Easter and scrappy fabric makes..........

I am part of a group on Facebook called Scrappy Girls Club  The members post some neat things on there and occasionally I make some things.  As the name indicates things normally just use scraps of material and for anyone that sews we have plenty of them.

A lady posted about making mini fabric Easter baskets.  The link for the instructions are here.  Now despite them being super cute they are very fiddly to make.  I used some scraps of material I had left over from Paige's quilt, with some scrap pieces of green.  The rabbit print is a multi directional print, but would you believe every rabbit is upside down on the baskets....LOL

 This is what I put into the baskets.  Stickers, a plastic egg filled with candy.  Everything bought from the dollar store.  The grandchildren are getting a toy also, as I figured they get enough candy from the "Easter Bunny!!"

 It's a perfect size for the one egg.  It's also a perfect size for a Kinder Egg or a Cadbury's Cream Egg.

 I had half a dozen plastic eggs leftover, so I covered them with scraps of the Easter fabric using white glue.  Went to the park and cut some twigs and bought the yellow eggs at the dollar store for my "Easter Tree."  I am having to make a bit of an effort this year for Easter as I am hosting a lunch over Easter😏

Now I have to say the other project I am featuring is one of the best and useful things I have made in a long time.  It's a Wonder Clip Cushion and the instructions for making it are here.  This indeed does use just scraps of material.  I am also finding my hands are getting stiffer and more arthritic as I am getting older.  So this makes it so much easier to pick up the wonder clips.

 I use a lot of Wonder Clips especially when I am sewing with cork as you can't pin cork as it will make holes in it.

Have you come across any neat projects that use scraps of material recently?  Are you a member of the Scrappy Girls Club?

Fast and easy Easter Gift

Well it's fast and easy now that I have altered the pattern 😏

I picked up this magazine on the weekend.

The reason I picked it up was for the little finger puppets in the bottom left of the photo:

They looked cute and I thought the two birdies would be great as a little gift to put into the kids' Easter bags.  So I knit the first one and this is how it turned out:

Even on my fingers it was big.  Now granted I was using a slightly different gauge yarn, but when I did knit one in the right gauge yarn it still was big.  The one on the right is the right gauge yarn.  So I knew I was going to have to alter the pattern so it wasn't too bit for little fingers.  You can see my first small finger puppet in the photo below.

I ended up casting on 14 stitches instead of the 24 and knitting 14 rows instead of 24 rows.  I used Patons Canadiana yarn.

The beak was 4 rows by 4 rows.

Although a bit fiddly they have turned out super cute.

The extra large pair I am keeping so when I Facetime the grand kids we can do the nursery rhyme together.  I still have a couple more pairs to knit, but they knit up in no time flat.

Now the nursery rhyme these are for is:

Two Little Dicky Birds:

Two little dicky birds, sitting on a wall.
One called Peter, one called Paul.
Fly away Peter, fly away Paul.
Come back Peter, come back Paul.