Learn How to Make Some Fabric Apples #Craft 33

Fabric Apples #Craft

Start by using a felt pen to mark around the bowl edge onto your fabric.  The best size of bowl or plate is 8″, but it depends on the size you would want it to be.  Mine was actually about 9″ and the apples turned out great.

Once you have as many as you wish marked, you can then use your scissors to cut the pieces out.  The edges do not need to be perfect, since you’ll be sewing it up and hiding that part near the end.

Next, using your needle and thread (with whatever color you wish), start making a running stitch along the edge of the whole piece.

Continue on this all the way around, until you meet up with the knotted end of your thread.  Once you have that, pull it apart gently to even the stitches out, being sure to leave your needle and thread in, since you’re not finished with those yet.  😉 

When you get all of the stitches even, you can then start to pull the thread with the needle to close up the top a bit.  It’s best to do the prior task to just make sure that the edges are even and that it doesn’t jam up on a certain side, etc.

After that, you can start stuffing your apples.  The type and amount you use is completely up to you.  My husband and I had one of those decorative pillows on our bed that was just getting too messed up by the sun, etc., so I just cut it open and got all of this stuffing out of it (and for many other craft projects in the future 🙂 ).  You’re welcome to use whatever you wish, I just like to recycle what I already have. 🙂

Once you have it stuffed as tight as you want it, you can then tighten up the end stitch and run the thread through the top a bit to finish it up.  Then just knot it and clip your thread as close as you can to the top of the piece, to finish it.

Now you can insert a piece of the tree branch or limb that you got from your yard…or neighbor’s yard 🙂  for your stem.  Just trim it to however big you want it to be, either before or after it’s in there.

Next, I used my Cricut to cut out some thin foam leaf shapes to decorate the “stem”.

Using some glue dots, I just glued the leaf onto the stem.  I tried to make sure that they were not all going the same way to add a bit of difference to the bunch of fruit.

After that, just display them as you wish and enjoy the smiles that people give you when they see them…or the weird look when they try to bite into them…just kidding!!

Hope you like it!  Please take a minute to leave me a comment and let me know what you would do different, or what you would add, etc.  Be sure to tweet, pin, share, etc. – thanks!!

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