Posts Tagged ‘dollhouse’

Sweet Dollhouse Treats

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Treats

Things have been a little slower around here since pennyloaf came along, but I have been working on some tiny felt dollhouse food. I’m planning on sugary treats and a farmers market basket full of vegetables. I’d like to draw up a pattern and instructions for them and possibly sell patterns or kits on Etsy, but I’ve had similar goals before. This time for sure! Always an optimist. :-)

So far I’ve made ice cream cones and an ice cream cone holder that looks sort of cake-ish, and a cake (with, um, a cupcake embroidered on it…) and a cupcake and some cupcake tops that need bottoms. Lots of tiny hand stitching, and since it’s dollhouse scale (the cake is an inch across) it’s easy to carry around to the playground.

I’d like to add some plates and cookies and a box for the cupcakes. Then of course there’s lots of photos and instructions before I can call the project ‘done’. We’ll see.

Felt Kitchen Beginning

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Things have been pretty crazy around me for the last couple weeks, we’re staying with my parents-in-law, and have been working hard to get through my sister-in-law’s wedding.  The last guests left the house this morning, so now I have a little time to leave super slow dial-up-land and get down to the local library for some much needed high bandwidth time.  :-)

I’ve been super busy, but weekend before last we had a 3+ hour drive to go to my husband’s cousin’s wedding (yes, and two weekends from now we’re going to my brother’s wedding, crazy crazy) so I had some time in the car to do some sewing.  My daughter got a really fabulous Plan dollhouse from a friend for her belated two year birthday a couple weeks ago, so I got a good shot of inspiration to revive my doll house furniture crafting love.  This time with a little help from a Japanese crafting magazine/book I picked up last time we were in Tokyo.  Here’s the sweet felt kitchen I want to make from it:

Felt Kitchen Plans

So here is how far I have gotten:

Felt Kitchen Props

I haven’t counted how many pieces are in the kitchen set, because I would get too discouraged. I doubt I will make them all, but I will at least make the sink module. It took me three hours just to make the little box with handles though, because I wanted to add lots of extra stitching to make the corners, inside and out, square. But life isn’t about being fast, right? And patterns are just inspiration, when you make something it’s always nice to make it a little different to make it your own. Which is much easier when the instructions are in Japanese, so you have to make up half of it anyway! So I just use the basic pattern pieces, and add my own embroidery style.