GENERAL SEWING TIPS WANTED! Anyone know ANYTHING about felt food? Tips, patterns, advice, pictures to help me?

I really want to make felt food (hand-sewing, I've yet to get a sewing machine), and I've found quite a few sites that will help me, but I just want some tips on general sewing too, because while felt food is kind of comical, it's just plain old sewing techniques that I REALLY need. I want to make a donut from felt and I've already made one (crediting http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/de鈥?/a>


but I want to make a cruller. The flowery donut? I know it exists:


http://5.pro.tok2.com/~mic/image/donut/f鈥?/a>


They have tonnes of cool felt food (this persons a genius!) and they have books and patterns and sets, but one I can't ship them to where I live (Australia) and two it's not even included in the set. If anyone can give me an idea on how to do that bunching up thing that'd be awesome.





I've just typed 900 characters describing. Please help!GENERAL SEWING TIPS WANTED! Anyone know ANYTHING about felt food? Tips, patterns, advice, pictures to help me?
To do the ';bunching'; you would use a gathering stitch or make pleats.


Anyway I'm including a couple sites that may help with basic sewing stitches and technique.


OK here's a site that is an old book from the 1800's that they used in school to teach girls how to sew. http://www.vintagesewing.info/19th/1892-鈥?/a>


And here is a ';modern'; site. http://www.needlepointers.com/ShowArticl鈥?/a>


And when you get your machine here is a site to help you out http://www.craftandfabriclinks.com/sewin鈥?/a>





Good Luck and happy stitching.








P.S. working with felt always turns out better if you're hand stitching anyway. A machine pulls a bit too much. Especially if you're using inexpensive felt.GENERAL SEWING TIPS WANTED! Anyone know ANYTHING about felt food? Tips, patterns, advice, pictures to help me?
It's weird that I stumbled onto your question. I answered a question yesterday on a group that I belong to about free felt food patterns. Soooo... here ya go. Maybe this will help. Good Luck!





http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php鈥?/a>


http://simmy.typepad.com/echoesofadr...d鈥?/a>


http://kwoozy.blogspot.com/2006/06/t...n鈥?/a>


http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/project...d鈥?/a>


http://www.makeandtakes.com/felt-sugar-c鈥?/a>


http://www.makeandtakes.com/stuffed-fabr鈥?/a>


http://blog.mlive.com/runningwithnee...e鈥?/a>

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