DIY Felt Lemon Craft
These adorable felt lemons are a super cute hand sewing project for spring and summer.
These DIY felt lemon are perfect to use for decorating your kitchen. Place them on a tiered tray, add a dowel rod to the bottom to display in a flower pot, fill a bowl with DIY plush felt fruit, or add a magnet to the back to use them as a super cute refrigerator magnet.
You can also add a ribbon or twine loop to the back of your lemon to make a fun lemon ornament to use a Christmas time, or year around!
Another great idea for this plush felt lemon is adding a keychain to the ribbon or twine loop for a cute backpack charm or keychain.
How to Make a DIY Felt Lemon
Supplies:
- Felt fabrics
- Matching threads
- Needle
- Pencil or fabric marker or chalk
- A pair of scissors
- Cotton batting or scrap felt
- Template
Instructions:
Download and print out the felt lemon template. You’ll find an option for two different sized lemons on the pattern template. You can choose one size to create, or make both! Cut out the pattern pieces in the sizes you’ve chosen.
Select a colored felt fabric for the lemon, green for the leaf patterns, white for the flower and yellow or orange felt for the center of the flower. Use white felt for the crescent shape. Trace the patterns on the selected felt fabrics and then cut them out nicely using a pair of scissors.
Place the small round cutout in the center of the flower cutout.
Overlap the leaves at the bottom.
Place the crest shape cutout on the outer edge of a lemon base cutout.
Stitch the crescent shape to the lemon base.
Place the plain lemon base on your work surface. Place the overlapped leaves on to of the plain base.
Then place the lemon base with the crescent shape on top of the plain base, sandwiching the leaves between the two lemon bases.
Now, place the flower on the top of the lemon and leaves.
Prepare needle with thread that matches the center of the flower.
Work a cross stitch in the flower center and make sure to stitch the overlapped parts of the leaves along with it.
Now prepare the needle with thread that matches the lemon base.
Stitch along the sides of the lemon bases, being sure to leave an opening to stuff later. We’re did flat blanket stitches around the sides.
Stuff the felt lemon pattern with cotton batting or scrap felt.
Close the open end by stitching it neatly. Tie a knot or two and then cut off extra thread.
