Have you been spending too much time in your garden lately? I know I have, which is why I was over joyed to find this blog from Vickie! You can find her website at http://www.spunsugarquilt.com/. It is filled with other fabulous ideas, and luckily I was able to round up this one! Vickie walks us through making decorative quilted carrots. It won’t take too much work and it’s a great chance to get rid of some of your awkwardly colored orange scraps, I know we all have them! These carrots will be the addition to my Easter display.
Quilted Fabric Carrots
I have been totally wanting to make some more Eastery decor items.
Since quilting is my main love I decided to quilt some carrots!
Supplies for 1 carrot:
Batting scrap atleast 20″ X 8.5″
Orange fabric atleast 20″ X 8.5″
Green fabric atleast 6″ X 12″
coordinating thread
Creative Grid 60 Triangle Ruler
Polyfil sewing needle
layer the batting and the orange fabric together and quilt a random pattern of “almost” straight lines.
take your Creative Grid Ruler and line it up with the—- side of the quilted fabric and cut out a triangle.
I folded the right sides of the triangle together as shown.
pin the edge and sew.
then turn right side out and flatten.
using a
square ruler….trim off the excess ‘ear’
stuff the carrot with polyfil.
Using a double stranded thread gather the open edge of the carrot and pull opening closed.
Finish with a double knot.
I made several carrots.
I was able to gather this nearly closed,
the leafy fringe will cover this up.
In addition, I made 4 types of green leaves.
First I used Make Life fabric 6″ X 12″ and batting.
Layered them and stitched lines as shown across the bottom.
Trim about 1/4 inch from the sewn lines.
Then cut down in between the lines to form the leaves.
Roll up the leaves and sewn to the top of the carrot.
The result is a basket of fabric carrots, super fun Eastery decor.
I was really pleased that I was able to use only my stash for this project.
I hope you are inspired to create some carrots for your Easter decor.