In honor of a spring festival celebrated with small symbols of fertility and seasonal renewal and ALSO with chocolates – here are three pairs of 18th Century Pockets (bright, colorful, vaguely egg-shapes, and designed to carry both chocolates AND your small symbols of fertility and seasonal renewal!)
Easter Flamingo Pockets:
My sister and I have a thing about flamingos. She gives them to me, I give them to her – she’s currently way ahead on points with the greatest birthday present yet, a pink flamingo toilet brush! (it lives in my guest loo and likes it there.)
In honor of her latest flamingo coup, here’s a pair of neon-pink flamingo 18th century pockets!
![A pair of 18th Century Pockets sewn from lime green cotton patterned with neon pink flamingoes and bound in neon pink cotton binding](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_4226-scaled.jpg)
These are Easter pockets, because I finished binding them on Easter Sunday during my stay in Rochester Minnesota in 2020. It was just me in a hotel room during the Panini, but it was beautiful outside, snowing thick and steady, like a blanket on the world.
![An easter bunny made out of snow sits on a lawn. Most of the snow has been scraped up to make the bunny, so you can see the grass beneath the streaks of snow left on the ground.](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AF5E7954-32A1-465E-99B8-ABA9DC858109.jpg)
The following day, I tried to take a few photos of my new flamingo pockets, and I decided it would be a good idea to pose like a 1950’s Dior mannequin, but it turns out those poses take TRAINING, and oh boy, first of all, I lack what it takes, and second, I probably should have reconsidered those pajamas.
![A woman stands in front of a mirror, trying to post like a 1950s Dior Model, She actually looks like she is about to fall over backwards. The impression is not helped by her clothing - white PJ pants with red holly berries look like blood on snow, and she has a pair of 18th Century pockets tied around her waist. They are lime green and dotted with neon pink flamingos.](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_4238-scaled.jpg)
Hobbit Pockets:
what have you got in your pocketeses, my precioussss…..?
![A pair of sunny yellow 18th Century pockets bound with navy blue bias binding.](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_4761-scaled.jpg)
I started this very hobbit-y pair of 18th Century pockets before i left Chile in 2020 out of a fat quarter of quilting cotton given to me by a friend relocating to the United States. I finally i whipped down the waist ties 18 months later, after I got home to Chile again!
I need to go full hobbitcore don’t I? Perhaps I don’t need an entire new costume. My Burnley & Trowbridge bedgown looks pretty well hobbit-y already!)
![A woman stands in a mangrove tree, looking down at the viewer through the lens of a cell phone camera. She is wearing an 18th Century bedgown, petticoat and apron.](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/eb7e9394-32f4-48ca-b20b-12ae08a2250b.jpg)
Watermelon Pockets:
I sewed up this pair of pockets in Brisbane, Queensland, where autumnal pumpkins in the southern spring sunshine did not feel at all appropriate for Halloween. Watermelons, on the other hand – summer melons made much more sense!
And when this watermelon print looked up at me in Spotlight and waved and announced itself at five dollars a meter, My Australian Halloween costume was pretty well sorted!
![A woman strikes a pose wearing a witch hat with a pink band and a knee length dress sewn from pink and green watermelon print cotton. She would be elegant, except that her hat has fallen down over her eye.](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2728-scaled.jpg)
(My Big Watermelon Earrings were hand-made by the incomparably colorful Earandthere who knew EXACTLY what to do!)
I had just enough fabric left over from the dress to make a pair of 18th Century Pockets. I cut them out back in Australia right before i flew home to Chile, where they promptly got lost. Just before leaving Santiago for Iquique, I found them, bound them and sewed them up.
![A pair of 18th Century pockets sewn from pink and green watermelon fabric. The watermelon print is bound in a succulent green bias tape.](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_7927-scaled.jpg)
Whadyareckon, mate? Orrite?
Easter Coda:
In a totally random happenstance, I was sorting through a batch of photos on my computer and i found THE Pink Flamingo toilet brush!
It’s a very well-travelled toilet brush. My sister found it on a Danish website and had it shipped to Australia, then my parents CARRIED a TOILET BRUSH all the way from Australia to Chile in their suitcase – just so I could make that face.
![A woman in a denim sundress stands in a hallway. She is holding a toilet brush shaped like a neon pink plasti flamingo. Her mouth is open in howl of absolute delight](https://www.sewwhathappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/brush-scaled.jpg)
Happy Easter.
Ahem. There are an awful lot of people making pretty pairs of 18th Century pockets. While you’re here, take a Iook at these beauties!
Thank you for the link! 🙂 Your pockets are pretty fabulous, too! I love the watermelon Halloween costume. And the toilet brush!! What a fun tradition AND a fun object! I’m so glad you had a picture of it to share!
Best,
Quinn