Disboutiquers Part 27 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew ;-)

[mphalens]

question

Several people have said to try ycmt.com easy fit shorts to start out. Sorry to say that I am a bit confused. Just reading the information, I pay about $10 for the download and then do I print out a pattern on regular paper??

It's been a long time since I have sewed and only used patterns.

Also, my 2 little guys are very skinny, and the pants in the pictures have wide legs, do they have a way to make skinnier legs?

Sorry if I sound uneducated but when it comes to sewing I guess I am!! Thanks in advance!!

Not at all! I am totally a visual person, so until I actually bought the Easy Fits pattern and saw it, I didn't understand either I have two skinny boys as well . . . Let's just say that there have been a couple of times the 7 year old has put on his brother's pants thinking they were his shorts

For my younger son, he tends to like his pant legs a little wider, so I cut him from the size 3 . . . but for my older son, I think I'm still cutting a size 5? Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend Carla C's Easy Fits pattern . . . and follow her directions to a T the first go through . . .I learned SO MUCH making my first pair!!!! Honestly, if they hadn't gone as well, I probably would have given up and THEN where would I be? I've made a TON of stuff and really pushed my challenges to the extreme (I feel anyway) as far as making things I'd never DREAMED of . . . and it should make you feel better to know that I sewed my first pair of easy fits in June of 2011.

Finished a little outfit today! Here's my DD modeling for me (just a tad big for her...)

it! and how cute is SHE???

I always make sure that the stabilizer is hooped really well and the there is excess all around. If you are not hooping the item you are embroidering make sure that you have sprayed the stabilizer and the shirt or whatever your are doing is nice and secure.

If it is too loose that is how you get that puckering and sometimes I have even had my whole design get out of line so when it comes time for the satin stitches it doesn't line up right.

Also what Chiara was referring to is floating the extra stabilizer underneath. What you have do is after your hooped everything and the hoop is on the machine you kind of just slip it underneath. This gives your stabilizer a higher stitch count, especially when doing full embroidery vs appliqueing.

I am so glad you tried it and if you have any questions please call or text me. I will try to help if I can and alot of it is trial and error. I can't remember how many shirts I have ruined when I was first learning and even now

Thanks friend! Just think of all the stuff we can do this summer!!! Two embroidery machines, sewing machines, Just Fabrics . . . oh boy!!!!

Wow so many great projects posted everything looks so nice can't quote now posting from the iPad but love the Mickey dress and leopard print shorts.....I am getting very excited as my pe770 and my 1034d should be on island next Monday feels like I've been waiting forever. I can't wait to get busy so I can post and share too

Just don't sit and stare at the pe770 for days like I stared at my se400 oh! and the warning I wish everyone had given me? looking at websites with embroidery and applique designs is a HUGE timesuck!!!! Maybe you can spend the time until your new machines arrive doing that

Hi Everyone!!!

Well, its that time again!! Time for a new BIG GIVE!!! Big Brother Mitchell's Wishes are coming true!! He has a rare auto immune disease and at only 5 years old has been through alot. He has baby twins - a brother, Mason and a sister, Mallory that are coming along too!!

Who would like to make something frilly frilly for that little girlie!!!!!???? Mitchell loves a TON of characters, so this will be super easy!!!!!! And, mom likes it (as does Mitchell) when they coordinate!!! A disboutiquers dream!!!!!!

http://disbiggive.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pleaseshipbyapril112012

I signed up!

 

[GlassSlippers]

You buy the pattern and download it to your computer. If your child is very skinny, go by the hip size to figure out what size to make for your guys. You decide on the length for the shorts or pants so that part won't matter. The smaller size will fit their waist and hips better and the legs will me more appropriate to the size. They are a loose fitting shorts though which is what makes them so easy to sew. Back and front are the same which makes sewing it extremely easy. There are only two pattern pieces to make these shorts. You print them out on the printer. I saw Jennie said she prints them on card stock but I just print them right on regular printer paper. Depending on the size for the Easy Fits, you piece together the top block of the pattern with either three or four pieces that you print out. The price for the pattern seems high but you will use this pattern over and over and over again so it makes it worthwhile.

When I have the pattern pieced together, I cut it out and trace it onto the dull side of freezer paper. Then I can just iron it onto my fabric. No messing with pins that way because the shiny side of the paper is a thin layer of plastic. The heat of the iron is just enough to make it stick to the cloth. It peels right off after you've finished cutting. You can reuse it quite a few times, too. I've learned a lot of very useful things since I found this group, but so far the freezer paper trick is my biggest time, energy and frustration saver!

Hope you enjoy making your Easy Fits. We love them at my house!

Lori in East Podunk

 

[Isatricia]

When I have the pattern pieced together, I cut it out and trace it onto the dull side of freezer paper. Then I can just iron it onto my fabric. No messing with pins that way because the shiny side of the paper is a thin layer of plastic. The heat of the iron is just enough to make it stick to the cloth. It peels right off after you've finished cutting. You can reuse it quite a few times, too. I've learned a lot of very useful things since I found this group, but so far the freezer paper trick is my biggest time, energy and frustration saver!

Hope you enjoy making your Easy Fits. We love them at my house!

Lori in East Podunk

Wow! I didn't know that trick. Where do you get freezer paper?

 

[SallyfromDE]

Wow! I didn't know that trick. Where do you get freezer paper?

Grocery store. It's probably with the foils and saran wraps.

 

[tinkerbell3747]

Thanks for the advice. I actually have a list of designs I need - DD really wants the Safari Minnie but I don't Facebook - anyone else know how I can get one?

Shakisha

 

[Dustykins]

I just logged in and they were listed as characters.

Okay, is there more than one bowsandclothes? I registered and logged in and I don't see a "characters" section.

 

[GlassSlippers]

Wow! I didn't know that trick. Where do you get freezer paper?

You'll find it in the grocery store in the same place as the foil and plastic wrap. The only fabric it did not work well on was a metallic one. It wouldn't peel off.

Lori in East Podunk

 

[dianemom2]

Finished a little outfit today! Here's my DD modeling for me (just a tad big for her...)

That is so cute! Where did you get the Mickey fabric? I've never seen that design before.

Wow so many great projects posted everything looks so nice can't quote now posting from the iPad but love the Mickey dress and leopard print shorts.....I am getting very excited as my pe770 and my 1034d should be on island next Monday feels like I've been waiting forever. I can't wait to get busy so I can post and share too

How exciting! I am sure you can't wait for them to arrive!

When I have the pattern pieced together, I cut it out and trace it onto the dull side of freezer paper. Then I can just iron it onto my fabric. No messing with pins that way because the shiny side of the paper is a thin layer of plastic. The heat of the iron is just enough to make it stick to the cloth. It peels right off after you've finished cutting. You can reuse it quite a few times, too. I've learned a lot of very useful things since I found this group, but so far the freezer paper trick is my biggest time, energy and frustration saver!

Hope you enjoy making your Easy Fits. We love them at my house!

Lori in East Podunk

Ok, I am too lazy to do that. Since the easy fits are such a forgiving pattern, I often just hold the pattern down on the cloth and outline it with my fabric marker, then cut it out. No pinning or ironing.

Thanks for the advice. I actually have a list of designs I need - DD really wants the Safari Minnie but I don't Facebook - anyone else know how I can get one?

Shakisha

Did you check Heather Sue's site? You don't need facebook for that.

Okay, is there more than one bowsandclothes? I registered and logged in and I don't see a "characters" section.

I think she has to approve your registration or something. I have a little trouble when I first tried to use her site and I had to email her. Did you check Heather Sue's site?

 

[VBAndrea]

My 2 latest creations.

Jasmine is out of a very soft jersey (I mistakenly said interlock earlier). She says it is very comfortable. I used a discontinued pattern Simplicity 2384.

Ariel is a remake of a costume I made for the same child 1.5 yrs ago. It was Simplicity 4043 and I had made an actual tail previously, but it was almost too tight for her then. It doesn't come close to fitting her now and it would be a pain at the park. I had leftover "scale" fabric and made her a skirt out of it. She loves it and wishes her hair was red.

Very nicely done -- the Jasmine is my favorite

Finished a little outfit today! Here's my DD modeling for me (just a tad big for her...)

Absolutely adorable! I love the fabric!

 

[cogero]

Shakisha I think I got mine from bows and clothes. you need to register and email her if you can't see the characters. I would not do it as my first design though pick something easier for your first few.

 

[WyomingMomof6]

Andrea, did you do a tutorial for the easy fits pockets? I'm trying to finish up Jayden's Big Give right now and can't find it! I really didn't mean to wait until the last possible minute but the hospital caught me in a weak moment and talked me into extra shifts!

 

[tinkerbell3747]

Shakisha I think I got mine from bows and clothes. you need to register and email her if you can't see the characters. I would not do it as my first design though pick something easier for your first few.

Thanks Chiara,

I plan to start slow for sure

I was actually trying to come up with a few simple projects I could get some practice in without "waisting" material. Think I am going to make DD and DS some matching Disney PJ's!!! No one will see those haha. Might even make some for myself and DH!!!

I got a new USB for my machine only and I am going to start collecting my patterns.

oh and YCMT is having a $5 sale guys....I saw lots of fun patterns I liked and I didn't already have so going to snatch up a few of those.

 

[PatchPixie]

That is so cute! Where did you get the Mickey fabric? I've never seen that design before.

Its vintage. I bought it on eBay

Thanks for the kind words!!

I just signed up for my first Big Give!!

 

[VBAndrea]

Andrea, did you do a tutorial for the easy fits pockets? I'm trying to finish up Jayden's Big Give right now and can't find it! I really didn't mean to wait until the last possible minute but the hospital caught me in a weak moment and talked me into extra shifts!

Marianne has a tutorial on page 207 for the side pockets (sewn on the outside of the pants).

I never did a tut for the flap pockets -- I just grabbed a pair of ds's shorts and kind of copied them. If you look on Jayden's BG I have a few pictures.

I have these other tuts pinned:
http://chazandginger.blogspot.com/2011/06/3-d-cargo-pocket-tutorial.html

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2011/06/make-your-own-boy-shorts-with-front-pocketback-flaps.html

http://shwinandshwin.blogspot.com/2011/05/pocket-for-my-pocket-shorts-for-boys.html

http://www.craftpassion.com/2011/07/sew-boy-shorts-with-cargo-pocket.html?pid=582#picgallery

I hope those help you out -- they are easy to do IMO and so many options.

 

[tinkerbell3747]

I just signed up for my first Big Give!!

I Love doing the gives! Mitchell's give wil lbe my 2nd one The kids are so precious I just wanna squeeze 'em

 

[tinkerbell3747]

Did you check Heather Sue's site? You don't need facebook for that.

YUP! that is were the majority of my designs will come from....so hard to choose what I am NOT going to buy on her site....

 

[4monkeys]

Thank you to everyone that answer about the Easy Fit Shorts

Unfortunately, I went to the only Walmart in Virginia Beach that doesn't have a sewing section today!!! Well, they are in the process of putting it together, but the point is they didn't have fabric which is what I went for.

I will be trying another store later and will post when I get started!!

 

[miprender]

Thanks friend! Just think of all the stuff we can do this summer!!! Two embroidery machines, sewing machines, Just Fabrics . . . oh boy!!!!

Sounds wonderful

Okay, is there more than one bowsandclothes? I registered and logged in and I don't see a "characters" section.

You have to email her to see her characters. A few designers have gotten in trouble lately so that is why she set it up that way.
SweetPeasPlace had some really cute Disney stuff but a few weeks ago she took all her character designs down. I was just happy I had purchased some things I needed before she did that.


To those that have new machines Planet Applique has some really cute Free designs if you want to practice with
http://www.planetapplique.com/free-designs/cat_40.html

 

[VBAndrea]

Thank you to everyone that answer about the Easy Fit Shorts

Unfortunately, I went to the only Walmart in Virginia Beach that doesn't have a sewing section today!!! Well, they are in the process of putting it together, but the point is they didn't have fabric which is what I went for.

I will be trying another store later and will post when I get started!!

The only Walmarts with fabric are the one by Lynnhaven mall on Phoenix Drive and I think Sabre is the street it intersects with and the Walmart on Military Hwy has fabric as well. I have to read back a few posts b/c we have a lot of new people here and I get everyone confused, but pm if you are new to sewing and need some help.

Anywhoo, the Walmart by Lynnhaven mall has downsized its fabric dept since it became a SuperWalmart. The one on Military usually has a poor selection, though last time I was in there (about a month ago) it seemed to have a better selection than Lynnhaven.

 

[4monkeys]

The only Walmarts with fabric are the one by Lynnhaven mall on Phoenix Drive and I think Sabre is the street it intersects with and the Walmart on Military Hwy has fabric as well. I have to read back a few posts b/c we have a lot of new people here and I get everyone confused, but pm if you are new to sewing and need some help.

Anywhoo, the Walmart by Lynnhaven mall has downsized its fabric dept since it became a SuperWalmart. The one on Military usually has a poor selection, though last time I was in there (about a month ago) it seemed to have a better selection than Lynnhaven.

That is true about selection, military hwy had a good bit the other day, but I needed to get out of the store !! I was at the one on Princess Anne today.