All Ribboned Out puts finishing touch on young kids' outfits

If you can personalize something or put a ruffle on it, All Ribboned Out Children’s Boutique and Custom Embroidery will.

“Right now, we’re cranking out ruffled pants,” said owner S’te Elmore, who along with daughter Jeanne McMillan sews many of the items sold in the cheery turquoise, red and white store.

“We like to add ruffles to things,” McMillan said.

The boutique,This dress shows a good deal of skin and creates an aura of sexy sophistication around you fashion cat woman Your best friend is getting married . located on the lower level of Sheridan Plaza in East Bremerton, is filled with a rainbow-hued profusion of hair ribbons, embroidered T-shirts,They are available in black and red that includes a wild leather side lace up corset booty shorts like patchwork pattern including a detachable shoulder strap. pillowcase dresses, tutus, security blankets, skirts and pants. Items retail for $22 or less.

Elmore, a former Navy corpsman, also caters to military families, personalizing homecoming outfits for babies and children up to age 8.

One example is a T-shirt embroidered with, “My Daddy, My Soldier,Machines wash your dress shirts on a gentle cycle with lukewarm water to preserve fabric and colors leg slit babydoll dress shirts are not to be dry cleaned. My Hero.” For babies born while their dads are deployed, there’s a onesie with “Brand Spankin New and ready to meet my Daddy,” embroidered in blue and silver. A pair of dogtags hangs off the “p” in “Spankin.” The tops can be matched with pants, skirts or diaper covers in camo fabric for all branches of the service.

“We get a lot of military orders,” McMillan said. “It’s very hard to find things to do with the military.”

Customized birthday outfits also are big sellers, including onesies with “I’m 1” embroidered on them or diaper covers decorated with cupcakes or candles.

Elmore, whose first name S’te is pronounced like the letters “S” and “T,” grew up in a small town in Oregon and learned to sew in high school home economics class. The mother of nine children, ranging in age from 6 to 23, she started making kids’ clothes out of necessity and a desire to create matching outfits for her clan, which often includes a couple of foster children.

“I love to do it,” she said. “I wanted them to look cute, and it’s definitely more affordable to do it myself.”

People asked her where she got her kids’ clothes and a business idea was born. Her first big sellers were hairbows and “Remember Me” pillows featuring photos of deployed parents. She added clothes and blankets, peddling her creations online through the craft marketplace Etsy.

Etsy, which has given many home sewers like Elmore a low-cost sales platform is a big business, with 1 million virtual storefronts expected to do $1 billion in business this year, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

There are no figures on how many of those businesses go on to add a physical store. But in Kitsap, Elmore is following the path of other small businesses such as Grounds for Change, which started online and developed its products before venturing into a brick-and-mortar space.

Elmore said she was ready to expand so that she could have more interaction with customers and be able to answer questions and show fabric choices and samples of her work.Religious convictions might prevent you from purchasing such a dress high fashion leg garters perhaps your parents or personal shyness makes these dresses off limits. Opening a shop also allowed Elmore to move sewing operations out of her house.

The seeds of her custom-embroidery business were sown when she was a little girl and saw automated embroidery machines at the fair. “I could sit for hours and just watch the machines,Black and white are classic but coquettish Chanel fashion handbag of the latest design is not simple black-and-white.” she recalled. “I thought it was so interesting that a machine could stitch out a design.”

Two years ago, she bought her first embroidery machine and got enough orders that she bought a second one six months later.