I’ve been making a ton of felt food to give to little Sesame for Easter. She loves playing with her toy kitchen but she doesn’t have any food to play with! That needs to change. There are lots of great pictures and some free patterns for felt food on the internet (as well as a ton of awesome patterns you can buy.)’ I’ll share all the resources I used, and show you all the cute food I’ve made, once I get it all finished. For now, I have a tutorial for you so you can make felt orange slices too.
Most of the time that I’ve working with felt, it’s the recycled sweater kind but for this project, I used regular craft felt.
Supplies:
orange and white felt
white embroidery floss
orange thread
stuffing
This picture shows the pieces I used to make 3 orange slices. You only need one piece of each to make one slice. The shapes are pretty simple so I don’t think you really need a pattern. The white circles are 7 cm in diameter and the orange circles are 6 cm. (I like the metric system and it’s more accurate so there you go.)’ The orange peel pieces are 9 cm point to point and the width is 2.5 cm at the widest point.
Sew the orange circle to the top of the white circle. Don’t worry if it’s a little uneven, or not perfectly centered. This is fruit you’re making so a little wonkiness adds realism.
I separated the white embroidery thread in half and used 3 strands. All six strands looked too bulky to me but you can decide for yourself. Sew 3 straight lines across the orange piece as shown.
Fold the piece in half as shown so that the white lines form the orange’s sections. Hold the peel piece in place and begin sewing it down. I started sewing it towards the end of one side, as shown, because that allowed me to leave a good spot open for stuffing it later.
When you get to the point of the peel piece, fold the circle piece down and keep on sewing.
I sewed the pieces together using a simple whipstitch. Easy-peasy!
leave an opening and fill with your stuffing of choice. You can use poly-fill, fabric scraps, or my material of choice- tiny pieces of felted sweaters left over from making my etsy items. Make sure you get the stuffing all the way in the little pointy corners, then finish stitching it closed.
Enjoy your soft, fuzzy oranges!
This is so cute! Thanks for sharing the tutorial
Great tutorial, they look so easy! I can’t wait to see all of the food that you made.
so cool. I love play food. Great work!
Oh my goodness!
So adorable!
these are adorable. thanks for the tute!
I love these and thanks so much for the tut. I am not a genius when it comes to creating. I need to rely on patterns and others marvelous talent. thanks so very much.
ohh I LOVE THIS and it make sit look so easy!! WOW!
These are so cute! I really want to make some food for figlet- I’ve been thinking knit items, but the felt ones would go much faster. Thanks for the tutorial- looking forward to seeing what else you make!
OOOHH thanks for the tutorial I just got a big box of felt from american felt and craft and I have been itchin for a project!
thanks so much for this! i googled how to make felt orange slices and here i am
i couldn’t figure out the shape of the peel
and you made it so easy! thank you!
These are adorable! Thanks for this fantastic tutorial! I’d love for you to link this (and any other felt projects you’d like to share) up at my Felt Food Roundup on OneCreativeMommy.com. I hope to see you there!