Thursday, March 29, 2012

Easter Crafting

My fingers have been busy, busy lately, getting little things ready for the girls' Easter baskets. I have made a bunch of these felt eggs. I got the inspiration from Rachel's tutorial over on the Clean blog. Originally I had intended to use felt pieces to decorate them like she had done but here's what happened to that; I took them with me one evening while I waited solo ( I usually have dinner with my mom) during Kaiya's ballet class. I had all the pieces cut out, pinned together and placed them, along with my needles and scissors, in my embroidery floss box. All ready! Then I got there and realized I totally forgot to bring the extra felt. Bummer! Thought about cutting up a couple to use til I got home (gotta do something for an hour) but then I (brilliantly (smug, smug)) thought I would just use my crazy awesome embroidery skills to decorate them. Seriously, I am so good I can not only do the running stitch (yes, it's a stitch, mama!) I can do an extremely pained french knot (that is really just wadded up and tied down thread).
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But what I lack in embroidery skills I make up in ingenuity! When my mama did see my 'french knots' she laughed and laughed and decided to show me how to make them proper. And then I went a little nuts and am using them like crazy on another Easter work in progress. They're kinda fun once you get the hang of it!
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Blowing out eggs for decorating... these were a little fun, too, as I challenged myself to get the yolk out with making the smallest possible holes.
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Are you Easter/Spring crafting? I'd love to hear what you're doing. By the way, here are lots of Easter songs, just because I've got the Easter spirit!

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Your french knot description made me laugh! I agree, they are fun to make.
1 reply · active 683 weeks ago
Well, I'm glad! I had to laugh, too,, when I read back over it.

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I love your eggs and enjoyed your french knot story! I tried to learn with an illustration but ended up needing a You Tube to understand how to get them to work!
I've recently finished a Waldorf doll to challenge my hand sewing skills, now that was a learning experience!!!!
Enjoy your blog,
~ joey ~
1 reply · active 683 weeks ago
Oh, did you sew the doll totally by hand?! I've made thhem by machine buut I don't have one since we moved into a smaller house. I really want to try to do it by hand!

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I've been making tiny bunnies out of felted wool and Borage candies (from "Stalking the Healthful Herb"). No posts about it yet, though. I love the eggs. They're beautiful (both kinds;)
1 reply · active 683 weeks ago
Thanks, Amber! Felt bunnies are on my 'to make for Easter baskets' list. Hope I get to them!

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Awh, there's nothing wring with winging it when it comes to embroidery! Cute!
1 reply · active 683 weeks ago
I hope nt because I'm clueless! Thanks! xoxo

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Of course running stitch is a real stitch! Your eggs are very cute, especially the snail. Here, we're working on an Easter wreath, which I hope to finish up today. And we'll be dying eggs next week. Dano has a sudden love of hardboiled eggs for breakfast -- perfect timing!
3 replies · active 683 weeks ago
The girls are eating lots of scrambled here so I can blow them out. They keep saying 'but we want yolky eggs!'. What kind of wreath are you making?

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I took a styrofoam wreath, covered it with tissue paper, cut out flowers from colorful cardstock and pinned them to the wreath, then cut out letters to form the words "Christ is risen" and attached those too -- I'll post pics sometime, but not tonight...

I did the blowing-out-eggs thing once as a kid. Will have to try it again someday!
Looking forward to seeing it! Tomorrow I'm going to try cutting some eggs in half. :)

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Can your mama teach me how to do a French knots? :) After many tries and reading many directions, I still can't do it properly! Must be a slow learner. Love the little eggs.
1 reply · active 683 weeks ago
Haha! No but this is a pretty good tutorial http://stitchschool.blogspot.com/2010/01/french-k... I think the trick is; aim your needle to the left when you're wrapping it, NEVER DOWN (this was my problem) and make sure you keep the tail taut.

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I love your felt eggs...when I was a little girl my mother had a neighbor who made them and she would sew them together and make a runner out of them for her Easter table. Your eggs look beautiful!
1 reply · active 683 weeks ago
Thank you! and that sounds beautiful. Now you've got me to thinking... ;)

xoxo

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