The Felt Food Experiment
I’ve been having fun making different crocheted and knitted food for Kay the last couple weeks, so much so that I still haven’t finished the second of my pair of socks yet (though I’m finally to making the heel flap, so I’m getting there.) I decided that I might be ready to expand to felt foodies.
So I cruised around in a google search or two and found a few things to mess with, and stopped at the Hobby Lobby to pick up some felt squares to start messing with, and took my goodies to the recently cleaned dining table to play. I managed to whip up some Farfalle (bowtie) pasta pretty easily, and even a piece of lettuce or two pretty successfully. So I hopped on Etsy and bought some patterns for some veggies and fruits and yummy looking cakes.
I decided to start with a tomato that looked pretty simple. HA! Maybe its the felt, or maybe its just me. It’s adorable and it was pretty easy to felt on the seed and inner ring, but it’s just a little too round, the faces of the peices don’t set together as nicely as I think they should.
So I think I’m going to pull down my stash of regular fabric, and see if maybe I can adapt the patterns to be sewn up. I need to drag out my machine anyway to work on some toques and aprons for the new shop. So as much as I thought this would be simple, I’m sure its still going to be fun.
Maybe I’m jst destined not to work with felt outside of using it for details on standardly sewn foods. It sure would give me something unique to stock in the shop.. One at a time.
Lost Ponderings.. Thoughts in my Head 