Needle Felted Easter Egg Bunny, Perfect Beginners Project

Create your own needle felted Easter Egg Bunny

I created the kit for this cute bunny rabbit from a selection of fibres from my website. Links to the materials can be found below

Supplies

Full kit contents available here - https://www.tregaverfibreshop.com/product/needle-felted-easter-egg-bunny-kit

Separate items -

https://www.tregaverfibreshop.com/product/uncarded-cream-core-wool-for-stuffing-and-felting

https://www.tregaverfibreshop.com/product/wool-scraps-for-accenting-or-stuffing-and-core

https://www.tregaverfibreshop.com/product/mixed-breeds-curly-wool-10g-greens

Step 1: Get Ready to Create!

Gather your supplies

For this project you can buy the entire kit above, or you can use your own fibres

Set out your piles of fibres:

Pile of core

Pile of scraps

Carded wool - cream

Carded wool - dark

Green locks

Step 2: Create Your Base Egg Shape

Cut one leg from an old pair of tights (pantyhose)

Roughly felt the core into a ball shape - there's no need for finesse at this point!

Take around 8g of the wool scraps, wrap the ball with them, then place the ball in the tights - you'll need to keep back 2 grams for detailing the feet, ears and flowers.

Put the ball in the hottest wash in your washing machine.

Once it's finished, peel it out of the tights, and while it's still damp, squeeze and work it into an egg shape, rather than a ball.

If you prefer, at this step you can needle felt the entire egg shape, rather than creating one in a washing machine

Step 3: Separate Your Carded Wool and Make the Legs/feet

Split your carded wool into 6 sections, you'll need 2 equal size amounts for the legs/feet, 2 equal size amounts for the ears, and 2 small sections to add later for the nose and tail.

Work on the legs/feet - roll each piece of fibre into a sausage shape, then felt it so it's a little tighter.

Then create a wedge shape at one end - this will be where you attach them to the egg body

Once you are confident they are the right size and shape, you can felt them onto the bottom side of the body

Step 4: Create Your Ears

Taking the 2 longer pieces of carded wool you have left, create 2 loops as per the photos

Create 2 ear shapes by felting the fibre together.

Then take a small amount of your leftover wool scraps and create the inside of the ears, then attach ears to the body

Step 5: Add the Feet Details, Nose and Check Your Project

Taking some of the wool scraps, I added a bit to the front of the feet. This helped match the look of the ears to the look of the feet. - nb you'll need a little bit left over for the flower garland.

Take one piece of your remaining carded cream wool and create a bean shape for the nose.

Take a tiny piece of the dark carded fibre and create 2 eyes, and add the detail of the nose to the bean shape.

At this stage, just place these items gently onto your bunny rabbit, and check that you are happy.

I noticed here that the eyes are much too big for the project, so I ended up taking them both off again, cutting one into half and using each half of one piece for an eye