Easter Projects to Make with Your Serger
With spring about to make its appearance, this is the perfect time to dust off your serger and sew up one or two great Easter projects. Pull out your cheery spring fabrics and make a functional fabric Easter basket or two, or sew a new dress for yourself or your little girl.
Fabric Easter Basket
Perfect as part of your table decorations, for holding Easter bunny goodies, or using to collect treasures during your favorite Easter egg hunt, these fabric Easter baskets are a great way to kick off some spring crafting! Using only fabric and fusible webbing, these baskets are great for both beginners and experienced sewists.
Use one fabric for the outside, inside lining, and handle or choose to use different, coordinating prints to add interest to the finished basket. You can even applique the intended recipient’s initial, or “Happy Easter” on the outside fabric.
The finished basket is about 9″x7″ and approximately 5 ½” tall — you can easily play with the starting rectangle measurements to adjust the size of the finished basket.
Bunny Bags
These adorable fabric drawstring bags are a great way to wrap up Easter gifts or use them to deliver treats to family and friends instead of using the traditional basket. Using your serger helps create neat, finished seams inside the bag that won’t unravel or fray over time.
To customize the bunny bags, opt to use linen for the “body” and a fun easter fabric for the ears, then applique or hand-embroider an adorable face onto the bag. Or use cotton prints with a solid for the inner ear and then stitch buttons on for the eyes. So many possibilities!
Easter Egg Holder
Ditch the Styrofoam egg carton and make a few of these fantastic fabric Easter egg holders to showcase your decorated masterpieces! Simply sew four squares of fabric together into a large quilt block of sorts and then sew the blocked top to a backing piece. To give your egg holder an extra decorative touch, you could place the wrong sides together and finish them using your serger, letting the stitches show.
Fabric Scrap Carrot
Add some whimsy to your Easter decorations on the mantle, or sew a few of these fabric scrap carrots to add to your kids’ baskets. This project is a great way to use up those bits of orange and green fabric scraps you’ve been holding onto, clearing out your scrap bin a bit. Within ten or fifteen minutes tops, you can have an adorable fabric carrot made from start to finish. The most time-consuming part is likely hand sewing the green top and closing everything up.
Making these darling fabric scrap carrots is also a perfect project for kids just learning how to sew, or you can make it a family activity and have others help stuff the carrots with polyfill.
Toddler Dress
For many darling little girls, Easter means a new dress for church, Easter egg hunts, and family dinner. Whether you’re sewing for your daughter, granddaughter, or a friend’s little girl, this peasant dress pattern is quick and straightforward, giving you plenty of ways to customize it with your creativeness.
This dress style can be made with coordinating fabrics or mix and match contrasting patterns for a unique color combo. Skip the lace on the bodice if you’re not a fan, or swap out the hem ruffle for lace to give it some extra “girliness.” It’s also easy to add an elastic casing where the bodice and skirt pieces come together instead of the fabric ties, to cinch the bodice in.
Modest Mennonite Knit Dress
After you whip up a cute new peasant dress for your adorable girls, take a little bit of time and sew something for yourself! They shouldn’t be the only ones with a great new dress for the holiday. This modest Mennonite knit dress comes together really quickly and can be customized to suit your style.
Using your serger is a huge help when sewing knits, especially if it has a coverstitch function. The specialty stitches on a serger/coverstitch create beautiful seams that don’t pucker or end up stretched and wavy like they might when using a regular sewing machine.
Easter Bunny Pillow
Add a cheery pop of holiday color to your living room with this cute bunny pillow! If you’d rather make an envelope pillow cover instead of a whole new pillow, you could easily convert this project to make the cover easier to store away after the holiday. You can also change the pillow size and adjust the bunny applique by changing the scale when you print the template.
The tutorial walks you through using fusible webbing to add the bunny applique to the pillow front. You could use Heat ‘n Bond Lite and do an applique stitch around the edge, or you Heat ‘n Bond Ultra Hold if you want to skip the applique stitch.
Rolled Hem Napkins
Don’t forget about some custom rolled hem napkins to spruce up your table for your holiday dinner! This simple rolled hem napkin tutorial is quick — including setting up your serger, cutting the fabric out, and sewing the rolled hems on all the napkins. You can have six or eight completed within an hour.
Opt to use a linen fabric like the tutorial, adding a pretty green, pink, or yellow hem for Easter, or choose patterned quilting cotton with a cute holiday print and a coordinating thread color. For the best-quality rolled hems, purchase Wooly nylon — a specialty thread — to use in both of the loopers. Its texture helps fill in the space between the stitches, making the rolled hem look nice and full.
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About Amanda S.: Growing up, I was fascinated by watching my mom and grandma turn fabric into beautiful handcrafted items. In my early 20’s, I finally got brave, buying a sewing machine and teaching myself to sew. As I fell in love with sewing, my machine collection expanded, and I ran an Etsy shop sewing children’s clothing for a few years. As a single mom of 3 great kids, my sewing time has lessened, but I still try to find time to work on quilts, bags, and projects with my kids, teaching them what I love.