would look weird.) Before and After (and he's scratching, not picking his nose):

My kids insisted on wearing these to the doctor today and then of course spilled chocolate ice cream on both of them this evening...

The boys are adorable in their pirate wear. Glad you figured out your pattern issue before you make any more shirts. Great idea to add the border at the bottom.

Did you get your fabric order all figured out?
Flora - I can not believe those pictures. The train tracks all pulled up are hard to believe. So much destruction.

Hey guys - I don't post too often, (how do I do smaller pics? Webshots used to let me choose the size but I don't see a choice on photobucket - def willing to make smaller!!) but here are some pics of our trip last week. I didn't do as many different customs as I would have liked to have done but the addition of one more kid made that much more work!!!







3 amigos at the Chip & Dale's campfire.



Mickey/Minnie inspired dresses and Mickey jonjon.

Sad to say, but this is the best pic I have of him in the outfit!!

Oh, how cute. Your kids are adorable and the outfits are perfect. That Mickey jonjon is just too cute!

Here are a couple projects I have finished up this week, the first two are outfits for a friend's daughter who turns one in August.




And a quilt I just finished that is a graduation gift for a friend's cousin (I am a little late on getting this done) I LOVE the way it turned out. The flag was a design I made and printed from spoonflower.com and the rest of the fabric is from a London collection that was out around the olympics a couple years ago. I stitched around the flag even though it is printed and it looks a little like it was pieced, which is great and MUCH easier than piecing the Union Jack.


Since it was older fabric, I couldn't get enough of the red or blue so I just made it work.

That little birthday set is so cute. The quilt is wonderful. I like the red and blue back.

OK. Let's try posting a picture... I have 11 posts now, so hopefully it'll work!

Here is the set of Epcot shirts we'll wear our first day there.

Great job on the shirts and the little bows you added are perfect.

In search of The Incredibles applique has anyone used one? preferably Mr. and Mrs. Incredible.
Thanks

Sorry, I have only ever seen the logo but can only think of Sweet Peas as an option but I'm sure you checked there.

 

[goteamwood]

The boys are adorable in their pirate wear. Glad you figured out your pattern issue before you make any more shirts. Great idea to add the border at the bottom.

Did you get your fabric order all figured out?

I just ordered 2 yards of each fabric, I figure it won't kill me to have a little extra... I found fatquartershop.com had the yellow and green I needed for Tiana clearance so I ordered it at like 11 p.m. last night and the blue and white from fabric.com which for once did not have a coupon code I have not used. sure enough this morning FQS sent me a 15% off coupon code, of course. Oh well...

The boys got to wear their pirate outfits to the Renaissance faire yesterday. My husband's former coworker moonlights there on weekends during the summer so we went to say hi and it was swashbuckler's weekend so there were TONS of pirates there. My boys were thrilled.

I spent all morning trying to find the PERFECT little embroidery file for the little gold broad scrolly things that are beside the buttons on Prince Charming's jacket. (and since I clearly have no idea what they are called, this was a fun search.) I managed to find a couple of things that would have worked, but when I found one that was PERFECT I could not believe it was $15. I have never ever paid that much for an embroidery design, especially one that is one color, 3000 stitches and basically a couple of loops. But I desperately did not want to be stitching on trim for hours on end so I bought it. And the prince charming outfits are coming right along... I will post pics when they are done. I got the shorts done last night. I have to have them all complete before aug 1 since we are headed to the Twins Days festival Twice Upon a Time weekend. The parade theme this year is fairy tales. Doubly good the outfits are for our CRT breakfast so that knocks one set of outfits off the to-do list.

And on the embroidery machine debacle: I have all but shut down my business. I have a couple things listed on etsy, though not much. And I decided to do custom orders for friends/family/previous customers, but I cannot operate a business using a machine that I cannot get support for. I have filed two complaints with Brother, the BBB and now the state's Atty general consumer fraud devision. My machine has worked less than 2 months of the 4 I have had it. The place refuses to fix it because they say it is not broken. I have my PE770 which thankfully I never got around to selling, and have been getting by with that, though I can't in good conscious run a business off that machine knowing that if something happens to it that the only place within 50 miles is o awful. I have shed A LOT of tears over this and have daily headaches from the stress. It is just not worth it. I really wanted the larger hoop for projects for my kids' WDW outfits, but I guess that is not in the cards. Sadly, until something is resolved and I either get it refunded or replaced, I keep having to make payments on it, since I don't want to ruin my credit over this. And it is boxed up in the hallway where it has been most of the past two months.

 

[DisneyMom5]

This came out really cute. I have this pattern but have never made it. Was the skort part hard to make?

Unbelievably EASY. Took me a morning from cutting to finished. Great, easy to follow directions. I'm glad I decided to try it!

 

[cogero]

Does anyone have the list Andrea had posted of the start up of embroidery?

I don't have it bookmarked on this computer.

 

[DMGeurts]

Does anyone have the list Andrea had posted of the start up of embroidery?

I don't have it bookmarked on this computer.

I do - here you go...

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44085875&postcount=2958

D~

 

[sewdisney]

I just ordered 2 yards of each fabric, I figure it won't kill me to have a little extra... I found fatquartershop.com had the yellow and green I needed for Tiana clearance so I ordered it at like 11 p.m. last night and the blue and white from fabric.com which for once did not have a coupon code I have not used. sure enough this morning FQS sent me a 15% off coupon code, of course. Oh well...

The boys got to wear their pirate outfits to the Renaissance faire yesterday. My husband's former coworker moonlights there on weekends during the summer so we went to say hi and it was swashbuckler's weekend so there were TONS of pirates there. My boys were thrilled.

I spent all morning trying to find the PERFECT little embroidery file for the little gold broad scrolly things that are beside the buttons on Prince Charming's jacket. (and since I clearly have no idea what they are called, this was a fun search.) I managed to find a couple of things that would have worked, but when I found one that was PERFECT I could not believe it was $15. I have never ever paid that much for an embroidery design, especially one that is one color, 3000 stitches and basically a couple of loops. But I desperately did not want to be stitching on trim for hours on end so I bought it. And the prince charming outfits are coming right along... I will post pics when they are done. I got the shorts done last night. I have to have them all complete before aug 1 since we are headed to the Twins Days festival Twice Upon a Time weekend. The parade theme this year is fairy tales. Doubly good the outfits are for our CRT breakfast so that knocks one set of outfits off the to-do list.

And on the embroidery machine debacle: I have all but shut down my business. I have a couple things listed on etsy, though not much. And I decided to do custom orders for friends/family/previous customers, but I cannot operate a business using a machine that I cannot get support for. I have filed two complaints with Brother, the BBB and now the state's Atty general consumer fraud devision. My machine has worked less than 2 months of the 4 I have had it. The place refuses to fix it because they say it is not broken. I have my PE770 which thankfully I never got around to selling, and have been getting by with that, though I can't in good conscious run a business off that machine knowing that if something happens to it that the only place within 50 miles is o awful. I have shed A LOT of tears over this and have daily headaches from the stress. It is just not worth it. I really wanted the larger hoop for projects for my kids' WDW outfits, but I guess that is not in the cards. Sadly, until something is resolved and I either get it refunded or replaced, I keep having to make payments on it, since I don't want to ruin my credit over this. And it is boxed up in the hallway where it has been most of the past two months.

I am so sorry to hear you had to shut down your business. It isn't right that that should happen over a stupid machine. I really hope you get some satisfaction with Brother, the BBB and/or the Atty General. Hope fully this will get fixed soon and you can re-open. Best of luck!