Disboutiquers Part 14 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[Miz Diz]

Thank you all for the links and your insight. We just got back from WDW and I have some pics of the clothes I did for my kids.

I was really happy with the Evil Queen/ 7 dwarfs shirt I did for dd. This is the first piece of clothing I've ever done. I've only done a pocket book and curtains before. I did not use a pattern (big mistake) and it took forever to do. The Evil Queen and 7 dwarfs are iron on patches. I do not have an embroidery machine.

I bought this dress from Target and added the applique.

The kids did the Albatross Pirate Adventure. I bought dd a pair of shorts from Target and added the pirate fabric on the bottom and made her an easy hair accessory.

DS's Yoda is an iron on patch, but a girl told him she thought it was a cool shirt and asked him where he got it. She couldn't tell it was an iron on patch.

On this shirt, I had intended on doing one more layer of the floral pattern, but I thought the shirt was long enough AND most importantly - it was midnight when I finally finished this and we were leaving the next morning.
I thought the 7 dwarfs would have looked better on the purple, but I didn't have enough fabric.

I am making another disser 3 applique Mickey shirts for her kids. It's a surprise, though. I am going to send them to her next week.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

Marah,

Did you see Leslie's tutorial on a stripwork skirt? It was the second thing I made, and was easy to understand. She gives you the math.... so you could make it for your DD's size..... it isn't just small sizes, you base it on her measurements.

whose Leslie? I want to learn how to make a stripwork skirt too!

 

[2cutekidz]

I'm loving all the Sleeping Beauty sets!! Here's mine using a pillowcase for the top. It doesn't have the collar, but the skirt has the pepulum.

emcreative, Here'e the tute on my blog for a double layer stripwork skirt - you could easily make it one layer though with or without a ruffle. I can talk you through any modifications if you need me to.

http://my-sweet-sunshine.blogspot.com/2009/05/okey-dokey.html

Here's a picture of a stripwork and a simple skirt too. Don't know what your fabrics are, but the second skirt might work and it is super easy to make.

whose Leslie? I want to learn how to make a stripwork skirt too!

LOL! Hi! That's me! I posted a link for my blog and the stripwork skirt tute.

 

[Miz Diz]

2 little cute dresses finished today

Lori

Sooo adorable!

Love this!

I never thought about using sheets. These are great. I might have to try something similar for dd next year. Great job!

 

[Rymer]

hi everyone, I am totally new here. we are headed to Disney in Oct and I really want to get my daughter a beautiful cinderella dress or snow white. we are going to do cindy's castle for her birthday (she turns 4 when we are there!!) and want to get her a dress for that dinner. can anyone point me to a person or website. all these outfits on this thread are amazing!! I'm so jealous that you all can do this stuff. it's beautiful.

 

[LisaZoe]

Opinions please!!!

I made a skirt last year and loved how it came out. Not long after I tried a second with different fabric and it still sits unfinished because I wasn't happy with how it was looking. Since then I haven't tried again so I decided to try to see if I could. I'm just not sure about it. In some ways, I like it but it's just not quite what I was hoping for. Here's the first one I made:

Here's the newest (shown over a pettiskirt):

The first skirt was a smaller size than the latest so I'm thinking the difference in length is what I'm reacting too. I also think maybe the pinks of the fabrics I used are too much the same tone so there's not enough contrast for visual interest.

I'd love your honest critique of this skirt and any ideas for what I might do to improve on it.

THANKS!

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

Leslie, It's nice to meet you! I can't wait to check out your blog.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

I was at joann's today and saw a ruffler for $14.99. Has anyone bought this? does it work? How does it work? I have only made a few things so any information you can give me would be helpful because I hate hand ruffling things! LOL! Can you connect it to any type of machine? Thanks for the help!

 

[revrob]

This is just amazingly darling!!! Love It!

Thanks so much!

Shannon,
Have you made the wrap skirt for you? I just bought it. It looks so cute (and easy). Do I just tie it on? I assume I do but never had anything like that before. I don't have any twill tape and don't think I want to use ribbon so I guess I'll make some ties out of fabric for the one I have to make right now.

I've not made it yet, except in my mind 100 times! I have one cut out, and I don't remember now why I didn't finish it. Something got in front of it on the table, and it was all over!

That is really cute. I especially like the ruffles in the back. I really need to try something like that soon.

Thanks so much, Lisa! It was lots of fun, but I have to admit that I'm glad those ruffles are over with!

This is awesome!! I live the polka dots!!

LOVE me some polka dots! Thanks!

I'm jumping in here even though I haven't been on this thread in forever and a day. I HAVE made the wrap skirt for me and I love, love, love it! It is super cute on and it's really simple, I can whip one out in about 30 minutes. It is just tied on, but I'm toying with the idea of a hook and eye for my next one in place of the ties.

This is good to know - I need to pull that back out and get at it!

Lori, Kim, Shannon, Aimee and everyone else that I am forgetting, I just wanted to say that you guys are making some adorable things. I love the dresses and outfits. Just too cute and if I quoted it all it would take a whole page.

Thanks! Isn't it fun gaining inspiration from each other?

hi everyone, I am totally new here. we are headed to Disney in Oct and I really want to get my daughter a beautiful cinderella dress or snow white. we are going to do cindy's castle for her birthday (she turns 4 when we are there!!) and want to get her a dress for that dinner. can anyone point me to a person or website. all these outfits on this thread are amazing!! I'm so jealous that you all can do this stuff. it's beautiful.

You will notice that many on this thread have their ebay or etsy IDs in their signature. That is usually an indication that they are willing to sew for others. Even if that person doesn't have items currently listed, they are generally willing to send you pictures of things they have created and list something specific for you if you wish. You could also PM someone if you see something that you like and ask if they would be willing to list something for you.

 

[LisaZoe]

I was at joann's today and saw a ruffler for $14.99. Has anyone bought this? does it work? How does it work? I have only made a few things so any information you can give me would be helpful because I hate hand ruffling things! LOL! Can you connect it to any type of machine? Thanks for the help!

That's the kind I have... or at least I got mine at JoAnn's for about that price so it's probably very similar. It worked great on my old Kenmore machine but a not on a newer White machine I used to have. I worry that it is hard on the machine so I have mine on my back-up Brother rather than risk it on my main machine. It works pretty well but I've never had much luck really fine tuning the ratio of the ruffling so I still usually have to do some bobbin thread pulling to adjust it to fit where the ruffle will be attached. I love having it, though, and don't mind doing tiered twirl skirts nearly as much as I used to.

 

[revrob]

Opinions please!!!

I made a skirt last year and loved how it came out. Not long after I tried a second with different fabric and it still sits unfinished because I wasn't happy with how it was looking. Since then I haven't tried again so I decided to try to see if I could. I'm just not sure about it. In some ways, I like it but it's just not quite what I was hoping for. Here's the first one I made:

Here's the newest (shown over a pettiskirt):

The first skirt was a smaller size than the latest so I'm thinking the difference in length is what I'm reacting too. I also think maybe the pinks of the fabrics I used are too much the same tone so there's not enough contrast for visual interest.

I'd love your honest critique of this skirt and any ideas for what I might do to improve on it.

THANKS!

I think it looks great! And, certainly, who am I to critique your work, of all people! If you feel that the there's not enough contrast, the only thing that I would say is have you considered doing the rolled edged hems on the top kinda sheer fabric on the left, and then the pink right under that in a raspberry color? I wonder if that thin punch of color would serve to separate the colors and at the same time, unify it with the ruched (or however you spell that!) ruffle on the right layer. Make sense?

 

[ireland_nicole]

Opinions please!!!

I made a skirt last year and loved how it came out. Not long after I tried a second with different fabric and it still sits unfinished because I wasn't happy with how it was looking. Since then I haven't tried again so I decided to try to see if I could. I'm just not sure about it. In some ways, I like it but it's just not quite what I was hoping for. Here's the first one I made:

Here's the newest (shown over a pettiskirt):

The first skirt was a smaller size than the latest so I'm thinking the difference in length is what I'm reacting too. I also think maybe the pinks of the fabrics I used are too much the same tone so there's not enough contrast for visual interest.

I'd love your honest critique of this skirt and any ideas for what I might do to improve on it.

THANKS!

ok, so I'm obviously not a "great" seamstress to say the very least, but here's my take on it. First of all, I LOVE the tink dress, the style of skirt, everything about it! For me, I think I like it better than the second because all the fabrics "belong" in the story; they coordinate and relate back to each other color wise, but also using the coordinates in the details, etc. I think the pink is similar in color, but the patterns don't speak to each other if that makes sense. I do think it would be a cute kind of goth lolita style skirt with a corset style top because it has a little more of a lingeree (sp) feel (but not inappropriate) If I sound like an idiot, feel free to ignore the comment.

I'm loving all the Sleeping Beauty sets!! Here's mine using a pillowcase for the top. It doesn't have the collar, but the skirt has the pepulum.

emcreative, Here'e the tute on my blog for a double layer stripwork skirt - you could easily make it one layer though with or without a ruffle. I can talk you through any modifications if you need me to.

http://my-sweet-sunshine.blogspot.com/2009/05/okey-dokey.htm

Here's a picture of a stripwork and a simple skirt too. Don't know what your fabrics are, but the second skirt might work and it is super easy to make.

LOL! Hi! That's me! I posted a link for my blog and the stripwork skirt tute.

Super cute!!! I love the sleeping beauty- I definitely need to get a petti- it really makes it special!

Thank you all for the links and your insight. We just got back from WDW and I have some pics of the clothes I did for my kids.

I was really happy with the Evil Queen/ 7 dwarfs shirt I did for dd. This is the first piece of clothing I've ever done. I've only done a pocket book and curtains before. I did not use a pattern (big mistake) and it took forever to do. The Evil Queen and 7 dwarfs are iron on patches. I do not have an embroidery machine.

I bought this dress from Target and added the applique.

The kids did the Albatross Pirate Adventure. I bought dd a pair of shorts from Target and added the pirate fabric on the bottom and made her an easy hair accessory.

DS's Yoda is an iron on patch, but a girl told him she thought it was a cool shirt and asked him where he got it. She couldn't tell it was an iron on patch.

On this shirt, I had intended on doing one more layer of the floral pattern, but I thought the shirt was long enough AND most importantly - it was midnight when I finally finished this and we were leaving the next morning.
I thought the 7 dwarfs would have looked better on the purple, but I didn't have enough fabric.

I am making another disser 3 applique Mickey shirts for her kids. It's a surprise, though. I am going to send them to her next week.

Great job!! Looks like a wonderful trip, too!

2 little cute dresses finished today

Lori

Super cute as usual. For the ruffles on the outside of the dress, do you rolled hem the edges and then gather the middle?

 

[mom2rtk]

That's the kind I have... or at least I got mine at JoAnn's for about that price so it's probably very similar. It worked great on my old Kenmore machine but a not on a newer White machine I used to have. I worry that it is hard on the machine so I have mine on my back-up Brother rather than risk it on my main machine. It works pretty well but I've never had much luck really fine tuning the ratio of the ruffling so I still usually have to do some bobbin thread pulling to adjust it to fit where the ruffle will be attached. I love having it, though, and don't mind doing tiered twirl skirts nearly as much as I used to.

I'm so tempted to try one of these. I've looked at the one from Janome, the maker of my machine, but they want $90 for it. Has anyone tried the more expensive one and can tell me the difference?

I'm loving the tiered skirts for my daughter, but still run 2 full rows of gathering stitches on each row. It takes FOREVER! It took me over 3 hours to make her last skirt, which is an ETERNITY in my sewing timeframe!

 

[Stephres]

I absolutely adore this outfit!!!! What pattern for the shirt did you use??? I love the combination of colors and the look with the capris! Your daughter is so cute! I'm thinking I am gonna have to get that pattern and make something for my DD Katie. I it!

It is the Emma Swing Top from youcanmakethis.com. I really liked the pattern but I have to tell you it is open in the back and I know that is not for everyone:

I like it because Megan is still little and it is soooo hot here. The fabric is from JoAnn's. I picked up the flowers from the juvenile section. I bought it because it was on sale and it has some polyester in it so I thought, less ironing! The stripe is from the quilting section.

Holy ruffles, Batman! That is sooooo adorable.

I love all the pictures and the mini trip report but my favorite is thinking of all the geeks marveling at the dress made from their sheets!

Cute cute cute! That AbbyGrace is getting more beautiful each day. I love the butt ruffles on the dress.

I love the minnie one and the ariel one looks just fine length-wise. Everything you are making is so cute!

That fabric is so pretty! Poor mama, it is always so stressful when they decide to give themselves a trim!

I think i may have done serious damage to my embroidery machine, and i thought i would see if anyone has any insight before i cart it off to be fixed. I was doing an applique and tried to sew through too many layers. The needle got caught somewhere in the bobbin area and broke, pulling the bobbin case up and out of place with it. I put in all back together and tried to sew and it bird nested on the back and popped the bobbin case back out agian. Now the bobbin case is not moving at all and I can't pull up the bobbin thread at all. I reset the bobbin case the way it shows in thew manual. It just said to set the little part that sticks out agianst the spring. Anyone have any ideas??

ETA : The machine is a singer futura ce-150

I don't have an embroidery machine but

Cute dresses Lori. You must have missed sewing during the move, because you are sewing up a storm!

That is totally cute! I love all your outfits, but this one is so special. I can't believe you let a little thing like midnight deter you from a final layer!

Honestly Lisa, it is awful. You must send it me to immediately (is is a size 5-8?).

Really, I can see what you are saying, it looks too long and the layers don't stand out enough? What if you add a boutique ruffle around the bottom layer in a contrast? I think it looks really cool with that petti in the darker color on the bottom. Other than that, it is perfect!

 

[hudsonsinaf]

Opinions please!!!

I made a skirt last year and loved how it came out. Not long after I tried a second with different fabric and it still sits unfinished because I wasn't happy with how it was looking. Since then I haven't tried again so I decided to try to see if I could. I'm just not sure about it. In some ways, I like it but it's just not quite what I was hoping for. Here's the first one I made:

Here's the newest (shown over a pettiskirt):

The first skirt was a smaller size than the latest so I'm thinking the difference in length is what I'm reacting too. I also think maybe the pinks of the fabrics I used are too much the same tone so there's not enough contrast for visual interest.

I'd love your honest critique of this skirt and any ideas for what I might do to improve on it.

THANKS!

Lisa - I'm trying to catch up, and I'm sure everyone has already responded, but I wanted to say I think both skirts are extremely adorable! I think one difference between the two skirts is the distance between the ruffles... for example on the first skirt, you could see the material between the two ruffles... so if the material is letter A and ruffle is B, you had A1B1A1B1A2B2A2B2, where in the second skirt you had A1B1B1A2B2B2 - does that make sense at all?

 

[tricia]

NOW, we headed to our local thrift store, to get some Big Tshirts to make my fabulous Tshirt capris. They had 1.00 Shirts today! Love that. We didn't find any good shirts that have a nice centered design... HOWEVER.. we did score something HUGE!!

Georgia has been saving for a "real" AG doll. Even though we got the AG cousin. hehe She still wants a real one. Well, we were lookin and there she was... a packaged American Girl doll! OMG! I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Another little girl was heading over to her, and I said Georgia GO RUN GET THAT DOLL! hahaha I know bad mommy!! But, its a brand new doll... and an AG doll at that! She skurried her little booty up got her RIGHT before the other girl. whew.... She brought it back to me. I got a naughty look from the mother (oops sorry. What can I say, I guess she knew what it was too) Even though we are on a tight budget right now, and only gettig the shirts. I figured since we weren't getting any shirts, right??? So up to the counter we go, total please..... $5.95!!! YES you read that right! SIX BUCKS!

Total score.

What an awesome score. Georgia must be soooo happy.

Chucks-

Very pretty. Love the ruffles in the front.

Thanks to whoever came up with the shorts out of the pillow panels...Patrick loves them!!! Katie's dress got a lot of attention because they are a reproduction of the sheets most of us Star Wars geeks had as kids....we kept hearing..."Hey! She's wearing my sheets!"

Thanks for the mini TR. Love seeing the pics. I did not have those sheets, but my brother did.

I finished up this Ariel Vida this afternoon. This is for AbbyGrace's trip that is coming up.

Beautiful. She must love it.

Thanks!

Beautiful. Red, black and yellow are always a favourite of mine. And I think the Ariel dress is fine as is.

I finished this last night for Abby and I Like the dress, Love the bloomers, I hate the cupcake! It is off, I dont know how this happened!

Is it really noticable?

Nope, not noticeable. And oh my about the cutting off of a curl. I think every little girl has done that at least once.

2 little cute dresses finished today

Lori

Both cute as usual, but I really love the second one.

Love all your outfits. This one looks great, no one would ever know that it was meant to be different.

 

[KARAJ]

I was at joann's today and saw a ruffler for $14.99. Has anyone bought this? does it work? How does it work? I have only made a few things so any information you can give me would be helpful because I hate hand ruffling things! LOL! Can you connect it to any type of machine? Thanks for the help!

I bought a $14.99 one at Joann's and have had a great time with it. I use it on a Singer Futura 250

 

[karamat]

Hello all! I am enjoying reading and looking at at all the wonderful pictures. Love the Friends Around the World outfit; it looks like a winner to me!

I was working on an elastic back option for kid pants and finished the tutorial HERE. Hope this help someone!

Love the outfit and the tutorial!! Thanks for sharing.

And your mullet comment made me laugh out loud! We were just telling DH's father that DD (18 months) is developing a mullet - her fine hair is not really growing in, except in the back where its getting a little longer and developing some curls.

 

[LisaZoe]

ok, so I'm obviously not a "great" seamstress to say the very least, but here's my take on it. First of all, I LOVE the tink dress, the style of skirt, everything about it! For me, I think I like it better than the second because all the fabrics "belong" in the story; they coordinate and relate back to each other color wise, but also using the coordinates in the details, etc. I think the pink is similar in color, but the patterns don't speak to each other if that makes sense. I do think it would be a cute kind of goth lolita style skirt with a corset style top because it has a little more of a lingeree (sp) feel (but not inappropriate) If I sound like an idiot, feel free to ignore the comment.

You definitely don't sound like an idiot. I understand what you are saying. I think that might be part of my problem with it - the fabrics aren't really working as a whole as I'd thought they would when I selected them. The colors do match better in person than in my photo but I should know better than to try to pick fabrics in the middle of the night without double checking in natural light before proceeding. LOL

I think it looks great! And, certainly, who am I to critique your work, of all people! If you feel that the there's not enough contrast, the only thing that I would say is have you considered doing the rolled edged hems on the top kinda sheer fabric on the left, and then the pink right under that in a raspberry color? I wonder if that thin punch of color would serve to separate the colors and at the same time, unify it with the ruched (or however you spell that!) ruffle on the right layer. Make sense?

That's a good idea. I think I have some serger thread in a dark pink so I'll do an experiment to see if the contrast helps.

Honestly Lisa, it is awful. You must send it me to immediately (is is a size 5-8?).

Really, I can see what you are saying, it looks too long and the layers don't stand out enough? What if you add a boutique ruffle around the bottom layer in a contrast? I think it looks really cool with that petti in the darker color on the bottom. Other than that, it is perfect!

LOL, it does happen to be in that size range. I think that's part of the problem. The first one was more of a 3/4 so the tiers were narrower. I didn't think extra length would make a big difference but it seems to throw the proportions off.

Lisa - I'm trying to catch up, and I'm sure everyone has already responded, but I wanted to say I think both skirts are extremely adorable! I think one difference between the two skirts is the distance between the ruffles... for example on the first skirt, you could see the material between the two ruffles... so if the material is letter A and ruffle is B, you had A1B1A1B1A2B2A2B2, where in the second skirt you had A1B1B1A2B2B2 - does that make sense at all?

I'm not sure I understand the number/letter coding but I think I get what you are saying. I think it might be better to do 3 tiers instead of 2 so I can keep the proportions of the overlapping layers closer from one size to another. I did intentionally change the lengths of the layers on the second skirt so more of the underlying fabric showed but I think that on top of this being a longer skirt overall worked against me.

 

[my*2*angels]

I'm loving all the Sleeping Beauty sets!! Here's mine using a pillowcase for the top. It doesn't have the collar, but the skirt has the pepulum.

emcreative, Here'e the tute on my blog for a double layer stripwork skirt - you could easily make it one layer though with or without a ruffle. I can talk you through any modifications if you need me to.

http://my-sweet-sunshine.blogspot.com/2009/05/okey-dokey.htm

Here's a picture of a stripwork and a simple skirt too. Don't know what your fabrics are, but the second skirt might work and it is super easy to make.

LOL! Hi! That's me! I posted a link for my blog and the stripwork skirt tute.

This is soooo cute! LOVE it!

Opinions please!!!

I made a skirt last year and loved how it came out. Not long after I tried a second with different fabric and it still sits unfinished because I wasn't happy with how it was looking. Since then I haven't tried again so I decided to try to see if I could. I'm just not sure about it. In some ways, I like it but it's just not quite what I was hoping for. Here's the first one I made:

Here's the newest (shown over a pettiskirt):

The first skirt was a smaller size than the latest so I'm thinking the difference in length is what I'm reacting too. I also think maybe the pinks of the fabrics I used are too much the same tone so there's not enough contrast for visual interest.

I'd love your honest critique of this skirt and any ideas for what I might do to improve on it.

THANKS!

HOLY COW! I wish I had 1/10th of your talent lady! I would case that Tinkerbell in a heartbeat! Sooooo cute! The second skirt is hideous and I think you should get it out of your house immediately! I will PM you my address! Seriously, I love the look of these skirts, but I am thinking it is the lack of contrast that may be bugging you. Could you add some accent in the darker pink?