About this Product
Your Mom-friends will be envious of your skill when they see what you've made for your sweet kids with this easy-to-make and fun-to-play-with Felt Food set! This Chef's Salad PDF pattern has all sorts of options so everyone can have their favorite toppings--grilled chicken, shrimp, ham and lots of different veggies & salad greens! Top it off with some pretend Ranch Dressing and a few croutons, add a side of bread sticks and you have a great healthy addition to your child's play kitchen! Teaching children healthy eating habits is important and now they can practice what they learn, during play time. With this pattern you can make: * Salad Bowl * Salad Spoon & Fork * Ranch Dressing bottle * 5 different varieties of salad greens * 10 different vegetables: onions, peppers, broccoli, mushrooms, tomatoes, cumbers, carrots, radishes, avocado & olives * 4 different proteins: Ham, grilled chicken, shrimp and eggs * Bread sticks * Croutons You will receive a PDF pattern only, not the finished items. The extensive 27 page booklet includes full-scale pattern templates--NO ENLARGING NECESSARY, cutting layouts, easy to follow step-by-step instructions with lots of full color photos and a complete materials list so that if you'd like, you can make the set exactly as shown. This Original Treehouse Patterns Design is copyright protected and may not be shared, copied, redistributed or resold. You may use this pattern to create items for sale--but please credit me as the designer; "A Treehouse Patterns Original" is sufficient. Items may not be mass produced. This item requires a PDF viewer and prints best on 8 1/2 X 11 letter paper but every effort has been made to assure it prints equally well on A4 paper. Please contact me with any questions or concerns--I'm here to help you succeed!
Treehouse Patterns
Meet the Maker
My felt food obsession happened "by accident" when my granddaughters were quite young. My youngest daughter emailed me a picture of the play kitchen her girls were getting for Christmas. The picture showed kids playing with some sort of "fake" food--I got to browsing and ran across all sorts of tutorials for DIY felt food. I made a few pieces from the tutorials and patterns others had designed but never being content with anything "ready made"--patterns or anything else I could possibly make myself, I started designing my own felt food. It proved to be addicting and I showed my creations to anyone who would stand still long enough to look. One day my brother saw what I had made and asked where I was selling them. "Selling them...? I'm not selling them..." He replied, "Well, you should". So I poked around, found a venue and the TreehouseToyShop was born. I started getting a lot of requests for patterns for my felt food and it seemed logical to open a dedicated pattern shop and now here we are...TreehousePatterns! Look around, ask questions, leave suggestions and comments and maybe pick up a pattern or two. I hope you'll be a regular here! :-D Plans are in the works to reopen the TreehouseToyShop, with finished, ready-to-ship felt food! Occasionally I do custom orders for the finished items now, so if you're looking for that service, or for felt food I don't currently offer, let me know...we may be able to work something out!
How it’s Made
Each Treehouse Patterns design is first sketched out by hand and then digitized to produce clear, professional looking templates. They're then tested in acrylic felt to ensure all the components fit together as intended. Adjustments are made to the pattern as needed and then tested in acrylic felt once again. Once I'm happy with the final result, a complete prototype is made to be absolutely sure the entire pattern works together and that I haven't missed anything. Then I proceed to making the final version out of the intended materials--wool blend felt. My work doesn't end there. The step-by-step photos must be edited for clarity, the "Beauty Shot" for the cover must be taken and the instructions written up and proofread. Only when I'm convinced that my creation is as perfect as I can possibly make it, do I publish it. A lot of time and effort goes into each step along the way, to make sure the final product is an easy to understand, easy to make pattern. Sometimes the acrylic prototypes are sold at a discount, either here in my pattern shop or in my toy shop. The final set, used in the beauty shot, is also sold in one of my shops, at full price. If you're interested in finished items, watch for the prototype to go on sale shortly after the pattern is released. Or, if you prefer, you can contact me for a finished item price and I can set up a special listing for you. Finished items can take 3-6 weeks to make, depending on my current workload.
