Taco Cat Toy

No picture to share yet with this one.  I've made a few felt tacos as cat toys and they turned out very colorful and sort of 'life size', which is a bit too large, so they need to be sized down somewhat.

 

The taco shell is orange felt, a 4" oval or slightly larger.  The shell is folded in half, and I cut two pieces of brown polar fleece (one for each side of the taco), I slice the curled edging off of white polar fleece (usually this edging gets tossed in the garbage) and cut it into 2" sections.  Then cut two or three round red felt pieces as tomatoes, and cut wavy edged green rectangles in a light and a dark green as lettuce.  Lastly, I cut two pieces 2" by 1" of yellow felt and slice three vertical cuts in each to represent shredded cheese.

 

The assembly goes: brown, white, green, overlap red, add yellow, then alternate green color, another red, yellow, then green again, white and brown. This arches up around the curved side, you sew on the outside of the shell edging (no turning right side out!), and when you get halfway around start stuffing the taco. Sew a bit more, add more stuffing and catnip inside. Then finish the sewing line. 

 

It's all done on the machine, there's no hand sewing involved at all.  They should not be puffy huge, just nicely stuffed.