Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes Part 3

[UtahMama]

I found some Miss Piggy flannel (and Kermie) at Hancock and cant wait to have a coupon so I can buy em!


I found out this morning that Hancock website you can print the 40% off coupon. If you go to their website(www.hancockfabrics.com) and then go to their sales flyer, go to the last page of the flyer and it is right there. Just print it out (multiple times if you wish just remember to use them on separate transactions. I usually park really close and then go to and from my car if they give me a hassle about it. ..LOL) The coupon is good tomorrow thru Sunday the 19th. Nana

THANKs Nana! Ok, I'm all set with my 3 coupons and my disguise kit: red wig for coupon #2 and rubber nose/glasses/mustache for coupon #3!!!

Look out Hancock!

 

[teresajoy]

Yay Me! I made a contribution to the bookmark site!!!!! Thanks Teresa!

I am just as excited that you are exctied!!!

Here is something I have been working on for DD to wear to school.

I am still working on the jeans to go with this. So it is not completed yet!

But, since I haven't posted anything in a while, I thought I would share what I did get done!

The front:

Purple is her second favorite color besides pink. So this is what I came up with! Not sure I like it though!

Beautiful!!!

she loves it obviously..

. on to the next projects.

That is great! I love the back!!

Alright here's one I finished last week.

What do ya'll think? My older dd's dont want a skirt, they want capris. Doesnt that involve opening seams on the capris?

What do I think? You finished this LAST WEEK and waited until now to share it wit us???!!!???? It's wonderful!! You did a great job, I love Nemo!

Oh my gosh Heather---that is beautiful!!!!!! I was talking to DMIL earlier while I was getting ready for a yard sale earlier and she tol me about seeing your dress (shes uses my id to look---I keep telling her to set up an account so she can chat too) She was going on how beautifu; it was, well she was right! Great work.

AWWWW, that is so sweet! Heather will be so happy to hear that! Thanks for sharing!

Ok, dh got home with the good camera! And here are some good pics of the Nemo skirt... plus my latest creations!

Now, I can actually say I have completed one entire outfit!!!!! Now onto the other 468!!

OOOH, I like it even more with the good camera!!!

Hi there,

I was wondering if any of you know how to turn a pillowcase dress into a halter dress.

A friend was saying to make the front casing and run ribbon through it and this would go around the neck. Then cut the back down and add in elastic, but my question is how you finish the sides going down to the back and how do you determine at what angle to cut it toward the back.

Any info would be GREAT!

This was posted here awhile back:



Pillowcase Halter Dress

Cut out the dress. After I cut the arm holes, I cut the back so that it
was about 1.5 " above the lowest part of the holes. I folded this over
and made a casing just wide enough for my elastic, also making it at
the same level now as the lowest part of the holes. I cut the elastic
about as wide as the outside of her shoulder blades, knowing it
would sit lower and not need to be as wide as say half way around
her rib cage. I stitched the edges of the casing and elastic together
really well. Then I made a 1" casing on the front and pulled through
coordinating ribbon. I used grosgrain, 1.5".

 

[tnmom25]

Hi there,

I was wondering if any of you know how to turn a pillowcase dress into a halter dress.

A friend was saying to make the front casing and run ribbon through it and this would go around the neck. Then cut the back down and add in elastic, but my question is how you finish the sides going down to the back and how do you determine at what angle to cut it toward the back.
Any info would be GREAT!

I used these instructions I found online somewhere and it worked great for me!

Cut out the dress. After I cut the arm holes, I cute the back so that it was about 1.5 " above the lowest part of the holes. I folded this over and made a casing just wide enough for my elastic, also making it at the same level now as the lowest part of the holes. I cut the elastic about as wide as the outside of DD's shoulder blades, knowing it would sit lower and not need to be as wide as say half way around her rib cage. I stiched the edges of the casing and elastic together really well. Then I made a 1" casing on the front and pulled through coordinating ribbon. I used grosgrain, 1.5".

That ribbon!!!!!!! I don't suppose they have an online store?

 

[tnmom25]

Jinx, Teresa, you owe me a coke... but I'll settle for some Lilo fabric!

I knew I got those instructions on here somewhere and copied them word for word!

 

[teresajoy]

Jinx, Teresa, you owe me a coke... but I'll settle for some Lilo fabric!

I knew I got those instructions on here somewhere and copied them word for word!

TOO funny!! I thought those were great directions too! And, that dress made me obsessed with finding my own ice cream fabric to make my two girls and three neices skirts to go to Beaches and Cream! And, I found the perfect fabric too! Yeah!!! Thanks Travelingal for your help!

My Mom always said, "jinx on a Coke, King size!"

 

[teresajoy]

YOOO HOOO DEANN (tnMom25) Could you pretty please clear out your PM box. I'm trying to message you!

 

[UtahMama]

Evidently, y’all wear your best smarty pants when sewing. A factoid no one enlightened me on.

After procuring ½ - 1 yard of Walmarshay’s finest Halloween-esque fabric, in various tones of purples, blacks and oranges with a little lime for good measure (I’m not a muggle after all) in prints, dots, plaids, solids with coordinating ric-rac (which until a month ago I called “brick-brack,” shhhh!) thread, “punkin” buttons, tulle, etc. I was all set to tackle a algabraic equasion of the twirly-skirt.

How hard can it be? I AM smarter than a 5th grader after all!

First of all I have to measure Norah’s (dd2) wee- little waist (again). “Comemere baby girl, mama needs to measure your tummy (again)” and she sighed and accomodated me (again). “21 inches” roughly the measurement of my right thigh (on a good day- 20 years ago). Ok, we have a “given” to the algebra. Finally using algebra *cough30* years later!

Waist = 21 inches, or A . “A” will also equal the yoke or casing layer. A mini first tier. Not in the original “plan” but I’m remembering someone posting that the elastic waist band takes a lot of fabric weight and may droop funky.

A2= B second tier …42 inches long. Good grief, she’s 2! Won’t that be huge on her? Will it sit better on her waist with my taking liberties with the math?

B2= C third tier 84 inches! Breathe.

I went to cut and suddenly remembered I had not washed and dried all the new fabric first. I KNOW that can’t be good, so I wash it all in warm and dry. And iron. With my new Sunbeam.

NOW, I cut. When I get to C, I don’t have enough pumpkin fabric due to my OCD about matching the pattern repeat on the strips. So I have to drag all my kids to the Walmart fabric department. Not an easy task. But I’m determined.

That ½ yard also needs to be laundered and dried. So I load up the washing machine with a like colored load.

2 ½ hours later, I iron and cut the final strip and add it to the endlessly long tier C. I think it could have reached the moon and back...

First I sewed the elastic casing. All went well until I also sewed the elastic door closed. This should have been my omen of not good things to come.

I seam-rip open the door and start the zig zag stitch to begin the gathering of B. I have no ruffler foot. So I do a small zig zag and grab a needle and double layer of thread to go under the zigs and zags. My thread didn’t break (yet) so I pinned it to the bottom of A. After 5 or 20 pins, I realize I didn’t have RIGHT sides together. And re do. Rookie mistake. Then struggle a little with equi-distant gathers, but do my best and go ahead and sew B to A.

Now I’m looking into the eye of the beast. 84 inches of grinning pumpkins waiting to also be ruffled. I know, I can read the DIS whilst I hand gather the final tier. All is going well until I realize the initial anchoring stitch I did came undone and I was going under the zigzags with no anchor. GRRRRR! I betcha I went all the way around twice. Maybe more. Double Grrr!

I re-anchor very firmly and start over. Time to pin C onto B.

BUT! But The gathered part of C refuses to match up with the straight edge of B. I pin and repin and RE- repin till it’s right. I’m relieved it’s finally time to sew. I’m relieved to tell you: Right sides were together this time. I seriously would have imitated Donald Duck and needed court required anger management classes….

I put the machine on “speed Racer” and am thrilled at the progress. When my final stitch was stitched, I raised the needle and raised the foot and discovered I was out of bobbin thread about 3 miles ago. Uh Huh!

I need a time out!

Or a “drinkie” so I pour myself a tall one (diet Pepsi) and load my bobbin as full as possible with orange.

And re-PIN, since I had pulled out the pins as I sew’d. And re-spaced the ruffles just so and sewed it allllll over again. This time on “slow down, curves ahead” speed. This last section took most of the day.

The hem went off without a hitch. All 5 miles of it. I grabbed my pinking shears and cleaned up the tons of bulky seams and nicked a part of the skirt! UGGGH! Maybe I’ll cover the nick with orange ric-rac?

I insert the elastic and sew it into it's new home.


Then I took a good hard look at the Twirly Skirt from heck and tried it onto my dd who twirled and achieved a FULL blown horizontal twirl. Her first! She twirled and twirled till she was dizzy.

She said she “loves it so much”.

It will go with her new yet to be decorated Children’s Place orange T shirt and matching hair bows and black leggings.

Heh heh, too exhausted to post it tonight. I kinda like it! And using my fuzzy disney math, I saved a bundle not buying on Voldemort !!! More money to hand to the Mouse in September!

Yes, I just Trip Reported my skirt!!!

 

[LisaNJ25]

sewing at 1:30am is not a good idea... where is my seam ripper ahhhhh

 

[LisaZoe]

I finally finished the Baby Simba dress for Tessa!! The dress pattern was fairly easy, but the applique gave me some fits (the white fabric kept unraveling as I sewed it onto the brown fabric). It's not perfect, but she loves it and so do I! The dress was really big (mu-mu-ish) on the top, so I shirred the back to make it fit a little better. I also skipped the zipper in the pattern because it really didn't need it. Here it is!

The Simba applique:

Now I need to catch up on your wonderful creations.

Oh that is cute! I love the combination of prints and the applique looks great. Gotta love shirring, too, to get a perfect fit that will continue to fit as the child grows.

FYI - One thing I've learned in my short time appliqueing is solid colored cotton fabric ravels more easily than prints. When I can I use a tonal print instead of a solid. In many cases I prefer tonal prints anyway as they give an applique more "depth" and texture. There are only a few areas where I always use a solid - mostly for areas of the "skin". Sometimes I'll use the wrong side of a print, too, if that works better for the look I want. Solid black fabric has been my trouble spot so I'm always on the look for black on black prints to use for hair or clothes and I check the wrong side of the print at the store to see if it would look like a solid color from that side.

okay i can't believe i am posting this, but i finally finished Jayedyn's 2 hr pillowcase dress started last week .. i have learned that it is very hard to sew with 5 kids a dog and a husband who all need mom or a wife. i sew at night while my kids are asleep, but i mess up so bad that i think i seam ripped more than sewing, due to exhaustion . so my hat is off to all those who have created these beautiful outfits.. so here is my idea. be gentle , my next ones will be better.. And here is the back.

Very cute and the back details are great! Seam rippers can definitely be an ally in the battle with the sewing machine.

 

[LisaNJ25]

Bahahahhaha as I am sitting here reading Utahmoms report and cracking up I look down... I didn't put the right side together to I was going to seam rip and redo... But I just realized I was seam ripping a correct sections

 

[spongemommie05]

Utahmama::love the trip report on the skirt sorry about your mishaps.
i was at walmarshey earlier also but i did not see ya in the fabrica dept.


i have cut out the pattern for the mickey romper for ds2 that i am CASE ing(thanks )
he is obsessed with the mouse, i will post a picture of how he organized my pins in the tomatoe (let's just say i have a ton of Hidden Mickey's ) i figure that 5-3 =2(there is my math for the day) is alot better than trying to deal with all of my kidlets.
Love the outfits posted today very cute and all the accessories... good night all and happy sewing (remember just keep ripping )

 

[karebear1]

Utahmama- I feel cheated because we didn't get to see a pic of the full twirl factor of the dress. We need pics!!!! No story is complete with pics of frustrated looking faces and final projects done. Besides.... I need to see what that drink looked like! LOL!!

Please.... don't make me beg! (It's not a pretty sight!)

 

[teresajoy]

First of all, what the heck are we all doing up so late? Beware, seam rippers become evil after midnight!

Yes, I just Trip Reported my skirt!!!

You are a mean bad lady for not posting pictures!!!

HILARIOUS skirt trip report though!!

Bahahahhaha as I am sitting here reading Utahmoms report and cracking up I look down... I didn't put the right side together to I was going to seam rip and redo... But I just realized I was seam ripping a correct sections

That is funny!!!

Well, I better go to bed before my husband gets up for work! Night all!

 

[LisaZoe]

NOW, I cut. When I get to C, I don’t have enough pumpkin fabric due to my OCD about matching the pattern repeat on the strips. So I have to drag all my kids to the Walmart fabric department. Not an easy task. But I’m determined.

I HATE when that happens. For me it's usually the middle of the night when I realize I'm just one strip short of the total fabric I need.

BUT! But The gathered part of C refuses to match up with the straight edge of B. I pin and repin and RE- repin till it’s right. I’m relieved it’s finally time to sew. I’m relieved to tell you: Right sides were together this time. I seriously would have imitated Donald Duck and needed court required anger management classes….

For your next twirly skirt (and you know there will be a next one LOL), I would recommend doing the tiers in reverse. I stitch all panels of each tier together first into loops. Then I hem the bottom tier while it's still flat. It takes forever but IMO it is easier to do before it's ruffled. I then gather the bottom tier and pin to the next one and so forth. That way only one of the tiers I'm working on is gathered. I do usually make the casing for the elastic in the top tier before I sew anything else to it.

I put the machine on “speed Racer” and am thrilled at the progress. When my final stitch was stitched, I raised the needle and raised the foot and discovered I was out of bobbin thread about 3 miles ago. Uh Huh!

That's when I know it's time to step away from the sewing machine before I hurt it.

I look forward to seeing your DD in full twirl in her new skirt.

 

[karebear1]

TERESAJOY- Where do you live in WIsconsin??? I'm moving there soon!

Edited to add................ Man! It IS late!! You're not in Wisconsin.... you're in Michigan!! DAH!!! Well.... it make sme feel a little bit better to at least be able to say I use to live in Michigan! We lived in South Lyon- which is west of Detroit and just north of Ann Arbor. So... do you live near ther at all??

 

[stepmom3]

Evidently, y’all wear your best smarty pants when sewing. A factoid no one enlightened me on.

After procuring ½ - 1 yard of Walmarshay’s finest Halloween-esque fabric, in various tones of purples, blacks and oranges with a little lime for good measure (I’m not a muggle after all) in prints, dots, plaids, solids with coordinating ric-rac (which until a month ago I called “brick-brack,” shhhh!) thread, “punkin” buttons, tulle, etc. I was all set to tackle a algabraic equasion of the twirly-skirt.

How hard can it be? I AM smarter than a 5th grader after all!

First of all I have to measure Norah’s (dd2) wee- little waist (again). “Comemere baby girl, mama needs to measure your tummy (again)” and she sighed and accomodated me (again). “21 inches” roughly the measurement of my right thigh (on a good day- 20 years ago). Ok, we have a “given” to the algebra. Finally using algebra *cough30* years later!

Waist = 21 inches, or A . “A” will also equal the yoke or casing layer. A mini first tier. Not in the original “plan” but I’m remembering someone posting that the elastic waist band takes a lot of fabric weight and may droop funky.

A2= B second tier …42 inches long. Good grief, she’s 2! Won’t that be huge on her? Will it sit better on her waist with my taking liberties with the math?

B2= C third tier 84 inches! Breathe.

I went to cut and suddenly remembered I had not washed and dried all the new fabric first. I KNOW that can’t be good, so I wash it all in warm and dry. And iron. With my new Sunbeam.

NOW, I cut. When I get to C, I don’t have enough pumpkin fabric due to my OCD about matching the pattern repeat on the strips. So I have to drag all my kids to the Walmart fabric department. Not an easy task. But I’m determined.

That ½ yard also needs to be laundered and dried. So I load up the washing machine with a like colored load.

2 ½ hours later, I iron and cut the final strip and add it to the endlessly long tier C. I think it could have reached the moon and back...

First I sewed the elastic casing. All went well until I also sewed the elastic door closed. This should have been my omen of not good things to come.

I seam-rip open the door and start the zig zag stitch to begin the gathering of B. I have no ruffler foot. So I do a small zig zag and grab a needle and double layer of thread to go under the zigs and zags. My thread didn’t break (yet) so I pinned it to the bottom of A. After 5 or 20 pins, I realize I didn’t have RIGHT sides together. And re do. Rookie mistake. Then struggle a little with equi-distant gathers, but do my best and go ahead and sew B to A.

Now I’m looking into the eye of the beast. 84 inches of grinning pumpkins waiting to also be ruffled. I know, I can read the DIS whilst I hand gather the final tier. All is going well until I realize the initial anchoring stitch I did came undone and I was going under the zigzags with no anchor. GRRRRR! I betcha I went all the way around twice. Maybe more. Double Grrr!

I re-anchor very firmly and start over. Time to pin C onto B.

BUT! But The gathered part of C refuses to match up with the straight edge of B. I pin and repin and RE- repin till it’s right. I’m relieved it’s finally time to sew. I’m relieved to tell you: Right sides were together this time. I seriously would have imitated Donald Duck and needed court required anger management classes….

I put the machine on “speed Racer” and am thrilled at the progress. When my final stitch was stitched, I raised the needle and raised the foot and discovered I was out of bobbin thread about 3 miles ago. Uh Huh!

I need a time out!

Or a “drinkie” so I pour myself a tall one (diet Pepsi) and load my bobbin as full as possible with orange.

And re-PIN, since I had pulled out the pins as I sew’d. And re-spaced the ruffles just so and sewed it allllll over again. This time on “slow down, curves ahead” speed. This last section took most of the day.

The hem went off without a hitch. All 5 miles of it. I grabbed my pinking shears and cleaned up the tons of bulky seams and nicked a part of the skirt! UGGGH! Maybe I’ll cover the nick with orange ric-rac?

I insert the elastic and sew it into it's new home.


Then I took a good hard look at the Twirly Skirt from heck and tried it onto my dd who twirled and achieved a FULL blown horizontal twirl. Her first! She twirled and twirled till she was dizzy.

She said she “loves it so much”.

It will go with her new yet to be decorated Children’s Place orange T shirt and matching hair bows and black leggings.

Heh heh, too exhausted to post it tonight. I kinda like it! And using my fuzzy disney math, I saved a bundle not buying on Voldemort !!! More money to hand to the Mouse in September!

Yes, I just Trip Reported my skirt!!!

You are hysterical!! Thanks for the laugh this morning! With the time difference, you must still be dreaming about your skirt! And after you read LisaZoe's instructions, you will be kicking yourself you didn't think of doing it that way! At least you will know for next time! I cannot wait to see pictures, I'm sure it will be fabulous!!

 

[tnmom25]

I seam-rip open the door and start the zig zag stitch to begin the gathering of B. I have no ruffler foot. So I do a small zig zag and grab a needle and double layer of thread to go under the zigs and zags.

I put the machine on “speed Racer” and am thrilled at the progress. When my final stitch was stitched, I raised the needle and raised the foot and discovered I was out of bobbin thread about 3 miles ago. Uh Huh!

Ok, please explain your gathering technique... I zigzag over dental floss, and have yet to anchor it down on one end. And I keep wondering why it won't stay in place DUH!!!!!!

Also, I run out of bobbin thread all the time There should be a warning or something!!!!

Sometimes I'll use the wrong side of a print, too, if that works better for the look I want. Solid black fabric has been my trouble spot so I'm always on the look for black on black prints to use for hair or clothes and I check the wrong side of the print at the store to see if it would look like a solid color from that side.

OMG that's a great idea! I've yet to applique, but I keep all my scraps for that "someday" and I would have never thought to use the reverse sides. Thanks for that tip!

 

[tadamom]

UtahMama -- you totally cracked me up!!! Thanks for the giggles this morning. Can't wait to see the pics!

 

[Jajone]

TERESAJOY- Where do you live in WIsconsin??? I'm moving there soon!

Edited to add................ Man! It IS late!! You're not in Wisconsin.... you're in Michigan!! DAH!!! Well.... it make sme feel a little bit better to at least be able to say I use to live in Michigan! We lived in South Lyon- which is west of Detroit and just north of Ann Arbor. So... do you live near ther at all??

Yeah! Another Wisconsinite soon. Where are you moving to? I'm in Green Bay.

 

[Astro Orbiter]

Also, I run out of bobbin thread all the time There should be a warning or something!!!!


You can get just about anything! My Pfaff has a warning light for when you're about to run out of bobbin thread. Love it! It also has a built-in needle threader. Love it again!

I've also run out of bobbin thread enough times that if I'm sewing I can HEAR the difference in the sewing machine! How bad is that?

On the subject of t-shirt dresses, who's had success a the tank top that holds up to the weight of the skirt? I made DD one she's been wearing all summer. The Walmart tank's stretched to the point it's starting to look like a muscle shirt. It's also starting to get a few holes near the seam. I've promised her I'll remake it and want a tank that will last. Of course, the skirt's got a high twirl factor - the skirt is 20" tall by 3 yards long and all 3 yards is sewn onto a ribbed size 6X tank.

Deb