Felt Food of Yumminess « Half Pint Pixie

Felt Food of Yumminess

9 November, 2008 by halfpintpixie

NaBloPoMo 2008 – Day 9

Ok, off we go on our latest crafting adventure, felt food for Littlepixie’s upcoming kitchen. Do I have everything I need? I think so!

Felt squares in a gazillion colours …
Pattern ebook from etsy (I need some help to get started!) …
Very basic cutting and sewing skills …
Enthusiasticness and readiness to learn …

I’ll start with the fruits in my pattern ebook, so I can get a feel for what I’m doing and then I’ll go wild. I’ve had a search on the interwebs and MDC and found some great ideas, there are so many amazing felt play food sets available on etsy if you are in the mood for buying rather than sewing. But I’m in the mood for sewing!

So, on the menu are (skills permitting of course)…

Random fruits, vegetables & salad leaves
Inspired by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Tutorials: Onion, Strawberry, Orange slice
Sandwiches & pitta pockets
Inspired by 1, 2, 3, 4
Tutorial: Bread
Pizza, in slices with a base, a tomato sauce layer, a spinach layer, a hummus layer (well it is for LP after all!) and removable bits such as mushrooms, sweetcorn, sliced peppers
Inspired by 1, 2 (scroll down), 3
Cakes, buns & cookies
Inspired by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Tutorials: donut, cupcake, fortune cookies (video), cake-slice, Oreo cookie
Sushi, fish-free of course
Inspired by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tutorial: avocado maki
Pasta shapes and noodles, stirfry with tofu
Inspired by 1, 2, 3
Tutorial: ravioli
Veggie/Bean burgers, with buns & toppings
Inspired by 1 (scroll down)

Overconfident? me? Nah! Aim for the stars!

feltfoodbasket I should mention that I don’t own a sewing machine so we’ll see how I manage with just my little hands. My sewing is reasonably abominable but I’m sure it’ll improve (fingers crossed).

The plan is to fill this lovely market basket with lots of delicious looking goodies for Christmas morning so Littlepixie will have some play food for her new wooden kitchen (whenever I decide on one!). So far, there is one happy little watermelon slice (from the ebook) sitting in the basket waiting for some friends to join it! Isn’t it sweet?

For more fun felt food, have a look at this flickr pool and all these beautiful pattern ebooks here and here on etsy. Hopefully this will be a fun way to fill my (incredibly scarce) free time! If I’m any good at it, and LP enjoys my creations, then I might ask Santa for this splendid Japanese book.

And, yes, I’ll be using polyester ecospun felt, I know, I can hear the sharp indrawn breaths from all the felted wool lovers out there, but we don’t use wool in this house. On the plus side the colours are very funky and it’s made from recycled plastic.

Now, I am sure that many of you have probably made fantastic felt food, care to share any tips, tricks, tutorials or indeed any inspirational photos of your creations?

Fancy keeping track of my progress? Have a look…

~~~Week 1~~~~Week 2~~~~~Week 3~~~~~Week 4~~~~Week 5~~~

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Posted in Children, Family, General Musings, Mothering, NaBloPoMo, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, crafts, felt-food | Tagged felt-play-food, play-food | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on 9 November, 2008 at 11:41 Lisa

What a great idea!!
on 9 November, 2008 at 13:41 jumbleberryjam

I die for felt foods! We don’t have a single piece, but I drool over them and all the excellent resources you’ve put together to create them. Ecospun felt! Brilliant. I think it’s time to share them with M’s Nana
on 9 November, 2008 at 15:31 kristin

Thanks for the info. I just started knitting and assumed I’d never be able to do anything felted because of the wool. I have a skein of that ecospun and I love it.
on 9 November, 2008 at 18:41 River (Wing-it Vegan)

What a lovely little slice of watermelon! All those items from your links look so realistic! LP is going to LOVE all her little foods! You are such a rockin’ mother!!
on 9 November, 2008 at 20:12 Juliet

looking good haflpintpixie! don’t worry, I use cheap acrylic felt from the dollar store… I dream of real wool felt, but that will have to wait. Happy crafting!!!
on 10 November, 2008 at 09:22 Jeni Treehugger

This i s a fantastic idea Pixie – and judging from the Watermelon you’re gonna do a superb job.
How lucky LP is to have such a wonderful mummy like you.
on 10 November, 2008 at 09:32 halfpintpixie

Thanks girls, I’ll keep ye posted on the progression of the food stash (and my general wonderfulness, thanks River & Jeni )!
on 10 November, 2008 at 14:45 Isil

Can’t wait to see all the yummy felt food
on 10 November, 2008 at 16:19 planetjen

OMG this is great! Let us know how you get on! I was thinking of doing the same with my dd’s old clothes that I cant donate because they have stains or whatever!
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