Just the Five of Us

More Food

With Christmas and Owen's virus, I haven't been able to make much food. But I have a bunch cut and waiting to be sewn and more planned.

I didn't stuff this piece of bread, so it's a little on the flat side.

Swiss cheese and cupcake. The cupcake was pretty labor intensive. I'd still like to stitch around the hole in the cheese.

Felt Food Q&A and stuff

To answer some questions:

So is there anything inside them?
A little bit of polyfill. When I make cheese and other flat sandwich things, I may not fill them.

How did you do them?
1. Pick out felt and matching embroidery floss.

2. Cut out shape. Most of them I did freehand. I have found only one or two patterns on the web, in the links below.

3. Match up shapes. Using 2-3 threads of embroidery floss, blanket stitch the edges together.

4. Stuff with a little poly if wanted and stitch closed.

For beads on cookie--

Using thread and a beading needle, sew beads onto frosting. Then sew frosting with beads onto top of cookie. Sew two sides of cookie together.

For egg yolk--

Sew egg yolk to top of egg. Stuff a bit and sew closed. Then sew egg halves together.

I know those are pretty wretched instructions. I'm not really a seamstress, so I kind of did it on the fly. They are fun to make. My first pat of butter took me about five minutes. My second one (I didn't stuff it and I like it better that way) took about two.

Are you phasing out the plastics to be on the safe side?
Well, trying to. I use the acrylic felt from Michael's . . . if I were really diligent (and wealthy), I'd use wool. Not getting rid of everything, but the food is all pretty old and Owen chews on it a lot. Plus, the felt is so cute!

Did you read about making them elsewhere?
Handmade felt food pool at Flickr
Felt food toys
Felt doughnut tutorial
Felt cupcake tutorial
Felt food
How to sew a blanket stitch on You Tube
thread about sewing felt food
another thread about sewing food

More Food

Pita with really dark hummus

S'more

cookie, sausage (using your imagination), butter, and a better shaped egg (according to Jake, this one doesn't look like a "kidney bean with a yellow head without a face)

Felt Food

In an effort to phase out the plastic food, I've been buying Haba wooden pieces and have started making my own out of felt.

While I'm certainly not going to be winning any sewing awards, they aren't bad for my first try. I did these two pancakes and an egg in about 45 minutes. I did them freehand. Emma loves them, and she has put in requests for more.

In the plans--butter, cheese, bread, mushrooms, sausage, tomatoes, cucumbers, and pita pockets. Am making patterns for those.

VERY addicting. Like who needs dinner addicting.