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Felt Strawberry Tutorial

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1. Trace circle onto red felt making a circle roughly 3 or 4 inches wide.

2. Cut out circle, then fold in half and cut again. Giving you two semicircles. Each semicircle makes one strawberry.

3. Fold one semicircle in half again and stitch down straight side leaving 1/8” seam. (I’m using green thread for demonstration purposes and I prefer to machine stitch this edge but you can hand sew it too) 4. Now flip right side out (so seam is on the inside of the cone) and beginning at seam edge baste all around circumference. I prefer to hand stitch this.)

5. Stuff and draw basting stitches to gather top. Secure with french knot. Don’t cut thread.

6. Do a criss cross stitch across the top pulling in the gathers so the stuffing doesn’t show. Secure with a french knot but still don’t cut thread.

7. Using green felt cut strawberry top shape. I like mine to be irregular so I cut them freehand.

8. Attach top to strawberry using previous thread. I do a series of criss cross stitches in the middle, then secure the leaves by slip stitching halfway through the green felt in a 1/4” circumference from the centre.

Secure with a french knot and bury thread in side of strawberry. Pull and cut thread.

9. Lastly, using two strands of yellow embroidery floss stitch tiny seeds around strawberry.

10.Sprinkle with sugar (or in my case dog hair) and serve at room temperature.