DIY Felt Donuts
Have fun making DIY felt donuts! Our felt donut pattern makes it so easy to put one of these felt decorations together.
Yield: 1 felt donut
Cost: $2
Equipment
Materials
- FREE Printable Felt Donut Pattern
- Felt (light brown and pink, or other icing colour)
- Sewing thread (colours matching the felt)
- Polyester fiber fill
- Bugle beads (shades matching icing colour)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Cut the felt donut pieces
- Print our felt donuts template (find the pattern link in the materials list above!) and cut out the pieces.
- Hold the pattern piece on top of the felt to cut it out.Use brown felt for the 2 donut pieces, and pink or another fun colour for the icing.You can also pin the pattern to the felt to make it easier to cut, or trace around the template with chalk or a gel pen.
Step 3: Sew on the sprinkles
- To start, sew the sprinkles onto the icing felt.Bring a threaded needle in from the back and place a bugle bead onto the needle.
- Pull the thread through the felt leaving 1 inch or so extra thread at the back.
- Arrange your sprinkle bead how you'd like and push the needle back through the felt.
- Pull the thread through, but don't pull too tightly, or you'll pucker the felt.Tie the thread in a double knot on the back to secure the sprinkle, and then cut off the excess thread.
- Repeat, adding multiple sprinkles in different colours and at different angles until you're happy with how the icing looks.
Step 4: Sew the icing onto the donut
- Use a backstitch to sew the icing onto one piece of the donut felt.Place the icing where you'd like it on the donut. Starting with the center of the icing, bring your threaded needle up through both layers of felt.Leave about 1 inch of excess thread at the back, and put your needle down into the felt about 1/8 inch to the right of where the thread comes up.Don't push the needle all the way through.
- Bring your needle back up through the felt, about 1/8 inch to the left of the first stitch.
- Pull the thread through and push the needle back down through the previous stitch.Repeat the backstitch, working your way around the donut.
- Once you've sewn all the way around, tie the 2 thread ends together on the back.
- Now sew the outside of the icing to the donut in the same way.
Step 5: Sew the donut together
- Once the icing is sewn on, place the 2 sides of the donut on top of one another and sew them together with a blanket stitch.Again, start in the center, bringing the needle up through both layers of felt, about 1/8 inch from the edge.
- Pull the thread through, leaving a 1 to 2 inch tail. Tie the tail to the thread at the front in a double knot.
- Tuck the excess thread between the pieces of donut and bring the needle in from the bottom of the felt, about 1/4 inch away from the last stitch.Wrap the thread around the needle before pulling it through.
- Make your way around the donut, repeating the blanket stitch.
- To finish your thread, go through the last stitch about 3 times. Then tie the threads together inside the donut with a double knot.
- Repeat the blanket stitch around the outside of the donut, stopping when there's about 1 to 2 inches left.
Step 6: Stuff the donut and close it off
- Add stuffing to the donut, pushing it down and around until it's even and firm.
- Close off the donut, continuing your blanket stitch. Finish off your thread by going through the last stitch 3 times. Then push the needle down at the seam and bring it up through the donut. Cut off the excess thread and pinch the felt to hide the thread inside the donut.
- Your felt donut is complete!
Video
Notes
Looking for more felt crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:
Felt Monster Pattern
Felt Dragon Pattern
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