Weekend Projects

I was so lucky to get so much time to get so many projects worked on over the weekend. Here are a few of what I did

Yes Im still making Felt Food. Here are some Chocolate Chip cookies. Jaxon was thrilled to see them. "Chocolate Chip cookies are my favorite!" They are super simple, like all the felt food I make.
1) Cut two circles that are the same size.
2) Use some scraps to cup out some chips. I used White and Dark Brown. But I think a rainbow chip would be cute too... I may have to make some of those! Also... dont make them all round. Chocolate chips melt when you cook them and look all weird anyways!
3) Glue chips to one of the circles.
4) Blanket stitch and stuff

Yummy Dinner eh? Its Chicken Drumsticks, snow peas and pineapple rings. All crazy simple and I think pretty self explanitory... but if not just ask... Ill tell you how I did it.

And for my Friend Jeannette. here is the progress report on the car mats. This one will be Jaxon's Im still missing a few buildings that still need logos on them, and I still need to add embellishments like trees and a playground. And i still need to sew a few down. i have attached them using that iron on stuff so Im stitching them down just to make sure they stay on. Owens... well right now its just a road.... I have a long road ahead of me!

Strawberries and Bow Ties

Here are my latest creations for Jaxon and Owens Kitchen. I made Strawberries....

...and Bow Tie Pasta.
Both were crazy easy. The Strawberries took some time to stitch in the little 'seeds' or whatever you call them on the outside of the berries. But the Bowties were awesome... I made them all in 20 minutes while cooking dinner! Love when crafts go like that!

Fab Friday is now over. It as consumed my thoughts the last little while as it approached and we were scrambling to get it all finalized. I think it was a great night and very well attended. We are super lucky and have some insanely talented sisters in my ward and they were kind enough to share those talents with us.
Now that its over... Im going to get ready for christmas!

Jellybeans

I have had theses done for a while and I kept them out saying that I was going to make black ones too... but its been weeks and I never make black ones and really what kid likes black jellybeans??? So I decided that the ones I have are good enough!

I think they are super cute!

I have now started on making Strawberries... and I have been busy working on the car mats. I am thrilled with how its all coming together! My house is a bit of a disaster though.. I should clean it. This is how I typically spend my day.. I do one chore and then spend some time on crafting... plus I need to do the mom thing too! but is seems to be working for me

More Felt Food

I have been able to really get alot of this felt food done this week. As long as my boys keep sleeping through the night (knock on wood) Ill be able to stay up a little later and get some crafty time. Which I will need in order to get it all done!
  This is what Ive been working on lately.

Toast with Peanut Butter and Jam

(Ive seen this done with purple grape Jelly, but I like red Strawberry jam better!)

All the fixings for a black forest ham sandwich

Ham slices, lettuce, cheese slices, and tomatoe slices

The bread was the trickiest part to figure out... I took me some thought to figure out how to make it 3-D... but Im thrilled with how it turned out!

Pop Tarts

I loved pop tarts when I was growing up... now I see the boxes and cringe a little... I dunno what happened. but I figured they would be super easy to make and fun for the kids to play with so I threw together some felt Pop Tarts. Arent they AWESOME! Im thrilled with how they turned out!
This is how I did them!
1) Cut Tan felt into 4 1/2 in x 3 in rectangle. You need two of them!
2) But smaller wavy retangles in various colors for frosting.
3) Add Sprinkles. I have seen people sew on little beads... but I thought that could be a choking hazard so I just used embrodery thread and random added sprinkles to the frosting.
4) Glue frosting to one of the tan retangles. (I used a hot glue gun.. I love my hot glue gun!)
5) I then flipped that piece over and glued a little square around a small amount of stuffing to form the "filling"
6) Blanket stitch the edge to give it that toasted look!

SUPER CUTE... I sure hope my boys and their cousins love this felt food as much as I do when they open it at Christmas!

Gyoza

If you have been reading this blog then you know of my love for asian flavours! So now that I am frantically trying to bust out as many felt food before christmas... since Im using some of them as gifts... I thought lets so some asian food. My favorite it Gyoza (aka Japanese Potstickers). So I made some. These were super simple. All I did was use the same circle pattern for the oranges, but on a cream colored felt. Blanket stitch and stuff. Done and Done. (Tim says they look like perogies... but perogies are gross... so Ill call them Gyoza)

ok... I as going to post my mother's recipe for gyoza... she makes the best (even my uncle who lived in Japan for a couple of years agrees) but I cant find it... Ill have to ask her for it again.

The Return of Felt Food

No I haven't given up on my love of felt food... Ive just been trying to get these Citrus slices done. They are super easy, like all the felt food as been, they are just insanely time consuming. But I love how they turned out. (bytheway... Im making a few extra sets if anyone is looking for an inexpensive christmas gift! :P)

I made the Oranges, Lemons and Limes all the same way.
First I cut out a circle ( I made the Limes smaller then the Lemons adn Oranges because I wanted them key lime-ish) Then I folded that circle in half and blanket stitched it and filled it with stuffing. Then I cute a smaller circle of white for the pit and cut that in half... then I cut little triangles out of whatever color I was on (yellow, orange or green) and stitched it onto the white. Then I used the glue gun to attach the white to the larger circle. Took me forever! But its done! I think they are awesome! Makes me miss summer!

More Felt Food!

Who out there thought I had given up on my felt food obession?!?!? Well... I didnt! I have just had to put myself on a crafting schedule because I was focussing only on the felt food and all my other ideas and projects werent getting done. So its sad I know but I have a daily schedule of what I canwork on on a given day.
So here is the latest felt food I have made... Potato Chips! I think theyare awesome! They are super easy too but take alot of time.
 
First I made the bags.. super easy... I cut two rectangles out of red and blanket stitched around three sides of them. Then I added self sticking velcro to the unsewn edge so the bag could close. then I hot glue gunned on a dark blue strip and a light blue circle.
Then onto the chips... all I did was cut two imprefect circles/ovals... something chip shaped... and then blanket stitched them together. This was the time consuming part. My bags held about 15 chips and I made 5 bags total... so thats alot of chips!
I think they are adorable and well worth the time it takes. Most of that time I was playing scrabble or watching TV anyways... why not multitask!?

Felt Carrots!

Here are the felt carrots I made last weekend. They are crazy simple! I used the pattern at
http://imakestuff.typepad.com/i-make-stuff/2009/07/how-to-felt-carrots-.html
The only thing I did differently is I did all my stitching by hand... I think it makes a more authentic look because I dont know about you but ive noticed; its pretty rare for mother nature to make straight lines.

Bacon

I love love love bacon. I am allergic to the nitrates in bacon and even that doesn't stop me from consuming more then my fair share of magical food. It's wonderful. Since I love Bacon so much I knew I had to make some has a started my Felt Food extravagonza.

All you do is cut two pieces of dark brown felt into a bacony shape (Ive seen it done with red as well... but I like the brown) Then glue some white onto one of the browns for the fat. (I used scraps from the egg whites) then blanket stitch the two browns together. Voila! Bacon!

Now Im off to story time and bed hopefully since I feel miserable! I was hoping to be a crafting machine this weekend but this sore throat and achy muscles is killing me! hopefully tomorrow is better and I can let my creative side out!

Eggs

I was trying to wait to post this until I had the bacon done... but I just couldnt wait any longer... I think they are just too darn cute! I have made felt eggs! Sunny Side Up!

I think they are good enough to eat!  I love making them because they are just so easy to make.

1) Cut two egg whites out of white fabric

2) Cut 1 circle out of yellow (yolk)

3) use a glue gun to attach the yolk to one of the whites leaving a little space for stuffing the yolk

4) Put a small amount of stuff in the yolk and then use the gluee gun to seal the rest of the yolk

5) Blanket stitch the two whites together..

Done and Done!

I must say I have fallen in love with this blanket stitch!

Spinach!

So my new obession with felt food continues. I figured after making Ravioli and cookies I should make something extra healthy... so I made Spinach. Im planning on making lots of other veggies too but these little leaves seemed like they would be pretty easy. And they are. I also figured the since I wasnt going to be pinking the edges I wanted to do a blanket stitch to mke them look cute and complete. So then I had a problem.. I dont sew... not even a little. So I have another new love; the internet. I found a great site that taught me step by step on how to blanet stitch.. now I know Im not pro but I think Ive done pretty well for a self teach 2 days ago!
I had thought about trying to teach myself to use a sewing machine but I like the look of the blanket stitch and I can do it while I watch TV in the evenings once he kids go to bed... ok in the afternoon while owen naps and Jaxon watches Spongebob (once my kids are in bed I am in bed!)
these are super simple
1) Just free hand a pattern (If I can do it so can you!)
2) Cut Two leaves out of dark green
3) on one of the leaves hand stitch some veins
4) Blanet stitch them together
Done and Done!

Im Obsessed

I have discovered the felt food band wagon and I have jumped on board. I am in love! They are super cute and incredibly simple to make. I am having a blast thinking of fun new foods to make. these are going to make wonderful chrismas gifts!
So far Ive made the Raviolis that I posted earlier and now I have made these super cute sugar cookies. They are so easy.

1)Make two different sized heart patterns (I used cookie cutters for mine)
2) Cut two bigger hearts out of light brown and one smaller heart out of whatever color you want the frosting to be.
3) Using cross stitch thread; stitch little lines randomly all over the colored heart for sprinkles
4) Using a hot glue gun; glue the colored heart to one of the brown hearts
5) Glue 2/3 of the way around a the heart and attach the seccond brown heart.
6) Stuff with a little stuffing and finish gluing the edges together.

I think Ill try to teach myself a blanket stitch for my next food I do... my list of ideas just keeps growing faster then I can turn them out! If only I could get paid to make felt food.... hmmmmmm now there's a thought!

Ravioli

Ever since I found the idea to make play food out of felt I have been obessed with the idea. I think its the cutest thing ever! So I have started to make a bunch of it for Christmas gifts.I know I will have to teach myself how to use my sewing machine (that idea scares me!) but for now I have made some no sew Spinach and Cheese Raviolis... I love a glue gun! And I think they are adorable!

I think they turned out pretty darn cute and they were so simple. Ready here is how its done!
1) Cut two pieces of green or orange felt into 2- 3inchx3inch square
2) Hot glue gun around the edge of one square
3) Place a cotton ball in the glue square
4) Top with second square.
5) Cut edge with pinking sheers.
VOILA!
next Im thinking all attempt cookies...and I have a whole list of other plans... so if you have ideas or super cute patterns send them too me! PLEASE