6 Unique Things to Sew for Easter
I’ve sewn some very fun things for Easter over the years! I love to round up things I’ve made for various holidays and I’ve made some interesting things for this one. Since this is a holiday that typically involves gifts in the form of Easter baskets, it’s a good opportunity to sew some sweet things that will become a part of great memories.
So, today I’m sharing six things I’ve sewn for Easter over the years. A few of these are decor and a few are things I made my kids to put in their Easter baskets when they were younger. All of my kids are teens now, but I do still give them Easter baskets!
Let’s jump in!
I posted of a video that includes all these ideas over on my YouTube channel, so watch that here or below if you prefer watching over reading.
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6 Easter Sewing Ideas
Easter Bunny Basket
This first one is something I made years ago and has provided tons of fun ever since. There is an actual physical pattern for this guy, and while it’s out of print, it’s still very easy to find on Amazon, Etsy and elsewhere. There are a few patterns, actually, that have these critter basket huggers for all seasons and I’ve literally had mine since I was a kid! I used to make these baskets for gifts and for home decor when I was still a young sewist.
I like to keep this bunny filled with eggs and candy so that whoever come by during the season can have a little treat. The pattern I used for this bunny is Simplicity 7039. If you get your hands on the pattern or one like it, you can make these fun baskets for every season!
Bunny Rag Dolls
These bunny soft dolls with little rompers are my most recent pattern release. You can read more information about them here. I’m completely in love with these cute bunnies and they bring a smile to my face every time I see them in my sewing room! If I could go back in time, I would create this pattern several years ago so I could make my own kids these cute rag dolls and all the interchangeable clothes. You still have plenty of time to make some bunnies for Easter. I purposely made this pattern to be easily sewn; it used only one pattern piece for the head and body!
I also recently listed the rag doll wardrobe so that if you have one pattern in the Phoebe Rag Doll collection, you can make it lots of little clothes to wear.
Sock Bunny
A few years ago, I created a video tutorial for a sock monkey and it remains one of my most watched YouTube videos! Sock monkeys are surprisingly easy to make. Last year I adapted the sock monkey concept to make a sock bunny tutorial, and made a cute carrot to go with it.
You can watch the sock monkey video to learn how the process works and then head over for the sock bunny tutorial to learn how to adapt it into a bunny.
The easy little carrot would make a great garland too! So skip the bunny if you want and make a bunch of carrots instead.
Felt Peeps
I have such good memories of this project! When my girls were younger, they and their ballet friends loved to wear fun hair accessories, so we made some cute things when holidays came around. One year we designed some easy felt Peep bunnies and attached hair clips to them. They were so cute!
You can grab the free tutorial here and make some of your own.
Thinking beyond the hair clips, these would also be great in a garland, or as plant stakes, or lapel pins. You can get the hair clips or pins at the craft store for super cheap. I’d love to make up a set in more modern colors and make a garland of them.
Easter Tree
I have a very cool wooden tree my husband made me with dowels and wooden beads. It’s on of my very favorite things to get out at Christmastime so I wanted to use it more than once a year! Last Easter I set about creating Easter ornaments for it and I LOVE how it looks in my house in the Spring! We found a wooden egg to screw onto the top of it in place of the Christmas star and I made the cutest little ornaments with it.
Some of the ornaments are hot glued together and don’t even require sewing. But I also made some free motioned felt bunnies on my sewing machine and those are probably my favorites. For details and DIY tutorials for my Easter tree ornaments, check out the full blog post here.
Matchy-Matchy Doll Dresses
This last thing is a unique idea, but it’s such a sweet memory! I usually made my girls’ Easter dresses when they were younger and one year, since they were very into their 18” dolls at the time, I made them doll dresses to match their own dresses!
I put the dresses in their Easter baskets and they were so delighted. They of course took their dolls to church with them that day. I’ve passed the big dresses along since then, but we still have the doll dresses, so it was a fun way to preserve a sweet memory.
Of course to do this, I had to adapt some doll dress patterns to work for me. I had a basic 18” doll dress pattern that I liked and then I was able to add a collar, for example, for Natalie’s, and an apron for Layla’s.
My Market Day Doll Dress pattern would be a good starting place if you want to copy this idea! Doll clothes and build-a-bear clothes made a yearly appearances in my kids’ Easter basket for several years running. They don’t cost anything when you use scraps and the kids always loved them, so it’s one of my favorite ideas.
I hope this post has given you some creative and unique ideas of things to sew for Easter! I love making things that will last for years, especially when it comes to filling Easter baskets, even for teens. So, come back tomorrow for a post on things to make and buy for your teens’ Easter baskets! I have some solid ideas, so you don’t want to miss that.
Cheers!
Nikki
