Simple Easter basket

Last night I felt like creating something and I  thought I'll try to make the same Easter basket in a simpler version. This time I skipped the patchwork part and made the top from one piece of fabric. I kind of like it since I can display the pattern on it as opposed to the patches where I only had one fabric that I could fussy cut to fit the squares, on the rest of them the prints were just too big. It went a lot quicker and I was happy I could come up with this technique. To me it's just appealing. Hope you'll like it, too!

I will make a boy version also hopefully tonight! I'll keep you posted.

Easter baskets.... DONE!

After an afternoon of sewing I can finally cross the first finish off my list of to-do's. I was eager to  just get over these fabric baskets that I made for the kids we're having over for Easter. I'll put some grass and chocolate in them to make them even more fun :) Fiance convinced me that it's a good enough size to gather some eggs in them on the Easter egg hunt so I didn't change the sizes.

These 2 are for the boyZ:

And these are for the 3 girlZ:

My helper #1 has managed to squeeze himself in the smallest plastic he could find empty... :)

I think I'll need some butter to get him outta there! :D

Cute Easter basket, first try

I've been itching all week to get to my sewing room and get something done from my list to be made and post it on the blog. I  was searching equally on blogs and Pinterest to find a cute Easter basket tutorial. I've found several, some of them were really cute ones! I decided to go with this tutorial. It's from 2008 which I only noticed at the end when I had a question. I just  couldn't get the handle instructions right so I made it my way. As usual :) Also I  changed a pattern a little bit and only did 1 handle instead of 2. I think  it came out pretty nice! The next one I'll make will be either twice as big, or 1.5x. I think this is on the small side. I had a VERY hard time turning the whole thing inside out through the 2"opening with the fleece and everything. Poor basket wrinkled up considerably. I had to press it when I was done to take the photos. Also I think I'll put some stabilizer to stiffen it up a little.

With making this basket it was my first time:

• making a bag of any kind
• making a handle
• boxing corners

All in all I'm happy the way it turned out. If you need a tutorial for a cute Easter basket, check it out!

Finally some pictures of the finished product, enjoy!