The Chocolate Eclairs

Well, no digital camera means I can't get many pictures up here - HOWEVER Gail over at Cat Faeries does carry my items and she put up a nice picture of the éclairs I make.

I use chocolate brown felt, tan polar fleece, white felt and fiberfill (plus catnip).  I waffled over how to do the cream filling out the end, experimenting with folding and twisting the felt, and came up with this which looks neat. It's a 1 1/4" circle folded in half, then the ends pushed in. I sew it right into the seam of the end. The éclairs are hand stitched closed at the other end, and everything else is done on the sewing machine.  They are 6" long and 2" wide. 

 

I'd love to do a cream puff, but the arch of the top of the puff isn't very realistic with polar fleece.