Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes Part 4

[sahm1000]

I looked down this morning on a page I posted on and I made it I have my ears. Mouseketeer Melissa I am so happy. I am with the jr high girls When I am a vet I will be in highschool then. Sorry for the offtopic: I just wanted to celebrate. arty:

What is the next "grade level" and how many posts do you have to have?

 

[revrob]

sahm1000 - I have the singer serger that cost about $190 - I got it at WalMart. I love it! It does everything that I need for it to do. I'm not a seamstress, I just sew for my DD, and have begun to do a few things for others. It works perfectly fine for me. I wish I would have purchased it sooner.

 

[Camping Griswalds]

I'm just curious, why have a sewing machine and a serger? Is it just so it looks nicer (we are talking about inside seams right) or does it hold things together better? Do you sew your seams first, and then go behind with the serger? I have always wondered about this and been too goofy to ask.

 

[celerystalker]

I need some serger help. I bought a singer serger for the sole purpose of rolled hems.

Camping - I wonder the same thing!

and what in the world is a rolled hem?

and I haven't been keeping up with this thread lately, but adoption - did your youngest get her cast off yet? I can't tell in the pic in your signature.

 

[eeyore3847]

love the colors Great job!

Ok, let's see if 10 post has me at the point

These were the T-Shirts I made for our entrance into California Adventure, our 1st day at Disneyland. I went thru multiple brands of transfers, before I found one that worked & ran all the ink out of the printer. That's why only the lil DS' have the wording "Our Family Dreams Coming True" on 'em. We love Brother Bear!

Love the shirts, I love coordinating family pics!
Lori

 

[my*2*angels]

Ok, let's see if 10 post has me at the point I can post these photos.....

Drum roll please, (Oh, I'm so nervous)......

This is the Mickey quilt I made for the plane ride to Disneyland in May. Cuz did you ever stop to think how many cooties are on those airplane blankets? Ewww! Plus, what's more cozier than a quilt? No one slept on our west bound late night flight but me-but I used it! I'll have to get a full shot of it later.

This is the back of the weighted vest I made for DS(5) who has autism. Long story behind the applique....

This is the front of the weighted vest. I don't like it at all, it's too home made looking & I wanted to tear it out & re-do just a plain denium front with apps. Alas, I ran out of time before our trip, sigh. Thank God he didn't even need to wear this creation! (This was one of many miracles, for our dream Disney trip!)

These were the T-Shirts I made for our entrance into California Adventure, our 1st day at Disneyland. I went thru multiple brands of transfers, before I found one that worked & ran all the ink out of the printer. That's why only the lil DS' have the wording "Our Family Dreams Coming True" on 'em. We love Brother Bear!

Love all of your creations! Great job and we want to hear the story behind the vest! Please?

 

[mommyof3princess]

What is the next "grade level" and how many posts do you have to have?

I don't know how many you have to have to be a dis vetran. I was just excited I am a Mouseketeer.

 

[2cutekidz]

Hey! How does CindyBGood get a tag from the tag fairy and she only has 11 posts! Just jealous, that's all! I actually don't think I'm as funny (in my opinion I'm funny!) on the boards as I am in real life (wow that sounds like I'm bragging but I'm not trying to!). Does anyone else feel like your personality doesn't come through right?QUOTE]

I could be wrong, but I don' think her quote is from the tag fairy. The tag fairy quotes are in different colors. You can add a quote under your id in the user cp.

 

[disneymommieof2]

Hey! How does CindyBGood get a tag from the tag fairy and she only has 11 posts! Just jealous, that's all! I actually don't think I'm as funny (in my opinion I'm funny!) on the boards as I am in real life (wow that sounds like I'm bragging but I'm not trying to!). Does anyone else feel like your personality doesn't come through right?QUOTE]

I could be wrong, but I don' think her quote is from the tag fairy. The tag fairy quotes are in different colors. You can add a quote under your id in the user cp.

I agree I think she just changed her "earning my ears" to the awww pickles saying....

 

[mommyof3princess]

I'm the kind of person where almost everything goes wrong too. I'm sitting here with a terrible cold and we leave in 2 days...My Mum is also sick and has missed 2 days of work, and she is supposed to go with us. The poor thing even dragged herself out of bed to go and buy a costume for MNSSHP. I don't even know if we will be going now...I can't see wearing a heavy hot costume with a fever..yuck....

I really hope you feel better soon. If it is a bad cold and cough with fever it is going around the Ivie house. It finally cought up with me on sunday and followed me home from Disneyland after my girls day out. Get well soon.

 

[PrincessLeighsDaddy]

I'm just curious, why have a sewing machine and a serger? Is it just so it looks nicer (we are talking about inside seams right) or does it hold things together better? Do you sew your seams first, and then go behind with the serger? I have always wondered about this and been too goofy to ask.

A serger does make the inside seams look much better. (I am all about how the inside looks too!) I sometimes sew my seams first and then follow up with a serger. It is very difficult to rip out a serged seam and go back and reserge it, since it cuts and serges at the same time.

Also, I like the serged rolled hem on the bottom of my ruffles. It is so much faster than serging the edge, and then pressing and then topstitching. (Although with certain fabrics, I do still do it that way).

I know I don't post too often here, but I thought I would give my opinion on this if it counts!

I am putting off making DD's Halloween skirt. I can't decide if I want to patchwork it, or do the layered twirl skirt with the tulle.

All the fabric is layed out, all the supplies, the knowledge to do it, but I am procrastinating doing it.

I am finally feeling better from my post Disney sickness, but DW has now caught it.

Now she knows why I was such a big baby when I was sick!

 

[my*2*angels]

t-beri_ tried to pm you but your folder is full!

 

[mommyof3princess]

I have been to every joanns the only hancock and a all the walmarts I can find within 2 hours from me and I cannpt find any minnie dot fabric. I need two yards if any of you have some and are willing to part with would you please pm me. I am working on the girls xmas day disney dresses. TIA.

 

[alikat99]

Hi - here is my try at a turkey twirl top - my ruffle isnt very ruffly though! i'll never figure out how to make that ruffler predictable!!! i've even watched that tutorial thing!!! AHHHHHH, anyway - now i have to find a pair of jeans in

18 mos size that isnt already decorated so i can try a turkey applique!!!

Cute, cute, cute!! Gobble, gobble!

 

[t-beri]

Hi everyone, trying not to apologize for being off-topic, but maybe I should apologize for venting a bit. I'm still trying to recover We leave for our Disneyland vacation on Saturday and I'm having one of those everything that can go wrong moments. DD sprained her ankle Friday, just found out I have a slow leak in my tire, and now developing a toothache, which never happens to me of course. Oh yeah, then there are those wildfires. I truly do feel for the people who have been affected by these fires and I know it is much more important than my silly vacation. That being said, on with my story. Today I decided to check out what people were saying over on the Disneyland side of the Disboards. I wasn't too worried about my vacation. However we were booked to stay at a resort (where we stayed on our honeymoon) near Escondido (a bit north of San Diego). Dissers were saying Anaheim is okay but stay away from San Diego so I started investigating. My resort's website said they were closed until mid-way through my reservation Now I understand that they may have been too busy running from fires or something to inform me of this. However I booked my trip through RCI who just sent me a happy "here are some details for your vacation in a few days!" email today. I came very close to driving 10+ hours and winding up with nowhere to stay! But happy ending, I was able to book the days we needed at a resort we have stayed in before right across the street at Disneyland. And hey, we will be muuuuuch closer to Disney and will just have to spend more time there. Unfortunately this is all costing way more money than we had planned. Okay, thanks for listening. DH is working late and I'm still coming down from panic mode.

I didn't use a pattern from YCMT but here is what I did.
Each square is 5x5.

First tier has 8 squares.
Second tier has 12 squares.
Third tier has 18 squares.
Triangle ruffle also has 18 which match up with the third tier.
Top band shows 1 1/2 inches so adjust for casing with the size of elastic you are using.

I used 1/2 seams everywhere.

This fits my almost 6 y/o daughter of avg height but short legs.

This skirt isn't as full as most, it's only 1 1/2 times instead of 2 (which gives you the full horizontal twirl), but I was working with only a set number of squares in the pack.

There is a formula for the patchwork skirt in Theresa's bookmarks.. It's TNMOM's I think (though she doesn't take credit for it, she's the one who posted it.-it's clever anyway, I just wish I hadn't decided to add all these damned ruffles.)

MINDY-I PM'd you too!!!! Is there a MOD in the house???

 

[100AcrePrincess]

Just wondering, has anyone seen any Dumbo fabric around? I love that little elephant (but, not the icky pink elephants on parade thing. oooh, scary!)

AAAWWWWW! I LOOVE Pink Elephants on parade. Dh has decided that whoever came up with that & Heffalump & Woozles was probably having a bad acid trip.

Anyone have any ideas on creating an applique that's 1/2 pirate & 1/2 princess "I'm a little bit princess & a little bit pirate". I've seen this in a T Shirt design, but I think I want to make it in an applique. Show me your samples......

Since I still can't post links or photos I can't really show what I mean. However, on the Creative DISigns boards, M_I_C_K_E_Y Designs (aka amymickey) has a design with a Mickey head silhouette, with a pink pirate scarf on the head, then a tiara on top of it & an eye patch!! It rocks!

I want to make an outfit for my niece who's in 12 - 18 mos. I just don't want to do a T Shirt, something cuter...like an applique.

Hope I explained myself okay

That's exactly what I was going to suggest. Use a Mickey head & give him a pirate bandana (we have GREAT instructions for one here somewhere). Then get one of those iron-on rhinestone tairas to put on it. Or maybe a princess scepter instead of the tiara.

Here's the pic we're talking about for those that don't know.

http://www.amymickey.com/pirate_princess_blue.html

Wow! That is waaaayyyyy too long without an epidural. I had an epidural with my first and it was heaven! I progressed too quickly with my second and only received Stadol. I don't know how that happened. I was in labor with her for about 7 1/2 hours. I HATE Stadol. That second labor was not good.

My third, I went to the hospital and as soon as I saw a nurse, I demanded an epidural. She just kind of looked at me and said let's see how I'm doing. I KNEW I didn't want to go thru another labor like my second. When I was settled in bed, they tried giving me Stadol. I said NOOOO. I wanted an epidural. Well, DS decided to enter this world before I could get one. He was born less than 45 minutes after I got the the hospital. I had no pain medicine. I actually did better with him than with DD#2. But 36 hours? No way, no thank you.

Oh, my babies weren't very big. DD#1 was 6 lbs. DD#2 was 5 lbs. 10 oz. DS was 7 lbs. 7 oz.

I knew everyone would find this very fascinating.

OK, with dd4, there were like 5 other women in labor at the same time, so I couldn't get anyone to come in most of the time. Plus the anesthesiologists were all busy in surgery so no one made upstairs to give me my epidural (I think it's just as well, that needle is SCARY!!). They gave me some demoral, but it was too late to really help with the pain. I just got REALLY sleepy after she was born.

With dd1, I decided that it wasn't so bad without the epidural so I could do it again. This time they gave me a little Stadol, but it made me dizzy & then I could stand up & walk around or use the whirlpool. ggggrrrrrrr!! Laying on my back hurt worse than no meds & walking around. If I have another one, there will be NO Stadol. BTW, my ob/gyn learned an important lesson that day. My water hadn't broken & was pushing. One nurse asked if he wanted to go ahead & break it & he said no. Another asked if he wanted a mask & he said no. Then my water brkoe & he got sprayed in the face. Even the nurses were laughing at him.

 

[t-beri]

OH, JHAM... I am feelin' ya girl, with everthing we've been going through there are now multiple holes in my drain pan due to our county's poor road maintenance... Jeesh. It never ends right. I know it's stressful when stuffs not going well and especially when your spending more money that totally sucks, but lets just focus on having a GREAT vacay and keep a silver lining on those clouds (which don't seem to going anywhere right now, I'd like to send some of this rain to you guys over in CA... it's been nonstop since last night...Hopefully we'll see some sunny skies this weekend'
I hope you guys have a wonderful and safe trip!!!

...t.

 

[alikat99]

Okay. This is what I have been working on lately. I have not been diligent. And I have a bunch of stuff to make. BUT. I thought it turned out well. I love the colors together.

Close-up of my first applique. This was easier than I thought!

And. Just because - pics of my kids. I made the Peter Pan outfit for my son for our trip in December. Some wise people once told me that so few people dress boys up for the parks, that it makes the ones that do REALLY stand out. We're going to try it. The Tink is obviously a Disney store buy.

Adorable outfit, and I love the pic of your kids! They look too cute!

 

[mytwotinks]

I'm just curious, why have a sewing machine and a serger? Is it just so it looks nicer (we are talking about inside seams right) or does it hold things together better? Do you sew your seams first, and then go behind with the serger? I have always wondered about this and been too goofy to ask.

I mostly just use my serger to make the edges of the fabric look finished. I usually cut out my pattern and then serge all of the edges that will show before I put the garment together. I really dislike the look of raw fabric edges inside clothes so it makes a big difference to me. If a person doesn't mind that, then a serger might be an unnecessary purchase. I feel like the serged edges make the clothes lay better too. I have noticed in the past that unfinished raw edges kind of bunch up with wear and the clothes may start to look a little "homemade" instead of "handmade" over time.

There are a few things that my serger can do that my sewing machine can't. A rolled edge is one, sewing stretch fabrics is another, but I use mine about 99% for just finishing the edges of the fabric that will show.

I have a babylock that I love. I think it cost about $600 5 years ago. I strongly suggest buying your serger someplace that will teach you how to use it. In the KC area Missouri Sewing Machine Company gives free lessons when you buy a machine. Having someone show you how to thread and what settings to use is really priceless!

 

[my*2*angels]

LOVE the fur cuffs. My sister told me about those (she has a friend . . .) Anyone willing to sell - send me a PM. I'm in the market . . .

Okay. This is what I have been working on lately. I have not been diligent. And I have a bunch of stuff to make. BUT. I thought it turned out well. I love the colors together.

I love this top and want to CASE it(if you don't mind) What pattern did you use or did you just wing it? TIA for any info!