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Secret Pocket Easter Eggs
A couple of years ago I started sewing fabric eggs. I love the feel of them and so do kids. When you get some in your hands you can’t help but toss, catch, throw and juggle. Every year I try to replace a few more of the plastic eggs that we use for Easter Egg hunts with cloth eggs. The thing is, you can’t put goodies in a fabric egg…..
…Or can you?
Perhaps if you sew in a secret pocket…
….just big enough for a jelly bean, a coin, or a small friend.
Click here for pdf pattern and instructions.
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So sweet! What a great idea! Or you could sew two halves and fasten them with a velcro flap…maybe the eggs could even be a little hollow in the middle. So many possibilities for this!
AWESOME! What a great way to use scraps! Thank you!
So adorable!
I have been looking for a stylish easter egg craft. This one is perfect!
LOVE THEM!! I am going to give them a try.
This came at a great time for me. I was just looking for something to put in my bowl on the table for Easter. I can’t wait to go make a few.
So cute! I don’t even have kids to hide eggs from and I want to make these now.
Jen
Such a great, great idea! Love those little bunnies…. Thanks for posting this.
This is really the sweetest kristin..so not kidding! Love that bunny poking out….May I use to promote you guys??? Thank you for all your support of the Bell Bottoms line..I’ll send plenty of folks your way…be well…my best, Jennifer
You know, that if you just have a few of these in your Easter Egg Hunt special prizes could be awarded to those who find the fabric eggs!
These are great! I can see how they would be so much fun. Thanks so much for sharing the pattern.
Such a wonderful alternative to those nasty plastic eggs. Thanks for this wonderful idea.
great idea!!
What a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
So cute! Thanks for the pattern!
Really cute idea, and I love the use of the Sis Boom Basics fabric.
brilliant – and so much less aggravating to find around the house post Easter. I will have to make a few – dozen.
oh thanks for this tutorial! i’m always looking for ways to make non-egg eggs for easter.
OH MY GOSH — they are the cutest thing EVER!
those are too cute
I had been looking for a cloth egg pattern. Thank you! I just wish I could have started them a week or two ago. I would love to replace our plastic eggs with these!
Oh my! This is such a cute idea. I might really have to make a few- my daughter loves secret pockets-what can possibly be better than a secret pocket. I mean really!
These are great! Thanks for the idea!!
How cute are these!!! Hope I can make some free time this week to whip up a few. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Oh how cute! I love them. Those are so much prettier than the plastic ones
Thanks for sharing.
This is so great! i’ll have to make some of these!
Wow, what a wonderful idea! I LOVE these!
LOVE it!! Great for a table center piece too- thanks for the super project idea
This is great. thank for the pattern. I still have few days to make some.
is the pattern the same without the peek-a-boo pocket? i’m intimidated by that part and would like to try a basic one first.
Thanks so much – we have a beautiful ceramic basket – that’s empty! DD and I now have a lovely project for tomorrow!
Beautiful. Now to make a batch for our church’s egg hunt!
Thanks so much for the pattern…
!!!
Great idea! I was going with the wooden eggs, but then I can’t add a pocket.
So. Very. Clever! A pocket!!! Sometimes its the simplest things…
Well look how cute those are! Really gets your mind thinking.
I love it! I wonder how many I could whip up by Saturday for our church’s Easter Egg Hunt. The kids would so love these. Thanks!
Great project and great photos.
Really cute. My granddaughter will love finding a surprise in the secret pocket.
Okay, that is seriously one of the cutest things I’ve seen in quite awhile! Can’t wait to make some!
What a great idea!!!!
Too cute, LOVE this idea.
Cannot wait to make some…perfect timing too…there’s still enough time to crank out a dozen on the sewing machine!
That is adorable. I was all upset that my 4 year old came home from kinder today having finally learnt about the existence of the Easter bunny and Easter eggs. Now I’m kind of excited.
But only because he still doesn’t realise that Easter eggs are meant to be chocolate. I guess he’ll find that out next year.
What a fantastic idea. These are absolutely adorable and I’m sure the kids are so delighted to seek them out in the grass. Great project!
you are seriously brilliant!
Great use for scraps! I have some cute wet felted wool eggs, might need to add some fabric eggs to the hunt as well!
This is totally wonderful. I can’t wait to get my machine back from the repair shop and get started. I’ll have a whole bunch of them for next year…ready to hide a little treat.
So cute! I am thinking of enlarging the pocket a little and adding a little matching flap that either snaps or velcros shut. That way I can put something a little bigger inside
Ooh! How clever. I love these.
okay, immediately tried one yesterday after posting and it turned out like a cross between a beach ball and a walnut. Where did I go wrong?
I know exactly what you mean! I had one that looked just like that. I figured out that what I did was flip a piece upside down. The width difference between the top and the bottom of the piece is really very subtle, but once you sew them together, it makes a big difference.
Thank you so much! I saw a pattern for fabric online somewhere but didn’t order it because I couldn’t get it in time. Leave to SMS to have just what I was looking for!
I love this idea – thank you for the tutorial!
I just tried the pattern, and my egg didn’t come out egg shaped, more square shaped… Is there a trick to keeping it egg shaped?
My first attempt came out square-shaped, too. I used a thin muslin fabric, so maybe that is to blame. I’m trying again with felt.
ooo, erika, good idea to try it with felt, post the results! Thanks for the tip, Kristin! I’ll give it another try. This time without the “help” of my 4 year old
These are so pretty! I wonder if i can get one or two made in time!? Lets see, my parents are moving into my basement for two weeks on Thursday. My nephew and his new girlfriend arrive for Easter on Friday. I guess that leaves tomorrow! Thank you for the great little project. I like the idea of adding a few each year!
Thanks. Have just downloaded the pattern to give it a go.
ok I figured it out
for everyone else who is having square egg problems… the pattern provided makes a sort of football shaped egg so if you don’t round your corners/edges really well it effectively becomes a diamond rather than a lozenge, hence the final square. I’m just not that neat when i sew so (in the pattern piece) I made the fat part of the egg shape a little wider, and closer to the bottom of the egg rather than the middle, but keep the pointy-ness of the bottom or it will be a pyramid. and got a pretty nice egg shape.
Thanks Sew Mama Sew for posting this great pattern, … I’m off to make lots and lots of them!!
What a neat idea! So much cooler than those plastic eggs.
I love it! I’m Christian Orthodox, and our Easter this year isn’t until April 27, so there’s still plenty of time. If I can manage it with my new baby, I’m totally going to make some for gifts for friends. I love that these would make awesome gifts for kids and grown-ups alike!
What is feed dogs?
That is just the sweetest and cutest idea I have seen in a long time. Love your fabric choice.
Thanks for sharing.
I wish I had found these sooner! A friend was knitting some eggs today that I loved, but I’m more of a sewer. These are perfect. I have plenty of time for next year’s batch. Thanks so much for sharing!
Oooh, I love these! What an adorably ingenious idea. Pattern is already printed and I’ve cut several out. Hope to sew them up tonight. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful idea/pattern
~Krista
Absolutely adorable! I love the peek-a-boo bunnies!
Such a sweet idea. So lovely. Thanks for sharing!
: )
I have been looking for an egg pattern…..this idea is so lovely…..thank you!
I know this is “Soo 2008″ But I am making these this year (again) and am SOOO EXCITED!!! I am putting love notes in all of them for the kids!
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these are fabulous! i am off to get some machine time when the kids nap! yeah! thanks.
How cute is that?!?! How adorable and how creative. I love it.
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What a cute idea. How fun.
What a great way to use up bits and pieces. Sometimes I love the print and don’t want to waste even a scrap.
too cute!!
This is too awesome!
I can’t wait to get started on some of these and I don’t even have kids.
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What a great idea. Very sweet too.
These came out so cute. Thanks for posting such a great tutorial. I’ve got pictures of my eggs and a link back to this tutorial on my blog. Check it out! http://emilyflippinmaruna.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/sugar-and-slip-stitchery/
great idea! this idea is so lovely!!! Thanks for sharing.
thank you! thank you! thank you!
So cute!
I have been trying to download the pattern and instructions for the Secret Pocket Easter Egg. When done, I have a blank page. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.
Thank you for the sweet pattern.
I try to make something
handmade every Easter &
this is perfect!