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30 July 2010 34 Comments

I am on a mission to make a whole grocery bag full of Felt Food for Pip Squeak’s 1st Birthday – so far I have one Gingerbread Man, 8 gorgeous Strawberries and 3 donuts (or doughnuts, depending from which side of the pond you are visiting)! I am yet to make some Cream!!! Here I will show you How To Make Felt Donuts – 2 with sprinkles and 1 with icing.

The basic donut is always the same, the only thing that differs, is the decor! I am also pretty certain you can follow my steps below and use a sewing machine, I chose to hand sew!

Here we go:

Materials: 2 circles of donut colour (cream or brown), 1 circle of icing (blue, pink, brown), thread to match circles of felt, beads or embroidery thread for sprinkles, extra thin strips of felt for icing donut, stuffing (I used plastic shopping bags), stencil of sort – cut out of card, or I used a lid slightly smaller than a CD and the thread bobbin

Step 1) Cut out three circles the same size. Cut out three holes in the centre. I used once a tupperware lid for the circle and a thread bobbin for the centre. Make sure centres are aligned. You may find it easier to make a card stencil first to make sure they all match perfectly

Step 2) Fold single colour (i.e. icing) into a quarter and cut a wiggle line. Open, trim a little if needed, but don’t cut away too much.

Step 3) For sprinkles sew on beads/ “nuts” first,then attach the icing onto one of the donut pieces (cream felt) with a running stitch. For the Choc& Nuts: Do French Knots – shown how to here. I LOVE the French Knot Donut the most as it is VERY tactile and safe for my one year old (better than the beads, which are dangerous, she will not be allowed it at first). For the swirly icing, I found it easier to sew on the pink first and then add the swhirly bit: A very thing strip of felt sew on with a running stitch. The felt may break, so be very gentle.

Step 4) Put the wrong sides together. I found it helpful to use pins to hold the central hole into place – avoiding any skewing/ misalignment. Sew all around the edge, leaving a 1-2inch gap

Step 5) Turn inside out

Step 6) Sew centre, I used a blanket stitch, but I am sure any stitch will do

Step 7) Stuff

Step 8- Sew gap shut. Again, I used a blanket stitch

Like I said, my favourite is the “Choc & Nut” Donut, as the French Knots are very tactile and safe for 1yrs olds!

Enjoy playing!

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34 Comments »

  • Michelle (Utterlyscrummy) said:

    What a fabulous idea! My 3 girls (aged 3, 7, and 10) could all help make these, great school holiday craft. Thanks heaps for posting it. MWAH! :o )))

    # 30 July 2010 at 6:15 am
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Hurray! I bet the 10yrs old in particular would like this (I remember making things at that age!). You could even do it with the sewing machine…

    # 30 July 2010 at 6:25 am
  • jfb57 said:

    You are such a clever lady! A whole bag of groceries?!! You could use these to hold long hair in like scrunchies!

    # 30 July 2010 at 7:32 am
  • Rachael (Tales from the Village) said:

    Oh these are just fab! I love them. Yum!

    # 30 July 2010 at 7:29 pm
  • threeundertwo said:

    Oh what fun! I love felt food. Thanks so much for linking up to Finished for Friday.

    # 30 July 2010 at 10:50 pm
  • Bethany @ The Paper Pony said:

    These are some great tips… next time I attempt these- it will go so much smoother because of this. Thank you!

    # 31 July 2010 at 10:01 am
  • Anne said:

    Those look great! I made some felt cupcakes this week, so I’m on a bit of a felt food kick at the moment. :)

    # 31 July 2010 at 11:56 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Oooh felt cupcakes sound good! Did you post any instructions? Would love to see them!! Maggy

    # 1 August 2010 at 6:43 am
  • Jen @ Team Awesome said:

    Very cute!! Felt food is adorable!

    # 2 August 2010 at 8:59 am
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Great to have “someone to make these for” :-)

    # 2 August 2010 at 11:29 am
  • Kaysi @ Keeping It Simple said:

    So fun!!

    # 2 August 2010 at 6:39 pm
  • Staci Johnson said:

    Those are deliciously cute!!! Love that idea;)

    # 2 August 2010 at 7:02 pm
  • Jill said:

    Just found you through Sew Cute Tuesday. Great felt food! and it looks like you have many other great ideas! I’m off to explore your blog some more!

    # 3 August 2010 at 7:50 am
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Hi Jill! Thank you for your lovely comment!!! Do have a good nosey around – so much “stuff” – get lovely people to contribute amazing ideas, great if they get more visibility!!! Enjoy.

    # 3 August 2010 at 8:07 am
  • Scraps said:

    So cute! These would be great as favors for any sort of bruch get-together, in “flavors” to match the theme.

    # 3 August 2010 at 2:29 pm
  • J. Hill said:

    Thanks for linking up to the Mad Skills party!

    # 4 August 2010 at 12:18 am
  • Clara @ amieggs said:

    those are really nice!!!! thanks =)

    # 4 August 2010 at 12:06 pm
  • nicegirlnotes said:

    I need to make these, definitely! What else are you going to make?

    One of my girls turns two this month, so I’d love to do a kitchen/fake food set. The felt food is always so much more appealing than the plastic stuff at the stores.

    Thanks for the tutorial!

    # 4 August 2010 at 5:17 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Oh yes fabulous! Do make some! Only have the Strawberries (which I LOVE!) and the Gingerbread at the moment – http://redtedart.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/how-to-make-felt-strawberries-cream-gingerbread-men/

    Haven’t quite decided yet what else to make… mmmh. Have a great cupcale tutorial this Friday, but isn’t “felt food” as such…

    Maggy

    # 4 August 2010 at 8:36 pm
  • Audra said:

    ADORABLE!!! SOOO AWESOME!
    I’m going to be featuring this tomorrow!

    # 8 August 2010 at 9:34 pm
  • Audra said:

    Just a reminder that I featured you today! :)
    Thanks for linking up!!

    http://simpsonizedcraftsandthensome.blogspot.com/2010/08/socialize-with-me-monday-til-sunday_09.html

    # 9 August 2010 at 1:00 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Oh how fabulous! Thank you so much! Have updated post with a featured button! Thank you. Maggy

    # 9 August 2010 at 7:46 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Thank you! Have updated my post!! Much appreciated!

    # 9 August 2010 at 7:50 pm
  • amysb963 said:

    Thanks for joining us at “AP Tuesdays!” @ New Nostalgia! Hope to see you again tomorrow!

    # 9 August 2010 at 9:56 pm
  • Rose @ Walnut Acre said:

    I love the idea of using plastic bags as stuffing!

    # 29 April 2011 at 6:23 pm
  • Briana said:

    I have not done donuts yet, but fried eggs are super easy! good luck on your quest. :)

    # 30 April 2011 at 1:46 am
  • angie said:

    good enough to eat but nice that we can look at it with no calories
    come see me at http://shopannies.blogspot.com

    # 2 May 2011 at 6:39 pm
  • karen said:

    Perfect for my sons kitchen- I hope he doesn’t eat them! Come and share this at Workshop Wednesday!

    # 3 May 2011 at 8:20 pm
  • @mummiafelice said:

    Love love love these!!! How clever!! I’m hungry now lol!!

    Thank you for linking up!

    # 5 May 2011 at 10:21 am
  • Lakota [Faith Hope and Charity Shopping] said:

    Ooh another lovely idea – these are fab! Following now so I can see what else you come up with

    Lakota x

    # 5 May 2011 at 11:37 am
  • Julie said:

    Those make me hungry but they are super stinkin’ cute!

    # 5 May 2011 at 7:15 pm
  • Michelle Willow said:

    Oh… I hate sewing! :( But I sooo wanna make these! :) ))

    # 6 May 2011 at 6:26 am
  • nicolette @ momnivores dilemma said:

    The question is…are they gluten-free donuts? lol…

    Great idea!

    Thanks for linking to Creative Juice. Hope to see you back again this week…

    # 12 May 2011 at 1:42 am
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Hehehe most certainly gluton free ;-)

    # 12 May 2011 at 5:33 pm

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