"Quilted" Easter Eggs

This fun craft is ideal for your Easter decoration. It looks like a quilted egg, but really is fabric pushed into a Styrofoam egg. They can be hung on an Easter tree or anywhere in your home.

Approximate Time: about 40 minutes.

Supplies:

• Styrofoam eggs approx. 4x3 inches
• small print pastel fabric cut in assorted sizes (see photo)
• matching 1/4 inch wide ribbon about 1/2 yard
• 1 inch pearl headed pins
• a butter knife
• cool temp glue gun and stick

Instructions:

1. Using the butter knife poke each piece of fabric into the Styrofoam egg coming close to the edge of the fabric, but not too close. Tuck the edges in firmly.
2. Do this randomly all over the egg. This creates the "quilted" look.
3. When egg is completely covered stick a pearl pin in the center of each "quilt".
4. Using the ribbon, make loops, leaving one loop longer for hanging.
5. Hot glue the loops to the top of the egg centering so the longer loop is in the center.

I made 6 all of different pastel prints.

By Janet from Long Island, NY