Soft Sculpture And Stuffies

A site to talk about my soft sculpture and stuffed toy creations, paper doll artwork and tarot card art in progress. All are creative endeavors for selling at Medieval events.

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Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

I'm a science fiction fan from wayback, artist, soft sculpture toy designer and cat owner.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Those Felt Food Tutorials Online - Pumpkin Pie

Last fall I wanted to make some fall specific cat toys, did a lot of looking around on the internet and under the 'images' in a google search I found pumpkin pie slices that looked pretty nifty.   I could get the right colors in polar fleece and felt, and gave it a try with the pattern I found on this site:
http://smashedpeasandcarrots.com/felt-pumpkin-pie-with-whipped-cream-tutorial/

The whipped cream dollop makes the entire thing work!  Without it there's not as much oomph.  I know that there's another way to do the whipped cream, it's with a sort of flower starburst that you do a gather with on the tips.  Here's the tutorial:
http://helloashleyann.com/?p=377

Between the two, the more NATURAL look is the whipped cream from the first website.  I tried both, then went with the first one.  The only issue is to make sure your white square is large enough when you start, do it too small and it's not very impressive.  Putzing with the stitching on it does take almost as much time as machine sewing the rest of the pie, so there is a certain amount of time that has to be taken to make these.  They're not very quick items to make.

I had to size the original pattern down, since the pattern dimensions make for a real life standard pie slice.  That's just too big for a cat toy.  Making them smaller increases the 'cute' factor.  They use felt for both colors, but if you use orange polar fleece, that gives it a more soft/silky look.  But either way works.

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