DIY Christmas: Felt Food - T-bone Steak, Corn on the Cob and Ribs

I didn't make any tutorials or anything for my felt food, because there are A TON of tutorials out there and if there isn't, well, it's pretty easy to figure it out for most stuff!  I'll include whatever links I used to help you out :)

I used wool felt as it is far superior to the acrylic stuff you can find in most craft stores.  I won't get into why it's better other than it's sturdier and will last a lot longer.  So for the effort I'm putting in to make this stuff, I want it to last.  

I got mine from Christmas Keepsakes on Etsy.  She has a great assortment of colors, reasonable shipping and the felt is wonderfully soft and so easy to work with!

The ribs were the most fun to make!  I included a magnet on each side (one on the top of the left piece and one on the bottom of the right piece) and a soda or beer top on the opposite side for the magnet to stick to.  I wish I had used a darker red color for the barbecue sauce, because this red is the same as ketchup :(

I LOVE the little grill lines on the t-bone steak.  I set my sewing machine to a wide zig zag and a relatively short stitch length.  I only made grill marks and the t-bone on one side.  

The corn on the cob was a little time consuming for me to figure out.  I wanted them to look like corn sections, so there's white cob on both sides.  Since the "kernels" were woven (although there are other styles out there in blogland) and I didn't want stuffing showing through, I sewed some quick stitches to hold it all together.  A couple cobs were hand sewn, and then I got lazy and machine stitched.  I don't have a preference to which looks better, but the machine sewing was definitely faster!

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 For more felt food ideas, visit my pinterest board:  Felt Food & Play Kitchens.  There's more felt food coming up later in the week...Stay tuned!  To see the post about the play grill, go here.