Small projects- Egg Cosies!

The wonderfully talented Bess Harding of Beeb Design has sent us another super cool craft you can do with your kids. Bess lives in London and is an  illustrator/designer/maker. If you would like to have her work in your own home, her etsy shop stocks her delightful characters and dolls as well as prints and illustrations.

Egg Cosies

With spring in the air and Easter around the corner, here’s a very quick and easy way of making chick and bunny egg cosies - with two options depending on how handy you (or the kids) are with knitting needles.

You will need:

Old woolen jumpers or tops, ideally grey/cream/yellow/orange (washed)

OR wool and knitting needles

Felt - ideally orange/yellow, grey and pink

Scissors

Glue (PVA or similar)

Thread (any color)

White paper or card

Black pen

1. Take the arm of your washed jumper and cut the bottom of the sleeve off, around 10cm above the cuff.

OR

Knit a rectangle in whatever stitch you like, making it roughly 20cm x 10cm. Then fold over and sew the two short edges together (using the same wool) to make a tube.

 

2. Cut out the felt headgear - so two grey ears and a little pink nose for a bunny, and an orange triangle beak and orange/yellow comb for a chick (not anatomically correct but it looks good!).

3. Turn your tube inside out and insert the felt ears/comb so that they’re upside down and lined up with the top edge of the tube. You can put a dab of glue on the ends of the ears/comb if you like, then scrunch up the surrounding fabric (the most important thing is to get a firm grip on the ears/comb) and tightly wind and tie a length of thread around it all, about 1cm down from the top. If you’ve knitted your own you can use the extra length of wool to tie this off.

 

4. Now turn it back the right way and you should have a sort of hat shape with either ears or comb sticking out of the top.

5. Now time to give them faces, so pick the best looking side and glue on the felt beak/nose you cut out earlier, somewhere in the middle, then cut out little circles of white paper/card for the eyes, draw on a black dot in the middle of each one and glue in place.

 

6. Optional extras at this stage include felt wings for the chick and a cotton wool tail for the bunny (see pictures). Also, although grey and yellow are more authentic, you could have a spotty chick or a stripy bunny, depending on what old sweaters or wool you have to hand.

These might not last forever, but they’re fun and satisfying to make, and will look good keeping eggs warm on your Easter breakfast table!

Please send along any photos of your finished crafts to editor@smallmagazine.net- we would love to see your designs too!

Beeb Design

Beeb Etsy shop

Comments

[RobbieLee at Chickiedee]

These are so sweet!

[Andrea]

I love the eyes - they make these sweet little guys look so intense

[Shauna]

What a great Etsy shop, and what a great craft! I posted it on my blog and linked it back to you.
Thanks,
Shauna

[Max California]

Oh my goodness these are too cute! It's been so cold here, and I didn't even think of making eggs for breakfast, but now I do, just so I can dress them up like this!!

[las sandalias de ana]

ohhh, so funny!!!

;)