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Easter Bunnies Free Cross-Stitch Pattern

March 17, by Sarah White. Leave a Comment

Decorate your home for Easter with these cute little bunnies – you can use plastic canvas to turn them into charms, keychain pendants or even fridge magnets!

The free pattern designed by Nadezda Gavrilenkova uses the DMC color palette, the recommended canvas count being 14. A single bunny is 18 by 36 stitches, or about 1.4 by 2.8 inches. The patterns are mostly whole cross stitches, with backstitching used for facial features and to outline the bunnies.

You can stitch them on regular canvas and cut them out, or use plastic canvas for a bit more durability. On regular canvas you could make them into little ornaments for an Easter tree, patches to wear on a jacket, or stick a magnet to the back.

The plastic canvas version would be great as a keychain or a magnet, or if your kid loves backpack bling as much as mine does, make it into a pin or add a hook so they can attach it to their backpacks.

You could also just stitch it on regular canvas and not cut it out for a cute mini frame project. Or stitch a bunch with different patterns and frame them together!

The pattern is available as a free download from Wizardi.

You can find more cute Easter bunny cross stitch patterns here. Or mix up your minis and add some of these little Easter cross stitch patterns along with this one to make your own little sampler or to decorate the edge of an apron, add to napkins for the table, or use in any other way you like! (Here are even more Easter minis for you so have fun playing with all these little patterns.)

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What are ORTs and Why Do People Keep Them?

If you’ve been around the cross stitch community for long, you might have come across the word ORT. It’s commonly used as a acronym for “old ratty thread,” but what it means is the little leftover bits of thread when you’ve finished a project.

If you have a little thread still on your needle when you’re done stitching, that’s and ORT.

Of course you can just throw that little bit of thread away, regardless of whether it’s a usable length. And I’m sure a lot of people do.

(I’m not one of those people, though. I keep my little threads, the extra yarn from weaving in ends on projects, tiny scraps of fabric, etc. and use them as stuffing in projects.)

Why would you want to keep ORTs? I’m sure other people use them as stuffing. You can also just keep them in a jar because they’re pretty. I’ve seen people make Christmas ornaments by putting their ORTs in a glass ball ornament with the year on it. I’m sure there are other options.

One thing you should never do, as this post all about ORTs from Sirious Stitches reminds us, is to put them out for birds. It’s a tangling and choking hazard and the bright colors could actually attract predators.

That post mentions both the stuffing and Christmas ornament idea, and it has lots of cute pictures of other ways to keep/display/use ORTs so they aren’t just cluttering up your workspace. Which I admit mine do from time to time as well, though I do have a dedicated jar for all the threads (sewing machine thread, too), yarn ends, fabric bits and such that I try to load things up in.

How about you? Do you keep your ORTs? Had you even heard of such a thing before today? If you do keep them I’d love to know what you do with them!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches.]

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