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

[ColonelHathi]

It's the Grace pattern by Boo! Designs. X

Thank you! I will have to check that out!

 

[Bektasmic]

Feeling so inspired by all the talent here! Hoping for some advice. Want to make a 10-panel circle skirt for DD5. Alternating panels will feature her 5 fave princesses (b/c she can't decide on just one and heaven forbid she meets one of her faves while dressed as another princess!). Or perhaps 10 princesses on different color panels?

Do you think it would work to iron on Princess images from a printer? Have only worked with iron ons with tshirts. Can anyone speak to how well they work or how long they last on quilter cotton? Having trouble finding ready-designed fabric for Mulan and Pocahontas...

Also, she will wear the skirt over leggings. I know characters won't autograph clothing on bodies but would they object to us removing the skirt for a signature on their panel (braced with a book)? And if not, sharpie? Fabric marker?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[ksl5f123]

Hi everyone! I love looking at this thread for ideas. We are going back to WDW in 4.5 months, so I am trying to get started with our outfits.

For Halloween, my 8yo wanted to be Alice in Wonderland. Here is the dress:


I am sure that most of you recognize that it is CarlaC's Precious Dress - just perfect for Alice!

I added an apron with CarlaC's bottom and a top of my own creation. Here she is wearing it on Halloween:


She is planning to wear the outfit again on our trip. One down - many to go!

 

[love to stitch]

Hi everyone! I love looking at this thread for ideas. We are going back to WDW in 4.5 months, so I am trying to get started with our outfits.

For Halloween, my 8yo wanted to be Alice in Wonderland. Here is the dress:


I am sure that most of you recognize that it is CarlaC's Precious Dress - just perfect for Alice!

I added an apron with CarlaC's bottom and a top of my own creation. Here she is wearing it on Halloween:


She is planning to wear the outfit again on our trip. One down - many to go!

She looks very cute.

 

[love to stitch]

Some new outfits for my grandkids.

 

[ValarDisneyus]

Ohhh that Elsa dress is STUNNING. I love the little outfits for gentlemen, too! It's rare to see handmades for boys, those are really great! <3

 

[ksl5f123]

I love this! Very pretty. My 11yo DD just asked for an Elsa dress. I am really struggling with how to keep it from being itchy.

 

[love to stitch]

Ohhh that Elsa dress is STUNNING. I love the little outfits for gentlemen, too! It's rare to see handmades for boys, those are really great! <3

Thank you.

I love this! Very pretty. My 11yo DD just asked for an Elsa dress. I am really struggling with how to keep it from being itchy.

Thank you. My granddaughter hasn't complained about it being itchy.

 

[MandiC]

Love the boy outfits! I'm getting antsy to sew some clothes for Disney, if only I knew a closer estimate of when we were going back! I am currently sewing a dress for my oldest for Thanksgiving My goal is to sew most of my girls' summer wardrobe for next year so I'll probably start on that in February. They prefer dresses so I figured we'd make the best of it and just set that goal this year rather than buying a bunch of shorts and shirts they'll never wear or waiting and trying to find sundresses that are appropriate for their ages in the stores.

 

[Bektasmic]

I've slowly been working my way through this thread and the Project Runway type challenges and just am in such awe of the talent here. It's definitely got my creative juices flowing. Picked up some fabric to do some Disney outfits for Feb!

To the post avocet me, I totally understand where you're coming from. My little girl made the big leap from the little girl section to the big girl section, and it was just so sad. Everything was either ironic hipster or totally inappropriate. My girlie girl is five. She wants ruffles and pictures of cute stuff on her clothes and for it to be comfy. We ended up sewing almost all her summer things last year. It's really been a bonding experience. She picks out fabrics and trims (sometimes questionable color combos/patterns but who cares) and even helps drive the pedal and sew on buttons. I felt "sew" great to look in her closet and see most of it be our creations. Hope you have a similar or even better experience!

 

[Meshell2002]

Hi all! I've been reading back the last few pages, glad to see some familiar sign ons. I don't have a trip coming up and work close to 50 hrs a week, I enjoy lurking on the thread a little and getting eye candy fixes even if I didn't make them.

 

[MandiC]

That sounds wonderful Bektasmic, I hope we have a similar experience I know my girls love picking fabric for their dresses so I'm sure it will be fun and both are interested in learning to sew so they might even be able to help. Most of all I want them to learn that they can be fashionable and still be modest and appropriately dressed! It is so sad how once they are out of toddler sizes designers seem to think they need to look like mini adults.
BTW- if your little girl loves ruffles check out FooFoo Threads shop on Etsy. (I'm not affiliated in any way, just love her patterns )

 

[ksl5f123]

Question What do you make with fleece? Our local fabric store (Hancock Fabrics) is having 70% off all their fleece on Black Friday (including all the Disney patterns). I would love to get some and make something for our trip in March, but my kids have enough blankets and it will be too warm for hats & scarves. Any ideas?

 

[MandiC]

I've made neck pillows for my kids with fleece. They use them in the car (and when we were on the plane).
I have been meaning to do some car seat ponchos too.
What I am hoping to do with fleece if I can get some during the sale is make blankets for our local hospital. My daughter spent a week in the hospital last month and on the children's floor every child gets a teddy bear and blanket of their own at check in. She has so many blankets but she just loves that one for some reason so I am glad they do that, a little comfort for kids who are scared.

 

[Bektasmic]

Ooooh thanks for the heads the heads up! I'll have to buzz over to Hancock!

Love what you described above for the kids. Might look into what our local hospital accepts and do up some fun projects. Thanks for the idea!

I just made a stroller blanket out of princess fleece. It ties on each corner (to avoid getting run over by wheels and theft if we leave it in the stroller). Didn't want the bulk of a big blanket. During day at Disney she can sit on it and says it makes things comfy. Then at night if it's chilly she's completely covered. I just doubled the fabric and seamed all the way around (flipped inside out first)

Had also considered making a muff-style hand warmer-tootsie roll shaped with elastic pucker at wrist insert.

Wondering if any of the designs would lend themselves to felt boards with cut out princesses. Or maybe paper doll style characters with 2-D "clothes" that could be cut from other designs.

 

[MouseketeerKelsey]

Oh geez. I have that feeling where i sort of know that something isn't a good idea, but I am doing it anyway.

I decided to learn to sew. That's not totally accurate, I know how to sew basic things (i am very proud of my pillows) but let's be real I really don't know how to sew.

I have some health problems and have been desperately looking for something artistic that I can throw myself into. I am a singer by nature, but you can't do that in the middle of the night!

I figure I should introduce myself? Maybe? I'm not sure. I'm going to do it anyway.

I'm Kelsey. I am 18, until the end of this month, and Disney is an obsession. I love all things artistic and have a hangbag obsession. I am actually hoping to learn how to make those. That is my goal. Someone please tell me if that is extremely hard.

If anyone has any recommendations on good things to try to get started that would be awesome! My mom knows how to sew, but is also extremely busy. Also I'm not exactly planning on telling her that I am starting this because I know I'll get the lecture about wearing myself too thin with my health. I love my mom so much, but she worries.

I am planning on pulling her sewing machine out while she is at work today, PRAYING THAT IT WORKS, I seem to remember that there may be a problem with it and going from there.

I know we have a giant bag of material in our garage.

I plan to go back through and read lots, if not all, preious posts on here and learn everything I can, but I thought I would start by jumping in head first, that's really the only way I do things, you'll probably learn that fast if you get to know me, oops!

Fingers crossed, here we go!

 

[MandiC]

Hi Kelsey!
I taught myself how to sew. I didn't have a mom/grandma who knew how to sew so I figured I'd do it myself. I taught myself how to knit as well and figured it couldn't be all that hard LOL I had motivation to teach myself to sew as we were broke and I was doing cloth diapers with my second daughter and just knew I could sew them cheaper than I could buy them (at the time cloth diapers were $20 a piece, now you can find much cheaper ones!) so I jumped right in.
My biggest recommendation, buy a pattern off etsy. Look for something you are interested in sewing and find a seller with good reviews about communication and detailed patterns. I only sewed diapers for years. When I was pregnant with baby #4 we had no room for a full sized crib so I decided to sew a bedding set for our mini crib for him. I used a lot of youtube videos but that perfected my ruffles (crib skirt). Finally 2 years ago I decided to jump right in with dresses for my girls and I found an amazing lady on etsy with such detailed patterns with pictures and she is always willing to answer questions via email. You get better with time and patience. Read through the entire pattern BEFORE you cut, iron or sew anything. Read ahead a bit if you don't quite understand something along the way. Measure twice, cut once Store bought patterns are known for not being detailed, I'd just really suggest waiting on them at least until you are a pretty confident seamstress.

 

[ksl5f123]

Well, my Disney sewing has been delayed. I did manage to finish the kids Thanksgiving outfits just in time. I made all the shirts, the girls' skirts, and the romper.

Now, I am trying to decide which new sewing machine I want. Right now, I have a VERY basic Singer machine. It has 2 stitches - straight and zig-zag. That is all! I use my machine to make skirts and dresses for my girls, shorts for the older boy, and rompers for the baby. I also do a lot of hand applique work. I would like to start adding some lettering to some of our custom shirts.

What I need in a machine:
- automatic buttonholes! I make these right now using zig-zag stitches, but I think I tear out at least 5 for every one I make.
- speed control - Doing hand appliques with just a foot pedal means that sometimes it goes way too fast and I end up off the edge.

What I want:
- the ability to write some words on a t-shirt

The machines I am considering:
- Singer 9960 Quantum Stylist
- Brother SE-400

The Brother is a combo sewing and embroidery machine with a 4 by 4 hoop. Would that be better for lettering than the Singer? Or am I just going to get frustrated by the small hoop and want another machine? I am not really looking to machine applique. Are they both overkill? Any opinions?

 

[aribelle]

Oh geez. I have that feeling where i sort of know that something isn't a good idea, but I am doing it anyway.

I decided to learn to sew. That's not totally accurate, I know how to sew basic things (i am very proud of my pillows) but let's be real I really don't know how to sew.

I have some health problems and have been desperately looking for something artistic that I can throw myself into. I am a singer by nature, but you can't do that in the middle of the night!

I figure I should introduce myself? Maybe? I'm not sure. I'm going to do it anyway.

I'm Kelsey. I am 18, until the end of this month, and Disney is an obsession. I love all things artistic and have a hangbag obsession. I am actually hoping to learn how to make those. That is my goal. Someone please tell me if that is extremely hard.

If anyone has any recommendations on good things to try to get started that would be awesome! My mom knows how to sew, but is also extremely busy. Also I'm not exactly planning on telling her that I am starting this because I know I'll get the lecture about wearing myself too thin with my health. I love my mom so much, but she worries.

I am planning on pulling her sewing machine out while she is at work today, PRAYING THAT IT WORKS, I seem to remember that there may be a problem with it and going from there.

I know we have a giant bag of material in our garage.

I plan to go back through and read lots, if not all, preious posts on here and learn everything I can, but I thought I would start by jumping in head first, that's really the only way I do things, you'll probably learn that fast if you get to know me, oops!

Fingers crossed, here we go!

Handbags are a good place to learn....obviously choose very simple patterns to start. If you go to pinterest and look up "beginner purses" you'll find lots of FREE patterns that are good to start with. That way you're not investing a lot of money into patterns until you've learned to make the very basic ones, then you can move up to the more complex that may require either a bit more digging through pinterest or buying patterns.

Sewing with a pattern is really just about following directions.....a little bit of skill obviously, but mostly follow directions. The stuff a lot of these ladies are making on this thread are taking a pattern and tweaking it a lot to get their creativity into the outfit....that takes time, patience and practice. But it is completely doable....patience is the most important ingredient though!

As for mom worrying...yeah, that's our job. But sewing doesn't have to be a burden....try to avoid setting deadlines so you can start and stop whenever you want. A lot of the "stress" you read about on this thread is folks with Disney trips and more ideas then time to get them into outfits.

 

[hey_jude]

Just wanted to share a safari vest I made for a colleague's 4 yr old son who will be making his first trip to Animal Kingdom in January.