30 Minute Fabric and Felt Nesting Eggs Tutorial

Who doesn't love simple, fast, and cute projects. Today's post is about a nice sewing project perfect to give away to little ones. The best part: it just takes less than 30 minutes and a couple of fabric scraps. Recently I stumbled upon these adorable nesting eggs on Toddler Approved blog and could not resist the temptation to make a set.  Since these are for my Little Soi, I decided going girly on the eggs fabric choice. I’m so pleased with the end result and excited on seeing how little one liked the new nesting set.

Want to take a look at the easy steps to create the cute set? Although I followed Toddler Approved's tutorial I tweaked instructions a little. My set consist of four nesting eggs.

Materials:

• Fabric - I selected four different cotton prints from my stash. Scraps are ideal for these.
• Felt - I used what I got on hand..in this case I used 3 different colors.
• Fusible Interfacing - Pellon to provide structure to the cotton side of the eggs.
• Sewing tools - machine, thread, scissors....

1. First gather all your materials:

2. Now draw the biggest egg shape (or whatever shape you wish) on a piece of felt and cut it out. In my case I happened to have a decorative tin can in an oval shape that was the perfect reference to cut my second nesting egg. To make the biggest egg I just cut a piece of felt about 1" larger than the lid.

Eggs approx. measurement are as follow:

Bigger Egg: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

Second Egg: 5 x 3 1/2 inches

Third Egg: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches

Smallest Egg: 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches

3. Use felt oval shapes to cut out a piece of Pellon for each one of the eggs.

4. If using multiple fabric prints as I did, decide which print is going to be which egg and place Pellon on back of a piece of fabric that is a little bigger than the Pellon piece.

5. Turn fabric right side up and adhere the Pellon with hot iron (follow manufacturer's instructions).

6. Cut out excess fabric.

7. Repeat with remaining pieces. Now you have the four felt oval shapes and the four fabric shapes with interfacing.

8. Pin matching felt and fabric ovals, wrong sides together.

9. Sew all around the closest to the edge as possible making sure to caught both pieces. I did sew three times all around to ensure it will handle lots of play. (Sorry, stitch is not visible in the photo)

10. Cut a straight line (or cracked as in original tutorial) in the middle of the eggs on the felt side of the egg. Make sure not to caught the fabric from the other side. I did for the three biggest eggs, and did not cut the smallest one.

11. You did it!! A cute set of fabric and felt eggs. Cheap, fast, simple, cute!!!

Little Soi is certainly over the learning the shapes already, but I just expect these to reinforce sizes notions (small, smaller, smallest; big, bigger, biggest) and moreover, feed my little’s endless curiosity (at least for a while).

Aren’t these adorable? What other shapes would you suggest to add the fabric nesting collection? Have you tried making these? Share your photos and link back to us.