Sew Chibi Easter 2022
Another year, another exciting Easter season!!! Itās one of the big 3 sewing marathons I do every year! I canāt believe itās been 10 years since I first blogged about these cuties!
This year marks my 10th year blogging at Sew Chibi Designs!!! š„³š„³š„³ I donāt 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 Iām really proud of!!!
Even though we are not religious, we take holidays seriously! Itās 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 didnāt have a really unifying theme other than buckles, so thatās sort of loosely what the theme is, LOL.
I already went into major detail about both Azriellaās outfit and Sephiraās outfit, so, for this post, Iām going to focus on Akiraās outfit and the group shots I got of them at the Rose Garden. Itās also been about 10 years since Iād taken pictures there tooā¦ the last time was for these pictures!
Now, Sephira is graduating elementary school and Azriella is graduating middle school! Iām 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 1/4ā 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. Thereās a set of pull-on long sleeves that I made in a green lush fleece but I wasnāt super crazy about how it looked with the rest of the outfit, in the end, so I didnāt 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 didnāt 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 āSaturday Nightā theme crossed with Harry Potter!)
And thatās it! Itās 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!!! Iāll be back in a couple months with Sephiraās āinDICEingā Birthday outfit!! šš„° Until then! Hugs + Stitches!!!