Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes Part 3

[MommaPooh217]

My little baby girl is now a school kid!

Tom she looks so cute and the outfit is darling.

 

[celerystalker]

mommytoe - Great job! Hope your day gets better!

 

[lori123]

In between takin care of the youngins, and doing dishes, laundry, making beds, getting ready for school, etc I sewed a couple of things.

Next, is the first-day-of-preschool dress. I am making the same one for my older DD today and tomorrow. I changed the bottom by adding an extra panel and it made it good and twirly! It was New Look pattern #6688 and was VERY EASY! All the fabric was from JoAnn's.

Twirl factor +

I know I should add a ruffle or something at the bottom but I measured it and its 9 feet. I would have to ruffle 18 feet or more of fabric. Ummmmmm not today....and tomorrow isnt looking good either

That was a blast...ok back to sewing!!!!

Great Job! Love the twirl factor - looks like DD loves it too! I have to say - I vote ruffle on the bottom - LOL - don't hate me!

 

[PrincessLeighsDaddy]

I am looking for a ruffler foot for my NEW brother 6000i. Does anyone know what kind of foot I should be looking for? Do I need to buy it from Brother? I asked at Joann's but they looked at me like I had 8 feet. sticking out of my head.
(3 min for the new sewing machine!)
THANKS!!

We have the same machine!
Use the low shank ruffler foot! That is what I have and it works GREAT!

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

Hi Gang!

It is not appropriate to discuss decisions of the webmasters on the boards. If a poster has any questions or concerns they can address it with a moderator or webmaster directly but it really doesn't belong here.

 

[MommaPooh217]

utah - will you make some matching bows for you and Norah so I won't feel so weird?

no.

 

[celerystalker]

mommapooh - with fiends like Utah, who needs enemies?

 

[Stephres]

I know I haven't been around the thread in a while, but I was hoping someone could help me troubleshoot a problem I'm having sewing elastic.

My machine is the Disney Brother SE-270D. When I sew elastic, the bobbin thread won't turn and the bobbin thread snarls and tangles up.

I've asked my mom about it, and she has no idea why it does that. She said she has never seen a machine do that.

I've read in the manual and I've been using the stitches recommended for sewing elastic. I'm getting very frustrated, and I'm afraid my machine will break. I've been having to hand stitch my elastic together, and I don't like doing that.

Please help me! Has anyone else had this problem?

I was going to say that this happens to me once in a while and I don't know why but I see that you have got it figured out now. So I need to adjust the stitch length? Thanks!

Next, is the first-day-of-preschool dress. I am making the same one for my older DD today and tomorrow. I changed the bottom by adding an extra panel and it made it good and twirly! It was New Look pattern #6688 and was VERY EASY! All the fabric was from JoAnn's.

This is really brilliant! I love the chalkboard with her name and the twirl factor if great. It would look really cute with a bottom ruffle. But only if you want to!

stephres - it's ok. we'll still like you even if you have weird taste.

Thanks! I'm glad we can still be friends. You wanna know something else weird about me? I don't like peanut butter. Even as a kid, I couldn't stand the stuff. I used to get a lot of crap about that growing up.

I'd also like to clear something up..
I am an idiot. Just ask anyone, I've professed it more than once. I had confused the Blue Pooh Toile that my Joann's had but didn't when I wanted it and the ever popular Purple Cinderella Toile from Hobby Lobby- which is what I really wanted.
I have had several ppl pm who had 1 or the other (if not both) and have successfully struck a bargain for said material. Thanks to everyone who offered to help! I would also like, in the vein of helping (cause I keep asking for "stuff")... to say that I have I think 2 yards (possibly 3) of the blue mickey camo w/ the red in it. like this one if you can see it

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So if anyone can use it pm me, cause my plan for it fell through.

...t.

Why don't we trade the little red polka dot for it?

I had an idea...
you know how there is the photobucket link with all the pictures of our creations? What if we add the pattern number as a caption? Then it would be easier to CASE? Just an idea...

I was wishing we had the screen name with the picture because I can never remember who posts what. But that would be way too much work.

Please don't look at the messy hair. It has been a bad day here, but I don't want to go into that. Also the dates are wrong on the pics, because my camera won't keep the right date on it.

The first is the dresses I made for last Sunday on my old machine. The second are dresses I made on my new machine for promotion Sunday (My youngest moves out of the preschool class and into the elementary class.)

Cute! I hope your oldest's foot is ok.

 

[mommytoe]

Cute! I hope your oldest's foot is ok.

Thank you. Her foot should be alright. She had a chunk cut out of her foot by loose computer mother board that feel onto the floor. Good news is no infection so far and she can walk on it with little pain now.

 

[MommaPooh217]

mommapooh - with fiends like Utah, who needs enemies?

If I had any kind of creative talent I'd do it. Although my hair is way to short now for clippie bows, I think I'd need a bowband .

 

[teresajoy]

Ok, I just KNOW you are all dying to see what I created last night Right? Ok, so you aren't, but I'm going to show you anyways!!!

I have been thinking up this outfit since June, and finally got around to making it! I didn't have a pattern, so I'm pretty proud of myself! I guess it's an original Teresa Creation! OOOOHHHHH!!!

Ok, I'll admit it, I'm killing time waiting for my pictures to upload to Photobucket. Why is it so slow today??

While I'm waiting, I'll comment on an outfit that I seem to have missed.
twob4him
I love the preschool dress! It is absolutely adorable! I love the little bus!

Ok, photobucket is 50% done...... I have DSL, this shouldn't take so long....

Did I mention??? I SHIRRED!!! YEP, I SURE did!!! I want to add one more row of shirring to the bottom of the top, I don't like the way it kind of sticks out funny, and I think another row would help fix that.
I made the top too short too begin with, so I had to add ruffle to it to make it fit right. But, I really like the way the ruffle looks, now that I've added it. I would have liked it better if I had made the top longer, THEN added a ruffle, but this will work for now.

75% done, GEESH! Maybe I should do a load of laundry while I wait!

I almost forgot, I also want to add some purple bows to the gathered parts of the skirt. But, I didn't have any purple ribbon, so I need to go get some.

OOOH, I think it's done!!!!

Here we go....
Lydia looking all sweet in our front yard:

The back:

"Pleased to meet yah"(you know, from the Song of the South)

Gotta Twirl!!

Thanks for looking!!!

I had Arminda try this on, and it fits her too! Gotta love shirring!

 

[mommytoe]

mommytoe - Great job! Hope your day gets better!

Thank you. It is more a bad day for my friend than it is for me to be honest. She emailed me this morning to let me know her dh died.

I am still trying to figure out how to tell my youngest, because she miss him.

 

[PiperPizzaz]

Cute, I love that smiley fabric!

Aww adorable.

As soon as Dh gets home from being out of town (any minute now) I am heading out the door to be ALONE I think I will go get some starch/sizing to fix up my Minnie skirt and then I can show y'all. Oh did I tell you Ds learned how to open the baby proofed cabinets, yeah it's been a fun couple of days.

 

[PiperPizzaz]

Thank you. It is more a bad day for my friend than it is for me to be honest. She emailed me this morning to let me know her dh died.

I am still trying to figure out how to tell my youngest, because she miss him.

Oh that is just terrible.

 

[LisaZoe]

Hi All. I'm new to this thread - but I'm really enjoying it. HAs anyone ever done anything with a Mulan theme? I'd love to embellish overalls or something for my niece with her favorite character.

I did this one for DD in Spring. I really like to do some of the characters that aren't the ones people typically think of for Disney.

 

[snubie]

You are so VERY talented! Thank you for showing us.

 

[celerystalker]

lisa - as always, your work is stunning!

teresa - Great use of the toile! I just bought eeyore's pooh toile cuz I couldn't find it here -
I'm going to make me a skirt.
we'll see how it turns out.
I might look like a freak.

mommytoe - I am so sorry! Your family and your friend's family will be in my prayers.

 

[eeyore3847]

lisa - as always, your work is stunning!

teresa - Great use of the toile! I just bought eeyore's pooh toile cuz I couldn't find it here -
I'm going to make me a skirt.
we'll see how it turns out.
I might look like a freak.

mommytoe - I am so sorry! Your family and your friend's family will be in my prayers.

Can't wait to see the skirt, with the fabulous fabric!!!!!!

LORI

 

[t-beri]

Gotta Twirl!!

You SHIRR did!!
Look at those curls!!! Oh, we're supposed to be looking at the outfit..right. Beautiful as usual. It's not so easy making your own pattern huh?

Um, ok, Lisa...I'm sending you all of my outfits for appliquieng!! I'm afraid to even try!!!

 

[hkite]

Actually, I think that this is just another example of how mean parents can sometimes be to their kids! HOW could those people KEEP their kids away from it. They are the ones that are wrong! Besides what's one day of school...aren't there like 179 more?
maura

Hey girls! I was just listening to /watching Martha Stewart and she had a Childrens book author on her show. This author has written AWESOME book(s) called Fancy Nancyand it's sequel involving the neighbor's puppy!. If you have a dd who LOVES to accessorize and glam up, and never settles for plain ANYTHING This would be a wonderful choice! I can't wait to get my hands on this book. I love the illustrations!

I think whenever we have anything over-the-top glitzy and girlie, we should call it "Fancy Nancy"....hee hee

It's funny you should mention that. I just noticed on our library website that they're doing a "Fancy Nancy" day and I'd never heard of the book. It sounds cute!

All of these are great! My favorite is the Nemo dress.

I think that's an Urban Legend that floats around cyberspace. If you go to the URL above for the Do Not Call list, there's a disclaimer about the rumor.

Yup, I was going to say the same thing. I got that e-mail a few years ago and checked it out on snopes.com.

Cute!
You guys did a great job.
What does the Ariel fabric say?

It says "Watch Me Sparkle". I've got this same fabric and it doesn't sparkle.

But your family should be eternally grateful. You should always have an asterick next to your name (MOM*) so people have to ask you what it means and you can tell them..."well it was Star Wars, and some disrespectful child of mine had the nerve to think it needed to come early after I was smashed by a 16 wheeler while trying to save a Harp Seal from the evil beaters, and I MISSED the first showing of Star Wars by being so unselfish!" Yep that about sums up the asterick!!!

I love that idea! From now on, I'm going to be MOM*, too! I almost died when my son was 5 weeks olds (abdominal blood clots probably helped along by labor), so that qualifies me, right?

None. Oh yeah and when you pay for dessert at a restaurant...it costs so much for ONE slice because they take all of the calories out. Didn't you know that is why restaurant desserts and Thrashers are so expensice? geeze

You are just cracking me up today!

Aimee, it looks beautiful. I hope for your daughter's sake it isn't as hot as they are still calling for, at least the back side of faire is shady. As long as you stay clear of the jousting field (which us diehards refer to as the Serengheti) you all should be okay.

BEWARE the jousting competition! When we were there (at out local renaissance faire), a piece flew off the jousting stick and hit someone in the crowd! They also had some pretty spooked horses that looked like they'd like to trample small children.

LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very fancy Nancy!

I think they look great!! I especially like the black and red one!

My girls get asked this all the time....almost daily...Yes I overdress them...but it's better to over dress them then to see the snobby mother perfectly done up with full make up, perfect clothes, and her designer purse of the week, and see her poor little one looking like they crawled out of the garbage can...it's so sad when parents don't take pride in their childs appearance..

Yup, my kids are always better dressed than I am!

My neice (who's turnig 3 next week) LOVES this book and totally relates...only she calls it Bassy Assy

Thanks! I do think they look alike. Must be the blue eyes. I also have a Tessa too. It's my 10yo step-daughter. I think it's such a pretty name.

How cool! We don't know any other Tessas!

One eye opener for me in watching this thread is the lack of fabric stores. Even 10 years ago I had a choice of 5 different stores, plus Walmart...now all I have is Joann and Walmart in my area.

Have you sent an e-mail to your walmart about the fabric departments closing? Yours could be next!!!

My little baby girl is now a school kid!

You people have got to stop posting these first day of school pictures! I have a year before I have to let my baby go and I'm already crying about it!

I wanted to say 'hi' to all of you since I feel like I know you from reading this massive thread. Your beautiful designs have converted me. I broke out my mom's sewing machine and she and I used it for the first time Tues.

Sorry, but now that you've broken out the sewing machine, there's no going back!!

For the record, I love Harry Potter, too. But, also for the record, my sister has never read the books, or seen the movies (it's the concept she detests).

VERY cute!!

Ok, I am WAAAYY behind because I was making a FABULOUS princess dress yesterday.

Okay, where is said picture!?!

no.

Wonderful idea, but there is no way I can do that for all the pictures. I barely can keep up as it is. If anyone wants to help add the pattern numbers on the site I am more than happy to pass on the user name and password. Right now dh is gone for the Army for 2 months, I have three kids, watch more kids, and can barely walk around due to horrible morning sickness . Ah, thus is life

I keep meaning to post how much I appreciate all of the work you do on the picture site. (are you dizzy, Teresa?)

They turned out great! So cute!