Easter's coming.
In a few days ... or something.
Unless you're Greek. Then you have time.
As a non-practicing Catholic, however, I was so busy not paying attention to theelection selection of a new pope that I almost completely forgot about the grandest day of the whole Christian whoseamawhats's -- The biggest zombie rising of all -- Easter.
(I know ... I'm going to hell for that last paragraph.)
I was reminded of all the preparations I'd forgotten, when the kids came home from school yesterday with instructions to bring in a dozen filled Easter eggs tomorrow.
So, in my usual fashion, I decided to try and make a craftacular Easter project in three hours, using things I fished out of the trash: Felt scraps, stuffing from an old pillow and paint chips.
The idea was simple:
* Sew together two circles of felt (or furry fabric scraps) leaving about an inch on one side open.
* Turn the seams inward and stuff with old pillow fluff.
* Cut ear shaped spears from the fabric, pinch at the centers and stick into the front-most part of the opening.
* Sew it shut.
* Sew on eyes, a nose, whiskers and a cotton tail. (I used the tops of cotton swabs for the tail when I ran out of pompoms).
* Glue rabbit onto a paint chip because there's no way this is going to stand on its own.
You end up with something like this:
Then I got the bright idea to make a carrot bookmark:
* Sandwich together two rectangles of orange felt.
* Machine sew a carrot-shaped outline, complete with segments, leaving space at the top open.
* Insert a couple of loops of green felt.
* Topstitch the carrot closed.
* Cut out around the stitching with pinking sheers
* Cut a slit in a paint chip, insert carrot.
* Tape carrot down in the back.
And it looks like this:
Hardest part will be cleaning up ...
since it looks as if the Easter Bunny vomited in my office.
In a few days ... or something.
Unless you're Greek. Then you have time.
As a non-practicing Catholic, however, I was so busy not paying attention to the
(I know ... I'm going to hell for that last paragraph.)
I was reminded of all the preparations I'd forgotten, when the kids came home from school yesterday with instructions to bring in a dozen filled Easter eggs tomorrow.
So, in my usual fashion, I decided to try and make a craftacular Easter project in three hours, using things I fished out of the trash: Felt scraps, stuffing from an old pillow and paint chips.
The idea was simple:
* Sew together two circles of felt (or furry fabric scraps) leaving about an inch on one side open.
* Turn the seams inward and stuff with old pillow fluff.
* Cut ear shaped spears from the fabric, pinch at the centers and stick into the front-most part of the opening.
* Sew it shut.
* Sew on eyes, a nose, whiskers and a cotton tail. (I used the tops of cotton swabs for the tail when I ran out of pompoms).
* Glue rabbit onto a paint chip because there's no way this is going to stand on its own.
You end up with something like this:
Then I got the bright idea to make a carrot bookmark:
* Sandwich together two rectangles of orange felt.
* Machine sew a carrot-shaped outline, complete with segments, leaving space at the top open.
* Insert a couple of loops of green felt.
* Topstitch the carrot closed.
* Cut out around the stitching with pinking sheers
* Cut a slit in a paint chip, insert carrot.
* Tape carrot down in the back.
And it looks like this:
Hardest part will be cleaning up ...
since it looks as if the Easter Bunny vomited in my office.
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