Disboutiquers Part 7 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[princesskayla]

Have you tried sewing zig zag stitches over an elastic thread? I have found that works the best for me. My thread kept breaking too.

 

[mytwotinks]

I am so sorry Denise! That poor girl, how long does she usually go between infections? Does she even get a break? I hoe you get to go somewhere that can help you real soon.

We don't really know when and if she gets over them. There have been times when she left negative samples, but she was still in pain and there have been times when she wasn't in pain (she was saying so anyway) but she had a 104 fever and she had an infection.

During this flare up (since April 6th ) she seems to get over them for about 3 days after the end of her meds and then start over again.

 

[mytwotinks]

ITwotinks- I'm sorry to hear riley is not feeling well again!! I hope the Mayo can take riley and help her!! You know I live in MN... about 2 hrs north west of rochester.

You can probably help me out then! What airport would I fly into? I'm trying to figure out some of the details and figure out hotels and stuff like that. Depending on when it happens (if) it's probably going to be just Riley and I so I want something really close. Would it be possible to get around by cab or will I need to rent a car?

Thanks for any info you have. I'm totally unfamiliar with the area. I don't have any idea if it's a big city or a small town.

 

[Clutterbug]

Alright, after fighting with Photobucket all morning (I eventually had to have DH upload them) I have pics of the pillow case.

I love that! I've been eyeing that fabric for months, but thought it would be too busy for an outfit. A pillowcase is perfect!

OK, so have I kept you waiting long enough?

That is SO darn cute! I love all the bright colors and you did a wonderful job on th applique.

Lilly is precious and the big sisters look darling in their customs! Congratulations to your family!

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

I am so far behind...when last I was here we were on page 17 I think! i just spent over an hour kinds reading and some skimming....there was lots of some of this plenty of this and for the new little ones for the new outfits for all the children in need and parent trying desperatly for answers .

I am so sorry about Rocky.

Now the storm you get... Are you crazy...get in the house. I am terrified of storms! When Fran came thru NC several years ago, we had a tornado go thru our back yard and knock down 12 trees. Somehow, by the grace of God, none hit the house. But I did end up with a tree on my car, that had just been repaird from a wreck!

So...up to date...hmmm...did anything exciting happen for me yesterday...

Why, thanks for asking!

Yes it did...DH took me to pick out my new sewing machine!!! He was afraid to do it himself and didn't want the sale to end at Joann's. So I got my birthday present a little early.

Can I just say....i NEEDED to upgrade. That thing is soooo quite! You can barely hear it compared to the 50's Singer!

We played with it some last night...trying out some of the stitches...that are soooo cool!

So...I'm off to sew...talk to you guys later! Have a great day! I will!

 

[luvinyou]

I know I need a ruffler foot big time but after the expense of Rocky there is no way. So I am left to do it the old fashioned way but for some reason it isn't working for me!!!!!!

I am making a patchwork twirl and I actually have 4 rows so my last row (which I think it was LisaZoe) said to start from the bottom and work my way up. Well I put my basting stitch in with my machine and I started gently pulling and it just seemed like the ruffle wouldn't keep even though I was holding it so it wouldn't move. Then my thread broke! So I figure I would start from the other end and see what happened and put a new basting stitch in where it broke when I got there. Well it still doesn't seem to be working!!!!

My thought/ question is should I put a basting stitch in only a few sections/patches/squares then ruffle them and then repeat through the whole row?

any idea to help me would be greatly appreciated!

I use embroidery floss as the bobbin thread and pull on the to ruffle. It never breaks!

 

[mytwotinks]

I don't remember if I said just how much I LOVE those button Mickey heads!
If you don't mind I would love to maybe try to case one for Nikki???

I am so sorry Riley is still going through this! Keep on those drs and the Mayo! Make them see her.

When Kyle was just days old he got his 1st UTI and every time he would go off the antibiotic with in a few days he would spike a 103+ fever and after the 3rd one the ped urologist suggested keeping him on a low doe antibiotics for his 1st yr. In the hopes he would outgrow it? I know Riley is much older but have they tried that ?

You are such a good mom ! I hate hearing about Riley and you and of course Drew are going through this.

Of course, I'm excited to see everyone's different button shirts!

Riley had been on antibiotics from 6 mos. to 9 years almost non-stop. Everytime she went off she got another infection. A year ago in april she had deflux (a minor surger that injected protein into her uraters to keep them from being able to pull the urine up into her kidney) she went 6 mos. infection free and then almost another 6 mos. after that. I told the nurse yesterday that I want to think about that again. She is having really major bladder spasms that are causing her not to be able to go sometimes. I think that until her bladder gets some relief from all of these infections it is not going to "settle down" and get better.


Now they are saying that overuse of antibiotics is linked to breast cancer. The doctor actually made some ugly comment like "but if you want me to keep pumping her full of antibiotics anyway, we can do that" as if I don't care whether or not she gets breast cancer in the future. Yeah, he caught me! What an #^$&@)! I'd love another option, but he isn't giving me one, so what am I supposed to do. He has decided that I am just a mom who is going to constantly beg for antibiotics (he said this a couple of weeks ago ) so when I am saying she is sick he is treating it like I am just looking for a reason to beg for the meds.

 

[kjbrown]

So, I got the results of Riley's sample that she left Monday. She is positive for infection. I am just beyond knowing what to do. I am hoping to get an appt. with my pcp monday to talk to her about the referral I need. I still haven't heard back from Mayo clinic so I also need to give them a call.

I have no idea what to do. I am feeling really desperate right now.

Sorry to keep being such a gloomy guss.

I know I am new here, and don't post as much as some, but I just had to say that I truly hope you can get a doc that helps Riley soon! for her and your whole family, as I'm sure this is tough on everyone.

 

[mytwotinks]

Katie wants a baby sister soooo bad. And Katie always gets what she wants...LOL!

Drew is begging for a baby too! It is NOT going to happen. My plate is full!!!! I spent an entire day telling her how yucky and boring babies are. She didn't buy it. She still wants one!

 

[BrookeTx]

Does anyone have a Camp Rock outfit they can show me?

Thanks,
Brooke

 

[Clutterbug]

I finished my MAW Big Give #4 outfit today! I will probably ship it on Friday

That turned out so nice! Great work!

So I have to tell todays story! Little D had his appointment and we heaed out to Dallas. Thankfully my ex was not around. But not before he woke up the kids screaming at them this morning! I seriously do not know what is wrong with that man but I do not want the kids back up there till I figure it out! He does have a great roommate though who rarely stays there. She told DD the next time he acted stupid to call her and she would come get them and take them to a hotel until I could get up to get them so I do feel a lot better.

Today however was not a complete bust! On the way to Dallas today I got a call from my placement coordinator! I got a precious 3 day old baby girl! She has a D name too so we will call her Miss D. She is so sweet we were told she was AA but mom is biracial and it looks like dad is probably AA. She has a head full of beautiful silky soft black curls. And is tiny tiny less than 6 lbs. Anyway apparently the one way to never get to do a nursery because of lack of time is to say you are going to do one and pick out what you are going to use! hopefully in a few weeks I can get them in a groove and we will be able to get it done! So off to sleep now. I will check in when I can but if you do not see me I am off being insane with two not really twins but might as well be lol.

I bet you will find some time to sit back and enjoy those sweet babies!

I guess I lost the mermaids... I love them and I have no idea on how to make the hair, but what about sticking a baseball cap on him? Not authentic merman apparel, but I think it would be boyish and cute. OR, what about a pirate hat or skull cap?

 

[t-beri]

I Need Help!!
Ok so these are for the party for "mermaid lagoon" to be exact, so the part I need help with is: I don't what to use for the Boy mermaid aka Lucas the mermaids hair! I baked up some ribbon for Sophia the mermaid. Should I paint it on, use ribbon, something else. I'm just not sure!! These seemed like a good Idea at the time and the kids really loved "becoming mermaids" but I don't want his to look silly like it does right now being bald. So PLEASE HELP ME!! I need some creative juices

This is the cutest idea. I'm sure they did love becoming mermaids!

Have you tried sewing zig zag stitches over an elastic thread? I have found that works the best for me. My thread kept breaking too.

I've tried several methods, this one is my favorite (next to my ruffler )

 

[sahm1000]

So I have to tell todays story! Little D had his appointment and we heaed out to Dallas. Thankfully my ex was not around. But not before he woke up the kids screaming at them this morning! I seriously do not know what is wrong with that man but I do not want the kids back up there till I figure it out! He does have a great roommate though who rarely stays there. She told DD the next time he acted stupid to call her and she would come get them and take them to a hotel until I could get up to get them so I do feel a lot better.

Today however was not a complete bust! On the way to Dallas today I got a call from my placement coordinator! I got a precious 3 day old baby girl! She has a D name too so we will call her Miss D. She is so sweet we were told she was AA but mom is biracial and it looks like dad is probably AA. She has a head full of beautiful silky soft black curls. And is tiny tiny less than 6 lbs. Anyway apparently the one way to never get to do a nursery because of lack of time is to say you are going to do one and pick out what you are going to use! hopefully in a few weeks I can get them in a groove and we will be able to get it done! So off to sleep now. I will check in when I can but if you do not see me I am off being insane with two not really twins but might as well be lol.

So it sounds like we are on the same schedule now! And we are in Dallas!

Have you tried sewing zig zag stitches over an elastic thread? I have found that works the best for me. My thread kept breaking too.

I second this method. I have a ruffler foot, just haven't figured out how to use it yet (actually haven't even put it on the machine even but I will before I do a patchwork skirt though!).

 

[princessmom29]

I know I need a ruffler foot big time but after the expense of Rocky there is no way. So I am left to do it the old fashioned way but for some reason it isn't working for me!!!!!!

I am making a patchwork twirl and I actually have 4 rows so my last row (which I think it was LisaZoe) said to start from the bottom and work my way up. Well I put my basting stitch in with my machine and I started gently pulling and it just seemed like the ruffle wouldn't keep even though I was holding it so it wouldn't move. Then my thread broke! So I figure I would start from the other end and see what happened and put a new basting stitch in where it broke when I got there. Well it still doesn't seem to be working!!!!

My thought/ question is should I put a basting stitch in only a few sections/patches/squares then ruffle them and then repeat through the whole row?

any idea to help me would be greatly appreciated!

I gather everything this way, and there is really no way I have found to keep it even while you are gathering. I do it this way: I mark everthing into quarters. Then, my first goal is to push some of the gathers all the way to the middle so I start gathering and push more and more untill I get there. Next i start distributing them roughly uniformly from the middle working toward the end once i get halfway to the end I start lining up and pinning I distribute evenly as i do this. Then i go to the from that point ot the end and start the process over from the other side. I can't find a ruffler locally to frit my machine, and upping the tension on the top doesn't seem to work well for me. I can't get the gathers even. I need to try the elastic trick, but I havent yet!

 

[Clutterbug]

I forget if it was on this thread or the last one when I was catching up, but someone was talking about towel pants. I decided that they sounded like a great idea for my kids' pool field trip today. So, I picked up some cheap beach towels and went to work last night. I used CarlaC's Easy Fit pants pattern and it was great! I whipped up 2 pairs a little over an hour. I was able to use the hem of the towel for the leg bottom hem so that was one less step. Both kids loved them. Sorry no pictures because it was bedtime when I finished and they went right into their backpacks for the pool trip today.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

Yes it did...DH took me to pick out my new sewing machine!!! He was afraid to do it himself and didn't want the sale to end at Joann's. So I got my birthday present a little early.

Can I just say....i NEEDED to upgrade. That thing is soooo quite! You can barely hear it compared to the 50's Singer!

We played with it some last night...trying out some of the stitches...that are soooo cool!

So...I'm off to sew...talk to you guys later! Have a great day! I will!

Yay! where did you go for a joanns...do tell! What machine is it? I really would love a new machine...unfortunately mine works okay. I need t figure out the ruffler foot...before the next tier dress! Congrats on your new machine!

 

[teresajoy]

I was in one when I was VERY pg with Kyle. We lived in GA at the time. I remember my mom calling saying a tornado is headed toward Grayson( where we lived) and DH was outside watching it. We had put Nikki to sleep a few hours before and she was a night mare to get back to sleep. So when George said wake her up and get in the closet(we didn't have a basement) i was a tad scared. So here i was about 7 or 8 months pg holding a 2 yr old and I had Rocky with his leash and my cat Polie in this carrier with me hiding in the closet! George of course was outside watching the whole thing! We didn't have any damage thankfully but it did touch down a few blocks from our house.

Then when we moved to chicago the only consolation I kept saying was no more tornados I can handle winter storm warnings. Then I was on the phone with my girlfriend who grew up in Chicago just after moving here and she heard a siren going off in my town over the phone. She started yelling get into the basement! I had no clue I would still have to deal with tornado warnings here! UGH!

That is scary! Tornados are so frightening, but they intrigue me, so I have to force myself into the basement when we get a warning!

Sorry you have to deal with both winter storms and tornados! We (meaning the great lakes states) don't get hurricanes here though, so that's something, and the earthquakes we get aren't too bad!

We don't really know when and if she gets over them. There have been times when she left negative samples, but she was still in pain and there have been times when she wasn't in pain (she was saying so anyway) but she had a 104 fever and she had an infection.

During this flare up (since April 6th ) she seems to get over them for about 3 days after the end of her meds and then start over again.

Of course, I'm excited to see everyone's different button shirts!

Riley had been on antibiotics from 6 mos. to 9 years almost non-stop. Everytime she went off she got another infection. A year ago in april she had deflux (a minor surger that injected protein into her uraters to keep them from being able to pull the urine up into her kidney) she went 6 mos. infection free and then almost another 6 mos. after that. I told the nurse yesterday that I want to think about that again. She is having really major bladder spasms that are causing her not to be able to go sometimes. I think that until her bladder gets some relief from all of these infections it is not going to "settle down" and get better.


Now they are saying that overuse of antibiotics is linked to breast cancer. The doctor actually made some ugly comment like "but if you want me to keep pumping her full of antibiotics anyway, we can do that" as if I don't care whether or not she gets breast cancer in the future. Yeah, he caught me! What an #^$&@)! I'd love another option, but he isn't giving me one, so what am I supposed to do. He has decided that I am just a mom who is going to constantly beg for antibiotics (he said this a couple of weeks ago ) so when I am saying she is sick he is treating it like I am just looking for a reason to beg for the meds.

 

[100AcrePrincess]

So sweet! Those look like some proud big sisters too! Congratulations!

Love it! Those aliens are so cute & you did a great job. That fabric on the back is great!

I finished my MAW Big Give #4 outfit today! I will probably ship it on Friday

This is so cute. You did a great job on the Snow White. Love the apples on the skirt!

 

[100AcrePrincess]

I have to share this. When I saw I immediately thought of those cute Disney squares I got last winter & still haven't used yet.

It's an a-line-ish patchwork top with tutorial.
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=257600.0

This is one she made using strips instead of squares.
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=257600.0

 

[Jajone]

I noticed that the recent Big Gives were children wearing larger sizes than I have patterns for. I would love to be able to make the larger boys shorts, but was wondering what pattern do people use? I am not opposed to buying one when they are on sale. I have 2 boys who will eventually wear the bigger size. Is there a simple way to make them without a pattern?