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Here are the felt cucumber slices. First of all, I have to say that I really enjoyed making these felt cucumber slices. Because felt cucumber slices are pretty easy to make, you only need a small amount of felt to make them.
You can also use the felt cucumber slices as felt pickles in felt dinnerware and felt hamburgers. You can also take the template as an example and make felt zucchini slices with minor changes because they are almost the same.
Felt cucumber slices are the perfect addition and match to other felt food toys. In addition, felt cucumber slices offer a fun variety of play dishes ideal for play kitchens, playsets, or even grill sets.
I designed the felt cucumber slices and food items to be as simple as possible. However, it requires a bit of hand sewing to make the felt cucumber seeds. My article can find detailed instructions, pictures, and videos on making felt cucumber slices.
You can find the free felt cucumber slice pattern below, download it to your computer, and get started by printing it. Then, cut the felt pattern in slightly different ways to sew different-looking felt cucumber slices to add variety to your felt vegetables. After all, not all cucumbers are identical!
Felt cucumber slices can be made with craft felts in shades of green and cream, but you can also try wool-blend felts for more authentic colors and playability. Typically, cucumbers have many different colors, so you can create your dream felt cucumber slice by choosing different colored felts.
Felt cucumber slices are a simple hand sewing project that requires only three types of stitches. You can also make a felt cucumber slice using the blanket stitch, the whip stitch, and the French stitch. If you don’t know how to do the blanket stitch, French stitch, or whip stitch, you can learn the felt stitching details by browsing our embroidery guide.
Given the shapes, the felt cucumber slice is easy to cut by hand. You can also review my article “How to Cut Felt Patterns and Felt Templates,” which contains information on cutting your felt patterns. In this way, you can perform the felt cutting process faster.
After preparing the felt cucumber slices, you can add other felt vegetables and fruits to your collection. In this way, you can enlarge your garden, basket, or food playset.
Felt vegetables and fruits are great toys for your child’s educational purposes. I’m sure they’re exciting and fun and will add a lot of joy to people’s lives.
Skill level: Novice friendly, beginner-friendly.
Completion Time: It takes about 30 minutes. On the first try, it may take a little longer.
Finished size: approx. 2′ (4.6 cm)
Tip: After you’ve sewn your felt cucumber slices, roll them in your hand to smooth out any seams and lumps.
Helpful Note: Felt is a textile product that presses natural or synthetic fibers together. Some felts are incredibly soft, while others are stiff and strong enough to be used as building materials. I typically use 2 mm – 3 mm thick acrylic felts in my work. While washing, I didn’t have any shrinkage or elongation issues, but some soft felts may have such problems. You can get to know the felt you use better with trial and error.
You can find the free Felt Cucumber Slice pattern at the bottom of the article and download it to your computer.
You can also learn more about felt types by reading our article “What Are the Felt Types?“
Warning: We all know that children have vivid imaginations. Some children can actually bite the felt food, and especially young children can suck the felt toys by putting them in their mouths. But, of course, we do not want our children to swallow the residues of industrial production. So, don’t forget to disinfect the felts before starting DIY felting projects.
Tip: I use sewing needles as fine as possible when sewing felt toys or vegetables. Because when you use a thin sewing needle while sewing felt, the points where the needles sink are not very obvious, and sewing felt is much easier.
Tools Required for Sewing Felt Cucumber Slices
- Craft
- and Detail Scissors
- Embroidery Needle
- Flat Pins
- Wooden Stick or Skewer
- Cutting Machine – Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (Optional for cutting template shapes.)
Materials Required for Sewing Felt Cucumber Slices
- Wool Blend Felt – Dark green, light green, cream, and white felt colors.
- Embroidery Thread — Colors similar to felt dark green, light green, cream, and white are suitable.
- Polyester Fiber Filling
How To Make Cucumber Slices from Felt?
To make cucumber slices out of felt, you need 2 round felts, 10 tiny droplet felts for cucumber seeds, and a darker green strip to surround the cucumber slice. You do not need to use any glue in making felt cucumber slices. I do not recommend using glue anyway.
- Print the felt cucumber slice pattern on the printer.
- Place the felt cucumber slice pattern on the felt and cut the felts according to the pattern.
- Fix the felt pieces you cut to each other with the help of a needle so that they do not slip while sewing.
- First, separate the round pieces you cut from dark green felt and the droplets for seeds.
- For cucumber seeds, place the droplets cut from 10 pieces of white felt in the middle of the round slices and sew them.
- Sew the droplets in the middle of both round pieces.
- To sew a strip around our cucumber slice made of two-piece felt, first, start sewing on one round piece.
- Then add the other piece to the round strip and sew.
- When sewing two round pieces, leave a small space before joining them. This void will come in handy to fill the fiberfill.
- Fill the fiberfill into the gap you left and close the gap by sewing.
- And your felt cucumber slice is ready! Bon appetit 😊
You can educate your little ones by adding felt vegetables and fruits to your games. You can also help your children develop an awareness of healthy eating with felt vegetable and fruit toys. Felt vegetables and fruits will be an indispensable addition to your children’s play kitchen. They will enhance the enjoyment of imaginary games.
Also, your kids will enjoy playing with all these felt vegetables and fruits while learning the shapes and colors of vegetables and fruits.
More Felt Fruit and Vegetable Projects: Of course, these are not the only options for making your own felt vegetables and fruit. If you want to add more felt vegetable and fruit toys to your collection, try the following fun projects:
- How to Make a Felt Banana
- How to Make a Felt Cucumber
- How to Make a Felt Eggplant
- How to Make Felt Strawberry
Making toys from felt fruits and vegetables is accessible to DIY projects requiring minimal sewing skills. However, basic sewing skills are all you need to make felt patterns a reality.
All the felt toys I share and recommend to you are sewn by hand and do not require a sewing machine. With these easy, do-it-yourself felt patterns and simple instructions, you’ll be able to finish this project idea in no time, and you’ll eventually have beautiful felt fruits and vegetables to show for your efforts.
You may want to print the patterns on a more rigid material to make the felt pattern last longer. Then, you can draw the design by tracing the shapes on the felt using a ballpoint pen on the hard material. Secure the felt before cutting after removing the pattern to prevent the layers from shifting.
The felt pattern files that can be downloaded are PDF and A4 in size. To view PDF files, you will need Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is available for free download from Adobe’s website.
If you prefer larger or smaller items, use a copier to enlarge or reduce the size of the pattern before cutting it out.
Yum! Happy Felt Food!
