Heirloom Easter Eggs- Free Embroidery Pattern
Make your own heirloom Embroidered Easter eggs with my free printable pattern and you will have them to enjoy for years to come. These fillable, reusable fabric Easter eggs are a beautiful and sustainable alternative for the cheap plastic ones.
I love the Spring season and I love decorating our home for Easter, but I don’t enjoy the tacky plastic eggs that come with it. When my kids were littler, I would wait until the very last minute to bring them out. As soon as Easter was over I would do my best to gather them all up again to reuse for the next year (because I especially hate buying new junk every year). Of course, they would be scattered all over the house, and many of them would be broken, or their other half lost forever.
Several years ago I started painting fillable wooden Easter eggs for my kids. I make them a new one every year. Now, part of our spring tradition is to set the kids’ Easter baskets out in our dining room windowsill. There they sit until Easter. The kids always look forward to seeing their special handmade Easter eggs after they’ve been packed away all year. The wooden eggs are lovely, but they’re also bulky to store, and with five kids that adds up to a lot of Easter eggs!
Recently, I’ve started making them flat fabric fillable Easter eggs. Besides painting, my favorite craft is hand embroidery. I love that I can completely customize almost anything with hand embroidery including Easter eggs! I also love that these eggs are fillable and reusable, just like the wooden ones, but they take just a fraction of the space to store, and unlike painting, I can take this little project with me anywhere.
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Download the Free Embroidery Pattern Here
I created a simple egg template with six different embroidery patterns. I used thrifted fabric and lots of leftover bits of embroidery floss. Because this project is relatively small, it’s the perfect project to use up scraps.
Download the Free Embroidery Pattern Here
Here are the Supplies you will need to make these Embroidered Easter Eggs:
- Plain non-patterned fabric – cotton works well
- Printer with paper and ink
- Embroidery Hoop
- Embroidery Floss – choose your favorite colors
- Heat erasable embroidery pen
- Fabric Scissors + pinking shears
- Sewing Pins
- Sewing Machine (optional)
Instructions:
- Print PDF Pattern
- Place your fabric over Pattern and trace design with an erasable pen using a light board, Lamp, or Window.
- Fit your fabric into embroidery hoop
- Embroider designs onto fabric *All stitches use three strands of embroidery floss unless otherwise specified on the pattern like this: (6) = six strands
- Cut out embroidered Egg shapes on the “cut” line
- Cut out back pieces on the “cut” line – be sure to line pattern up on the fold in the fabric
- Place front embroidered egg piece face up.
- Lay the two back pieces on top of the front piece – be sure to overlap the two back pieces by placing the bottom egg piece on first and the top egg piece on last – make sure all the edges of the egg pieces match up
- Pin all the egg pieces together around the edge
- Sew all around the egg with a sewing machine or by hand
- Cut any extra seam bulk with pinking shears
- Turn finished egg right side out
- Iron to remove pen lines
And there you have it! A beautiful handmade heirloom Easter egg that will last for generations.
Tips:
A sewing machine makes this go faster but it’s definitely not necessary.
These eggs make a great hand-sewing project for beginners or a portable craft.
Try using thrifted fabrics and embroidery floss like I did.
This is a great project for using up fabric scraps and embroidery floss scraps.
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I hope you give this project a try! Let me know in the comments how yours turn out!
This is fantastic!! I love embroidery! I’m so excited to do this! Thank you!
Wonderful! Happy to help, thanks for stopping by!
I absolutely love your idea, Lindi! I too hate plastic eggs. These are so very beautiful and practical too. Love that combination! It all looks easy enough to do. When I was young, we used to have an easter bouquet of forsythia and pussy willow branches that we decorated with blown out and colored eggs. I think your fabric eggs would look so very pretty hanging on such an easter bouquet. Love this project!
What a great idea! I’ll have to try that! They are a pretty beginner friendly project so I’m sure you can handle it 🙂 . Thanks so much for stopping by!
I love these! So beautiful! Could you post a picture of them filled?
Thanks so much! Great idea, I should’ve shown a picture of them filled! I’ll try to get that up on here. Thanks!
These are the sweetest!
Thank you!
This is such a creative and eco-friendly idea! I love how you’ve turned a simple tradition into something so special and sustainable. The embroidery patterns are beautiful, and it’s great that they’re reusable and easy to store. I can’t wait to try this with my family! How do you suggest filling the fabric eggs to make them sturdy enough for display? WordAiApi
Thanks so much! I made my Easter eggs with a thicker stiff ish fabric so they aren’t floppy when I display them. Once they’re full of chocolate they definitely don’t need any help standing up. I suppose you could cut a little piece of cardboard to put inside the eggs so that they stay stiff even if they’re empty. Hope that helps!