Felt Bananas
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We have some new felt fruit for you today! Thanks to a member request and Krista’s clever design work, you can now make some felt bananas to go along with your felt oranges, pineapples, pears, kiwis, and strawberries.
This is a beginner-friendly project and an easy pattern to cut by hand. Just follow our step-by-step tutorial below and be sure to let us know if you have any questions!
This craft is (felt) bananas
Our felt bananas make a cute toy for little ones who love to play pretend. With our pattern below, you can make a whole banana as well as a peeled banana. Though we used a classic yellow felt for the peels, you could also make some green, unripe bananas for fun.
Skill level: Beginner
Embroidery stitches used: Backstitch and blanket stitch. Need more guidance on these stitches? Check out our free embroidery guide.
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Tools
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (optional)
- Detail Scissors
- Embroidery Needles
- Clover Marbled Glass Head Pins
- Stuffing Tool or Chopstick
Materials
- Lia Griffith’s Wool Blend Felt — Sunshine, Vanilla, Almond, and Bark Brown
- Embroidery Floss — DMC Topaz (725), Off White (746), Light Mocha Beige (3864), and Ultra Dark Coffee Brown (938)
- Polyester Fiber Fill — Lia Griffith Stuffie Puff
- Tacky Glue
How to Make Felt Bananas
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the template below.
- Cut out felt according to template using a cutting machine with a rotary blade (optional) or scissors.
- To make the peeled banana, lightly glue the inner vanilla colored banana pieces to the yellow outer layer. The two side pieces should be mirrored from each other.
- Starting at what will be the bottom of the peel, blanket stitch the oval shaped side piece to one of the curved side pieces using 2 strands of matching yellow floss. Stop where indicated on the PDF template (magenta colored dot).
Full tutorial available for members to download below.
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6 Comments
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Lauren
July 24, 2022 at 5:24pm
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Lia
July 25, 2022 at 9:27am
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Lauren
July 23, 2022 at 8:39am
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Lia
July 24, 2022 at 12:21pm
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Ashley
June 5, 2022 at 6:01pm
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Lia
June 6, 2022 at 10:11am
@Ashley
Back to the TopI see 3 included for the banana, but the 2x lemon colored curved pieces and 1x oval piece for the inside of the “banana peel” are missing from the SVG.
They are all there. I am counting six dark yellow and three pale yellow pieces when I look at the project in design space. Can you move your screen around or reduce the size so you can see the complete pattern. It is larger than the default window.
The SVG doesn’t include all of the pieces and is missing some from the inside of the banana
I just double-checked the templates, and it looks like all pieces are in the SVG. The inside banana is pale yellow, perhaps it is too light for you to see?
Yes! I’ve been looking everywhere for this kind of banana!
And here you are! 🙂