Materials and Supplies

• Machine Used: THE Dream Machine®
  or use any Brother Sewing and Embroidery machine with 4x4 or larger embroidery area
  
• Felt Fabric Color 1
• Felt Fabric Color 2


• SA5810 Medium-weight Tear Away Stabilizer
  or SA5929 Heavy-weight Cut Away Stabilizer (I used cut away.)
  
• Fusible fleece
• Peltex® 71F Single-Sided Fusible Ultra Firm Stabilizer
• Embroidery thread
  
• Scissors
• Iron
• Seam ripper
• FREE Easter Basket Pattern - Click Here to Download
  
• Easter Bunny Embroidery Design: Although included in THE Dream Machine®, it is available for purchase on iBroidery
  

Pattern Pieces to Cut Out:

Piece A: Bag Bottom (1pc for outside, 1pc for lining plus interfacing)

• Cut 2 of either color
• Cut 1 fusible fleece

Piece B: Bag Side (4pc for outside, 4pc for lining plus interfacing)

• Cut 4 of Color 1
• Cut 4 of Color 2
• Cut 4 of Fusible fleece

Piece C: Handle

• cut 1 of color 1
• Cut 1 of color 2

Piece D: Handle structure

• cut 1 Peltex® 71F

Embroidering the Easter Basket

1. Choose one of the felt panels to embroider and insert the fabric and cut away or tear away stabilizer into the embroidery hoop – keep in mind, the shortest edge of the fabric is the bottom of the basket. Be careful not to tighten the screw on the embroidery hoop too much or the felt fabric can end up with “hoop burn”.

2. Choose an embroidery design.

3. Add a topper to prevent the stitches from embedding in the felt fabric. I am using a piece of plastic from a dry cleaner bag as my topper.

4. Add a basting outline to hold the plastic topper in place.

5. Embroider the design.

6. Use a seam ripper to rip out the basting stitches.

7. Cutaway or tearaway the embroidery stabilizer.

8. Pull away the plastic topper.

Sewing the Easter Basket Sides

9. Press the Fusible Fleece Stabilizer to the back of the 4 outside basket pieces.

10. With right sides together pin the outside bag pieces together along the longest edge.

11. Stitch each seam with a ½” seam allowance. Press the seam allowances open.

12. Follow steps 10 and 11 for the Felt Fabric Lining pieces.

Sewing the Easter Basket Bottom

13. With right sides together, pin the coordinating circle bottom pieces to the smaller opening of the side pieces.

14. Stitch with a ½” seam allowance.

Attaching the Lining

15. Turn the outside of the basket right side out and the lining inside out as shown.

16. Insert the lining into the outside basket fabric.

17. Line up the seams and pin.

18. Stitch along the top edge of the basket, attaching the outside of the basket to the lining with ¼” seam allowance.

19. Press the 1” ribbon in half.

20. Pin to the top edge of the basket. Stitch along the edge of the ribbon.

Sewing the Easter Basket Handle

21. Press the stabilizer to one of the handle pieces.
22. Layer the second piece of felt for the handle.

23. Stitch ¼” from the edge, all the way around the handle.

24. Press the ribbon in half.

25. Attach the ribbon along each edge of the handle, pin.

26. Stitch along the edge of the ribbon.

27. Lay the bag flat and locate each side.

28. Pin the handle inside the bag at each side as shown.

29. Stitch the handle to the bag. (You might want to stitch 2 rows of stitching for extra strength to hold all those Easter eggs. 😊)

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Cheers,