Hot Buttered Popcorn

 

Wow, talk about not being able to downsize a picture!!!!  I tried! I really did.  The link won't let me do a reduction.

 

Ok, this below here is hot buttered popcorn - a catnip toy I did after seeing some popcorn done on the felt food sites.  They were easy, however they took a while to do, so making up 18 bags with 10 pieces each, that's 180 individual pieces. It took me two entire evenings.  ARGH!

 

I snagged a picture off Google, did up the tag, covered it with clear contact paper, stapled the tag to the zip lock baggie, and away we go.  The pieces are made with white felt cut in wavy edged circles. I did a running stitch around the bottom, stuffed in a little stuffing and some catnip, pulled it tight, stuck in an orange piece of felt for the kernel, and I also added one 'black' kernel in with each bag since you can never have popcorn without some burnt pieces in there somewhere.  Each popcorn kernel is about an inch across when done.  The wavy circles were about 3" across when I cut them out.

 

These were donated as raffle prizes for an animal seminar/movie night.  I did bags of 7 each for selling at the PurrTosa store as well.  It was an interesting experiment, but they take so darn long to do I don't think this is a regular item for me.