Easter is one of the most beautiful holidays. It’s spring, all living things wake up, the first flowers and trees bloom, greenery appears, and many people have a desire to create during this period. And it’s so nice to decorate your house for Easter with hand-sewn crafts: eggs, bunnies, baskets and others. We have prepared for you many ideas for felt crafts for Easter. In the article you will find a master class on making a basket, patterns for eggs with funny appliqués and rabbits, as well as ideas for making crafts with your own hands.
Felt is an excellent material for making crafts - its main advantage is that it does not fray or crumble, and also has bright colors. It is a pleasure to work with it, so schoolchildren and preschoolers often make crafts from this material.
Stages of work
To make an Easter egg from felt with your own hands, first of all you need to prepare an egg pattern on thick cardboard, transfer it to felt and cut out two parts. We got blanks measuring about 8 cm. You can draw patterns for work yourself or download them on the Internet.
Using a template, cut out a bird from a fabric of a different color. To make the wing voluminous, we will make it multi-layered. We cut out two parts from a material of a suitable color, and make another part from lace, it will add airiness to the wing. We create one blank larger than the others.
Then, we will build a nest. From brown felt we prepare an oval about 2 cm in size and make grooves and teeth in a circle, and from white felt we cut out three circles measuring 0.5 cm.
You need to cut out small leaves from a sheet of green felt; if you take fabric of different shades, the branch will turn out more realistic.
On one of the details for the Easter egg we outline a twig; with embroidery the products look more lively. The pattern can be made by hand or on a sewing machine.
We make an eye for the bird. To do this, we use an embroidery element such as a French knot. You need to insert the needle from the inside out, pull the thread with one hand and make 5 turns around the needle, while continuing to pull the thread with the other hand. Then we insert the needle next to the place where the thread came out from, and carefully pull the needle back to the wrong side.
Using glue, we fix the wings to the body of the bird so that each part peeks out slightly from under the other. Glue the eggs into the nest. You can sew all these elements onto the craft, but it will take much more time.
And also, using glue, we attach the prepared elements to the base of the product. This master class uses a glue gun, but you can use any other one that is recommended when working with textiles.
Next, you need to attach the leaves to the tree, this is done with a small stitch on one edge, then the applique will come out voluminous.
Then we connect the two felt halves of the egg, securing a satin ribbon or braid between them, which we will later use to hang the decoration.
It is necessary not to sew the two parts completely. Through the remaining hole we will fill the egg with filler. This can be done conveniently using tweezers.
If you don’t have padding polyester on hand, you can fill the eggs with any cereal, for example, rice or buckwheat, using a funnel.
All that remains is to carefully stitch up the gap through which the stuffing was made.
We tie a bow from a satin ribbon and glue it to the top of the egg.
Decorate willow branches with felt products or decorate your home by making a garland of eggs for Easter. Decorate the holiday table by attaching a wooden skewer to the base of the egg instead of a ribbon, and stick the stick into the cake. It is especially pleasant to give a souvenir made by yourself, because such products have soul and warmth.
Author: Olga Andriyuk, especially for Mama66.ru
Egg basket
Materials for production:
- thick wool felt,
- scissors,
- linen threads and floss,
- thick sewing needle.
Step-by-step manufacturing instructions:
- Cut blanks from thick sheets of felt: circle (bottom of the basket) - 17.5 cm in diameter; two rectangles (walls) - 9 cm wide and 28 cm long; strip (handle) - 2.5 cm wide and 30 cm long.
- Connect the walls by sewing the rectangles together with linen threads using small stitches.
- Securely sew the bottom of the basket and the walls.
- The handle is also attached to the frame itself with threads on both sides.
- Finish the edges of the basket with colored floss threads. The product is ready.
To make the basket look elegant, its walls can be embroidered with floss threads, pieces of thin felt, decorative elements, bows and ribbons, or even bright colored eggs presented in the master class above can be glued.
Master class: step-by-step instructions for making an Easter egg from felt
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First you need to redraw the pattern onto felt and cut out the parts. Then fold the workpiece in half, right side inward. We manually fasten the starting and ending sides of the arcuate line. We run a fine machine stitch along the basting seam. We do not sew about three centimeters in the central part. Progress of further work:
- Fold the opposite sides to sew in the same way.
- Again leave a gap of four centimeters in the center.
- We use the hole to turn the product inside out. Fill the egg with filler through it. This could be padding polyester, cotton wool or other material.
- Sew up the gap. On the blunt side, the material remains solid, there are no seams. All that remains is to decorate the product. For this you can use beads, seed beads, embroidery, rhinestones and other decorative elements.
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Patterns for felt crafts for Easter
We offer you patterns of simple felt crafts. Just print them out and cut out the material along their outline.
These beautiful decorative eggs are made using egg templates.
Felt craft ideas for Easter
Other ideas
It’s quite easy to create various cards and appliques from felt.
You can decorate your apartment with bright Easter garlands.
It's pretty easy to make cute felt bunnies in different shapes and colors. They are easy to make because they do not consist of a large number of parts, and the manufacturing process takes just a couple of steps. They are sewn together with hidden stitches, and a little synthetic padding or padding polyester is added inside. Easter eggs placed on a skewer are created in a similar way.
Another original solution is a felt cake filled with padding polyester and decorated with beads, bugles and beads on top.
Many of the crafts presented are quite simple to make, which allows you to create them together with your children. You can fully express your imagination by bringing in your original ideas, changing the colors of felt and using various decorative decorations at hand.
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