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Now it’s time to add a felt eggplant to our basket of felt vegetables. Felt eggplant is a beginner-friendly felt and craft project and is perfect for learning how to sew three-dimensional stuffed items.
You can find the free felt eggplant pattern below and download it to your computer and start working by printing it out. To add some variety to your felt vegetables, you can cut the felt pattern in slightly different ways to sew felt eggplants with different looks. After all, not all eggplants look precisely the same!
In addition, you can make felt eggplants in different shapes. Felt eggplant is a simple hand sewing project that requires only two types of stitches. You can make felt eggplants using just the blanket stitch or the whip stitch. Still, you can also use different purple felt tones to differentiate your felt eggplants from each other to get more realistic looks.
If you need help with doing a blanket stitch or whip stitch, you can check out our embroidery guide to learn the details.
Given the shapes, felt eggplant is an easy project to cut by hand. When you have finished preparing your eggplants, you can enlarge your garden by adding other felt vegetables and fruits to your collection.
See Also: How to Cut Felt and Felt Patterns
Felt vegetables and fruits are great for your child’s educational purposes. We are sure that they are exciting and fun and will bring lots of joy to people’s lives. Also felt can be an excellent decor or make a wondrous wreath. Bring out the creativity in you with these cute felts.
You can find the free felt eggplant pattern at the bottom of the article and download it to your computer.
Skill level: Novice friendly
Finished size: approx. 7′ (17 cm)
Completion Time: Approximately 20 minutes. It may take a little longer on the first try.
Tip: After sewing your felt eggplant, roll it in your hand to smooth out any seams and lumps.
Helpful Note: Felt is a textile where natural (wool) or synthetic (acrylic) fibers are pressed together. Some felts are very soft, but others are strong enough to be used as construction material. I generally use 2 mm thick acrylic felt in my works. When washing, I did not experience shrinkage and elongation problems, but you may experience such issues with some soft felts.
See Also: What are the Felt Types
Warning: Children have vivid imaginations; some really bite felt food, and tiny children can suck them. Of course, we don’t want our little ones to swallow the remnants of industrial production. Therefore, disinfect the felt before starting this project.
Tools Needed for Sewing Felt Eggplant
- Craft Scissors
- Detail Scissors
- Embroidery Needle
- Flat Pins
- Wooden Skewer or Stick
- Cutting Machine – Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (Optional for cutting template shapes.)
Materials Required for Sewing Felt Eggplant
- Wool Blend Felt – Grape, Violet, Plum, and Juniper colors are suitable.
- Embroidery Thread — Very Dark Blue Violet, Medium Antique Lilac and Avocado Green are suitable.
- Polyester Fiber Filling
How to Make Felt Eggplant?
- Gather craft tools and materials.
- Then download the free felt eggplant pattern below to your computer.
- Cut all the felt pieces according to the felt pattern you downloaded, optionally using a clipper or scissors.
- You can use purple felt for the body of the felt eggplant and green felt for the stem.
- To make eggplant from felt, first, sew the pieces of eggplant that you have cut into each other in order.
- Allow some space at the top and bottom of the joining process. When you assemble the felt in this way, it will be easier to fill the fiberfill.
- After the sewing process is finished, turn the felt eggplant inside out.
- Then fill the fiberfill inside the felt eggplant.
- After you’ve finished filling the felt eggplant, sew up the gaps at the top and bottom by sewing from the inside out. You can sew the ends in a round shape.
- First, roll and sew to form the handle.
- Then sew the stem to the leaf and sew the stem to the eggplant.
- Your felt eggplant is ready, bon appetit 😊
Felt vegetables and fruits can also contribute to the education of young children and help them develop healthy eating and nutritional awareness. Felt vegetables and fruits will be indispensable for your children’s play kitchen.
You may need a toy or gift for your child to use a felt eggplant, or you may consider creating a decorative piece for your dinner table. Making a life-size felt eggplant is a quick and simple sewing project, and you can use it for many purposes. Perfect for the beginner or seasoned professional, the felt offers a fraying edge and can be easily manipulated when stuffed.
Other vegetable and fruit felt patterns are also available here. Your kids will enjoy playing with all these felt vegetables and fruits while learning about the shapes and colors of vegetables.
To make felt patterns, you only need basic sewing skills. All items are hand-stitched, and no sewing machine is required.
The felt eggplant pattern file you will receive is in PDF format and is 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 like larger or smaller items, you can enlarge or reduce the size of the pattern with a copier before cutting it out.
Yum! Happy Felt Food!
