Embroidered Bunnies Tutorial

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Tools And Supplies:

  • felt fabric
  • toy stuffing
  • doll eyes
  • embroidery floss
  • needle and thread
  • small scissors

These little felt bunnies make for amazing pocket pets, or hanging ornaments and will fit perfectly in an over-sized plastic Easter egg for your springtime Easter egg hunts. They are perfect on their own as little cute felt bunnies. But I feel like their charm really comes to shine when you add some sweet embroidery!

It’s your choice as the crafter as to whether you prefer to embroider the bunnies before you sew them or after. I usually embroider them, free hand, before sewing. But you could also choose to trace your pattern onto the felt and pop it into an embroidery hoop. Some even like to embroider the bunnies after they’ve been sewn.

For the purpose of gently guiding you through this project I’ll start with just a general bunny sewing tutorial, followed up with the four embroidery patterns shown here on the bunnies. It’s all up to you as to what order you’d like to complete the project, or if you’d like to add embroidery at all! 

Begin by cutting all of your felt pieces as directed by the bunny sewing pattern. The easiest way to cut felt is with a small sharp pair of scissors. For the greatest precision you could choose to trace the pattern pieces onto the felt, iron some wax paper to the felt then trace onto that and cut, or tape the pattern pieces to the felt with some wide clear tape, cutting through both tape and felt simultaneously

Begin by cutting all of the pattern pieces from your felt fabric.

Install safety eyes by poking a small hole and inserting the back post of the black plastic doll eye. Fit the small clear washer over the back of the post to hold the eye in place. Some may need glue to help hold in place. You may clip the end of the post shorter if you’d like.


To create ears, trim along the dotted lines indicated on the “main body” piece ears. Fold the ear inward and stitch in place. Match the “front of face” piece to one side of the main body and stitch in place. Switch to a running stitch when moving past the ear.

Sew the front of face piece into place and tie of your stitches. Create a tail by sewing the two tail pieces together along the top curve. Fold the tail inside out so the stitching sits on the inside.

Match the two “main body” pieces together and pin in place, sandwiching the tail between the two layers and pinned into place at the base of the body. Begin sewing the layers together starting at the front of the neck and ending at the base of the tail.

Pin the front of body piece into place and begin stitching from the tip of the toe along the entire front until you
meet the opposite toe.

Stuff the head and front limbs first. You will want to use a dowel or chop stick to push the stuffing into the head. I like to use a tooth pick to push small amounts of stuffing into the arms. Fill the rest of the body up to the top.

Match the “Bottom of Bunny” piece into place and pin. Stitch along the entire outer edges until you have only a small opening left. Use the small opening to push in any more stuffing needed into the tips of the toes and bottom. Sew the opening shut. Viola! Start on your next bunny!

Bunny Embroidery Tutorials

Blue and White Floral Embroidery

  1. Split some green embroidery thread down to 3 strands. Make one long vertical stitch, followed by three or four shorter stitches. These will be your flower stems.
  2. Create a lazy daisy stitch at the top of one of the small flower stems.

3. Create a triangle shape just over the lazy daisy stitch by placing two diagonal stitches to create the bottom parts of a flower bud.

4.  Create lazy daisy stitches at the tops of all of the other short flower stems.

5.   Switch to some colored thread, split to three strands, and create a small X at the top of the largest flower stem. 

6. Send the needle and thread from the back of the felt to the front, exiting at the bottom left side of the X.

7. Push the needle downward through the felt from the top right of the X to the bottom right. This will in turn double up the thread on one side of the X.

8. Double up the X again by crossing over and sending the needle front to back at the top left side of the X, crossing under the second layer of thread on the X. 

9. Create a small daisy chain stitch above the smaller flower bud stem.

10. Switch to white (or lighter/different colored) thread and split the embroidery floss down to two strands. Create a small white X in the middle of the flower. Fill in the middle of the daisy chain on the small flower bud stem.

Flower & Mushroom Embroidery

  1. Split some green embroidery thread down to 3 strands. Make one long vertical stitch. This stitch will become the flower’s stem.
  2. Create two lazy daisy stitches at either side of the long stem. These will be leaves.

3. Create 2 more, smaller vertical stitches along either side of the larger flower stem. Place
     a lazy daisy stitch at the top of each of the smaller stems.

4. Switch to a different colored thread/floss and split it down to two strands. Create a cross shape with two simple stitches. Create an X over the cross, creating a small sunburst.

5. To finish the flower, switch the floss/thread color. Split the thread down to 2 strands and create a small X at the center of the flower.

6. Create a series of very short stitches stacked one on top of the other to create mushroom stems.

7. Switch to a red embroidery floss and split to 3 strands. Create the mushroom tops in the same manner as above, stacking stitches one on top of the other, making the stitches slightly shorter as you go.

8. Use a white embroidery floss split down to 2 strands to stitch in tiny dots onto the mushrooms.

Cone Flower Embroidery

  1. Start the embroidery by splitting your thread to 3 strands and creating 3 lazy daisy stitches in a small group. Fill each of the stitches in with a couple of straight stitches.

2. Split a different colored floss down to a single strand and begin making vertical and diagonal stitches at the top of the daisy “petal” embroidery. Repeat all of the stitching to create a second flower next to, and a tad lower than the first flower. 

3. Switch to a green embroidery floss and split to 3 strands. Create a long stem stitch at the bottom of each flower. Create 3 diagonal stitches at the bottom of the stem with a single strand of floss, to create leaves on the stem.  

4. Switch to a different shade of green and begin creating very small vertical and diagonal stitches to create strands of grass.

Floral Bunny Embroidery

  1. Choose a green colored embroidery floss and split it down to three strands. Begin by  creating three simple vertical stitches to create a flower stem. Make a wide V shape at the top of the flower stem with small simply diagonal stitches.

2. Create two very small lazy daisy stitches at the top of the stem at either sides of the V shape. Create two more lazy daisy stitches further down the stem to create leaves.

3. Switch to a different colored embroidery floss for the flower petals. Split the thread down to two strands. Create three lazy daisy stitches at the top of the stem. 

4. Switch to yet another, complimentary color of embroidery floss and split it down to two strands. Fill in the middle of each of the flower petals.

5. Create two more flower stems with a series of tiny back stitches.

6. Switch to a white floss and split it to two strands. Create a series of stitches at the top of the newly created flower stems.

7. Create a series of French knots at the tops of the white flower stitches. 

8. Repeat the creation of French knots for both series of stitches to create two flowers.