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Easter Eggs that Last

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This is K’s casual Easter ensemble. I say that like she has a fancy one. Not so much this year, at least not one that I made. But I wanted to do an applique shirt inspired by some party napkins I spied in Berlin and Adrianna helped.

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? 

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  3. Tiffany says

    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.

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  4. Samantha Youngers says

    I’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.

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  6. Leigh Ann says

    Love 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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  14. 31Mommy says

    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!)

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  15. crafterhours says

    Hi 31Mommy– can’t find an e-mail address for you on your blog. Hope you find this!

    The 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.

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  16. 31Mommy says

    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.)
    I love your stuff, btw!

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  18. kerivkennedy says

    Love this! I don’t suppose there is a link to the pattern for the knit shirt too? It is so hard to find decent tee-shirts that are actually long enough for young girls.

    (as for the Halloween Candy it would be fine. Chocolate has a long shelf life. chances are the store bought Easter Candy could very well be from last year anyhow)

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