Woven Fabric Easter Egg Basket Pattern
April 2, 2025
Hi!
Now we’re safely past April Fool’s Day, it’s time to think about Easter, and I think you’re going to love this cute little scrappy woven fabric Easter egg basket. Whether you make just one to use for decoration on a table in your home, or decide to make enough for the egg-hunting children in your family, the choice is yours, and they will love them!
So round up a handful of leftover 2 1/2 inch strips and let’s get weaving!
Fabric Easter Egg Basket Pattern
It’s that time of year again, and this fun little egg hunting basket is quick and easy to make. Its relaxed sizing and woven design means you can use up scraps too to keep everyone happy!
Our bag has a 5 inch diameter and the woven basket is 4 inches high (plus handle).
You Will Need:
7-8 x 2½ inch jelly roll strips (or strips cut 2½ inches wide across the width of fabric)
Small amount of fabric for bag lining
Small amount of fusible webbing for applique, OR use a fabric glue instead
Small amount of light-mid weight fusible interfacing
Strip of heavier weight fusible interfacing to stiffen handle
Bodkin or other tool for turning tubes of fabric
Bag Construction:
Please read all instructions fully before beginning. All measurements are in inches, and unless stated otherwise, a ¼ inch seam allowance has been used.
This fabric Easter egg basket is very relaxed as far as measurements go. You will find you can just cut and adjust to suit as you make it.
To Make:
We used 8 Jelly Roll strips for our little basket.
With right sides together, sew down the length of each strip to form a tube. Use a bodkin or other tool to turn the strips right sides out and press so that the seam lays down the middle of the back of the strip.
Fold the strips in half and cut, so you have 2 equal lengths for each jelly roll strip.
Arrange 8 strips as shown, with 4 strips horizontal, and 4 strips vertical. Make sure they are centred over each other. Keep the other strips for weaving the sides and handle.
From your fusible webbing, cut 16 small squares to fit between the overlapped layers without sticking out the sides at all. (Or use glue if you’d prefer.)
Carefully weave the strips together where they overlap in the centre, and place a small fusible webbing square between the layers.
When you have finished, and your woven strips are evenly lined up (with no gaps), use your iron to fuse them together so you have a solid base to work with.
Find a vase or suitably sized jar or container for this next part. Note – you will be using the vase as a guide for the shape of your fabric Easter egg basket. If you want your basket to flare out slightly at the top, then use a vase with a smaller base, that gets wider at the top.
As shown, turn the vase upside down and place the woven and fused base on the top so that the ends hang down the sides.
There are 4 horizontal rows in our basket. (You could add more if you wish.)
To make each row, use one of your half strips and carefully wrap it around the vase at the top where the base weaving stops. This will be your first row up the side of the fabric Easter egg basket and needs to fit snugly to suit the woven base.
Use the strip to measure how long it needs to be, add a ¼ inch overlap and cut. As pictured, overlap the raw ends and sew together to make a circle of fabric.
Slip the fabric circle over the top of the vase as shown.
Make sure the sewn end is centred over one strip so that when you weave the strips over and under this circle, that strip will come over to hide the raw edges.
Weave the hanging strips over and under the circle in order, then push the circle up so it sits snugly against the woven base.
Continue in this way and add a further 3 rows – measure to suit first, then sew into a circle, slip on, weave together, alternating the overs and unders, push up to meet the previous row and add another until you have 4 rows woven together down the sides.
When you are happy with the weaving of your basket, pin all strips around the edge as shown.
Carefully slip the fabric Easter egg basket off the top of your vase and turn it over so it sits on a flat surface.
The left over strip ends are simply folded to the inside to finish the basket outer.
Cut a strip of fusible webbing to fit around the inside of your basket. Place it inside then fold the fabric strips over.
Pin as required from the outside of the basket to hold the strips in place over the webbing. (Or you can glue them down here again.)
If using fusible webbing, use your iron again to carefully fuse the strip ends to the inside of the basket.
This keeps it neat, and also strengthens the basket.
Trace around the base of your basket and cut a template to match, for the lining base. Be sure to include a seam allowance too.
Cut 1 from your lining fabric, and cut 1 from the light-mid weight fusible interfacing.
Use the fabric to measure, and cut a strip of lining fabric long enough and high enough to fit inside the basket for the side lining. Make sure to include all seam allowances, and a generous allowance at the top to tuck under. Your lining strip needs to be long enough to fit around the top of the basket, and if yours flares out slightly as ours does, then you may find you need to add a pleat or two when sewing it to the lining base.
Cut 1 fabric strip and interfacing to suit. Fuse interfacing to the wrong sides.
Join the short sides of the lining side strip, then pin and insert the base, with right sides together.
Cut a strip/s of the heavier weight interfacing to stiffen the handle as pictured. Fuse it down the wrong side length of one of your left over fabric half strips.
Place a second fabric strip wrong side down over the top of the interfacing and topstitch down both sides for a good solid handle.
Place the handle ends into the basket, so they just touch the base opposite each other. Pin and topstitch to secure the handles in position.
Place the lining into the basket and tuck under the top raw edge so the lining sits just below the woven outer basket edge.
Pin and topstitch around the top to finish.
And how cute is that!!?!
Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think.
I hope you love this fun little woven fabric Easter egg basket, and that the Easter Bunny visits, to leave you something chocolatey to collect in it! 🙂
Enjoy!
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The Easter basket looks so cute! If I can find time between now and Easter I’ll have to make a couple for my grandsons! Thanks for the idea!!
Thanks Vivian! They will love them.