Felt Strawberries and Turkey and Pumpkin Hair bows

So first off is felt strawberries!!
Here's the blog/tutorial and original picture:
http://twelvecraftstillchristmas.blogspot.com/2010/05/farwell-to-felt-food.html


So cutting these is super easy, I simply traced 2 sizes of cups and then cut them in half.  The rest of the tutorial is super easy to follow but I will admit that they are kind of tedious to make.  Here is a picture of my result:

Ta Da! Easy, cute, and awesome! 

Then I needed a break from felt and sewing so I decided to make some new hair bows for Lizzie. These don't have any tutorials because they were pictures from Etsy so I just had to figure out how to make them myself.  Because this isn't linked to a tutorial I don't feel right about sharing my directions but I will share some tips and suggestions to making it easier.  

So I made a turkey hair clip first.  Here is the original picture: 

So the hardest part is making the feathers behind the turkey the right size BEFORE you start gluing them down.  Also you can't see it in this picture but I covered the clip behind the turkey in brown, but you can't really see it.  Also make sure you put both yellow feather on first, orange second and then the red so each color you add sits on top of the previous one.  The body is pretty easy- again make sure you have ALL of the pieces cut right before you start gluing.  I didn't put the beak or eyes on because that was just too tedious for me, kudos to the person that did.  So here's my result: 

Next was pumpkin bows :-) Here's the original:

This one is super easy! I simply covered the clip in green.  Then I cut 4 equal pieces and then glued them together by making loops and gluing them all at the bottom.  I'm not really sure how they make the stem with the vines coming off it but I think I did ok.  So here's my result: 

One is a little squished but still cute! 

And now I must head to bed! Good Night!! 

Felt Food- Orange Slices, Fried Eggs and a Cinnamon Roll

So yesterday I made baby bean more felt food.  I made a pair of fried eggs, a pair of orange slices and a cinnamon roll.  The link for the eggs and the orange slices are the same and found here:
http://melissagoodsell.typepad.com/day_to_day/2008/07/tutorial---felt-food-egg-orange-slices.html

Here's the original picture:
 

I'm not crazy that the orange slices are flat, I'd really like more 3D type items but they are still cute and easy so I thought I'd try them.  Here are my attempts:

So I pretty much followed the tutorials exactly for these.  The only change I made was to blanket stitch the eggs because I'm not very good at sewing curved lines on the sewing machine but I think they still turned out pretty cute :-)

Next is the cinnamon roll, also pretty easy.  Here's the original picture: 
And here is mine:

So I thought it was pretty simple so I started it while the tutorial was still loading.  I cut 2 strips about and inch and a half(one tan and one dk brown) and  started rolling them. Then when I looked at the site I saw that you are supposed to cut a strip of each color in 2 and 1/2 inches and then fold them in half.  I think this explains why mine looks kinda skinny.  So an easy fix.  What I like about this piece of felt food is that it looks really easy to customize to your desires.  I could easily make it fatter by stacking more strips to roll or by adding more strips onto the end to roll it more.  Or I could even made the strips wider to make a taller roll.  Either way I super love this piece. :-) 

Felt Play Food

So lately I've decided to start making a set of play food for Baby Bean from felt.  Its cute, inexpensive and actually pretty easy to make (most of the time).  Its going to be slow going since we're going to be moving at the same time and Baby Bean is moving non stop. But I'm going to take some time to blog a couple pieces at a time so I don't have to blog about them all at one time.

So today is doughnuts and a bag of potato chips.  Here are the links and pictures:
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2011/05/24/felt-food/


http://snazzlecraft.blogspot.com/2009/01/free-felt-food-pattern.html

(I'm working on the sandwich right now but just finished the chips)


So when I went to make the doughnuts I couldn't open the tutorial for some reason so  I just kinda made it up! Here's the result:

I cut 6 circles out of tan felt and then cut the middles out of them.  Then I sewed 2 together leaving a small opening and stuffed them with batting and then sewed the opening closed.  I cut a 3 circles- one from from felt, one from pink felt and one from white felt.  I cut them the same size as the tan circles and then trimmed a little around both the outer and inner circles.  I used a hot glue gun to attach one icing to each doughnut and then used puffy paint to add sprinkles and... Ta Da! Doughnuts :-) 

Now, the chips are actually a LOT easier than they look :-)  So I cut out the pieces for the bag from yellow felt. I actually cut it from the pattern but trimmed it down about half an inch off the bottom and off one side because the bag was really big when it was cut.  Then I sewed the two side together on 3 sides and left the top open.  I am going to add Velcro to the sides to make it fun to open. I did cut the circle from the pattern and then used puffy paint to write chips on it and then hot glued it to the bag.
For the chips I just followed the directions on the blog, just make when you cut out the chips make sure when you cut the chips out the lines are vertical :-)

Next I'll be writing about the results of the sandwich and its many pieces!

Jelly Fish in a bottle

So I tried this project a long time ago after seeing it on Pinterest.  I saw it again recently and decided to share my experience with it because it was a complete failure.  Here is the original picture: 

Looks amazing, right?

Well, here's how mine turned out:


Hideous looking!!


So.... what went wrong??? First of all my plastic bag was apparently not transparent enough to give that cool see-through look, but I don't really think that that is the major issue here.  If you look at the pictures the strips are supposed to dangle down into the bottle as the "head" floats near the top.  However my plastic bad just decided to clump at the top.  So basically its just a plastic bag cut into strips and shoved in a bottle of blue water.  Needless to say I'm NOT trying this one again.  It took quite a bit of effort with no positives to the result and no clues on how to spread the strips into the rest of the bottle.  Good luck to anyone else who tries this!