Hope is at hand! It’s the time of year we love at GUR – the worst of the winter weather is behind us (we hope), the days are getting longer and brighter. It’s time for a little more colour in our lives!<\/strong><\/p>\n With Easter rapidly approaching, it’s the perfect time to have a go at a few projects to sharpen up those sewing skills. There are lots of wonderful suggestions out there in internet land: here are a few that we’ve picked out for you to get you going.<\/p>\n These examples are so bright, you’ll need sunglasses! Courtesy of Free-Tutorial.net<\/a> – where you’ll find lots of other wonderful projects – this simple, well explained how-to will help you produce engaging fun drawstring bags in no time.<\/p>\n We like:<\/strong><\/em> getting the right shape for those ears is vital – so they provide a free bunny ear PDF template.<\/p>\n This rather cute project is a brilliant way to turn your sewing scraps into something fun! The Melly Sews website<\/a> presents a well-ordered project. The tutorial video is particularly good.<\/p>\n Top tip:<\/strong><\/em> use black embroidery thread for the face, using a satin stitch. There’s even a separate link to tell you all you need to know about embroidery stitches<\/a>!<\/p>\n We start to get withdrawal symptoms if we haven’t done a tote bag project for a while – they’re just so useful! So this one from the Sew Very blog<\/a> is the perfect excuse to combine fun and usefulness.<\/p>\n “The Bunny Face Bag is the ideal size for children, measuring approximately 11″ x 11″, and is perfect for holding books, crayons, Easter eggs, or candy!”<\/em><\/p>\n Top tip: <\/strong>“Stitch along the edges of both the Inner and Outer Ears. I used a straight stitch along the Outer Ears and a zig zag stitch along the Inner Ears.”<\/em><\/p>\n Enjoy your Easter projects – and show us how well you’ve got on on our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Choose from GUR\u2019s amazing selection of sewing machines and get free UK delivery! They have been supplying sewing machines for over 60 years.<\/p>\n Top quality manufacturers include:-<\/em><\/p>\n Set those sewing skills to work with some simple how-tos Hope is at hand! It’s the time of year we love at GUR – the worst of the winter weather is behind us (we hope), the days are getting longer and brighter. It’s time for a little more colour in our lives! With Easter rapidly […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,21,14,143,22],"tags":[44,67,144,61,145,86],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brother","category-elna","category-jaguar","category-janome","category-novum","category-sewing-tips","tag-brother-2","tag-elna","tag-jaguar","tag-janome","tag-novum","tag-sewing-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Drawstring bunny bag<\/h3>\n
DIY Easter Bunny<\/h3>\n
Bunny face bag<\/h3>\n
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