Felt Cupcakes - Free Patterns and Tutorial

Felt Cupcakes

Six of my felt cupcakes 

Close up of the details of one of my Pink cupcakes

One of my Blue cupcakes

                              My Purple Cupcake 

I love Pinterest and I have over 60 Boards there that I have added hundreds of Pins to of Projects that I love or want to do or have done.  

I saw these cute felt cupcakes and when my middle granddaughter was having her 20th Birthday this year [2017] it was to be a cupcake theme. After the party I decided to see if there was some felt cupcakes I could make her for Christmas. 

 

Special cupcakes 

  Pretty in Pink Cupcake Birthday Party for my Granddaughter 

Three designs I found on Pinterest.  One of the reasons I make my tutorials is because sometimes the items on Pinterest are just photos and no instructions or they are something for sale at Etsy or a Flicker photo.

I always change up my designs as to not make an exact copy of what is online in case the item is copyrighted.  I do not copyright any of my designs. They are all FREE.  

The Three Pink Cupcakes I made for my Granddaughter 

Supplies

You will need felt color of your choice.  Embroidery floss, Buttons and beads of your choice.  Polyfill, pins, needles, sharp scissors.  Paper for pattern. 

First Idea from Pinterest 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/457678380874620003/



            Second Idea from Pinterest

 

I love this one the best for the two top parts. 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/457678380874247913/

                            Third design from Pinterest

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/457678380874275650/

Pattern
So from what I saw at Pinterest I hand drew my designs for my pattern.

I freehand drew the two parts and used a ruler for the base.
I decided to make them a bit larger than a cupcake that you would eat.  They are more like big Muffin size.

1.  Choose your felt colors.  Cut two of the middle part and only one of the top part.  Cut out two of the cupcake bottom.

2. Choose your buttons and other beads for the two top parts.

3. Choose your embroidery floss colors to match or contrast you color scheme for your cupcake.

My one Granddaughter loves the pink colors so I choose the Ombre design for her Pink cupcakes. 


Embroidery is next for the parts

Using two strands of floss for all the embroidery.

I started with the White top. I added the large button first so I had an orientation as to where I wanted that to be.
Next I added the crystal seed beads with the smallest needle I had. 


The middle layer

I pinned the white top layer over the top of one of the middle layers so that was oriented correctly so I knew where I could sew the buttons on.
I used two strands of floss for the buttons as well.

I sewed on the larger buttons first, then added the smaller buttons and filled in with the smaller beads.

Next attach the white top to the middle layer with the buttons at this point. I did a running stitch with two strands of floss. 

Next I made the vertical lines on one piece of the bottom layer.
Once that is done you can put all the parts together.

Using a running stitch around two sides of the cupcake bottom and sides sew the two bottom part together. I again used two strands of Floss. [See Illustration below.]

Lightly stuff both the middle and the bottom parts with Polyfil.

Next start your running stitch on the completed middle part.
Pin your middle part so it overlaps the bottom part of the cupcake so that the middle front and back cover the bottom. See back of cupcake photo below.

Start at the X A and go up and around to the top and slightly under the white part of the cupcake and down around to the X B part.

Once that is done you can finish between the B and back to the A area.

                    Back of cupcake showing stitching details

If you are going to use the cupcake as an ornament you can add a ribbon as shown here on the back side. I use the 1/8 size satin ribbon.  I use about 8 to 10 inches of ribbon.

Red Cupcakes

My youngest granddaughter loves red so she requested red cupcakes with a brown or "Chocolate" colored cupcake bottom.

Her Mom, my daughter, found this cute Corduroy type felt for the Chocolate cupcake bottom.
So I made two for her. 

This photo does make them look dark pink, however the felt is very dark red.  Note  that on the cupcake on the left has decorations in the shape of shells, circles, fish, and a butterfly. 

Here you can see how I use the tiny crystal seed beads on the top for the "sugar" they like to add on the real cupcakes. 

I had a lot of fun making these cupcakes.
I am going to make some 3 dimensional cupcakes next such as shown in this photo from Pinterest! 
Tutorial on that when I complete that project. 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/457678380874623299/

Her Blog with the pattern
http://cheriesparetime.blogspot.com/2014/01/felt-cupcake-pattern.html?m=1

I look forward to adding more of my Tutorial!
Let me know if you made any of my Tutorials and I will add your link to my blog if you wish!

Happy 2018! 

Happy New Year 2018

2017 Wrap up

                 My Christmas tree and the snow outside Dec 25, 2017


I am welcoming 2018 with hopeful anticipation.  Many on social media have expressed that 2017 was filled with a lot of tragedies.

In my own circle, this was very true. The fires in California were devastating.  My former husband and his wife lost their home in the Santa Rosa area in the #Tubbsfire.  For more information on the Tubbs Fire see this link: #Tubbsfire 

My daughter and her fiance were on the edge of the evacuation zone in Santa Rosa. I have other cousins, Aunt and Uncle and friends who were evacuated. When my daughter and my son lived in Lake county they were evacuated several times several years as I have posted before here in my blog. 

A cousin's daughter's cousin was in Labor and delivered a baby Sunday Oct 8 only to have to be evacuated from the Kaiser Hospital in Santa Rosa a few hours later early on Monday Oct 9.

I have not heard yet about my cousin who lives in the Santa Barbara area of how they or her house are doing.

Our beloved Batman Kitty has passed away.  He fell out the third story window on my son's apartment.  He must have survived because 6 weeks later they found him on the side of the road.  He had been hit by a car. He was gone.  He had a scar on his head we presume was from the fall out the window. 
Here is a photo of Batman in the flyer my daughter and son posted.  They had many who searched for him for 6 weeks. RIP our beloved Batman. 

            My son Martin holding Batman - 2011 - 2017

This was the very saddest news of 2017 for my family and friends.

There are good things in 2017 and we are all grateful for that.


My Tutorials 

I have added several tutorials this year of my craft projects.

I had intended on adding more however I had several illnesses and injuries so I got behind.  My foot was injured in June; I pulled my right thigh ligaments in August and have had some Irritable Bowel Syndrome flare ups in November.  Thankfully I am feeling almost healed from all. 

I will be working on these Tutorials this year. 

Additionally my computer had issues. It was 10 years old and was laboring hard until things would just not work.

So I was using my backup my Laptop.

I have a lot of things I backed up on CD and DVD so thankfully I have the photos for the tutorials.

So I just need to write the tutorials.

Here are some of the Tutorials I am working on.

The Felt Kitties

The first group I made were to hang on the Christmas tree. The second group people were requesting magnet for the back as shown on the white kitty on the right so they could put the kitty on the refrigerator,.


The Felt Cupcakes

This first group was made with felt and I embroidered the bottom of the cupcakes,  

These two were specifically requested by my youngest grand daughter to be all RED with "Chocolate" colored cupcake bottoms. 
My daughter found the brown "corduroy" felt so there was no need to embroider that part. 

More Tutorials coming in 2018! 

Happy New Year 2018!!!