Felt Food- Tortilla Wraps

This is my version of a tortilla wrap, it has wire inside so it can be folded. Vegetables, salad etc can be added into it to make whatever wrap you want

Materials
Templates 6 inch circle and 5.5 inch circle
Cream felt
Cream embroidery thread
Coated wire
Insulation tape
scisscors, pencil, needle and pins

Instructions
1)cut out two 6 inch circles from cream felt
2)tack together with pins around outer edge
3)draw a 5.5 inch circle and straight stitch along this joining pieces together
4)remove pins

5)place wire inside outer flap
6)secure wire into place by whip stitching around outer edge
7)before finishing stitching, trim any excess wire and join together using instulation tape
8)finishing stitching edge to encase remaining wire section
9)losely fold to form tortilla wrap shape

"Mom, Toothless needs some fish"

I have made my own trap with being a crafty mom, suddenly the kids see something cool, or think up an idea and its "Mom can you make us one?"

My youngest son Quinn is mad on How to Train Your Dragon film and when Build-a-bear sold out of the Toothless cuddly I decided to make him one instead. It started as small project by simply downloading a pattern from this artist website and making from felt....but then he wanted one he could ride on....so I decided to just make head and turn into hobbyhorse style. Quinn however decided it needed wings...and a tail...and a body!

The pattern got blown up into a poster size, and after a few days frantically sewing I created a 2 metre long with 2 metre wingspan dragon. It has a broompole running through centre, with wired wings attached onto it, which makes it robust enough to ride on and handle any young viking's adventures. Quinns reaction was "Mom he needs a saddle too" So another few hours sewing, I have one dragon with detachable saddle, tail fin and one very happy little boy.

Fast forward 6 months later and Quinn now has a dragon from Build-a-bear too, but decided Toothless now needed some pretend fish to eat.

1. Handcut fish template from card, draw 2 shapes onto felt for each fish leaving room for seam
2. Sketch on details such as face and fins, then handstitch using embroidary thread, remember these are opposite sides so need to be a mirror reflect of each other
3. For eyes I cut out 2 small circles and attached on by stitching a white pupil.
4. Place fish shapes together so inside out, tack with pins and stitch all around leaving tail end open
5. Turn the fish inside out so now it all right way stuff and sew up tail end

• If you wish you can glue a small magnet inside, and then glue the opposing magnet into the cuddly toy by the mouth so he can                                                                                     pretend to eat it

The things we do for our kids, but it worth it to see them say "Wow!!"

Loves ya Becky x