I haven’t made any felt foods in quite some time...I think the last ones that I made were some time around last fall...maybe even longer, but when Club Thread decided to do a tea party theme, I was a bit thrown for a loop.  I wasn’t really feeling like doing playfood, but I couldn’t think of anything else to make.  So I flipped through some books and came up with a plan.  And then just as I was in the home stretch, one of my fellow congo members asked to do a collaboration so I had to double time it to in order to get those things out and shipped to her in time.  On my menu I had tartlettes, slices of cake, and cake rolls...and then for my last minute entries, I made donuts and candies..

As everything started taking shape, I have to say, that they were making me smile more and more.  I was particularly happy with the way the donuts came out.  I’ve struggled making them before...well, not with making them, but with getting them to look precisely the way that I wanted them to look.  I tried a few different techniques and voila, success!

I was also happy with how well they looked with Allison’s cloth baskets.  I hope they make it onto someone’s Easter table!  Here’s the rest of what I made : cake rolls, tartlettes, and candies (with a felted lollipop)

and last, but not least, I remembered the sweet Japanese Alice in Wonderland fabric that I have, and decided to make a little coin purse out of it.  I embroidered a whimsically colored tea cup on some light pink linen, and then used lavender pindot as the accent.

I love the March Hare popping out of the tea cup, and the look on Alice’s face.  Poor Alice, she really had no idea what she was getting into.