Just made it. As I wanted to have a slight element of surprise, I didn't want to sew these at night while the children were up. We watched a fair amount of television in the lead up to Easter Sunday, which normally would be ideal for doing such projects but as I had company with all that viewing, I had to wait until quite late most nights until the kids were tucked up before I could start this Easter project. As usual, I ran right up till the deadline and had a couple of late nights finishing off. So, in my deranged tiredness I wanted a little snap of the wee chicks sitting with the Easter baskets before being pounced upon and somehow I managed to take a video of them with my small camera. Not a good look. When I realised later in the day that I didn't have a nicely composed image, I fetched the chicks off the floor (or wherever they were) and snapped a quick photo. Note nicely chewed pencil. Sunday mid-morning table - generalised clutter, more realistic of our life anyway.
The Easter baskets were made a few years ago with lots of hot glue gun work, crepe paper, fluffly chicks, egg shaped cardboard and don't you just love it - plastic grass.
I was a bit disappointed with my stitching on the little orange chicky, not as even and accomplished looking as I'd like. But he's kind of cute. Next time, I'd put more attention into matching the floss with the colour of the felt. The wing is meant to have contrasting stitches but I think the chick's body stitches should just kind of disappear into the felt. There was one intended for each child but the 11 yold boy was happy to leave the 7 yold girl to play with them and I caught them watching TV on Monday morning when I got up.
Most of the television viewing we've been doing since the start of the school hols has been in preparation for our trip to Sydney. We're going up for 4 days and then a flying visit to Nana & Papa at Berry on the way home. Last time we were in Sydney in January we went to the Star Wars exhibition at the Powerhouse and it was unbelievably good. It was a wonderful mix of creativity and science, lots of hands on for the kids, including a hovercraft that the kids can briefly pilot. My impression at the time was that while they enjoyed it, they hadn't seen many of the movies. So I thought we should watch episodes 4-6 with the young ones and then next time we're in Sydney we can visit the exhibition again, and I'm sure they'll get more out of it - particularly the 11 yold boy.
