Felt Red Capia Pepper Sewing Tutorial & Pattern

Peppers are one of the most extraordinary things about autumn! Typically planted in the spring, pepper plants will begin to produce fruit for you before the summer heat arrives. So yes, as you can see, my mind is on peppers these days, and I thought about making some felt peppers for my daughter’s play kitchen.

Making red peppers from felt is a felt and craft project suitable for those new to the felt craft. Also, the felt vegetables are perfect for learning how to sew three-dimensional stuffed craft projects.

You can find the free felt pepper pattern below and download it to your computer, then print it out and start your felt crafting work. You can cut the felt pattern slightly differently to create felt peppers with a range of appearances to add some variation to your felt vegetables.

See Also: Felt Crafts for Beginners – The Complete Guide

I also made red peppers from felt, but you can also make green peppers using felt in shades of green. You can also make small red hot chili peppers by reducing the pattern’s scale. After all, not all peppers look precisely the same!

See Also: Everything You Want to Know About Felt

Felt peppers are pretty easy to make, and it’s hard to stop once you’ve made them; I know you’ll want to make new ones all the time. You can easily create a basket full of felt peppers. You can make felt peppers in any size and color, but this felt pepper template is for life-size ones.

When you have finished preparing your felt peppers, add other felt vegetables and fruits to your collection and multiply your garden, basket, or felt toys.

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• Felt Sewing Tips

Using felt vegetables and fruits for your child’s educational purposes can also be a great idea. Children can learn about food, count numbers, or learn colors with felt toys. Doubtless, felt crafts are exciting and fun, bringing a lot of happiness to people’s lives.

You can find the free Felt Pepper pattern at the bottom of the article and download it to your computer.

Skill level: Novice-friendly, beginner-friendly.

Completion Time: About thirty minutes. The initial attempt can require a little more time.

Finished size: Approx. 6′ (15 cm)

Tip: After sewing the felt peppers, gently roll them in your hand to smooth out any seams and lumps.

Helpful Note: Felt is a textile product in which natural (wool) or synthetic (acrylic) fibers are pressed together. Some types of felt are incredibly soft, while others are robust and durable enough to be used as building materials. I typically use acrylic felt 2 mm thick in my felt crafts. When washing, I had no issues with shrinking or elongation, although some delicate felts can cause you to have these problems. As a result, I advise you to be careful when selecting the felt.

Warning: Children have a very vivid imagination. Some children can bite off felt foods, especially young children can suck on them. Do not forget to disinfect the felts before starting the project so that our little ones can swallow the leftovers of industrial production and play safely.

Tools Needed for Sewing Felt Peppers

• Embroidery Needle
• Craft Scissors
• Detail Scissors
• Wooden Skewer or Stick
• Flat Pins
• Felt Cutting Machine – Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (Optional for cutting template shapes.)

Supplies Needed to Make Felt Peppers

• Wool Blend Felt – Red and green tones are suitable.
• Embroidery Thread — Similar red and green colors are suitable for felt.
• Polyester Fiber Filling

How to Make Felt Peppers?

1. Gather craft tools and materials.
2. Then download the free felt pepper pattern below to your computer.
3. Cut all the felt pieces according to the felt pattern you downloaded, optionally using a clipper or scissors.
4. Cut out the pattern pieces using the felt colors you want your peppers to be.
5. Join the ends of the main pepper pattern piece and sew them together from the bottom up.
6. When you finish sewing and unfolding the piece, it should look like a funnel.
7. Turn the piece outward and fill it with fiberfill. Thread a longer embroidery needle with double-thread sewing thread that matches the felt. Make large stitches at the top.
8. Pull firmly to close the top. Tie a double knot, but do not cut the thread yet.
9. Make a little hole in the pepper and turn it up. Insert the needle down the top of the pepper.
10. Continue sewing by going down near where the needle comes out. Sew lower on the opposite seam than you did before. Each time you come, take a pull and then grab the thread. So keep the distortion you made on the way to the next point. Do this all the way through two stitches. When you reach the bottom, return in the same way using the other two stitches. Tie your string in a double knot when you’re done.
11. Cut the stem and crown pieces from dark green felt. Pin the crown piece to the top of the pepper.
12. Using two threads of embroidery floss, sew the crown to the pepper using a blanket stitch.
13. Wrap the body piece tightly and pin it for fastening. Sew the edge to the body using the blanket stitch.
14. Sew the stem to the top using a blanket stitch.

And your finished felt red sweet pepper is ready! Bon Appetit 😊

More Felt Sewing Projects: There are other ways to create your own felt fruit than these. Try these entertaining tasks as well if you want to expand your collection of felt fruit:

• How to Make a Felt Tomato
• How to Make Felt Carrot
• How to Make a Felt Cucumber
• How to Make a Felt Eggplant

Making felt fruit and vegetables is an easy project requiring minimal sewing skills. Some basic sewing skills are all you need to make felt patterns. All the tutorials and products I share with you can be sewn by hand, and no sewing machine is required. However, you can also make your felts using a sewing machine if you want.

See Also: How to Make Felt Vegetables

With these easy, DIY felting patterns and simple instructions, you’ll be able to finish this project idea in no time. In addition, you’ll eventually have beautiful felt fruits and vegetables to show for your efforts.

Suppose you want to print your felt pattern on a more rigid material such as cardboard to create a longer-lasting pattern. In that case, you can draw the pattern by tracing the shapes on the felt using a ballpoint pen. After removing the pattern and before cutting, remember to secure the felt to prevent the layers from shifting.

I provided you with PDF files of A4 size that contained the felt pattern files. To read and open PDF files, you need Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is available for free download and installation on your computer on the Adobe website.

Before cutting out the design, you can change the pattern’s size with a copier if you like bigger or smaller objects.

Yum! Happy Felt Food!