A New Easter Basket: Free Tutorial

Do you buy themed fab­rics? I can­’t res­ist a good bunny, hal­loween or Christ­mas print and I def­in­itely have a few stashed away so that when the mood takes hold I can sew up some hol­i­day pro­jects like this sweet little East­er bas­ket without mak­ing a spe­cial trip to the shop. 

I’ve been doing a little bit of east­er sew­ing this week includ­ing this Easy East­er Pil­low. Click here if you missed it and want to check it out. 

Today’s tutori­al is all about fab­ric bas­kets! Although, they are par­tic­u­larly tricky to pho­to­graph so I will get straight to the inform­a­tion you need… 

Materials Needed:

• 1 fat quarter of bunny or east­er themed fabric
• 1 fat quarter of a coordin­at­ing print or sol­id for the accent strip and handles
• 1 fat quarter for the bas­ket interior. 
• Bag batting/ByAnnie’s Soft & Stable
• 505 spray adhes­ive or similar
• Coordin­at­ing thread

Cutting

From the fat quarter you will be using for the main part of the bas­ket (bunny fab­ric) cut:

• 4 — 5″ x 6 ¹⁄₂″ rect­angles for the bas­ket sides
• 1 — 6 ¹⁄₂″ x 6 ¹⁄₂″ square for the bot­tom of the basket

From the fat quarter you will be using for the accent pieces & handles (pink) cut:

• 4 — 2 ¹⁄₄″ x 6 ¹⁄₂″ rect­angles for the accent pieces on each side
• 2 — 4″ x 7 ¹⁄₂″ rect­angles for the handles

From the fat quarter you will be using for the inside of the bas­ket (black & white Bias stripe) cut:

• 4 — 6 ¹⁄₂″ x 6 ³⁄₄″ rect­angles for the lin­ing sides
• 1 — 6 ¹⁄₂″ x 6 ¹⁄₂″ square for the lin­ing bottom
• You’ll use some of the leftovers for the applique

From the bag bat­ting cut:

• 4 — 6″ x 6″ squares
• 2 — 1″ x 7 ¹⁄₂″ rectangles

Basket Construction

Once you have everything cut out and ready to go head over to the Wool Felt Appli­qué Bas­ket Tutori­al and fol­low along from step 7 to make your basket.

Easy right. And super cute to boot! These bas­kets sew up so quickly and they make a great gift idea. Fill them with your favour­ite baked treats or yummy chocol­ate east­er eggs!

And just in case you were won­der­ing here’s how the inside of the bas­ket looks. (Ser­i­ously bas­kets are super hard to take pho­tos of!)

If you don’t have any Bunny or East­er themed fab­ric check out the link here. I’ll be here with my eyes closed because ser­i­ously! there is some super ador­able fab­ric out there.

And… just because I don’t feel that there are any­where near enough pho­tos in this post here’s a close up of my east­er wreath. I made it myself last year from a box­wood wreath and some East­er egg sprays. The sprays were from Bed Bath n’T­able here in Aus­tralia but I’m sure you can get some­thing sim­il­ar every­where else. Super easy to make and, it looks pretty darn cute on my aqua front door!

Happy sew­ing!