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Now it’s time to add felt strawberries to our felt vegetable and fruit basket. Felt strawberries are a beginner-friendly felt and craft project and are perfect for learning how to sew three-dimensional stuffed items.
To add some variety to your felt vegetables, you can cut the felt pattern in slightly different ways to sew felt strawberries with different looks. After all, not all strawberries look precisely the same! You can find the free felt strawberry pattern below and download it to your computer and start working by printing it out.
Felt strawberries are pretty easy to make, and once you’ve made them, it’s so hard to stop, you’ll want to make new ones all the time. You can easily create a bowl filled with felt strawberries. You can make felt strawberries any size you want, but this felt strawberry template is for real-size ones.
Our felt strawberry template also has two different strawberries, pointed and round. You can sew what you want, or both templates, and how they are made is the same.
In addition, you can make felt strawberries in different shapes. Still, you can also use different red felt tones to differentiate your felt strawberries from each other to get more realistic looks. Felt strawberries are a simple hand sewing project that requires only three types of stitches. You can also make felt strawberries using the blanket stitch, the whip stitch, and the French stitch.
If you need assistance with the blanket stitch, French stitch, or whip stitch, you can find the information you need by browsing our embroidery guide.
Given the shapes, felt strawberries are an easy project to cut by hand. You can also review our article “How to Cut Felt and Felt Templates,” which contains information on cutting your felt templates.
When you have finished preparing your felt strawberries, you can enlarge your garden or basket by adding other felt vegetables and fruits to your collection.
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 strawberry pattern at the bottom of the article and download it to your computer.
Skill level: Novice friendly, beginner-friendly.
Completion Time: Approximately 20 minutes. It may take a little longer on the first try.
Finished size: approx. 2′ (5 cm)
Tip: After you’ve sewn your felt strawberries, roll them in your hand to smooth out any seams and lumps.
Helpful Note: Felt is a textile made by pressing natural (wool) or synthetic (acrylic) fibers together. Some felts are incredibly soft, while others are strong enough to be used as a building material. In most of my works, I use a 2 mm thick acrylic felt. While washing, I didn’t have any shrinkage or elongation issues, but some soft felts may have such problems.
You can also read our article “What are the Felt Types” to learn more about felt types.
Warning: Children have vivid imaginations; some actually bite felt food, and even small children can suck it. Of course, we don’t want our children to consume the byproducts of industrial production. As a result, before beginning this project, disinfect the felt.
Tools Needed for Felt Strawberry Sewing
- 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 Strawberry
- 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 Strawberry?
- Gather craft tools and materials.
- Then download the free felt strawberry pattern below to your computer.
- Cut all the felt pieces according to the felt pattern you downloaded, optionally using a clipper or scissors.
- After rolling or folding the strawberry shape from the ends you cut, start sewing it together from both ends.
- After sewing, the bottom side of the felt strawberry will be closed, and the top side will be open.
- Turn the felt strawberry inside out.
- Fill the fiber from the open-top side. You might be unsure of how much space you need to fill. If you want a slightly hard strawberry, you can fill it quite full.
- After filling the fiberfill, close the top by sewing. Pull it off tight and secure with a few stitches. You can use a running stitch along the edge.
- Then flatten the handle shape by rolling it, sewing the edges, and turning it into a handle.
- Sew the strawberry stalk you created so that it is in the middle of the leaf and vertically.
- Then join the leaf and stem by stitching the leaf to the top of the strawberry.
- The last step is to sew the seeds of the strawberry into tiny ball knots with French stitch using white or cream-colored thread.
- Then continue going through the stem of the strawberry, forming more seeds. If you pull your yarn tight, you can create cute little bottoms that make it look more like a natural strawberry.
- Your felt strawberry is finished, bon appetit 😊
Making life-size felt strawberries is a quick and easy sewing project that can be used to create a toy or gift for your child or a decorative piece for your dinner table. Perfect for the beginner or seasoned professional, the felt offers a fraying edge and can be easily manipulated when stuffed.
You can train your children using felt vegetables and fruits. You can also assist them in developing healthy eating habits and nutritional awareness. Felt vegetables and fruits will be a welcome addition to your children’s pretend kitchen.
Felt strawberries can be used as a key chain or hung as a necklace and look cute, and a few felt strawberries in a small bowl add color and cuteness to your decor. In addition, your children will enjoy playing with all these felt vegetables and fruits while learning about the shapes and colors of vegetables.
More Felt Fruit Projects: Of course, these are not the only options for making your own felt fruit. If you want to add more types of felt fruit to your collection, try these fun projects.
Making felt fruit is a simple project that requires no sewing experience. All items are hand-stitched, with no need for a sewing machine. To make felt patterns, you only need basic sewing skills. You’ll be able to complete this project in no time with these simple, do-it-yourself felt patterns and instructions, and you’ll have some lovely felt fruits to show for your efforts.
If you want to print on cardstock to make a longer-lasting pattern, you can use a ballpoint pen to trace the shapes on the felt to create the design. After removing the plan, secure the felt before cutting to prevent the layers from shifting.
The felt pattern files that can be downloaded are in PDF format and are A4 in size. Adobe Reader is required to view PDF files. Adobe Reader can be downloaded for free 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!
