Monday, January 25, 2010

Felt Eggplant Spinach & Tomato Lasagna

Felt Eggplant, Spinach, and Tomato Lasagna

I love making felt food - especially if it's easy, or not too hard to make.
Today I have a delicious addition to my felt food line-up that's very simple to make!
It's a felt eggplant, spinach, and tomato lasagna!
I got the idea from a yummy recipe I found here.

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Materials needed:
Red, white, off white (or pale yellow), green, yellow (goldish), and purple felt. I used felt from American Felt and Craft.
Spinach leaf template (download here)
Eggplant template (download here)
Scissors
Rotary blade (optional)
Embroidery thread (beige, dark green, brown)
Embroidery needle
Coordinating thread
2 Cotton balls
Glue gun
Glue sticks
Pins



Lasagna noodles:
1. Cut a strip off white (or light yellow felt) 4"w x 9"l and a strip 3"w x 9"l.
2. Fold the 4"x"9 felt like the picture below - you're gonna fold it sorta like window blinds.
3. Take the 3"x9" strip and fold over down the center of the 1st strip - make sure the seam is on the bottom.
4. Sew down the sides of the 3"x9" strip.
5. Flip over and hot glue the seam opening closed.


You now have lasagna noodles.


Tomato Sauce:
1. Cut (4) 4"x4" red felt squares.
2. Embroider either a fly stitch or a "V-shaped" stitch for the "herbs", and large french knots for the "meat" on all four pieces of felt. Or you could just embroidery two pieces of felt.
3. Hot glue two pieces of felt together, make sure the embroidered pieces are facing outwards.
4. Repeat step 3 for the last two felt pieces.


You now have two square sauce pieces.


Ricotta Cheese:
1. Cut out two 4"x4" pieces of white felt.
2. Carefully pull apart the two cotton balls and hot glue them to the top of one piece of felt.
3. Trim any cotton that is hanging off the edges.
4. Hot glue the pieces of white felt together.


You now have one square ricotta cheese piece.


Cheese & Shredded Mozzarella:
1. Cut out (2) 4"x4" pieces of yellow felt and 3 1/4"w x 9"l strips of white felt.
2. Hot glue the the yellow felt squares together.
3. Cut the white strips into random sized pieces.
4. Hot glue the white strips haphazardly to the top of the yellow felt square.


You now have one square cheese & shredded mozzarella piece.


Spinach leaves:
1. Cut out a spinach outline from the template. Pin to the green felt. Make sure to fold the felt so you'll be cutting out two pieces at a time.
2. Sew "veins" onto both pieces of the felt spinach and trim the threads.
3. Hot glue the spinach leaf together.
4. Repeat steps 1-3.


You now have two spinach leaves.


Eggplant slices:
1. Cut out an eggplant oval from the eggplant template. Pin to a piece of white felt. Make sure to fold the felt so you'll be cutting three pieces out at a time.
2. Cut a 1/4"w x 9"l strip of purple felt.
2. Embroidery a running stitch using the beige thread - follow the shape of the eggplant slice.
3. Hot glue all three pieces together - make sure your embroidered pieces are facing out.
4. Hot glue the purple felt strip around the edges of the eggplant slice.
5. Repeat steps 1-4.


You now have two eggplant slices.


Chopped Tomatoes:
1. Cut out (3) 1/2"w x 9"l strips of red. Then cut the strips in half.
2. Pile the strips on top of each other and cut out (6) 1/2"-3/4" (roughly) pieces.
3. Sewing through 5 cut pieces at a time, make a few small embroidery stitches using the beige thread - these are the tomato seeds.
4. Place a bit of hot glue on the bottom of the 5-piece felt set, and then put the 6th piece on top.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 (5) times.


You now have 6 chopped tomatoes.


Here are the completed lasagna pieces:


Pile them together to create a delicious Felt Eggplant, Spinach, and Tomato Lasagna!


More felt foods I've made:
Pop-Tarts
Felt Bow-Tie Pasta
Felt Agnolotti Pasta
Felt Tortelloni Pasta and Tin
Felt Valentine's Day Fortune Cookies
NO-SEW Felt Cheese & Spinach Ravioli

I hope y'all like this latest felt-food addition!

Have Fun!










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Saturday, January 23, 2010

GIVEAWAY: Felt Valentine Fortune Cookies!


To celebrate over 300 (almost 350!) followers, I'm having a Giveaway for my Felt Valentine Fortune Cookies!

TWO of my lucky readers will have a chance to win!!

I'll be giving away TWO sets (12/set) of pink and red felt Valentine Fortune Cookies along with cute Valentine take-out boxes to hold the cookies! Plus a few little surprise goodies for your little one!

It's simple to enter!

Just leave a comment telling me who you'd give the felt Valentine Fortune Cookies to on Valentine's Day!


Extra Entries:
*Leave a Separate Comment for each!*

1. Follow Treasures for Tots and leave a comment telling me you're now a follower!
If you're already a follower, don't forget to leave a comment too!
Example: I'm a stalker now!
or
I've been stalking you forever!

2. Become a Treasures for Tots Facebook fan and leave a comment telling me you're a FB fan!
Example: I'm a T4T's Facebook Fan!

3. Follow Treasures for Tots on Twitter and leave a comment telling me you're a Twitter follower!
If you're already a follower, don't forget to leave a comment too!
Example: I follow T4T on Twitter!
or
I've been a follower of T4T on Twitter!

4. Tweet about this giveaway and leave a comment (and a link) telling me you did!
Example: Check out Treasures for Tots @
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5. Blog about this Giveaway and leave a comment (and a link) telling me you did!
Example: I blogged about the Giveaway! Here's the link: www.feltfortunecookiegiveaway.com


Rules:

1. Everyone is eligible to enter - no matter where you live!
2. Giveaway ends on Friday, January 29th at 12AM (Central time).
3. Make sure to leave your email address in your comment if it isn't available through your blog or profile! I need to be able to contact you if you win!


Have Fun and Good Luck!


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Find out who won!! Click here!

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Blog Swap w/Fireflies and Jellybeans: Cute Apron & Felt Cookies!

Hello Treasure for Tots Readers! I am so excited to be blog swapping with Angie today... she had the CUTEST stuff for little ones- right!?!
Let me introduce myself!
I am Fawnda from Fireflies and Jellybeans a little DIY blog that I co-author with my best friend Jeannine.


I am a mom to a 2 year old son (Who is the joy of my life!) I am a part time math tutor for High School math and I LOVE to create!


I love sewing, paper crafts, re-purposing and generally anything crafty!



I love to take on a new project and share my knowledge with others!




Today I have a cute project for you. A cute little apron and cookies for your little baker!

Here is what you will need:
A place mat
Ribbon
A water soluble pencil
Sewing machine (with sewing tools such as scissors, thread, pins etc...)
1.) Fold the top corners down on the WRONG side of the place mat and pin.
2.) sew a 1 to 1 1/2 inch seam on the folder side of the corner. You are making a casing for your ribbon. Repeat on the other corner


3.) Flip the place mat over to the RIGHT side and fold up the bottom edge about 4 inches and pin. (I sewed ribbon on the bottom edge -the back side so that when I folded it up you could see it)


4.) With a water soluble pencil (or something washable) make vertical lines at 2 inches, 4 inches, 8 inches and 10 inches. This is to make our pocket with little slots to hold our utensils. (click on the picture to see it better.)


5.) Top sew your pocket on the edges and on the lines that you marked.

I also sewed ribbon across the top part of the apron for a little extra decoration... this is optional!

6.) Cut your ribbon long enough to go over the head and be able to tie about the back, I cut mine about 4.5 feet. Attach a safety pin to one of the ends

7.) feed the safety pin into your casing.

up and out of the top and back down the other side.


Fill it with some baking utensils and you have a CUUUUUTE gift! Use Bryssy's Freezer Paper Stencil tutorial to personalize it!






Want to make some Cookies to go along with it?
Here is what you will need:
Felt (cream, light brown, dark brown, pink and red)
Needle and thread
Stuffing
Sewing machine (optional)
1.) Cut your felt. Cut the cookie shapes (the great thing about most cookies is that they are not perfectly round!) You need 2 pieces for the cookie. The frosting is just a waving blob - you only need one piece for that. and the chocolate chips are just little rectangles.

2.) Hand sew on the chips and the frosting to one side of your cookie.

3.) Place cookie pieces RIGHT sides together and sew around the edge leaving a 1-2 inch opening to turn right-side-out and stuff.




4.) Flip your cookie right-side-out and stuff and top sew the opening closed.


You could also hand sew around the edge if you prefer that! I used a blanket stitch...I learned how to make the blanket stitch from YouTube. I just typed in "blanket stitch" in to the search line and got a ton of videos... you can learn anything on the Internet!


Serve them up on a cookie sheet!
It would be SUPER cute to cut your cookies in heart shapes for Valentines day!


Be sure to stop by Fireflies and JellyBeans for some fun ideas!

Thanks Angie for letting invade your blog today! It was so fun!

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And the ZozoBugBaby WINNER is...


Carleen!!

Congratulations!

I just sent you an email!

Please make sure to contact Julie with your mailing address so she can ship out your beautiful new ZozoBugBaby outfit!

I'd love to see pictures of your little Raina wearing her new outfit too!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated!


Please stay tuned to my Felt Valentine Day Cookies (and the cute little take-out box!)
GIVEAWAY tomorrow celebrating over 300 Treasures for Tots followers!!


Have fun!

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Thursday's Treasures: Week 6

Share your crafty ideas!

Welcome to the 6th week of Thursday's Treasures!
All ideas, tutorials, crafting projects, or recipes you've been working on are welcome!

Are you having a GIVEAWAY on your blog?
Share the news by posting a link here too!

You'll have until Monday 12AM to post your links this week.
So don't forget to post anything crafty you've been doing!!


Check out these awesome ideas and tutorials that were shared last week:

Mini Mailboxes
via Home Sweet Home



Felt Food
via Embellished Bayou



Scrap Fabric Clips
via Blue Cricket Design



The Best Valentine Projects
via Someday Crafts



Lovely Dove Skirt
via Crafty Cupboard



Felt Valentine Hairclip Giveaway
via MiaMoo Designs




Thank y'all so much for sharing!!



Guidelines:

1. Click the "CLICK HERE" link below to add a permalink to your crafty project, idea and tutorial post - not your main blog. You can enter as many links as you'd like.

However, NO links to Etsy or Ebay stores please!

2. Copy the HTML code for my feature button, and then add it to the
post or on your blog to spread the fun.

TREASURESFORTOTS



What a cool way to share tons of ideas and crafts across the blogoshere and good way to promote your blog too!


All the links that get posted before the deadline will stay up indefinitely so you can always stop by to find them again!


Have fun!



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