Easy Easter Craft - Hoop Art

For months now I have been admiring photographs on Pinterest and Instagram of Hoop Art. The use of an embroidery hoop (wooden or plastic) to create and display a piece of fabric that has an embroidery or fabric design created on it. This is then displayed within the embroidery hoop, and hung as art.

Easter Bunny - Hoop Art

My skills when it comes to embroidery are at the bottom of the skill scale, so I decided to use fabric to create my own simple but effective Easter themed hoop art. 

• I used some fabric from my scrap pile. Calico for the background and a pink polka dot for the bunny.  
• I download the bunny template from the internet, but you could use any design.
• Once cut out used a little fabric spray adhesive, this temporarily stops the bunny hopping around on the fabric.
• I sewed around the edge of the bunny with a glitter pink thread. 
• Placed inside the embroidery hoop, before trimming the fabric. 
• I hand sewed around the edge of the fabric using a large running stitch, and gently pulled the thread in order to gather the fabric at the back of the hoop. 
• Added a little decorative ribbon to hang my hoop from.

Hoop Art - Easter Crafting

The pink bunny hoop art is now displayed in my craft room,  which the pink bunny co-ordinates with perfectly.Happy Easter!