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ITH Easter Candy Bags Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on March 28, 2025

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

00:30

FINISHED SIZE

3 x 6 inches

Description

Delight any child with these quick to stitch Easter Candy Bags. They are made entirely in the hoop, no hand stitching required. These are designed for small candies, jellybeans, miniature eggs and the like.

Project Preview Video

Materials

For each bunny:

5” x 7” embroidery hoop

1 9” x 12” sheet of white craft felt

3” square of clear vinyl – (1 thicker than the lightest weight at Joann’s

2” x 3” plastic jewelry bags (Hobby Lobby)

2.5-ounce Cut-away Stabilizer to fit your hoop

Embroidery or painter’s tape

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/escb01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/escb02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/escr03

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/escb04

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/escb05

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

The ITH Easter Candy Bags are designed for small candies. Due to the sticky nature of these small candies it is recommended that you put them in a 2” x 3” plastic bag before inserting them in the bunnies. Do not use adhesive spray in the layering of any of the fabrics in this project.

Step 1:

For each bunny cut:
a. White felt 5 ½” x 8” for the front
b. White felt 4 ¼” x 5 ½” for the top back
c. White felt 3” x 5 ½” for the bottom back
d. Vinyl 3” square
e. Stable 2.5 ounce cut away stabilizer to fit your hoop

Step 2:

Run the first color stop (CS) in white as a placement line for the vinyl.

Step 3:

Lay the vinyl square over the placement line and tack down with CS 2.

Step 4:

Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop, trim the excess vinyl from around the tack down stitches.

Step 5:

Run CS 3 as a placement line for the front felt rectangle.

Step 6:

Run CS 4 to tack down the felt, outline the bunny and the oval around the candy window.

Step 7:

Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop, trim the felt from over the vinyl as close as possible. Do not cut the vinyl.

Step 8:

Follow the color chart to embroidery the detail of the bunny. Do not stitch the last CS yet.

Step 9:

Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop, trim the stabilizer behind the vinyl window.

Step 10:

Align the 3 x 5 ½” felt rectangle over the bottom of the project so that the 5 ½” width of the felt is placed right along the original front felt stitched placement line. Align the 4 ½” x 5 ½” felt so that the 5 ½” felt width is placed right along the top of the original front felt stitched placement line. This will cause the top felt to overlap the bottom felt the appropriate amount. Place embroidery tape down both sides of the felt layers to hold in place. To keep the tape from being caught on the bed of the machine have the tape extend all the way to the top and bottom of your hoop.

Step 11:

Return the hoop to the machine and run the last CS to complete the candy bag.

Step 12:

Trim around the bunny through all layers about 1/8” from the outside seam.

Step 13:

Fill a 2” x 3” plastic bag about half-way full of small candies.

Step 14:

Lift the top felt and insert the candy into the bottom of the bunny, smooth the top felt back over the bottom felt.

Step 15:

Congratulations you first ITH Easter Candy Bag is complete!

Step 16:

Make the whole set to bring smiles to some little faces this Easter.

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.

ITH Easter Candy Bags Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

ITH Easter Candy Bag 1

ITH Easter Candy Bag 2

ITH Easter Candy Bag 4

ITH Easter Candy Bag 5

ITH Easter Candy Bag 3

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.

Easter Candy Bag Holders