Easy Felt Easter Basket

**UPDATE: Super thank you to everyone who entered our giveaway! The winner is # 2, Jessica, who said "My favorite Easter tradition is sitting down for a nice easter meal with my family. Everyone dressed in their Easter best. Love it!" Thanks Jessica! We'll be in touch via email soon!

Does your doll still need an Easter basket? With just some felt scraps and a little hand-sewing know-how, it's easy to whip up one of these little baskets. 


I'm using embroidery floss, two colors of felt, and some fun narrow ribbon. 

Start by cutting two circles out of felt: a big one about 4 1/2" across, and a smaller one for the base of the basket, about 1 1/2" across. Stack the two circles on top of each other, making sure to center them, and sew them together with a running stitch. 

Cut some wedges out of the big circle! Try to keep them all about the same size.

Next, whipstitch the slits closed, to make the sides of the basket. 

Sew on a ribbon handle (I made this one by braiding some narrow ribbon, but you could just as easily use a single ribbon.)

Finally, fill your new basket with some fun Easter goodies, and give it to your doll!

 

Now: would you like to win this Easter basket, instead of having to make it? How cool would that be?

 

To enter, just leave a comment on this post, finishing this sentence: "My favorite Easter tradition is..." 

 

We'll randomly pick a winning comment on Monday, 4/21, and contact the winner via email. It's that simple!!

 

Thanks, and have fun crafting and entering!

For Pixie Faire,

Melinda


44 Comments

Linda Badurek
Linda Badurek

March 03, 2024

My favorite Easter Tradition is having family together for dinner after church.

Karen
Karen

March 02, 2024

My favorite Easter tradition is going to church on Easter Sunday (and every other Sunday!)

MaryAnne
MaryAnne

April 04, 2020

My favorite easter tradition is chocolate. :-)

Sandy
Sandy

April 03, 2020

So many traditions –
As a child I always remember my English grandmother’s yeast Hot Cross buns. As parents and grandparents, we hide Easter baskets and always have an Easter egg hunt in the backyard (repeated several times). After various church services we have a dinner of ham, scrambled egg casserole, asparagus, Danish puff, and strawberries. Plus, Dove dark chocolate eggs and Jordan almonds.

Jane
Jane

April 03, 2020

Over the years I have sewn and collected about 30 Easter bunnies of all sizes. I place them
around the house on tables and in windows and ask my grandchildren to find and count them. They all come back with a different answers and have lots of fun talking about the bunnies that are well hidden, what is new that year and their favourites. I give them each one to take home, with a plan to make or buy a few more for the next year.

Heather
Heather

April 01, 2020

This turned out very cute! Thanks for the tutorial.

CHERYL
CHERYL

April 13, 2019

My favorite Easter tradition is dressing up, going to church and eating an Easter feast with my family

Alys
Alys

April 12, 2019

The whole day, from early morning new baskets, thru the joyous songs at the community service ,then a short nap followed by lunch and games till we have our Easter Egg Hunt thru the whole yard and some on the porch,AND Then our yummy dinner (even the veggies—-Nana’s speshuls—-go with the super good sweet potatoes all covered with a thin top of marshmallows! So, the Whole Easter Day is my full of every-time facorites!

Barb B
Barb B

April 12, 2019

My favorite Easter tradition, besides finding what the Easter Bunny had left, was my Mom’s Easter cake for dessert after dinner. She always made a white cake with my favorite cooked, fluffy white icing. On top she would tint coconut green and make a nest with colored jelly beans. I know this isn’t so original now, but as a child I was very excited & thought she was a genius! To this day, white cake with the cooked white, fluffy icing is my favorite!

debbie
debbie

April 12, 2019

My favorite Easter Tradition as a child was putting on our Easter Outfits with Spring coat and hat with new white shoes and going to church.

Linda Badurek
Linda Badurek

April 12, 2019

My favorite Easter Tradition is new spring dresses for church!

jan
jan

March 19, 2018

thanks for this very cute

Janet
Janet

March 17, 2018

My favorite Easter tradition is having a lovely breakfast with my husband. Then in the afternoon going to our daughter’s and having a lovely dinner and watching our 3 grandchildren opening their Easter gift bags and enjoying their Easter treats.

Marcy Mahle
Marcy Mahle

March 16, 2018

My favorite Easter Tradition is of course attending Mass but after that spending a wonderful day with my six grandchildren and watching them have fun looking for all the plastic eggs filled with goodies that their Papa put together. They are each assigned a color to look for. Its wonderful watching the older ones help the younger ones find their eggs. Of course we all sit down to a very good dinner.

Claudette
Claudette

March 16, 2018

My favorite Easter tradition is decorating Easter Eggs with our grandchildren and making Easter treats.

Katie
Katie

March 14, 2018

My favorite Easter tradition is going with my family to church for sunrise services and then enjoying a meal together afterwards.

Marie
Marie

March 06, 2018

My favorite Easter tradition is coloring eggs with my grand children!

Deborah
Deborah

March 27, 2017

My favorite Easter tradition is everyone is together ,young and old..partaking of food ,wine , giving tanks we are together again for another year.

Creacy
Creacy

March 24, 2017

My favorite Easter tradition is dressing up in new clothes to attend church services then returning home to a feast I have prepared for my loved ones.The children are always so excited they can barely eat as they anticipate the egg hunt and talk about who will find the “lucky egg”

Nancy B
Nancy B

March 24, 2017

My favorite Easter tradition is dying real eggs with my grandchildren. I also like to put money in plastic eggs for the egg hunt, either outside or inside. Lovely memories of Easter with children and now my grandchildren.

Kathy
Kathy

March 24, 2017

My favorite Easter tradition is going to church and spending time with family. Easter is usually a pretty time with flowers starting to bloom.

Bonnee Case
Bonnee Case

March 24, 2017

Our favorite tradition is while on the egg hunt the Easter Bunny pays a visit. He has a basket of surprises for all the grandkids, nieces and nephews. A wonderful day to be with the whole family, about 50 of them now.

Sharon
Sharon

March 24, 2017

My favorite Easter tradition is egg hunts, both indoor and outdoor, but especially outdoor on a beautiful spring day.

Linda L
Linda L

March 18, 2016

My favorite tradition is the whole family meeting for Sunrise service and then out for breakfast. Everyone goes home to change clothes and then we all meet up again in the afternoon for a big family Easter dinner and more fellowship together. To me this is the best way to celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection.

Annette
Annette

March 18, 2016

Congrats Jessica! I am just logging into this tutorial now, almost 2 years later, but I am here! Annette

Leona
Leona

March 21, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition was, as my children are grown now with families of their own, we would hide their eggs, sometimes in the yard, sometimes in the house and when they found them all, they would hide them for us, the parents, to find but we always would count them first :)

Joyce
Joyce

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is making my Grandmother’s Easter bread on Good Friday. I love the family Easter Egg hunt on Sunday morning with the kids. And finally I have the family all together for dinner.

Karla Sheffer
Karla Sheffer

March 20, 2015

my favorite family Easter Tradition is Jello Eggs with spray whipped cream.

Lola
Lola

March 20, 2015

Cool art ( and cool sewing )

Marge
Marge

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is having all the children sit on the stairs while daddy checked to make sure the Easter Bunny had left, but really he was setting up the camera. Then he told us he had gone and had left some wonderful goodies for us. They would squeal with delight as they ran to the dining room to see their baskets. These years seem to have gone by much too quickly, but they were very memorable and this was a tradition that was followed in my family.

Jane
Jane

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is decorating blown egg shells to make ornaments for an Easter Egg tree

Crystal
Crystal

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is dying the eggs and the little ones finding them. Also getting together with friends and family for such a wonderful day.

katherine
katherine

March 20, 2015

One of my favorite Easter Tradition is taking dyed eggs and hitting the eggs of my family members and the winner is the one whose egg does not crack.

Di
Di

March 20, 2015

As always, a well designed project and instructions. I’ve already created a basket for my niece for this year, using a thrift store mini-basket and bake-clay eggs and a tiny bunny. However, I’m saving this pattern, because I have other nieces and there is always next year.
My favorite Easter tradition is going to church; then, coming home to a delicious family lunch. The fun of planning little surprises for the children is icing on my cake, which I enjoy prior to Easter day.

Susan
Susan

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is going to my mother’s house for dinner and then an Easter Egg hunt for all the kids.

Sophie T
Sophie T

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is the egg hunt… I love preparing it for my kids!

Jo
Jo

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is coloring Easter eggs with my grandchildren.

RuthE Haper
RuthE Haper

March 20, 2015

Watching my grandkids searching and then, their excitement when they find the eggs I have hidden.

Priscilla
Priscilla

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is going to church with my Granddaughter and my family all coming for dinnet then an easter egg hunt.

Anna Jenkins
Anna Jenkins

March 20, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is everyone in my family putting on their new church clothes and going to our Easter church service and sitting as a family as we hear the wonderful Easter story!!

Betty
Betty

February 13, 2015

My favorite Easter tradition is having my family over for dinner then watching the grandkids hunt for Easter eggs. I love to cook for my family.

Liz
Liz

April 20, 2014

MY FAVORITE EASTER TRADITION IS WATCHING MY GRANDCHILDREN HUNTING FOR THEIR EASTER EGGS.

Jessica
Jessica

April 20, 2014

My favorite Easter tradition is sitting down for a nice easter meal with my family. Everyone dressed in their Easter best. Love it!

Kaitlyn L
Kaitlyn L

April 19, 2014

My favorite Easter tradition is doing an indoor egg hunt with my four sisters. We have so much fun together trying to pull eggs out of silly places!

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