Felt Play Food - Sugar Cookie Tutorial

Naomi wanted to know how to make felt food... 

here is my star-shaped sugar cookie tutorial! (With sprinkles of course).

1. Make a star-shaped pattern on Microsoft Word (under "shapes") and cut it out - one of the white and one of the tan felt. In the picture above I made two so that's why there's two of each!

2. Cut out and stitch on your sprinkles - I think beads would be really cute here but I didn't have any so I improvised with little felt circles! 

3. Start stitching around the edges - I started with the inside of the tan felt (so the end of the thread stays inside the cookie). Then, I stuck in the needle in the top like the picture above, and back around the tan felt again like the picture below.

4. Once you've stitched around the edge on three points of the star, stick some batting in.

5. Finish stitching, and you have your felt sugar cookie! 

- I took the liberty of looking up other felt patterns and found this amazing blog with TONS of patterns! 

Click here to visit "Craftiness Is Not Optional" and see her felt movie snacks.

If you look to the left of the page you click on, she has other tutorials for felt food like green beans, carrots, broccoli, kiwi, french fries....etc! (I think I found a new favorite blog!)

Tutorial: Car Seat Canopy

Jamie, you wanted to know how to make a car seat cover...

here is my version!

1. Cut your 2 pieces of fabric as close to 36 inches as you can (this way you only have to buy 1 yard of your top fabric) x 40". I buy 1 1/4 yard of my bottom fabric.

2. Place the two pieces of fabric right sides together 

NOTE: if you want to applique a design onto your front (like I did with "BSU", you'll want to put that on first before step number two.

3. Cut 2 pieces for straps 3 1/2" x 15 1/2"

4. To make straps; fold them hot dog style, and sew all but one edge. Turn it inside out, fold in the open edge, and then sew around the edges (1/4" seam). I used a different color of thread here as an accent color. See picture below!

5. Now sew your two large pieces of fabric (remember right sides together) leaving about a 6 inch opening.

6. Turn it inside out, then fold in and pin the opening.

7. Sew around the edge of the whole cover and as you do so, this should close that 6 inch opening. This is where you can do a fun decorative stitch and even pick a different top and bottom color of thread to make things interesting!

8. Lastly, sew on your straps! You'll want to fold them in half and pin them 14" from the top and 12" from each side of your cover. Sew a little square to hold the strap. Sew it to all the layers of fabric! I also went over the square twice to really make sure it holds. 

- The straps are just made to be tied to your car seat. If you tie them in a knot it ends up looking really cute.

- Have fun, and be creative! You can do more than one fabric, like I've done here. Or if you only have scraps you can sew strips of fabric together until it is long enough to make a cover. Add your own personal touch!

- I made the letters by typing them in in Microsoft Word and then formating them to only be outlined, I printed them out and cut them out, using them as my pattern to cut the fabric out. I did a zig-zag stitch to sew them onto the orange fabric.

Enjoy and let me know if you have questions; I want to make sure this works for you!

Quick-Tip for Binding A Quilt

If you are binding a quilt with 2 1/2 x 40" binding strips, follow these guidelines:

Kids: cut 6 strips
Lap: cut 7 strips
Twin: cut 9 strips
Queen: cut 10 strips
King: cut 13 strips

If you have any leftovers, keep them! Label them in a gallon-sized ziplock as "binding". One fun thing I like to do with binding is cut up a lot of different fabrics (ex: different fabrics used within the quilt I am binding) and sew those together for my binding. If I have leftover pieces of binding it saves me some time!

What do you want to know?

I'm interested in knowing what you , my readers, are yearning to learn about! Is there a kind of project you'd like to get started on but aren't quite sure how? The whole point of this blog is to help YOU out, so please tell me what I can help you with. And even if I have no idea what to do... I'll be searching the web to find the best person to tell you.

Or do you have a tutorial you're wanting to share with others but don't want to start a blog or website of your own? I'll feature your tutorial and of course give you all the credit. Consider me the 'middle man'! (Please email me if interested in this option; please make sure the tutorial involves sewing).

I'd really like to cater to your needs so please please comment and tell me what you are wanting to learn!

The Yardage Card

When this card was handed to me, I decided I must share it! It's called "The Yardage Card", and as you can see it is put together by Quilters Newsletter. 

It is pretty self-explanatory, simple, and packed with information to hold in your wallet for a quick look when you're at the fabric store. The "How to Seam" figure indicates where to join fabric for the backing on each different size of quilt. 

If you'd like for this information to be in your wallet, simply click on the picture to print it out.