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 right 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 right side 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!
Michelle (Utterlyscrummy) says
July 30, 2010 at 6:15 amWhat 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)))
Red Ted Art says
July 30, 2010 at 6:25 amHurray! 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…
jfb57 says
July 30, 2010 at 7:32 amYou are such a clever lady! A whole bag of groceries?!! You could use these to hold long hair in like scrunchies!
Rachael (Tales from the Village) says
July 30, 2010 at 7:29 pmOh these are just fab! I love them. Yum!
threeundertwo says
July 30, 2010 at 10:50 pmOh what fun! I love felt food. Thanks so much for linking up to Finished for Friday.
Bethany @ The Paper Pony says
July 31, 2010 at 10:01 amThese are some great tips… next time I attempt these- it will go so much smoother because of this. Thank you!
Anne says
July 31, 2010 at 11:56 pmThose look great! I made some felt cupcakes this week, so I’m on a bit of a felt food kick at the moment. 🙂
Red Ted Art says
August 1, 2010 at 6:43 amOooh felt cupcakes sound good! Did you post any instructions? Would love to see them!! Maggy
Jen @ Team Awesome says
August 2, 2010 at 8:59 amVery cute!! Felt food is adorable!
Red Ted Art says
August 2, 2010 at 11:29 amGreat to have “someone to make these for” 🙂
Kaysi @ Keeping It Simple says
August 2, 2010 at 6:39 pmSo fun!!
Staci Johnson says
August 2, 2010 at 7:02 pmThose are deliciously cute!!! Love that idea;)
Jill says
August 3, 2010 at 7:50 amJust 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!
Red Ted Art says
August 3, 2010 at 8:07 amHi 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.
Scraps says
August 3, 2010 at 2:29 pmSo cute! These would be great as favors for any sort of bruch get-together, in “flavors” to match the theme.
J. Hill says
August 4, 2010 at 12:18 amThanks for linking up to the Mad Skills party!
Clara @ amieggs says
August 4, 2010 at 12:06 pmthose are really nice!!!! thanks =)
nicegirlnotes says
August 4, 2010 at 5:17 pmI 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!
Red Ted Art says
August 4, 2010 at 8:36 pmOh 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
Audra says
August 8, 2010 at 9:34 pmADORABLE!!! SOOO AWESOME!
I’m going to be featuring this tomorrow!
Red Ted Art says
August 9, 2010 at 7:50 pmThank you! Have updated my post!! Much appreciated!
Audra says
August 9, 2010 at 1:00 pmJust 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
Red Ted Art says
August 9, 2010 at 7:46 pmOh how fabulous! Thank you so much! Have updated post with a featured button! Thank you. Maggy
amysb963 says
August 9, 2010 at 9:56 pmThanks for joining us at “AP Tuesdays!” @ New Nostalgia! Hope to see you again tomorrow!
Rose @ Walnut Acre says
April 29, 2011 at 6:23 pmI love the idea of using plastic bags as stuffing!
Briana says
April 30, 2011 at 1:46 amI have not done donuts yet, but fried eggs are super easy! good luck on your quest. 🙂
angie says
May 2, 2011 at 6:39 pmgood enough to eat but nice that we can look at it with no calories
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karen says
May 3, 2011 at 8:20 pmPerfect for my sons kitchen- I hope he doesn’t eat them! Come and share this at Workshop Wednesday!
@mummiafelice says
May 5, 2011 at 10:21 amLove love love these!!! How clever!! I’m hungry now lol!!
Thank you for linking up!
Lakota [Faith Hope and Charity Shopping] says
May 5, 2011 at 11:37 amOoh another lovely idea – these are fab! Following now so I can see what else you come up with
Lakota x
Julie says
May 5, 2011 at 7:15 pmThose make me hungry but they are super stinkin’ cute!
Michelle Willow says
May 6, 2011 at 6:26 amOh… I hate sewing! 🙁 But I sooo wanna make these! :)))
nicolette @ momnivores dilemma says
May 12, 2011 at 1:42 amThe question is…are they gluten-free donuts? lol…
Great idea!
Thanks for linking to Creative Juice. Hope to see you back again this week…
Red Ted Art says
May 12, 2011 at 5:33 pmHehehe most certainly gluton free 😉
Jenny says
November 22, 2015 at 8:45 pmThese are great! I have to make pancakes for work, do you think this same rule will apply, minus the hole in the middle of course?
Red Ted Art says
November 23, 2015 at 10:34 amYes sounds great!
Red Ted Art says
November 22, 2017 at 3:03 pmMy pleasure!! 🙂 enjoy!