The Eggs

All 65 of them.







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Treat Bags

I just love my family. I love our traditions. We have fun.

Easter baskets are too hard to store so we have Easter bags instead.

Works just as good to hold those goodies (and it takes less to make a treat bag look full) .





I think the Easter Bunny is a little tired.



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The Visit And The Hunt

Hugs for all.







The Easter Bunny playing hoops with the big boys.



A cool dude moment.



The egg hunt begins.






The Easter Bunny caught in a candid 'Hallelujah He has risen, just as He said' moment!



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Easter Brunch!

You should have come over!

We had a great Easter Day brunch!

Pancakes,sausage,OJ,strawberries,whipped cream....

Mmmmm.

What a tasty meal!









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Happy Easter!!

to all of my blog readers!!!!!

Before the festivities begin here are a few random pictures I want to share.

The Frye boys in their Easter finery. Very Handsome bunch!



The Frye girls in looking beautiful this morning!




Here are a few pictures of the my Easter sewing I had not taken pictures of until now.

Joel's Easter bug tie. I made it! Pretty neat isn't it? Maybe a little long for Joel but so very cute!



If I had known ties were so easy to make I would have made them over the years for the bigger boys when they were little.



Odell in her finished Easter dress.



Ekie in her Easter outfit.



More Easter post to follow!

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And Ekie's

This past week I started on Ekie's Easter skirt.

I did not get a chance to take a picture of the finished skirt yet but it turned out very cute!

I decided to use a pattern from this book.



Ekie's skirt will not be as fancy as the skirt pictured but it will be just as cute!




Here are the three fabrics we chose for the skirt.



The pattern is actually rather easy. Each pattern in the book is multi sized so I made a copy of the pattern in Ekie's size on to sew-in interfacing. The only bothersome part was I had to add my own seam allowances. I did not enjoy that part. Good thing this pattern only has three pieces.



I am not a fan of sergers. I have one and I used it for years but I find I enjoy the regular sewing machine much better. A serger has it's purpose,great on knits and such but I feel more one with the fabric using a regular machine. Silly, I know. I usually use a mock french seam to make my seams neat-ish looking. Funny thing was I never actually knew how to do a real French seam! I thought it must be hard for there is a mock version of it. Well, I learned how and isn't it beautiful! Not very hard at all.



Tomorrow is Easter!


Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

The Time?

When and how do I ever find the time to sew? Well, in truth, it is pretty hard. I do most sewing at night if I can.

I love to sew in quiet, with no distractions.

I think best when I am sewing.

It clears my mind.

I feel like life makes sense and I can see life clearly when I am at my sewing machine. I have a notebook and pen close by so I can jot down thoughts, to do lists, prayers, goals, concerns, dreams, or whatever comes to my mind that I want to remember. Sounds very odd,doesn't it!?

When there are toddlers running around, teens wrestling right next to my sewing space, or our 'middles' running in and out with seemingly endless questions and bathroom visits, I get a little (ok very) stressed. It is hard to find those peaceful type of moments around here. I am not ashamed to say (but maybe a little humbled) that I sometimes beg, bribe, fuss, and even pop in a dvd if I am very desperate to get a bit of sewing done.

Well, this evening,( Monday evening actually, my blog lags behind a few days most of the time.) I was wanting to finish up with Odell's dress. Most of the kids were in bed but since my two youngest took a late nap they were still up. Daddy was at the store and I was getting a little stressed.

SO while I was adding the ruffle to the bottom of Odell's dress



I had Joel and Lily playing 'laundry' with fabric scraps.



I made it up on the fly but it entertained them for at least an hour.




Thanks to the laundry game I was able to finish Odell's dress.

Here it was before I finished it. I had her try it on in it's not quite finished state and it looked great!



Odell thought it should have a tie in the back so I added one for her.



and added the ruffle.



Here is just a close up of the ribbon I chose for the front to break up the main fabric a little.I thought the dress needed a place to rest the eyes because the floral pattern is pretty bold.



I can not wait until she tries it on all finished. I think she will look very pretty.

Ekie's is next!

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Here Comes Odell's Dress

As of this post,I am almost finished with
Odell's dress.



I just need to put some of this polka-dot fabric at the hem line,hem the outer dress and the lining,and add the button fastener to the back neckline. Then I am finished!



This is the pattern I used for Odell's dress. It is SO easy! I made a size ten for her but the size 12 length. Instead of using the neck and armhole facings, I lined the whole dress. It sounds like more work but it is actually easier that the facing goofiness. I think it also makes the dress look neater.



After I am finished, I just have Ekie's skirt! I'm making good time,I think!

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Naomi's Easter Dress

is finished!

Now I just could not get my camera to work right so Naomi's smile has lost some of it's sparkle by the time this picture was taken but trust me she loves her dress!

And she looks SO pretty in it!




I used the same pattern that I used for Lily and Anya's dress. I decided I love this pattern. It really is easy. Too bad it only goes up to size 8.



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