I love the idea of making matching Easter dresses for my daughters. Of course, I had to wait until I had multiple daughters until I could try this out. Lo and behold, my second daughter’s first Easter was, unfortunately, during 2020 aka the year Easter was cancelled. I made two absolutely gorgeous Easter dresses anyway. Easter 2020: our first year with handmade dresses And yes, they wore them all day as we puttered around the house together. The next year, we had a brand new baby. He was born on Palm Sunday, so the Lenten period leading up to Easter wasn’t a prime project planning and sewing time for me. This year, I again had the idea to make Easter dresses... Usually, I like to begin pattern and fabric selection sometime in January. However, some unforeseen family events delayed the project too much and I decided to scrap it. A few weeks before Easter, I went shopping for my eldest daughter and found a super cute lavender gingham dress at the consignment shop. When we got home, I realized that the pattern was really similar to an old shirt of my husband’s that I had in the to-donate bin in our garage. I have fond memories of him wearing that shirt on some of our first Easters together. Perhaps that’s why the dress for our older daughter stood out for me in the first place? Nearly a perfect match Easter 2015. Same shirt! Right away, I knew that with fabric choice removed from the equation and having to fabricate only one dress, coordinating Easter dresses could actually be a reality for us this year. Yay! Here’s how I did it:…