Easter Bunny Stuff

Here are a few things that I made for the girls for Easter. Below are little sleeping bag and pillow sets made from scraps of cotton fabric and fleece. The pillows are trimmed with rickrack. These sleeping bags are the perfect size for little dolls and stuffed animals.

And, I made the girls a set of bean bags to toss. The inspiration for these came from the Chez Beeper Bebe blog. You can find the bean bag post here. I love this blog--Holly always inspires me. I didn't have the gumption to applique letters or numbers on these, so I just kept it simple and decorated them with some vintage rickrack. I hope to learn how to applique in the near future. By the way, I did make ten of these bean bags, but one was AWOL when I was taking pictures! I filled them with dried black-eyed peas.

Simple Easter Craft for Kids

Here is a little craft for Easter that I did with Ellie and Robin today. I was inspired by these Egg Chickens from Martha Stewart, but since we don't eat too many eggs 'round these parts (trying to cut out intake of animal products), I thought we could make some out of paper. I found the egg templates here.

This craft made me happy, too, because we don't color eggs, and I was looking for an alternative project!

Materials:

Card stock

Paper scraps in various colors

Pencil

Scissors

Hole punch

Glue

Instructions: 1. Print out the egg templates from the link above. Cut out the egg shapes. You can transfer the templates onto cardboard to make them sturdy and reusable. (Old file folders work well for this, too.)

2. Trace your template onto cardstock and cut out your egg shapes in various colors and sizes.

3. From paper scraps: cut out orange or yellow triangle shapes for the beaks; punch out black dots with your holepunch for the eyes; and cut out feet and a comb from red paper. (I happen to have a star-shaped punch, so I used it to make the comb and the feet--similar or improvised shapes work fine.) For a decorative chick, cut out a strip of paper to make a stripe for across its body.

4. Glue on the beak, eyes, comb, feet, and stripe.

5. Voila! You are done. You can attach string to the back if you'd like to hang them, or punch holes in them and string them on a garland. They make great gift tags, too.

Happy Easter!

Patchwork, Oz and More

Sorry I've been away for so long. We were in Australia for two weeks, and we had a wonderful time visiting family. Prior to that, I was working like mad trying to meet a number of deadlines. Things are settling down now...

I made this patchwork pouch for a friend in Ohio. Once again, it was inspired by Amy Karol's Artsy Clutch from Bend the Rules Sewing. (Sorry, I know I've mentioned it so many times already, but I love it.)

And, my daughters are really into worms right now. They talk about worms all the time. So, I made them some homemade worms. I like them so much that I'm hoping they'll be an item in my someday Etsy shop. They're very simple to make and fun, too. I've got some patchwork worms in mind for my next batch, so stay tuned!