Corn on the Cob felt food

Remember a while back when I was making felt food and decided I would make corn on the cob as my next felt item? I decided to follow this tutorial:

Felt Corn on the Cob by While Wearing Heels

I may have had one of those run before you can walk moments again.

It's not that the technique is particularly difficult, it's pretty simple and very well explained. It's just that it takes quite a long time compared to the other felt food projects I had already done. I sewed the whole thing by hand too, just because I'm too lazy to set up my sewing machine for a little bit of one coloured thread. Also, I didn't realise before I started that my two sheets of yellow felt weren't quite the same shade of yellow (and this project does use a lot of yellow felt) so that doesn't quite match. Oh well, it's only going to get chewed to pieces by the baby when he's a little older, so I'm trying not to dwell on it.

But anyway, despite me taking forever and being ill-equipped, I think this turned out quite well. Not bad for play food!

Baby Food

We're nearing the 6 month mark in baby Andrew's life so thinking a lot about food. But not the edible kind! You may know I have form when it comes to making pretend food if you've seen my miniatures post, but those are not at all suitable for young children. But a couple of months ago I was given a bag of felt, so the obvious thing to make was play food. I already had lots of different coloured thread and wadding in the house from my patchwork supplies, so off I went.

Here are the first few things I have made for Andrew. He's probably a bit young for them now, so I will save them for next Christmas onwards. So far we have a slice of bread, some cheese, lettuce leaves, tomato slices and a fried egg.

I hand sewed everything, primarily because I am too lazy to change the thread colour on my sewing machine just for a couple of lines! I am pleased with how neat most of it came out.

My favourite thing so far are these tomato slices. They were quite fiddly to cut out but I think they look pretty good. The photo doesn't show it well, but I used two different colours of felt so the inside contrasts a bit more.

Some of these I just made up as I went along (how hard can it be to make a slice of cheese?) but for some of them I followed online tutorials. There are hundreds out there, so I won't bother putting my own methods up. Here are a few good sites if you're interested in making your own felt food, just click on the name to go to their blogs.

Pieces by Polly I followed her slice of bread tutorial, great tip on how to stuff it!

Apartment Therapy Lots of different foods by type, from different sites. 

While Wearing Heels I plan on making her amazing looking corn on the cob soon!

Felt Corn on the Cob by While Wearing Heels

I fear this could very quickly become an obsession. I hope Andrew enjoys playing shopkeeper/chef.