Disboutiquers Part 15 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[WDWAtLast]

Question about YCMT - is there a way to ask the buyer a question? If so I can't figure it out. But someone here can probably answer my question:

I would like to use Carla C's Simply Sweet pattern and add her Patchwork Twirl skirt to the SS bodice. Is that do -able? Thanks!!!

 

[ncmomof2]

What size paper do you take with you? Do you keep them in baggies or anything so they don't get wet? Any other advice? Hmmmm....I wonder if I can convince my kids that they don't each need their own this year since they are used to having their own? I've been concentrating on sewing this year so I haven't even thought of these yet!!!! I've always done the 7 x 7's for the kids and then a large 12x12 one for our family of the whole trip. But I am really far behind and never did the 12 x 12 from our last trip!

CM use to sell those photo mats and that is the size I took. I would keep the small clipboard, papers in the old CM photo file, and pens in a plastic bag. I would have the characters autograph the white side and then cut eit down later. I decided to do that after having to make the two albums the first year. One is enough! I have not finished last years album either but I ordered the pictures a few days ago and I am goint o try to get it done before our trip at the end of Sept.

 

[2cutekidz]

Double Post

 

[2cutekidz]

Question about YCMT - is there a way to ask the buyer a question? If so I can't figure it out. But someone here can probably answer my question:

I would like to use Carla C's Simply Sweet pattern and add her Patchwork Twirl skirt to the SS bodice. Is that do -able? Thanks!!!

Sure it is! Instead of adding a waistband or elastic, gather the top of the skirt and attatch it to the bodice of the simply sweet.

 

[WDWAtLast]

Sure it is! Instead of adding a waistband or elastic, gather the top of the skirt and attatch it to the bodice of the simply sweet.

Thanks!! Off to order!

 

[Camping Griswalds]

I need some Dis girls help. A while ago on here, someone posted a picture of Sleeping Beautys dress from a window in Disneyland. It was half blue and half pink. I can't find my pic I saved of it. Care to help a girl out???

 

[InkspressYourself]

MANY THANKS! Some of the Sleeping Beauty pics on Flickr are from Simplicity 9384. Another picture in there (the blue satin Sleeping Beauty) is from Simplicity 5835. 9384 IS more complicated, but it's the real McCoy. These are 9384:

9384 has the full circle flare skirt, which I love!

This one is from 5385:

The key to getting ANY of those Sleeping Beauty gowns to fit properly is to not be afraid to make them snug through the chest and waist. (Cut it with plenty of allowance along the back seam where the zipper goes, so you have plenty of room, but then trim away when done to get the nice close fit). Otherwise they fall off the shoulders and don't look right.

I do sell on both of those sites under the same ID I use here, although not necessarily from the exact same styles shown on Flickr. I usually do things on my own daughter's gowns that I would never want to replicate! Usually these are small things that result in many additional hours of work!

Happy sewing!

I love this. It is so inspiring!

I've loved everything posted. I really liked the hello kitty shirt and decoupage jeans.

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

Ok, this is SLIGHTLY OT (seeings how it's only July), but I am getting ready to start DD's halloween outfit. I have only one more custom to do for our WDW trip in October so Halloween is going to be my next task. I am currently searching through the Oct Thread from 2007 but it seems that nearly all the pics have been taken down ! I would love to see pics from the past to get ideas from. I am thinking about a stripwork jumper but I've only done the simply sweet so far. . . I guess I need to at least read the instructions and see how intimidating it really is. All the strip pieces really scare me!

First off For being almost finished with your customs for your Oct. trip!!! I am just getting started.

Here are a couple outfits I made
For DS

Abby

I can't believe that was almost 2 years ago.

Looking forward to seeing some more outfits. I have some of that Disney fabric still and I want to make a couple things with it for our trip.

 

[SallyfromDE]

Let's try this, anyway this is my DD Maddie, she is 6 and happy to have mommy make her beautiful dresses. This was at the Ocean City NJ Boardwalk in April.

I just have to tell you that your daughter is really beautiful.

DD9 and I are taking our mother/daughter trip at the end of August and I am just about done with our matching customs. I am now going through each one to make sure I have the right shoes and accessories. Here's a few pics of our first couple. By the way, I will be wearing shorts there, just was too lazy to get them all out for pics.

DHS day (this was a last minute request for a Jessie outfit) Do you think it will pass as a Jessie custom?
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Great outfits and she looks like Jesse to me!

These next two pics are of Maddie and my niece Victoria, at the Princess Storybook Breakfast at Epcot. Victoria wore a store bought Alice costume and Maddie wore a Provincial Belle that I purchased off of , I believe I bought it from a fellow disboutiquer that has an shop, MOM2TRK, I think that is her id on here. It is a beautiful creation, so professionally done and just gorgeous !!!

This is Maddie's Easter dress that I made from Carla C's A Line pattern. I did mess up a bit on the side where you have to hand sew it closed, but it was the first outfit that I ever really completed, other than easy fit pajama bottoms !!

Hello everyone!
I have a question regarding tshirts. When you do an applique for a tshirt do you stitch it right on the shirt or do you do it on a piece of fabric and then sew it on? I am concerned that the backside may be a little itchy for the kids.

Can you share how you do these - I don't want to make the kids uncomfortable.

Thanks for your help

If the complain that they itch, I put a peice of interfacing over the back. Usually the knit interfacing since it's pretty soft. After washing, I just press it back on. Eventually it just comes off, but the applique is soft enough now, not to worry about it.

I must have missed this request - I think I have some pics of AbbyGrace's MNSSHP set from last year - let me see

Here's the whole thing

Here's close ups of the applique on the legs

THAT is so cool! I think I need to check this out! Amazing!

I just love the Spiders!!!

MANY THANKS! Some of the Sleeping Beauty pics on Flickr are from Simplicity 9384. Another picture in there (the blue satin Sleeping Beauty) is from Simplicity 5835. 9384 IS more complicated, but it's the real McCoy. These are 9384:

9384 has the full circle flare skirt, which I love!

This one is from 5385:

The key to getting ANY of those Sleeping Beauty gowns to fit properly is to not be afraid to make them snug through the chest and waist. (Cut it with plenty of allowance along the back seam where the zipper goes, so you have plenty of room, but then trim away when done to get the nice close fit). Otherwise they fall off the shoulders and don't look right.

I do sell on both of those sites under the same ID I use here, although not necessarily from the exact same styles shown on Flickr. I usually do things on my own daughter's gowns that I would never want to replicate! Usually these are small things that result in many additional hours of work!

Happy sewing!

These are truly beautiful. Kirsta had a mulan outfit on when we met SB in Epcot. Kirsta told her she had an Aurora outfit also, but without the sleeves. SB sighed and said that would be heaven.

 

[InkspressYourself]

HeatherSue!!!!!!!

I just saw the birthday designs and you have them in 4 X 4. Thank you, thank you, thank you

We are celebrating my little one's birthday in Disney. Now, I hope someone makes something that I can CASE. I'm not very good at coming up with ideas on my own.

You have made me so happy by offering that in 4 X 4. It takes the sting out of my big hoop envy.

 

[mirandag819]

HeatherSue!!!!!!!

I just saw the birthday designs and you have them in 4 X 4. Thank you, thank you, thank you

We are celebrating my little one's birthday in Disney. Now, I hope someone makes something that I can CASE. I'm not very good at coming up with ideas on my own.

You have made me so happy by offering that in 4 X 4. It takes the sting out of my big hoop envy.

I know isn't heather awesome! I am working with the designs right now.... hopefully I will have the dress posted this weekend.

 

[mirandag819]

Question about YCMT - is there a way to ask the buyer a question? If so I can't figure it out. But someone here can probably answer my question:

I would like to use Carla C's Simply Sweet pattern and add her Patchwork Twirl skirt to the SS bodice. Is that do -able? Thanks!!!

That is what I did for the Mickey/Minnie dress I posted this weekend, sorry I am at work and can't get to photobucket to repost it. What I did was make the simply sweet bodice the same as normal. I used the instructions from the patchwork twirl to give me the "math" and instructions for assembling the skirt, but I had to change the lengths a bit.

If this doesn't make sense, I am sorry.... I am a beginner myself.

Here is what I did..... I cut my blocks to the same size Carla called for in the patchwork twirl skirt.... but I just needed more of them. For my top tier I used the width of the suggested skirt for the simply sweet. I am guessing a little at the numbers right now since I am at work, but I think it was about 55 inches wide. So that would mean I wanted my top tier to be 5 11 inch strips. I decided for my top tier to go ahead and cut the 11 inch strips in half (because I like how it lines up with the next tier this way and I could add more prints to the top tier).

So for my top tier I had 10 5.5 inch wide strips. Then I used the doubling math from the skirt pattern to get each of the next tiers.

So for the 2nd tier I used 10 11 inch strips (twice the length of the 1st tier).

For the 3rd tier I used 20 11 inch strips (twice the length of the 2nd tier)

For the 4th tier I used 20 22 inch strips (twice the length of the 3rd tier).

This was enough tiers to get the total length I needed (I think it was like 5 inches for the first 3 tiers and 2.5 inches for the bottom tier since it is folded in half), but you could add more tiers if you needed it longer.

 

[poohnpigletCA]

You know you're killing me, right???????? That penguin looks like he's just hanging around waiting for us to get there......

I AM thinking that after the late Septemeber heat at Disney World this year I will be in the mood for a CHristmas trip to Disneyland next year...... We were last there in 07, and I'm dying to get back.....

We should meet up with the girls all in costume!!

Oh that would be so much fun! I love Disneyland decorated for Christmas!

We did get a free dinning pin for October so we will be battling the October heat at Disney World.

 

[fairygoodmother]

I need some Dis girls help. A while ago on here, someone posted a picture of Sleeping Beautys dress from a window in Disneyland. It was half blue and half pink. I can't find my pic I saved of it. Care to help a girl out???

poohnpigletCA has that picture. She took it at D-Land, World of Disney store window or princess store window I think.
(Karen, if you can't find it I think I still have it somewhere).

 

[mirandag819]

You don't need to use Disney Florist. Oh nooooooo.....have I got a solution for you!!! "Memories by Betsy" Just google it. We used her last year and she was FABULOUS! She also shops outside too and can get some good bargains. She's so helpful in putting stuff together. I don't think she can decorate a room, but she will deliver the surprise package to your resort and just ask them to put it in the room. In addition to the pic below last summer, we also had her do a bathroom basket for the kids with disney toothbrushes, expandable facecloths, disney bubblebath etc. She got all this stuff at Target! I had purchased custom fabric covered autograph books and some other stuff up here. For instance, my teenage daughter wasn't into some of the kiddie stuff. I got her a new Vera Bradley bag and shipped it to Betsy to include in her gift basket. I got some Disney coloring books at AC Moore, bought Disney dollars and disney wallets for the kids..so each of their baskets had their wallet with Disney dollars. I also shipped Emily's cinderella dress. I had her get the disney princess crayons and classic character crayons.

I sent her a list of what she was to buy. And she put it all together. The kids were in awe! What I like was that any "souvenirs" ie: autograph books, pressed penny book, passport, lanyard..they were already taken care of. The kids could use their disney dollars on something, but we were buying all this other stuff. Here is a pic:

I cannot recommend her enough!

Julie

I love the idea of Disney Florist because of the way they decorated the room as well... and I liked the boxes better then baskets, but maybe I can do something like this in addition to something I can set up too. I have heard great things about her baskets though. The only thing I wasn't crazy about is she isn't allowed to add food items.... I wanted to include some disney candy and snacks. Do you know if she can add balloons? I still need to find a way to get some balloons into the room.

Your baskets looks so cute!

 

[jenb1023]

This question is OT and not really related to sewing so please forgive me....but I am looking for something different/cheaper for my kids autograph books. In the past I have let each of them have a 7x7 creative memories album with a TON of pages in it and they get a TON of autographs!!!!! So the character signs one page and then on the opposite page I put a picture of them with the character and scrapbook around it to match the character. My kids love those books, but it does get to be costly with all of those pages and albums and they are rather cumbersome to carry around. My kids love those albums though. So I thought all of you crafty people might have another idea. I haven't been able to find other albums that extend that big. Any ideas? Thanks!

That's what I was thinking of doing. I was going to make my kids share an autograph book, though. Is that horrible? Do they each need their own? My scrapbooks remain in my office. They will not be keeping them in their rooms. How many pages did your 7x7 end up being? (sorry to hijack)

I took a CM album our first year. I did not put all the pages in at once. I just put some in then swaped out at night so I was not carrying a huge album. SInce then I have just brought a small clip board and photo matt paper so that I can add the autographs to my large album. I do one for the family, not per kid. If I was doing the ones you don't add photos to, I would do one per kids but having the photos make it extra special and I my kids did not mind sharing.

What size paper do you take with you? Do you keep them in baggies or anything so they don't get wet? Any other advice? Hmmmm....I wonder if I can convince my kids that they don't each need their own this year since they are used to having their own? I've been concentrating on sewing this year so I haven't even thought of these yet!!!! I've always done the 7 x 7's for the kids and then a large 12x12 one for our family of the whole trip. But I am really far behind and never did the 12 x 12 from our last trip!

CM use to sell those photo mats and that is the size I took. I would keep the small clipboard, papers in the old CM photo file, and pens in a plastic bag. I would have the characters autograph the white side and then cut eit down later. I decided to do that after having to make the two albums the first year. One is enough! I have not finished last years album either but I ordered the pictures a few days ago and I am goint o try to get it done before our trip at the end of Sept.

Our first year I bought an autograph book but the last two years I just took pre-cut white card stock and put it on a clipboard. When I got home, I scrapbooked the autographs into the album. I only put a few cards on the small clipboard and then kept blanks and signed ones in a ziploc baggie to avoid them getting wet. Each night I would date the back of the autographs from that day so I could match things up later and then would leave them in the room so I wasn't carrying them around the parks. I only have one DD so I didn't have to worry about how many sets. I think I pre-cut/bought 80 pieces of cardstock.


Another option could be the autograph books I started making for the Big Give Wish kids. They have gone over very well with the families and at the parks from the reports I have read. I use chipboard for the front and back cover of the book. Then I use adhesive pre-cut cardstock from Michaels/AC Moore. Then I place an unlined index card on each piece of cardstock and decorate. I hook it all together with rings. Then when you get home you just peel off the back and stick it in. I only do about 15-20 pages though per book and do the main characters they may see and blanks. They are easy to do. Here are some photos. Good luck!

 

[poohnpigletCA]

I need some Dis girls help. A while ago on here, someone posted a picture of Sleeping Beautys dress from a window in Disneyland. It was half blue and half pink. I can't find my pic I saved of it. Care to help a girl out???

Here ya go....

 

[poohnpigletCA]

Speaking of Sleeping Beauty Olivia wore this gorgeous ivory and white brocade Aurora dress in a wedding.

For Halloween I would like to dye that dress.

You know when the fairies are fighting to make it pink, make it blue and the white dress has splotches of pink and blue all over it. That is what I want to do. It is a good thing the Bride is still on her Honeymoon she would kill me.

Do you think brocade will take a dye??

 

[WDWAtLast]

That is what I did for the Mickey/Minnie dress I posted this weekend, sorry I am at work and can't get to photobucket to repost it. What I did was make the simply sweet bodice the same as normal. I used the instructions from the patchwork twirl to give me the "math" and instructions for assembling the skirt, but I had to change the lengths a bit.

If this doesn't make sense, I am sorry.... I am a beginner myself.

Here is what I did..... I cut my blocks to the same size Carla called for in the patchwork twirl skirt.... but I just needed more of them. For my top tier I used the width of the suggested skirt for the simply sweet. I am guessing a little at the numbers right now since I am at work, but I think it was about 55 inches wide. So that would mean I wanted my top tier to be 5 11 inch strips. I decided for my top tier to go ahead and cut the 11 inch strips in half (because I like how it lines up with the next tier this way and I could add more prints to the top tier).

So for my top tier I had 10 5.5 inch wide strips. Then I used the doubling math from the skirt pattern to get each of the next tiers.

So for the 2nd tier I used 10 11 inch strips (twice the length of the 1st tier).

For the 3rd tier I used 20 11 inch strips (twice the length of the 2nd tier)

For the 4th tier I used 20 22 inch strips (twice the length of the 3rd tier).

This was enough tiers to get the total length I needed (I think it was like 5 inches for the first 3 tiers and 2.5 inches for the bottom tier since it is folded in half), but you could add more tiers if you needed it longer.

Thank you so much for your detailed instructions!!! I did see your Minnie/Mickey dress- it is beautiful (and so is your dd!) My fabric is in the washer now - I hope to start cutting out later today, so I am printing your notes right now!!!

 

[mom2rtk]

I need some Dis girls help. A while ago on here, someone posted a picture of Sleeping Beautys dress from a window in Disneyland. It was half blue and half pink. I can't find my pic I saved of it. Care to help a girl out???

I don't have the photo, but it's funny you should ask that in the midst of our discussion of Sleeping Beauty costumes. I have a pile of pink and blue fabric laying here and am planning to do a dress just like that for our upcoming trip this fall!

I'd love to see the photo again too!