The Felt Food Craze — by Guest Mom Lindsey Rose Johnson

Have you joined the felt food craze?

A few weeks ago while I was reading one of my favorite craft blogs, Make and Takes, I was drawn to these adorable felt sugar cookies.



I went right out the next day and bought as much felt as I could so I could make my very own. Unfortunately, all of that felt is still sitting in my craft box. (I'll get to that eventually, too.)
Marie, the talented and crafty mom behind Make and Takes, did us all a favor — she also posted a splendid tutorial complete with pictures so we can make our very own!

One of Marie's readers was inspired by the same post and posted a picture of her own felt gingerbread cookies. They are just as darling.

As I was at Michaels buying felt, my daughter helped me compile a list of other felt food we could make. Then I headed on over to Etsy once again to see what other inspiration I could find.

I was stunned by the infinite pictures of felt food I found. And every time I go back, there are even more examples and more things to buy.

Here's a few of my favorites:


Pepperoni Pizza from Vivikas


Poptarts from Sweet Confections


Stone Soup Veggies from ForEvelyn


Complete Breakfast from PinaKoala


Cafe Deli Sandwich and Chips from DoodleBugFinery


Fruit Slices from Umecrafts (instructions and patterns available, too!)


Pasta with Shrimp from GoBuggy

Feel inspired yet? I surely do. But if you need more inspiration here are some links worth checking out:

Ask Design Mom: Felt Crafts answered by Cindy from Skip To My Lou
Lilly Bean Market
The Handmade Felt Food Pool on Flikr
Retroragswi's Felt Food
Play Food from Mahar Drygoods
Have You Felt Food? from The Land of Nod

And, this book will be available in June 2008:


My Favorite Felt Sweets by Joie Staff