Flat Bunnies

Last year I made this 35 ½” x 35 ½” table centre piece. As Easter is approaching fast, I thought it would be fun to publish this pattern. I made my table topper using Angela Yosten’s Flat Collection for Moda but it could be made in pastels or bright, spring prints, reflective of the season. While I used a fabric pen to draw faces on my bunnies, I have included instructions for embroidery.

The digital pattern can be found in my Craftsy Store or in my little e-shop.

Lots of room in the centre to practice your free motion quilting skills.

If you make Flat Bunnies, please add #FlatBunnies tag to your social media posts. I love to see what everyone is making.

I had the pleasure to meet Angela Yosten when I was at Market last year. When I found out that Angela was releasing her first collection – Flats – I just had to ask Angela if she would send me some off cuts to make a small project to showcase the fabrics.

Not only did I receive a parcel of scraps but two of Angela’s fabulous patterns and these amazing perspex ‘pointy’ and pressing tool set.

Easter was approaching so I decided to combine the Flat off cuts with whatever was in my stash and create a bunny themed table topper, which is based on a pattern I designed back in 2011.

The bunny border is a paper pieced (foundation pieced) using three 7″ blocks to make the corner and border pattern. I even used the instruction panel to make a feature border in the centre.

I drew bunny faces rather than embroider to keep the project subtle and ‘flat’.

The topper was quilted with Aurifil 50wt cotton thread in 2805, 2265 and 2886 using a combination of digital patterns. Aurifil has even produced a Flats cotton thread box filled with gorgeous cotton threads to match the collection.