Felt Food Tutorial – Broccoli & Cauliflower

4 Aug

Everyone knows how important it is to eat your veggies! Help your little ones learn to love broccoli and its albino cousin cauliflower with this fun felt food tutorial. The pattern for these felt florets require some gathering so be sure to have sturdy thread at the ready!

Sturdy thread in matching colors

Scissors

Template (at the end of this post- print full page)

Fabric marker, pencil or chalk

Stuffing

Sewing needle

For felt broccoli pattern you will need:

Fresh cut grass

Cilantro

For felt cauliflower pattern:

A cream colored felt I used Buttercream but you may prefer a white or off white like Fresh Linen

Let’s start with the broccoli.

From light green felt – Cilantro

Cut 2 of your chosen stem (stalk)

Cut 1 base

From bright green felt – Fresh Cut Grass

1 top

Sew felt broccoli base pieces together using an overcast stitch matching thread, keep your stitches close together because we will be stuffing it pretty tightly. Stuff with a pencil or as you sew.
Sew base onto bottom after stuffing with an overcast stitch and matching thread.

Now for the tricky part. Mark outlines on patterns using chalk or permanent fabric marker. Sew a loose running stitch along each of the “veins” pulling tightly before knotting and moving to the next marking. Keep all the knots on the marked side – this will be the inside.

This will become trickier as you go but I believe in you!

Your felt broccoli should look something like this when you are done.

Run a gathering stitch around the outside of the film broccoli crown pulling lightly as you go.

Place the completed base into the inside of the felt broccoli crown piece. Pull to fit and run your needle through at a few different angles for a snug fit.

Ta Da! I knew you could do it!

For the second style base stuff the felt broccoli stalk as you sew.

Add base and the same way you did with the previous felt pattern.

The felt cauliflower is made with the exact same pattern but using a cream colored felt. You can vary your “vein” stitching, the size of the top or length of the base as desired.