I received this crocheted cross many years ago as a gift. It was made by an elderly lady who was bedridden near the end of her life. She could pray, sleep, eat a little and crochet. If you would like to learn how to make one just like it or similar... follow the links below to several crafters at YouTube.
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| "His Name Is Jesus" from my Bible Art Journal online here. |
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| Waiting at the empty tomb... |
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| The finished yarn and chenille stem basket. |
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| Selecting the yarn for this craft will greatly determine how your finished piece looks! |
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| Left, Cut an oval from heavy cardboard for the bottom of your chenille stem basket. Center, Use a nail to punch holes along the outer edges of the cardboard bottom. Right, Bend the ends of each chenille stem around and up through the holes. The length of these fuzzy wires will predetermine the height of the sides of your basket. |
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| Left, The wires inserted into each nail hole. Right, see what the bottom looks like. |
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| Left, I decided to glue a second layer of cardboard on the bottom of my basket to make it stronger. Center, At this point you may wish to wire the bottom of your basket with an extra wire or chenille stem if you intend to display it on an Easter egg tree. To wire the bottom push a stem up through and back down into two holes strategically located in the bottom cardboard. Right, Now continue to weave yarn in and out of every other chenille stem. The yarn you choose to use for this weave will greatly shape and affect the appearance of the basket; so choose carefully. |
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| Left, I chose to switch out my yarn types to make a stripe. Center, the bent oval stem for the top edge of my basket is the same size as the cardboard bottom, however, you could adjust this to be larger or smaller to change the shape of your basket. Right, I covered this with yarn before and after attaching it. |
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| Left, See the chenille stems wrapped around the wire edge. Right, see that I wrapped the edge of the basket again with yarn to cover the exposed stems. More Weaving Crafts: |
Directions for Making This Vintage Easter Toy: Paste the cutout on cardboard. When the paste is dry, cut around the outline of the rocking bunny toy. When the toy has been cut out, bend it back along the dotted line in the middle, between the ears. Color the toy. Cut out the flaps and bend these at the lines. Paste the two braces at either end of the rockers between the two bunnies on the inside of the toy. Now you have a fun rocking bunny for your Easter table top!
The historical Cross stitch patterns illustrated below are very
suitable for decorating articles which belong to young children; for
instance, the row of pigs could be embroidered on a bib, or, with the
addition of some other animals, might form a border that could be
applied to a nursery table cover or curtain.
A rabbit sitting between two plants might be used just as they are
for decorating some small article, or they could be repeated to form a
border design, and in that case other animals might be introduced as
well as the rabbit.
The two borders and the flower sprigs could be embroidered on any
article for which cross stitch is a suitable decoration. The sprigs
could be adapted to a collar design, repeated to form a border, or used
as an all-over spot pattern. Any plant with a definite outline can be
translated into cross stitch, and if it were small enough, could be
added to these designs to decorate a spring themed baby quilt, a small
sampler to hang in a nursery or to hand stitch a few decorative pillows
for a rocker located in the cozy corner of the baby's nursery.
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| cross stitch of bunny, flowers, pigs |
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| Fancy "egg heads" |
Description of Coloring Page: Egg heads include a traditional Dutch girl in costume, a pirate, a mysterious magician and an egg decorated with springtime flowers.