What decorations to sew for Easter?
Like every year, Easter weekend is a time to eat your weight in chocolate, enjoy the first days of sunshine and, above all, decorate your home with pretty, colorful objects.
Bunnies, eggs, chicks… Here’s a round-up of all the things you can sew yourself to celebrate the warm weather!
Chickens for the living room or garden
Easter eggs mean chickens! By following Miss Cactus’ (free) pattern, you can make gallinaceous eggs in two different sizes.
A project designed to clear out your closets and make use of leftover fabrics. You can mix cotton, felt, viscose, terry cloth… depending on what you have on hand, and have fun alternating materials and colors between the crest, beak and body. Then dip into your boxes of mismatched buttons to sew on the eyes.
This is a project you can make with the kids over the vacations, asking them to choose the colors and match them.
Once your hens have been assembled and sewn, all that’s left to do is arrange them decoratively on the breakfast table, on the living room shelves or even among the eggs in the garden, weather permitting.
Easter bunnies among the eggs
To accompany the hens, Miss Cactus also offers a (free) pattern for making rabbits, which also allows you to sew two sizes according to your wishes and the quantity of fabric you have.
If you don’t have any padding, you can use scraps of fabric or pieces of wool.
Don’t hesitate to use old sheets or clean clothes you don’t wear anymore to recover the fabric.
Baskets for the egg hunt
Whether you want to use them for egg hunts or as decorative items, these little baskets are a must! Once Easter’s over, they can be used to store haberdashery or as pocket trays.
Miss Cactus’s pattern can be used as a bag, basket or wrapping. You can sew it with leftover fabric or use cotton printed with motifs reminiscent of Easter or spring: eggs, rabbits, chickens, colorful flowers…
You can also use a neutral color and decorate the basket with felt, glued or sewn using the appliqué technique.
Julien also proposed a quick and easy-to-sew“Pochon Lapin“, with a video tutorial.
Matching placemats
One of the easiest ways to decorate your home for Easter is to arrange items on the breakfast table. For example, you can sew placemats in the shape of a bunny, for a playful reminder of the egg hunt.
To do this, you’ll need a bunny shape that you can transfer onto the chosen fabric. You can, for example, use the model available on this blog.
If you’re looking for a simpler shape, you can draw an egg. Then simply cut two pieces of fabric to the desired size, adding a centimeter all around the design for sewing.
To stiffen the placemat, you can add fusible interfacing to the inside of one side, thicker or thinner depending on the effect you’re going for. Then sew the two pieces of fabric together, wrong sides together, and stitch at one-centimeter intervals.
For an attractive finish, reduce seam allowances with notching scissors.
You can then follow the same principle and make little eggs for coasters, or assemble several shapes to make a table runner.
Little pouches for eggs
The pouches are perfect for hiding little eggs, giving chocolates to loved ones or decorating the Easter table. And they’re sewn in no time!
To sew small closed bags with a link, follow our video tutorial.
As with the previous projects, they can be made from floral or spring-coloured fabric scraps, or from children’s fabrics decorated with bunnies or eggs!
What about you? Do you usually sew little decorations for Easter? What sewing projects would you like to embark on this year?
And if you’d like more sewing ideas for this holiday, check out our article from last year!
