Felt cupcakes with interchangeable toppings

[mama3many]

I came up with this idea and as it actually worked and I learnt absolutely all my sewing skills from online tutorials I thought it was time to give something back and make a tutorial myself!

So here goes…

Felt Cupcakes with Magnetic Interchangeable Toppings









Materials:
- felt - I HIGHLY recommend pure wool felt. It’s pure joy to work with and tends to last much longer than acrylic. Also acrylic felt tends to tear at the seams whereas wool felt does not.

- needle and thread in matching colours. I use embroidery floss.

- cardboard. I just cut up the boxes my Amazon orders came in

- strong magnets. Two opposing ones per cupcake.

- hot glue gun


For the pattern you can either cut up a paper cupcake liner and tweak it - that’s what I did. Or you can Google a pattern, there are a few free ones around.



Step 1:
Cut your felt and cardboard.
Felt pieces: cupcake side x1, cupcake base x1, cupcake lid x 1, cupcake topping tops x 2 (these are the same piece as cupcake lid).
Cardboard pieces: same piece as felt cupcake top x 2, same as cupcake base x1
In this example my cupcake base, lid and topping tops are light yellow and my cupcake side is beige.




Step 2:
Hotglue the magnets on to the two larger cardboard circles.


Make sure you glue the magnets in such a way that they attract each other!
(sorry about the dark picture )




Step 3:
Whipstitch both short ends of the cupcake side together



Step 4:
Whipstitch the cupcake base the top bottom of cupcake side



Step 5:
Put smaller cardboard circle into the base of the cupcake (you may need to trim the cardboard circle a bit)


Step 6:
Whipstitch the cupcake lid to the top of cupcake side but stop when you reach halfway round,
Fill the cupcake with stuffing.
Place one of the large cardboard circles over the stuffing. Make sure the magnet is facing up!



Whipstitch the cupcake shut.

And there you have it! A cupcake!

Now for the topping…

Step 7: Make topping embellishments. Here I made some tangerine segments:
I cut out two large kidney-shaped pieces of orange felt:


I whipstitched them together leaving an opening for stuffing:


Put in a few long stitches to decorate:



Insert stuffing and whipstitch shut:


Step 8: Take one of the large felt circles and stitch the embellishments on..



Step 9:
Take the remaining felt circle and the second cardboard with magnet and sandwich like so (I hadn‘t decorated the top of this one). Make sure the magnet faces the non-embellished felt circle!


Whipstitch all around:



And you’re done!


Make more in different ‘flavours’ and you’ll have interchangeable cupcakes!




Hope you enjoyed this.
Let me know if you have any questions and I’ll try to help!