A template is a printout of a design, and it's an excellent tool for planning where to stitch.

Print a template of the design from your embroidery software. If you do not have embroidery software to print templates, try Wilcom's TrueSizer, a free program.

Center the template inside the shape, and mark the center point and the horizontal and vertical axis lines.

Hoop the stabilizer and felt together, aligning the marks on the felt with the marks on the hoop.

The dieline files are marked with the letters DL. Dielines are used to cut the fabric to the right shape and size. Open the dieline files with embroidery software, and print them.

For the applique bunnies, you will need to print the dieline twice to cut out the three pieces as they overlap -- once for the outer bunnies and once for the center bunny.

Cut around the paper dieline and spray the back of it with temporary spray adhesive.

Smooth it onto the fabric.

Repeat to cut out the two other applique pieces.

We used different patterned quilter's cotton for each piece for a cute and playful look.

Use a size 11 or 75/11 sharp sewing needle, rather than an embroidery needle. A sharp sewing needle has a smaller, finer point than an embroidery needle, so that will make smaller perforations in the stabilizer.

Embroider the design. The first thing to embroider will be a dieline or outline. This marks the area for the left rabbit fabric piece.

Follow your color change sheet. Before sewing the step called "left bunny tack down," remove the hoop from the machine, but do not unhoop the fabric.

Spray the back of the left rabbit fabric piece with a small amount of temporary adhesive. Place it right inside the sewn outline.

Attach the hoop back onto the machine and continue with the design.

A tack down will sew next, holding the fabric in place.

Then a finishing satin border will sew around the left bunny.

Before sewing the step labeled "right bunny tack down," stop the machine and remove the hoop without unhooping the fabric.

Then spray, place, and embroider the right rabbit fabric piece the same as done for the left.

Repeat the steps for the third, center bunny fabric piece.

Make sure to stop the machine before sewing the step called "center bunny tack down."

Trim away the excess stabilizer 1/2" around the design.

Flip the fabric so it is right side up, and cut out the rectangle that was drawn earlier.

Draw a 1" x 9" rectangle on the felt with an air-erase pen. Cut out the shape. This will be the bottom of the front piece.

Draw a 4" x 9" rectangle on a piece of tablecloth vinyl with a pencil.

Cut out the shape.

This will be the window of the treat bag.

Now it is time to start assembling the front of the bag. Since both sides of the stitching will be seen, wind a bobbin with the same thread used in the needle.

This matching bobbin will be used to sew the entire bag.

Flip the embroidered piece so the wrong side is facing up.

Making sure to only spray along the bottom edge of the piece, lightly spray the back edge of the embroidered piece with temporary adhesive.

This will help the two fabric pieces stay together while you are sewing. Lay the vinyl piece over the back of the embroidered piece, overlapping the vinyl and the felt 1/2".

Sew a decorative stitch along the edge of the felt, binding the two pieces together.

Repeat to attach the bottom felt piece (cut to 1" x 9") to the bottom edge of the vinyl.

Make sure to lightly spray the back of the felt to hold the two pieces in place while sewing.

Also be sure to overlap the vinyl on the backside of the felt by only 1/2".

Now that the front side of the bag is complete it is time to make the back and side pieces.

To create the back piece, trace the front piece onto the felt using an air-erase pen.

Cut out the shape.

Measure the height of the front piece (this bag measures 10").

Then draw a rectangle on the felt that is the height of the front by 4" wide (so this side piece is cut to 10" x 4").

Cut out the rectangle. Repeat to make a second side piece.

Then draw and cut a 9" x 4" rectangle out of the felt to create the piece for the bottom of the bag.

Sew a decorative stitch along the top edges of the front, back, and two side pieces.

This will create a decorative border around the opening edges of the bag.

Take one side piece and lay it on the table wrong side facing up.

Lay the back piece on top of it, matching up the edge of the bottom with the bottom edge of the side piece.

Make sure the wrong sides are together. Pin in place.

Sew a decorative stitch along the pinned edge of the felt pieces.

Repeat to add the second side piece to the opposite edge of the bottom piece.

Lay down the attached sides and bottom piece with the wrong side up.

Lay the front piece of the bag onto one of the sides with the right side up (as shown). Make sure that the side is under the front and that the bottom piece comes out of the bottom of the front piece, not the top.

Match up the edge of the front to the edge of a side piece.

Pin in place, making sure not to pin through the vinyl as it will leave holes.

Making sure the top corners match up, sew a decorative stitch along the pinned edge.

When sewing the four sides of the bag, do not sew all the way to the bottom of the side's edge.

Leaving a small tab where the side meets the bottom piece will help when sewing the bottom onto the front and back later.

Repeat to sew the opposite side piece onto the other side of the front piece.

Sew the right side edges together so that the bottom piece is not twisted at all.

Repeat again to sew the sides of the back onto the two corresponding side pieces.

Pinch the bottom edge of the front piece together with the corresponding edge of the bottom piece.

Make sure the wrong sides are together, and pin in place.

Before sewing, press and hold the bottom piece flat up under the front piece, and make sure the sides are folding in.

This will ensure that none of the bag will get in the way while sewing.

Sew a decorative stitch along the bottom edge.

Repeat to sew the bottom edge of the back piece.

To make the straps, cut two 13" pieces of strapping.

Bend each piece into a handle and sew them to the bag using a decorative stitch on the front and the back. Make sure each side of the handle is 2" from each side of the bag.

If using the applique bunny design, hot glue on three white pom-poms to be the cotton tails of each bunny

Make this adorable bag for the kids to use on the next Easter egg hunt!