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National Craft Month is still going strong! We’ve been sharing our favorite paper crafts, handmade jewelry, DIY fashion crafts, knitting patterns, crochet patterns, and home decor with you all month, and there’s an entire week left of the festivities!
As a bonus to the fabulous craft tutorials we’ve been featuring, we’ve also been offering prizes each and every day of National Craft Month. If you haven’t been chosen as one of our lucky winners just yet, don’t worry. We have plenty of giveaways left so keep staying tuned to the blog for your chance to win!
Today’s project is perfect for spring and Easter; it’s an easy-to-make stuffed bunny that doubles as a cuddly, decorative throw pillow. Kids would love getting this in their Easter baskets. This Project of the Day comes from our friends at I Love to Create!
Cuddle Bunny
This spring, cuddle up to a pillow that’s as cute as can be! Give this bunny vibrant personality with fabric paint.
Materials:
- Tulip® One-Step Dye™: Pink
- Tulip Soft® Fabric Paint: Ebony
- Brush – No. 6 Round
- Plastic tablecloth
- Cotton sateen fabric – white – approximately 1 – 1½ yards
- Large sheet of paper (approximately 18” x 30”) for pattern
- Fiberfill
- Thread to match
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Sewing machine
- Sewing pins
- Bunny Pillow Pattern 2
- Bunny Pillow Pattern 1
Instructions:
- Enlarge bunny pattern to desired size.
- Trace onto large sheet of paper and cut out pattern. Set aside.
- Prewash fabric in cool water to remove sizing; do not use fabric softener.
- Cover work surface with plastic tablecloth then lay damp fabric out flat. Scrunch and crumple fabric. (See crumple technique illustration in technique guide from dye box.)
- Prepare dye as directed on package. Apply to fabric then cover with plastic tablecloth to keep damp. Let set for 6 to 8 hours or longer for most intense color. Rinse thoroughly in running water until runoff is clear.
- Machine wash fabric in cool water with a small amount of laundry soap. Dry separately and press.
- Lay bunny pattern on fabric, pin and cut out two pieces for front and back. Cut a strip 3½” wide and long enough to span all the way around the edge of bunny, plus 1” extra.
- With right sides facing together, stitch the strip to the pillow front, easing around the corners. Sew end of strip together. Pin and then sew the pillow back to the strip, leaving a small opening approximately 7” to 8” along bottom of bunny to stuff. Fill with fiberfill and stitch opening closed.
- Paint two eyes on bunny with Ebony Matte Soft Fabric Paint. Let dry.
Like I mentioned earlier, we’re giving away a prize every single day of March, right here on the blog for National Craft Month. It’s so easy to enter; just be sure to check back each day for our Project of the Day post like this one to comment to enter! You have 31 chances to win and a new special prize each day.
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- Contest closes March 25, 2012 at 11:59p CST.
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What are you crafting to celebrate spring and Easter?
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Butterflies and flowers.
After seeing this Cuddle Bunnies pattern, I think I’ll try to make one! :0) So cute and I know a little girl who would just love it. Being a teenager in the 70’s, I’ve always loved tie-dyed stuff. It’s so colorful and fun! Would love to win this set and update (or back date) some of my boring, plain color clothing. :0)
That kit is cool! I am not making anything for Easter this year, except perhaps chocolate filled baskets for my kids (all grown up – I have to break into their houses to deliver them!)
How adorable, if I finish my Easter cards on time 😉 I will be making this adorable pillow for sure!
Thanks for another chance to win.
I’m crocheting Easter eggs, bunnies, chicks, flowers, and other springy things!
I am handcutting lambs, ducks and bunnies out of material and felt for ornaments and magnets. My fingers are getting tired. Love the project. I might give the bunnies a try.
Easter Dress! What else?
I’m not a holiday/seasonal crafter. I stick to clothing and year-round home dec items.
I’m crafting baskets, bunnies, chicks and eggs! I would love to try out this tie dye kit!
I love making hanging kitchen towels. For each change in season/holiday I buy kitchen towels and crochet tops on them to brighten mine and my friends’ kitchens. I also like to make hanging towels for my bathrooms!
For friends and relatives who have small children, i find cartoon prints or some other child friendly print. Assigning one special hanging towel
Icrochet hanging kitchen towels with spring/Easter patterns.
I am knitting a shawl using spring colors for Easter Sunday. My sister and I will also be dyeing Easter eggs.
I am making easter cuddle bunnies for my four grandsons !
I am making easter cards for the nursing home
We’ve been making tons of bunny crafts. We adopted a rabbit last summer, so it’s especially fun decorating the house with all sorts of rabbit crafts that look like him.
These are so cute. Want to snuggle one myself!
We are making cute little chick inspired Easter egg cups. Love your site, so many great ideas for the crafters in my family!
I’m making some sand art “vases” out of glass jars with melted wax to hold the sand in place and sticking silk flowers in to fill the “vase” – using the sand filled jar kind of as florist’s foam or moss (except it’s way prettier than either the foam or moss would be in a clear see through jar).
I’m crocheting a bunny purse for my granddaughter.
My daughter & grand daughters are making little stuffed felt bunnies. So cute.
A wreath, basket & definitely these bunnies for the 2 youngsters in my life.
Planting herbs in decorated pots
Making cards and tags.
Crocheting spring shawl, plastic canvas tote with butterfly. Love bunnies to!!!
I am scrapbooking pictures of the first flowers.
I am crafting Easter gifts made from cotton yarns. Mainly purses and hats in vibrant colors. A few plushies as well.
What a darling project! A bunny and tie-dye – two of my favorite things.
Pick me! Pick me!!
Easter dress for an angel of course
I will be making candy for Easter.
Making Easter bunnies out of watermelons for the grand-children’s school classes. The watermelons are filled with a variety of round melon ball sized pieces of a variety of fruit after the watermelon is cleaned out and cut in the shape of a bunny. (Enough for the entire class to enjoy.)
I’m trying to finish up my Easter cards!
I’ll be making cards for Easter and cute items cut on the eclips using Sure Cuts a Lot .svg files.
Your tie-dye project of the day has inspired me to make a tie-dyed Easter dress. Thanks for the great idea!
I’m working on a new Easter dress, and am crocheting a small basket of flowers to make into a pin for my spring jacket.
I’m working on finishing a crocheted Double Wedding Ring afghan from Vanna White’s croched afghan book for a gift for my daughter Wedding Anniversary.
Cute project bunny. I am pulling out spring colored beads and making some vibrant jewelry for Spring. Such fun colors….
I loved your Cuddle Bunny and will try to craft it for my grandchildren!
Easter bunnies from old CD’s, a Spring wreath, crochet flowers, and I may try to make those cute Cuddle bunnies.
I am crocheting doilies for Birthday’s.
I am making a new wreath for my front door. My old one looks a little worn to say the least. I saw the wreath that Red Heart Yarn is giving away and I am trying to duplicate it. I have some ideas of my own and the Red Heart one gave me a good head start.