Tutorial - felt food ravioli

I'm sorry for the length of time between the felt food tutorials :(  I know a lot of you are making these as I post them and I've been feeling bad for not keeping up to date posting one each week.  I've thoroughly enjoyed reading your emails, comments and seeing the photos of everyone's felt food. 

This week's posting is an easy one (well, I think they've all been super easy, but this one is really fast). Pasta Ravioli.  Bella has been begging for me to make her some pasta for a little while now.  I was going to finish it off with a small felt bag to keep the pasta in, but then found the brown paper bag in the cupboard, stamped the title and closed it at the top with a sweet teeny tiny peg from Leslie. 

Step 1:  Cut out the ravioli (5cm X 5cm square) using pinking shears (crinkle cut scissors) for the edges.  I fancied the finish that the pinking shears gave, but you could always use normal scissors if you didn't have any handy and just have straight lines.  Remember little ones won't mind if it's straight or crinkle cut, just so long as it resembles ravioli.

Step 2:  Machine stitch around 3 edges of the ravioli.  I used my machine foot as a guide, keeping it on the edge of the felt as I sewed around.  Basically the finished machine square measures 3cm X 3cm - you could always draw this on before machining with a fabric pencil or pen if you are super fussy :))

Step 3:  Lift up your machine foot once you've stitched the three sides and carefully poke a little stuffing in the ravioli.  Machine stitch the fourth edge closed.

You now have ravioli ready to play with :))  I made 16 ravioli squares in various shades of felt (cream, soft tan and a slighter darker tan) which seemed like a nice quantity to have when we popped them in the bowl for monkey to munch on.

Before I sign off for today I wanted to share a very yummy plate of food that Martine from Belgium made using my tutorials.  They look fabuluos Martine :))

Comments

[jacqui jones]

thanks for some more felt food inspiration
that plate of food looks fantastic she did such a fantastic job

[Sherry Wescott]

These are so cute! Great idea and thanks for sharing!

:-)
Sherry

[Tamar]

oh so fab Mel im sad not enough hours in the day my girls would love these I MUST make time to make some

[Tammy Templeton]

Oh WOW Mel I love the look of the ravioli! and monkey looks rightly impressed with his dinner too LOL
:D
xxTam

[Belinda Venables]

Well well...someone is a very spoilt monkey aren't they...lol.

Thanks for the congrats too...:D

Belinda
xx

[Lori]

My monkey is jealous - he never gets ravioli! Great tutorial - fabulicious!

[kerry murray]

love the ravioli looks fab.The monkey looks pretty happy about it too.What a great job.take care Kerry xx

[Jill]

The felt food is fabulous! I love the ravioli in the cute stamped bag! What a great idea!

[Jenn]

Thanks so much for the felt food tutorials! I am loving them and will be making some of these for my little girl as Christmas presents. They are lovely and so cute!

[Shelly G.]

I absolutely love everything you come up with to do... I really need to get back to making felt foods for Hope... I don't know why I haven't gotten back to it... Your ravioli are so cute:)

[candy robles]

cute ravioli's!!

:)
candy

[Perrine]

Hello!
I really like your how to. I was wondering if I could translate it in French and add it to all the how tos as explained in my french article (http://www.petitcitron.com/index.php/form_howto.html)
Of course, your website would be quoted and there would be a link!
Thank you,
Perrine