Easy Felt Cupcake Softie with Free Pattern

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Are you looking for an easy hand-sewing project? If you love food and cupcakes, this free pattern is just for you. Find the felt cupcake template and steps on how to make the sweet felt cupcake softie. While completing this pattern, you'll learn how to cut out felt and sew with a running stitch.

Happy felt crafting!

I often get inspired by drawings of kids in my family to make softie patterns. This one is no exception. The drawing is made by my niece (8 years old). I found the cupcake so cute with its numerous toppings. When I saw the picture, I knew it wouldto be a fun felt cupcake.

Cupcake Drawing by my Niece

General Instructions for DIY Felt Cupcake

This cute felt cupcake is easy to make. It can make for an excellent first sewing project. It’s stitched entirely by hand, using a running stitch. Two-strand embroidery floss is used to embroider the felt cupcake. Knot thread ends on the wrong side of felt.

Do you need a little help with running stitch? Visit the post for the complete guide to running stitch.

Tips for Sewing with Felt

TIP for holding pieces in place for sewing: Use sewing clips to hold the felt pieces in place until they are stitched.

Another option is to place a glue on the reverse side of felt shapes and position them on the body. Aleene's Tacky glue is a good glue for felt when working with kids.

TIP for sewing with felt: Searching for more information about sewing with felt? Visit my post on how to sew felt: tips for sewing with felt.

TIP for cutting felt shapes: If you want to learn tips on cutting out felt pieces, you can read my post about 6 techniques for cutting felt shapes.

Materials & Supplies for Felt Fairy Softie

• Felt cupcake free template - to download the file, subscribe to the FunClothCrafts newsletter. In the newsletter, you find a password to the subscriber's Free Downloads Vault

• felt color sheets (you’ll need seven felt sheets) based on your choice (find great felt at Benzie Design or find more buying options in the Types of Felt section of How to Sew Felt blog post)

• embroidery floss: matching colors to the darker tone of felt

• embroidery needles

• fiber fill to fill the softie

• small or embroidery scissors (KAI 5 1/2 inch Embroidery Scissors are the ones I use)

• pencil or an air erasable pen to copy the template to felt

• pins (optional - these are my favorites)

Fairfield Poly Fil Premium Fiber Fill, 32-Ounce Buy on Amazon

Clover 10-Piece Wonder Clips, Classic, Colors May Vary Buy on Amazon

kai 5 1/2 inch Embroidery Scissors, Black Handle Buy on Amazon

How to Make a DIY Felt Cupcake

1. Cut out felt shapes of felt cupcake

   Use the free felt cupcake pattern to cut out all cupcakes’ felt shapes from felt. You can use a pencil or an air erasable pen to trace the pattern. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you would like an SVG file for the cutting machine.

   TIP: Learn how to cut felt shapes by reading 6 different ways of cutting felt shapes.

2. Sew the cup

   Sew the cup to cupcake’s base with a running stitch. Use the template for guidance. You can leave an opening in the upper part as this will be sewn with the next felt shape (topping).

3. Continue to sew the toppings to the felt cupcake

4. Sew cherry

   With a running stitch, attach the cherry.

5. Sew the base with running stitch

   Hold two cupcake bases together with sewing clips. Sew around with running stitch, leaving an opening for filling.

6. Fill the felt cupcake with Fiber Fill

   Fill the felt cupcake with fiber fill. You can help yourself with a pencil. Fill as much fiber fill as you like. If you don’t have Fiber Fill, you can use small pieces of felt scraps.

7. Close the opening of felt cupcake

   Close the opening with a running stitch.

Step 1 Felt Cupcake Softie - Cut out felt shapes

Step 2 Felt Cupcake Softie - Sew the cup

Step 3 Felt Cupcake Softie - Sew the toppings

Step 4 Felt Cupcake Softie - Sew the cherry

Step 5 Felt Cupcake Softie - Sew the cupcake, leave an opening

Step 6 Felt Cupcake Softie - Fill the cupcake with Fiber Fill

STEP 7 Felt Cupcake Softie - Close the opening

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Felt Cupcake Softie Made by my Niece (8 years old)

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Easy Felt Cupcake Softie Conclusions

Thank you for crafting with me! Enjoy your adorable felt cupcake plushie with a cherry finish. This felt cupcake free pattern was such fun to make.

I would love to see your felt cup cakes. If you are on Instagram, tag me with #funclothcrafts.

Be sure to visit more on this website for free embroidery and sewing tips and tricks to help you out as you stitch my patterns. For free felt patterns, visit my Freebies page.

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Let’s craft together!

XO, Anna

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