My Easter Dress (Plus Two Dapper Dudes)

Posted on by Erin Bartels

Here’s what I was sporting this Easter in the SEVENTY-TWO DEGREE weather! It’s Butterick 6582, a vintage reproduction pattern. The linen-look fabric was snapped up at Jo-Ann’s with a Christmas gift card back in January (many thanks to Zachary’s grandmother for that). The sash was just something I threw together in lieu of a self-fabric belt.

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It was a beautiful day in all ways: weather, music, message, baptisms, and friends old and new joining the church.

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My photographers didn’t get the bottom to show the length, but pretty close. This is my handsome husband/pastor.

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The boy looked especially handsome, I think. As we were walking out the door in the morning, he announced to us that “We’re an Easter egg family.”

You didn’t know I sew? Don’t feel bad. I just remembered myself.

Posted on by Erin Bartels

Ten days and no posts? Unheard of. So you know I’m busy. I’m busy with work, spring break, editing, writing. And I’m busy making a new dress for Easter. It’s going to be big.

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Big skirt. Big flowers. Big color.

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And it’s kind of a big deal to me since it’s been two years since I made a new Easter dress (last year I wore one I’d made previously for no particular occasion).

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And it’s been simply too long in general since I sewed anything. I think I needed a bit of a break after I sewed all of this in 2012:

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But break’s over. Time to get busy.