Sew Chibi Easter 2022
Another year, another exciting Easter season!!! It’s one of the big 3 sewing marathons I do every year! I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I first blogged about these cuties!
The "eggstravagant" Easter Dress by Sew Chibi Designs 2012
Sephira's 1st Easter "Lil Lamb" by Sew Chibi Designs 2012
This year marks my 10th year blogging at Sew Chibi Designs!!! 🥳🥳🥳 I don’t think I could have ever imagined all the things I would create, the friendships I would make, and the way I developed my not only my sewing skills but my photography, photo editing, pattern drafting, graphics making, sewing tutorial e-booking from non-existent to things I’m really proud of!!!
Even though we are not religious, we take holidays seriously! It’s been so much fun dressing them up in fun and colorful outfits, year after year, changing styles as their tastes (and mine!) changed! This year we didn’t have a really unifying theme other than buckles, so that’s sort of loosely what the theme is, LOL.
I already went into major detail about both Azriella’s outfit and Sephira’s outfit, so, for this post, I’m going to focus on Akira’s outfit and the group shots I got of them at the Rose Garden. It’s also been about 10 years since I’d taken pictures there too… the last time was for these pictures!
Now, Sephira is graduating elementary school and Azriella is graduating middle school! I’m still really and truly grateful that they still love to wear the things I make them and are always asking for more!
So I previously discussed that the older two already knew what they wanted their outfits to look like for Easter, but Akira wanted hers to be bunny themed. I wanted to find some unifying element between the three looks, so I decided on making her a fluffy bunny sweater and a long skirt with pick-ups.
For the skirt, I used small, black, quick-release buckles attached to black pleather strips. It was my first time ever attempting something like this so I know there is room for improvement, but I still think it looks pretty cute! I shirred the back with several channels of 1/4” elastic and kept the front flat, adding in some side seam pockets, of course.
I made the shirt with white sherpa, cropping the Touka Sweater Pattern to her waist, with short sleeves, and a little bunny tail on the back. I omitted the neckband and made a facing instead. There’s a set of pull-on long sleeves that I made in a green lush fleece but I wasn’t super crazy about how it looked with the rest of the outfit, in the end, so I didn’t really use them. Oh! I also added a tiny pocket with peek-a-boo bunny ears coming out from the top and a complimenting face mask to finish the look.
It was such an epic fail the first time we tried coming here to take pictures! I wrote about it, at length, in this post here. If you didn’t know, I did this mega photoshoot of both their Easter outfits and their Christmas Eve outfits so be sure to read all about that one as well! (it was a Bad Love “Saturday Night” theme crossed with Harry Potter!)
And that’s it! It’s been a whirlwind of posts over the past week (actually several months!) It feels wonderful to have everything out into the world finally!!! Let me know what you think about everything!!! I’ll be back in a couple months with Sephira’s “inDICEing” Birthday outfit!! 😉🥰 Until then! Hugs + Stitches!!!
YAY! You're here! I'm so happy! I'm Kat! Mom, shawol, and pattern designer, this is the place where I share all of my sewing projects, chibi cosplay fashion, and DIY/tutorials! Everything around here is action-packed with color, silliness, and tons of kawaii stuff!