More felt food

A friend of Dallin's had a birthday so I made her some felt food.

It's been a while since I made Dallin's felt food for his 2nd birthday. It was fun to pull out my felt again and make my favorite food items. Most of them are repeats from food I already made Dallin. My sewing skills have come a long way in 2 years and these looked way better than my originals.

 

The brown paper bag was a new attempt. I made it from this tutorial. I was imagining it would be more grocery sack size, but it was more like a paper lunch bag.

Dallin threw his foot in the picture to give some size perspective.

 

I am in love with this felt "paper" bag. It was such a quick, easy sewing project. I want to make a bunch of them and use them for everything: gift bags, party favor bags, actual grocery sacks...

Parade of Food

I finally got around to taking pictures of the felt food I made Dallin for his birthday. To be completely honest, I needed to finish up a few more little pieces before showing it all to you. (And it took me 2 months to finish those pieces.) But you'll love 'em!

First off: Breakfast!

And it's happy to see ya!

I love the idea of the 3 dimensional butter (rather than just a flat square of yellow felt), but I don't love how mine turned out. I do think it gives the pancake a little something though.

For lunch: a sandwich, complete with 2 pieces of bread, deli meat, cheese, lettuce and tomato.

I think my favorite food piece is the tomato slice. I love all the detail and the little seeds.

Fruits and vegetables (not including the oranges and banana I posted about before)

The apple is probably my least favorite. It's tiny and awkward. It doesn't look natural. But I love the carrots and strawberries!

And of course, some sweets.

Chocolate chip cookies and a sprinkle donut.

Dallin loves playing with all his felt food. Well, he picks it up and shoves it in his mouth, but that's a good sign that I did a good job, right?

I have more felt and I'll probably add a few more food items to the collection over time, but it'll be a while. I'm felted out at the moment.

Right now I'll settle for making real delicious food, like homemade vanilla ice cream on top of homemade peach pie.

Felt Food

I have a new obsession.

It all started on Christmas with a present my sister-in-law made for my nephew. I was fascinated. It was so cute, so fun and yet so simple.

I knew I had to make some for Dallin. I started googling, searching craft blogs and etsy shops. I went to Hobby lobby and bought supplies. I began crafting.

Introducing my first attempt at making Felt Food.

So far I have made a banana (with a removable peel) and 3 orange slices. I love them! They're so cute and really pretty easy to make.

The banana was my first experiment so the stitching is kinda funky. My skills have gotten progressively better and the third orange slice turned out quite well. I don't know if you can tell in the picture, but my banana turned out pretty short and fat. But that's ok, I'll just say it's one of those little bananas from southeast Asia.

Here are the links for the banana tutorial and orange slice tutorial I used.

There's so much more felt food that I want to make, including pretty much everything on the list compiled at homemade by jill.

I love this felt donut from Escape Artist.

It makes me hungry just looking at it.

The food I'm making is for Dallin's birthday present (so don't tell him about it). It should be the perfect gift for him; he can play with food, but won't gag on it!