Easter Egg Hunt by karen walker — Laugh Yourself Into Stitches

For a limited time, i am offering a FREE Sew-along featuring 5 different pieced Easter Eggs!

Let’s take a crack at our first egg design!

I went hunting in my sash (hence the easter egg hunt name) and pulled out scraps. I am more of a primitive lover, so you might think mine are kinda drab…but! you can certainly make yours more colorful!

I also used the same fabrics in each egg design. Meaning, (let’s call this ‘Egg-1’) will have the same combination of blue fabrics. ‘Egg-2’ will have the same combination of purple fabrics, and so on. You however, can make them all different if you like!

My background fabric is all the same small dot through out, and is also used in the sashing.

You will be making 4 of each 5 egg designs for a total of 20 festive Easter Eggs ready to be sashed into a 36” x 41” wall hanging.

What will you need?

You will need 1-1/4 yards for the background (used in the sashing too).
Large enough scraps for your eggs or approximately 1/4 yards per egg design for the egg portions of each block.
Truly, just scraps for the decorative pieced sections in each egg.
You will also need 1/4 yard for the single binding which is the method i will be using.
If you want your eggs to be all different, you could use a Layer Cake (10”squares).
All seams are the standard 1/4”

Here are the cutting instructions for (4) Egg-1 designs.

Let’s get crack’n!

Sew the 1-1/2” x 6-1/2” dark blue band between the 2 egg sections, press towards the dark blue.
The top of the egg is the larger 5” fabric. Make a mark 2” in from each side on the top of the egg and 2-1/2” down each side from the top. Draw a line between them.
On the wrong side of the 2-1/2” background squares, draw a diagonal line, corner to corner. Draw a second diagonal line 1/4” away.

With right sides together, line up the 2-1/2” x 5” background fabric even with the line on the blue fabric. Center the background rectangle… i just eyeballed it.
Stitch 1/4 away from the edge and make sure to maintain the 1/4” all the way to the end of the background. Flip and press. Repeat for the opposite side.
At the bottom of the egg, line up the 2-1/2” squares in each corner as shown below and sew directly on the center diagonal line.
Stitch 1/4” away from the second drawn line. (shown in a couple photos down).

Here is a close up of the previous step 1 and 2 … you will place the fabric right up next to the drawn line. I am just showing you where it is in the photo.

This is what all the stitching will look like.

Trimming

You’ll want to first trim the corner off both 2-1/2” squares. You will now have a small half square triangle to use in another project! With the corner triangle method used in the egg block, i hate to throw away a useful pieced opportunity!

Like in this cute little zipper pouch! Need a free tutorial for it? I just happen to have it on my YouTube Channel! What a sweet Easter gift a zipper pouch would make!

Press the backgrounds

Turn the egg over and trim from the back side. Your egg will measure 6-1/2” x 9-1/2”. I trimmed the sides first, then the top.

Trim off the blue underneath each corner.

If you would like to add some embellishments, I am adding some tiny ric rac to to each Egg-1 design. It will eventually get sewn into the sashing seams but in the meantime, i glued it into place and will use a single stand of matching DMC floss to attach the ric rac.

So, there ya have it! Egg-1 Design is in the basket! Don’t forget to hatch a total of 4 :)

On Instagram? Me too! @laughyourselfintostitches Use the hashtag #easteregghuntsewalong so we can enjoy and be inspired by each other’s creativity!