Love decorating with natural elements, especially for fall? Today we’re showing you how to make these beautiful felt wheat stalks that Krista designed.
Since it is a bit time-consuming to make each individual grain, we recommend using a cutting machine for this project. But you can always cut by hand using our template below.
The S-Wheat Life
Wheat stalks make such beautiful fall decor (along with autumn leaves and wreaths!). Not only do they add such interesting texture to your space, but the neutral colors are also very calming to look at and can fit in with any type of home decor.
Another great thing about these felt wheat stalks is that they use very few materials. And with just a bit of time, you can make a bunch of stalks and style them in a vase for fall harvest.
Skill level: Beginner
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Tools
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (recommended)
- Detail Scissors
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
Materials
- Lia Griffith’s Wool Blend Felt — Desert
- Embroidery Floss — DMC Light Hazelnut Brown (422)
- Floral Wire – 18-Gauge Paper Covered Green
- Aleene’s Stiffen-Quick Fabric Stiffening Spray
How to Make Felt Wheat Stalks
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the pattern below.
- Cut out felt according to pattern using a cutting machine (recommended) or scissors. Each wheat stalk needs 30 of the felt grain pieces.
- Separating a length of floss into 2 strands, glue the ends to one side of the bowtie felt shape.
- Glue and fold in half with the floss between, the edges of the felt matched up.
Full tutorial available for members to download below.
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10 Comments
Hi Lia,
Instead of felt, can I use card stock instead?
Sure! That would look nice.
Thank you so much for your help Lia.
You are so welcome!
I am having the same issue in DS. It shows up blank when you upload it. But when you open it on your canvas it is there. The long straight pieces are like 225 inches long though….lol. I just resized them. Can you tell me what mat and what felt setting to use? I have 3 different felts, Lia’s, Cricut’s and cheap stuff from Walmart. Some of the felts call for the regular blade and some call for the rotary blade. Some stick to mats and don’t come off. Some aren’t cutting through. I’m wasting a lot of felt here!! That said, I am really loving these wheat stalks. Thank you!
Hello Laura! I just spoke to Krista, the designer of this project and this is what she said: Design Space sometimes will not read rectangular shapes correctly and stretch them so I’m fixing the file and will replace it. For cutting felt, use the pink fabric mats with the felt setting. Change it from a fine point blade to the rotary tool (DS defaults to the blade). The rotary will roll across the felt instead of tugging and ripping at the fiber as the blade would. Also, don’t use the cheap acrylic felt! It stretches and falls apart. LOL. 😉 And one last thing, you can see some great tips in this video: https://liagriffith.com/craft-academy/6-things-youll-want-to-know-about-felt-crafts/lessons/video-wool-blend-felt-more/
I had a problem on my Cricut Upload also. The stalks are super long. It looks normal when I unzip the file though. 🤷♀️
Did it work for you in Design Space?
Hi Lia,
I’ve downloaded a couple of projects without any issues, except for the Felt Wheat Stalks. I’m using DS in Cricut, it shows up in my downloads, I click on open (I see the Wheat Stalks), then it’s blank in the DS upload.
Wondering if you have any idea what the issue might be.
Thank You for any help
Mikellee Pesenti
I just checked the file and it looks okay, so I am wondering if when you put it onto your board in design space it is off to the side. Just to test, click the make button and see if it shows up on the image of the mat. Hope this helps.