Thanks!  Both of us have done sewing.  The velvet ones we ended up taking to my MIL and doing on the sewing machine because it wasn't working to get them even by hand because the edges kept rolling up, and it's stretchy.  But the rest we've just done by hand...I did the Cinderella ones, and she did Rapunzel, I did both of the Carrots ones, though, because those were really tricky to get the bandana done in the right way. But she did the Ariel ones by hand....that's when we decided to do the velvet ones on the machine, because she had such a hard time with those.  DD made the swords on the Carrots ones, and she made the skulls look a bit old and such....they were bright white plastic, so she kind of painted and distressed them a bit, and she also made the bow and arrows on the Brave ones.