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Let Mom and Dad sleep in - the kids are having toaster pastries for breakfast! Laura of @sonicstitches is here with a felt food tutorial that is sure to bring back happy childhood memories. With this customizable tutorial, will you make the same flavors as Laura or do you have a family favorite? We've got Strawberry and Brown Sugar in our pantry right now...
POP! Is there any more nostalgic 1990s sound than a toaster popping up a delicious and colorful pastry? Now you can sew your own toaster pastries using felt! This beginner-friendly project is easily customizable to fit into any toy toaster, and you can even change the felt colors to create your favorite toaster pastry flavor. So turn on your favorite Saturday morning cartoons and get ready to create this classic 90s treat for the kid in your life!
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: One hour per toaster pastry
The supplies above will make the four different toaster pastries shown in this tutorial. If you have lots of felt scraps, those can be used to make the frosting. The toaster pastry flavors shown in this tutorial are Strawberry (white frosting), Cherry (pink frosting), Wild Berry (purple and blue frosting) and Brown Sugar (brown frosting).
Directions:
This project is fun because it can be adjusted for the size of any play toaster. To customize the size of your toaster pastries, measure the length and width of play toaster opening. Use those measurements to cut Base and Frosting pieces.
1. Begin by cutting two pieces of 4 ½ x 3” pieces of Shortbread felt for Base pieces of each toaster pastry. Cut one 4 ½ x 3” piece of colorful felt for each toaster pastry frosting. For Wild Berry toaster pastry, cut two frosting pieces.
2. Next, cut eight 4 x 2 ½” pieces of Peltex. Then cut four 4 x 2 ½” pieces of wool batting.
If you are using custom measurements, cut Peltex and wool batting to ½” shorter on each side than felt pieces cut in Step 1.
3. To create Frosting, trim around all four sides of colorful felt pieces in organic waves to create a natural look.
4. Trimmed Frosting should be about ¼” shorter on each side than Base pieces, as shown below.
5. For Brown Sugar toaster pastry, clip Cinnamon felt Frosting to one Base piece. Using a whip stitch and coordinating thread, secure Frosting to Base.
6. Next, make Wild Berry Frosting. Create a squiggle, as shown below, using a disappearing ink marking pen.
7. Cut along marked lines. Wild Berry Frosting should look like image below.
8. Clip Cerulean squiggle to Malbec felt Frosting. Using a backstitch and coordinating thread, stitch along center of squiggle.
9. Next, clip Wild Berry Frosting to one Base piece. Using a whip stitch and coordinating thread, secure Frosting to Base.
10. Add Red seed beads to Tellina felt Frosting using a thin embroidery needle.
11. Clip Cherry Frosting to one Base piece. Using a whip stitch and coordinating thread, secure Frosting to Base.
Repeat Steps 10 and 11 to make Strawberry Frosting (using White felt and Rose Quartz, Citrine, Clover, and Lilac seed beads) and stitch it to one Base piece.
12. The frosted side of the toaster pastries should now look like this:
13. Next, iron one piece of Peltex to each Base - both frosted and unfrosted. The Peltex should be ironed to wrong side of frosted piece and either side of unfrosted piece. The Peltex gives the toaster pastries a realistic rigid and flat feeling.
14. Layer each toaster pastry with unfrosted piece at bottom (wrong side up), followed by one piece of wool batting, then frosted piece (right side up) as shown below.
15. Clip layers together. Clips are highly recommended over pins for this project because the layers are very thick and will bend pins.
16. Sew around entire toaster pastry using a blanket stitch. Repeat with remaining pastries until your set is complete!
Thanks to Laura for designing and writing this tutorial! You can follow her on Instagram @sonicstitches or visit her website. Stay tuned for more tutorials!
