The other day A was over and needed something fun to do. She had just organized my scraps into zippy bags by color (inspired by Stacey, best thing ever) and pulled some out for eggs. Nine bits of interfacing-fused fabric later, they were all lined up on the shirt. Some fun stitching around the edges of each one. I made a quickie knit skirt to go along with it, and now the quickie knit skirt is my other new favorite. K could be living in those all summer. The fabric came from Patsy Aiken's fabric sale, pointed out by Ashley. One of Ashley's many inspirations.
So after finally getting it on her, K stopped for about 5 seconds to inspect the stitching.
And then she was all jumpy jumpy hippity-hoppity 3.5-year-old again.
So to get a photo of the eggs, I had to take it after removing it from her jumpy jumpy body.
And an unrelated question. A and I were talking about Easter baskets the other day and what would go in them. My answer? At least in part? The non-seasonally wrapped Halloween candy that K still hasn't gotten around to. Is that wrong?
LOVE it!!! I'll be making some of these...Could we please have a pic of the skirt too :) PUuuuurleeeeeezzzz
ReplyDeleteThe shirt is adorable!!!
ReplyDeleteBut Halloween candy in the Easter basket- I say no.
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Taste the candy first...If it tastes fine, why not. Might I add that you should get a seasonal bag too. Good luck with this tuff decision, my boys devoured the candy at our house.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for Halloween candy in the Easter basket! I do that all the time. My favorite thing we do is to put change (mostly pennies and nickels) in the eggs the Easter bunny leaves outside. It doesn't add up very quick and it's just that much less candy in the house. I do put out one egg for each kid that contains a one-dollar bill just to mix it up a bit.
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love the shirt! And I can't believe you were impressed by my organizational skills!
ReplyDeleteLove this outfit - I can't wait to see the skirt too! For the baskets, Halloween candy is fine! We would be doing that too if my husband and I hadn't eaten it all ourselves already, so our kids are getting the heart-shaped sweet tarts left over from Valentine's Day :) We are putting stickers and pennies in the eggs for outside. For our 4 year old boy, we got a $5 fishing game from Target, and our 2 year old girl is getting doll hand-made by me with a skirt matching her Easter dress. Hope that helps! Oh, and I L.O.V.E. the blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteI love this little shirt. So sweet and simple. Thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is sooooo darling! I need skirt help though... please? I've tried following tutorials online and they never work out for me.
ReplyDeleteToo cute!
ReplyDeleteOK, I love this shirt!! Maybe next year I'll do it in camo and dinosaur prints for my boys. :)
ReplyDeleteI love this! It inspired me to make these:
ReplyDeletehttp://monkeysewmonkeydo.blogspot.com/2010/04/fabric-easter-egg-tutorial.html
Thanks!!
ok, so I have a question - how did you applique your fabric so you didn't have to sew around the edges to keep it from fraying? I've never appliqued before and all the tutorials I have found require that step (but I suck at that stitch on my machine, it always messes up!)
ReplyDeleteHi 31Mommy-- can't find an e-mail address for you on your blog. Hope you find this!
ReplyDeleteThe fusible interfacing does a good job of helping with the edges. Then I hand stitched with some embroidery thread. I always put off hand stitching because I think it'll be annoying and then once I start doing it I wonder why I dragged my feet. It really didn't take long at all to do.
Thanks! :-) I'm excited to try it now, I'll link up when I get the project finished! (and I'll figure out how to put my email somewhere on my blog, too.)
ReplyDeleteI love your stuff, btw!
hi, can u make a blog about how to customize dresses for big kids. thanks!
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