I wanted to share some photos of the apron top showing how I cut the pattern. This way the princesses will be right side up at the bottom of the front and back.
Thanks for showing this. I can't wait to see the finished product. I must say I am loving these pictures. Still waiting for a zipper tutorial though...
J/K. Those things just intimidate me so much.
Well I did it! My first sewing attempt in 20 yrs. Please be honest!!!
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Very Nice!!
Have fun sewing today everyone!! I have a test to study for as well as two more outfits to sew and then I'm finally caught up. Yea!!
Yikes!! How do you do it all? I'm loving the summer because there is no school stuff and dance lessons, etc, and I still feel like I can't get it all done sometimes.
Does anyone have any tricks for sewing tule?
Good luck with the tulle. I haven't started any projects with it yet, so I have no advice to offer.
FINALLY after talking about it, I have an idea of what we are going to do to spruce up our Cruella shirt. First off, I completely removed the bottom from the bodice because we didn't like the way it was put together.
Then we tweaked it a little more & we were racking our brains to come up with a saying for Cruella -- all of a sudden DD comes up with "Dalmations -- Cruella Likey" I about fell off my chair laughing!!! I absolutely *love* it. This only makes sense if you watch Hannah Montana and we watch that constantly. It was a saying from one episode that we have sort of picked up in the house but it just fit my DD's personality *so* perfectly. It may not make sense to anyone else but we get it.
We're big HM fans here, too, so I get it, too. Very cute. I can't wait to see the revised villian shirt.
Speaking of Hannah Montana...... I put this in another post, but I think it must've gotten lost in my mile-long multi-quote reply post; so I'll ask again. I bought a cute pale pink t-shirt a while back. It is a size 12 or 14, so it'll fit an older girl. My dd loves Hannah, too, so I want to do something for her. I know I can't applique HM, but I was thinking that I could do something that would just "suggest" Hannah -- like her SHHHHhhhhhhh!!! sign on the 1st (I think) CD. You know just a hand with the pointer finger up and a pair of red lips. However, I don't think many people would get that, so I may have to add "Hannah Montana" as well. What do ya'll think? I'm still unsure.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the pattern for this top? I have the stripwork pattern but I'd like to start with just a single fabric first.
BTW--I grabbed this off our photobucket link--it's adorable! Bravo to the seamstress!
BLAKELY
Bravo indeed. How did I miss this top the first time through? Sorry. I can't help with a pattern though.
I have been watching this thread since May, and have decided to finally post. You all do WONDERFUL work! I was inspired enough to make the Mickey head shirts for my kids before our first trip in May. DH and I are going next year by ourselves
, and I was thinking of making the pink guitar RNR shirt for myself. What do you all think? Is that too juvenile? lol ..... To the OP of that shirt, did you make the applique yourself or buy it? TIA!
First off, welcome to the addiction. I'm the maker of the RnRC shirt. I think it could work for an adult. My dd will wear it with a glittery pink
scooter -- if I ever get it finished. Ugh!! I think it all depends on what you wear it with. I think the lace trim on the bottom edge of the shirt is young and wouldn't go in that direction, but we see adults with guitars on their shirts all the time. My dd's shirt will be big on her, too, and a tighter shirt will be more grown up. Just remember to account for the shirt stretching when you are sewing on the ribbons and such. Now, about the applique.... that was actually an old t-shirt that my dd loved. She wore it all the time and got paint, markers, pen marks, and other stains on it that I couldn't get out, and I wouldn't let her wear it anymore. I simply trimmed the guitar out and threw the rest of the shirt in the trash. I knew I'd come up with some use for it, and that shirt was it. I also bought some of those iron on rhinestones at Wal-Mart thinking I would try to recreate the guitar. I don't think it would be that hard. However, a couple of weeks ago I found the same shirt in our local thrift store and I bought it, so I do have another one. If you want it, please PM me.
Okay....here is my very first attempt of an applique. I chose Piglet because it matched my DD's skirt and shoes...hahahaha!
Very cute. Nice job. I love your dd's shoes BTW. When I was in high school (about 100 years ago), I decided I wanted a pair of purple hightops. However, at the time, you could only buy them in white, black, and navy blue. Anyway, I bought 2 pairs of white ones and dyed one pair purple and the other pair pink. I wore them everywhere and got tons of compliments. I even wore them on a trip to NYC and wouldn't you know it? Not quite a year later they started coming out with all the different colors. My mom laughed when I dyed those things and was embarrassed to be seen with me in them, but she once said that she wondered if somebody saw me walking around NYC wearing them and took my idea to make them different colors. She was joking of course, but she couldn't believe that there were other people wanting to wear bright colored hightops. I must say though, your daughter looks much cuter in hers than I did in my "hand-crafted" ones.
Boy, am I chatty today, or what??
A frustrating day of fabric shopping! I have called every Joann's within a 1 hour radius trying to find that mod circle mickey/minnie print - no luck! Don't you hate it when you get your mind set on something and then can't make it happen!
I'll check mine next time I go. I saw it there a month or so ago in the clearance section. Didn't get it because I didn't know what to do with it.
After seeing everyone's great applique outfits I decided to give it a try. It's a Pirate Mickey theme.
Very nice. That is so cute. Man, pirates are huge this year, huh?
I can make doll clothes for some unknown reason. I made DD Alice dress and it turned out really well. I have enjoyed sewing so much lately. It has been very theraputic. I am an artist an do very tedious work. I make vintage reproduction Christmas decorations. Here is a sample of my work
I just bought a new sewing machine yesterday. It was from Target and it is a Singer. I am happy with it because it will be great for my purpose.
You do beautiful work. Good luck with the sewing.
OK - this isn't remotely Disney (although, depending on the response, I may do it in a Disney fabric for our trip in Sept) ---
I made this sundress.
You did a beautiful job on the dress, but like the others have mentioned, I don't know about using the Mickey fabric for an entire dress. I was going to suggest doing the bodice in the Mickey fabric and then the skirt in a solid red (if you can find the exact same red), blue, or even denim. I see you did that later thogh. I really like it, and I think it would be perfect for a Sept trip.
...here's my finished Ariel applique. I'm pretty proud of myself! Thank you so much LadyRob for the embroidery link!! It was super-easy to figure it out after I watched the videos on that site. Now I wish I wouldn't have put this on the back of a sweatshirt. I thought it'd turn out so bad I didn't want to waste a good shirt with it!
Wow!! Very nice work. I can't believe that is a first attempt. So tell me, anything advice for those of us who haven't done this yet? Would it be easier to do the face before putting it on the shirt? Very nice though.
Ok - I finally got some time to do a little sewing
and thought I would share, even though it's not clothing. I made these pillow cases for my best friend's first family trip to WDW.
These are great. I love the small accent stripe between the 2 fabric. It gives it a very polished and professional finished look. Very nice.
OK, so after finding the shoes and experimenting with a few different kinds of paint 
here is what I came up with!
Very cute!!! You'll have to post of pic of the entire ensemble.
I've done this a few times (not at WDW) and would advise you to get some fabric markers (I like FabricMate) instead of the sharpie. They won't bleed or yellow at the edges.
Also, if you can pick up a spring hoop it's an easy way to hold the fabric tight while they're signing.
Not too sure how this will work with Pluto and the rest of the characters with paws and/or obstructed vision, though.
I usually do 'custom' pillowcases, and don't have to worry about the marker bleeding through. If you can't deconstruct the pillowcase have a piece of paper or cardboard to prevent this as well.
Deb
I've also read that you can put freezer paper in the pillowcase to help keep it from bleeding through.
Have a great day everyone. My youngest is telling me it is Baby Alive's birthday, so we have to make a cake and have a birthday party for her. That means I may not get much sewing done. Oh well..... they're only young once, right?
I've been holding out for the girls' jeans to go on sale ( I have a couple of outfits in mind) but I don't want to miss it!
The other is a twirly skirt I made from some fabric at Wallyworld. Of course it is too baby too
