Sweets felt put off - take sweets to make every recipe without thread and needle (Lesson Series) Paperback
Author: Sachiko Haraguchi
Publisher: Patchwork Communications, Inc. (2010)
Pages: 81
This is a great little book about making felt cakes and cookies. Many of the techniques require tedious cutting of many many peices of felt and glueing them together. For example the Cheesecake on the cover requires you to glue together 17 triangle peices. The chocolate cake asks you to glue together 22. While very time consuming the end result is very fun, and pretty.
This is not a book for children, or for making childs toys. This is for adults who want to make pretty things to display.
The other technique used a lot is painting the felt. Sometimes it is painted with varnish, or glue, to give it a nice saucy look. Agian very time consuming but worth it. You can see the look here very well on the little flan puddings.
The finished products are very small, like palm size or smaller, but you could easy make larger if you want. Even the small projects use very much felt, so large items will use lots and lots of felt.
Here you see where the books is showing you how to make all the many layers of your cake.
Here you see how to paint the tops of your cakes to make the shiny glaze. You also see how to finish them with pretty little fruits and such.
Here you see some ways to make a hollow item and stuff with cotton filler to save felt!
Look how amazing the glaze on this apple looks. The wool in the felt while painted looks quite pretty. To get this affect many layers will need to be painted on, and it will need ample time to try.
