Getting ready for Easter

By this bright spring warm day, we will not only paint eggs and consecrate Easter cakes. We will prepare charming souvenirs for friends and relatives, as well as festively decorate your home!

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Gift for "Bunny"

No, these are not vitamin vegetables, but how much joy and love are in them! Stuffed pillow toys (see photo above) will surely appeal to your “hare”!
Size: without leaves 45 cm, 60 cm and 80 cm.

You will need

Different fabrics of orange and green colors, volumetric non-woven volyumenfliz approx. 1 cm; cotton wool for stuffing; suitable sewing threads in orange and green; orange embroidery threads; sharp-pointed embroidery needle; wrapping paper; pencil.

How to do

First make a pattern for carrots and leaves in the original size. For carrots (small, medium and large) on a raster grid, increase the pattern to its original size (1 cell corresponds to 5 x 5 cm). Transfer to wrapping paper and cut. For leaves in the same way, make a pattern of the original size (1 cell = 5 x 5 cm). Transfer to wrapping paper and cut leaves of three different sizes. Our pattern provides a medium-sized sheet for a large carrot. Details to increase or decrease to the required size according to the size of carrots.
Cut carrots: fold 2 pieces of the same orange fabric into the face and face and cut with 1 cm allowances in all sections.
Cut out the leaves: put the “sandwich” out of the same green fabrics and surround the gasket, for which two identical fabrics are folded with the wrong sides and lay a layer of non-woven between them, then iron. On the "sandwich" chop a paper pattern and cut. Remove the paper pattern, chop the layers with pins.
On a sewing machine, first sew the leaves along the contour of the pattern with green thread for sewing, then stitch randomly the lines inside the leaves, leave the upper sections of the leaves open.
Fold 2 identical parts of the carrots face to face, chop and grind on two long sides. Cut off allowances on the corner. Turn out the detail. Iron openings at an open cut inward to a width of 1 cm. Lay orange stitching along the ironed edge with “forward needle” stitches along the ironed edge with stitches for embroidery. Stuff the carrots with cotton. Pull the thread for the fitting so that the fabric along the edge is slightly gathered in the ring. Insert the leaves into the hole, sew the pickled edge of the carrot and the nested edges of the leaves manually.
For decoration on carrots with embroidery threads of orange color in full addition with long stitches, “forward the needle”, sew along the contours. To bend the carrots a bit, sew a stitch of approx. 10 cm thread for embroidery, pick up, sew the end of the thread.

EASTER BAG

Treat your baby and give him a bag-bag in the shape of a hare, of course, with gifts inside!
Our size: approx. 35 cm (with handles), diam. OK. 22 cm at the top of the bag.

You will need

For one bag of 40 cm in two cotton fabrics with different patterns, 140 cm wide; suitable sewing threads; threads for embroidery of blue, pink, black and white; sharp-pointed embroidery needle; transparent paper, marker with fading paint.

How to do

You will find 3 patterns for the bag at the top, copy them onto transparent paper, proportionally enlarge to the desired size and cut them out. Move all markup. Cut out the details from fabrics with allowances of 1 cm for all sections as follows:
From both fabrics (= 1x the outside of the bag and 1x = the inside of the bag)
- The side of the bag 4x (total 8 parts)
- The bottom of the bag 1x (total 2 parts)
- 1x handle with a fold (only 2 parts)
Fold the sides of the bag from the same fabric face to face and sew into a ring. Cut allowances close to the line and iron. Squeeze the lower sections up to 36 cm and grind them around the bottom of the bag. Cut allowances close to the line.
Insert both parts of the bag face to face into each other and grind along the upper edge, while leaving a hole for inversion in the seam. Cut allowances close to the stitch, unscrew the bag, sew a hole manually with hidden stitches, stitch the top edge of the bag to the edge.
Fold both parts of the handle face to face and grind along all sections, leave a hole for inversion in the seam. Cut allowances at the corners close to the line. Turn out the detail. Sew the hole manually with hidden stitches. Iron and stitch around the edge. A part of the handle with the hanging ear of a hare (see the stitching mark on the pattern) is sewn onto the bag over two opposite seams.
Transfer the hare's face to the transparent paper and at a distance of 4 cm from the top edge of the bag, then transfer in the middle to the part of the bag and embroider with threads of the corresponding colors. At the same time, use lower case stitches for black contours, and “forward needle” stitches for eyes and muzzle. In conclusion, embroider glare on the eyes with white thread.
Photo: Matteo Manducio; design and execution: Claudia Riesland.