Susie & Lukie's Easter Pillowcases

What with working on Melissa's quiet book and pandemic mask sewing, I forgot to post about the Easter pillowcases! Luckily, I remembered to make them on time.

These were the fabric choices that I had. (Thank goodness I have a stash of fabric on hand since I can't go out and shop while we are sheltering in place.)

Emily asked that I use the green bunny fabric for Susie's pillowcase,

and Vanessa asked for the blue Easter egg print. I delivered it to them along with a care package for each grandchild.

Kate and Mila's Easter Pillowcases

Easter comes just two weeks after St. Patrick's Day and sort of snuck up on me. Today I quickly stitched up Mila and Kate's Easter pillowcases.

The yellow one with chicks is for Mila and the purple with bunnies is for Kate. The blue one is for Anna, my student teacher's daughter.

Whitney's Belated Easter Pillowcase

I discovered last night while talking to Kyle on the phone that I had not sent Whitney her Easter pillowcase. I thought I had, but after doing some checking, it became clear that I had goofed.

So, this afternoon I sat down at my machine and whipped one up for her!

I'll pop it into the mail tomorrow and she should have it by Thursday.

Titan's St. Patrick's Day and Easter Pillowcases

I made these pillowcases for Titan this morning. I will mail the St. Patrick's Day one today and then the other with the kids' Easter packages.

Only one more to make Titan (his birthday one) and then I start sewing Mila and Kate's pillow cases!

The Quads' Easter Pillowcases

Easter is coming early this year so it was a bit of a scramble to get the Easter pillowcases done so soon after St. Patrick's Day.

Cambria's is on the left and Julie's is on the right.

Ian's is the green with bunnies, and the Easter egg one is for Drew Thomas.

This one of for Analise Thomas.

Easter Pillowcases!

My friend and fellow grandmother, Lisa Connolly, told me about a sewing project she was doing - sewing Easter pillowcases for her grandchildren. Easy to do, she had had success making three for her three grandchildren.

It sounded like a great idea, and so I went fabric shopping and began!

Trinity: blue Easter egg

Braden: blue Easter egg

Addie: pink bunnies

Corinne: rickrack fabric

(I didn't make any for Julie, Cambria, Whitney, or Vanurt yet - they're too little for pillows. That's for next year.)

I had texted Sarah about JC - he's thirteen and too old for bunnies, but she assured me he would like a pillowcase, too. All I could think of was the movie, A Christmas Story, where Ralphie's well-meaning  aunt makes him pink bunny PJs for Christmas. Not wanting to be "that" relative, I purchased some more "manly" fabric for his.

Sarah affirmed that the football print was perfect, so that was the one I used.

The pillowcases were not only easy to make, they were so much fun that I decided to whip a few up for the kids of my Hershey colleagues.  Atticus MacLaverty (age 2, Jocelyn's son) got a green bunny print, Grace Ferguson (3, Sarah's daughter) got the large birdie print, and Alexa and Jack Evans (6 and 4, Cindy Evans' kids) got pink and green bunny prints.

I think I will do this for Halloween and Christmas, and maybe even Valentine's Day as well.