Fabric Strawberry Pattern and Tutorial

Learn how to make these adorable fabric strawberries for your home decor. This easy to follow fabric strawberry pattern and tutorial will show you how!

Summer decorating is fun and easy to do because you can find so many things in nature to draw inspiration from. Flowers and plants, coastal/beach items and of course fruit! I have decorated with lemons and other citrus fruits in the past but this year I decided to decorate with strawberries. I love strawberries to eat and now thanks to this cute fabric strawberry pattern, I love them to decorate with as well. 🙂

After I decided to do a strawberry decorating theme, I knew I wanted to make some kind of craft. Most of the strawberry crafts I saw were kid related or cheesy looking but I thought there had to be a way to decorate with strawberries that looked grown up and classy.

I found some fabric strawberries on Etsy and instantly knew that I wanted to make some. I realize this craft is a bit more involved than a simple craft and may not be for everyone so if you are looking to just buy some fabric strawberries, you can find some great ones here and here. These are the ones that inspired me. But please continue reading and see how they came together!

Strawberries of different colors and patterns

My favorite things about these DIY fabric strawberries are that they are totally customizable and they don’t take a lot of supplies to make. I made mine from different fabric scraps I had around. If you don’t have a fabric stash like me, you can always buy a few fat quarters of fabric. There is no need to go out and buy a ton of fabric for this.

I love the different shades of colors of the strawberries and the different fabric strawberry patterns. I made some in varying shades of red, pink and green with a few tan fabrics thrown in. Aren’t they freaking adorable? I absolutely loved how they turned out.

Also, I am stoked how the stems turned out. I was not sure how I was going to do the stems as I was not too happy with any that I had seen previously. I ended up combining the two looks from Etsy. So then I just had to figure out how to get the look. That was the fun part. 😉

Supplies to make DIY fabric strawberries

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• Fabric scraps or fat quarters like these
• Olive green felt sheet
• Matching thread
• Scissors
• Pinking shears
• Ruler
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Poly-fil
• Sewing machine (this is a newer version of the one I use) – this is optional, you can also hand sew if you want
• Strawberry/leaf pattern templates
• Cardstock

Watch the quick video

Don’t want to read all the instructions? I have included a video in this post showing you how to make this fabric strawberry pattern. If you can’t see the video, turn off your ad blocker. If you want more detailed instructions, continue reading.

Fabric strawberry pattern

Now we get into the nitty gritty on how to make these cute little strawberries. They are really easy to make, however they do take some time so I watched some episodes of my favorite show “Outlander” while I was making them. If you have not seen it I highly recommend it!! 🙂

The first thing you need to do is to print and cut out the templates for the strawberries and leaf patterns. I would recommend printing them onto card stock to give the template some stiffness since you will probably be using them multiple times. You can find the templates here:

Strawberry Template

I made four different sizes of strawberries. They are very close in size, but the small differences make the strawberries either fatter or skinnier. There are also two different leaf sizes which I used together for the leaves. Make sure you are printing the template at 100% to get the correct size.

How to make DIY fabric strawberries

Starting with one of the strawberry templates, place it on a small piece of upside down fabric. You want to draw the strawberry pattern on the wrong side of the fabric. With a fine tip pen, trace the template onto the fabric.

Next, following the line you just drew, cut out the semi-circle shape.

Now fold that shape in half, keeping it with the wrong side of the fabric facing out.

Sewing the strawberry pattern

On the straight edge open side, using a ruler, draw a line about 1/4″ in from the edge. This will be your line to follow for sewing.

However, before you sew the straight line, you need to draw in a curve at the bottom to make it so the strawberry shape has a nice soft rounded tip, not a point. I just free hand drew this line in.

Using your sewing machine (you can also hand sew this if you don’t have a sewing machine), follow along the line remembering to back stitch at the beginning and end. Before you sew, pull the top and bobbin thread out about 10 inches. This extra thread is what you will use to close up the strawberry later.

Filling and closing the fabric strawberry

To avoid fraying of the cut edges, it is a good idea to trim the seam allowance with some pinking shears. This will also allow the rounded tip some “give” to hold a better shape.

Turn the fabric strawberry pattern right side out and smooth out the tip on the inside.

Next, using the long thread, sew a gathering stitch around the top edge of the strawberry pattern. You can see this in action on the video in this post. Basically you will be rocking your needle back and forth using small stitches. When you pull the thread tight, the fabric gathers along the thread which will close the opening. 

After you get the gathering stitch sewn around the whole top, start filling the strawberry with Poly-fil fiber fill until it is pleasantly plump. 🙂 Pull on the thread until the top completely closes. The only drawback to the Poly-fil is it leaves little “hairs” on the strawberries. While I don’t notice them in real life, I certainly can see them on the pictures in this post! Ugh! Oh well, it could be worse. LOL

To tie off the gathering stitch, take the needle and stick it through the fabric gathered at the top of the strawberry. Take the thread and run it around the needle three times tightly, then while holding the thread there, pull the needle all the way through. This forms a knot as you sew. Repeat this step a couple more times where it looks like the top is gaping open. Trim the extra thread. You now have your strawberry made, next it is on to the stem.

Cut out the strawberry leaf shapes

Using the leaf templates, trace them side by side on the top corner of a piece of olive green felt. Cut a strip down the edge of the felt about the width of the two leaf shapes. Fold the felt over two times (so it is three layers deep) and cut off end. Save the end to make more leaves after this. Cutting through three layers at once saves time. I tried to do more layers than that but it would not hold it’s shape well enough so three was the magic number. 🙂

Cut out the leaf shapes.

When you cut them out in three layers, you may get some that look a little wonky. Just take your scissors and clean up those edges. Repeat these steps lots of times until you have many leaves. You will use seven leaves per strawberry.

Creating the felt strawberry stem

Find some matching olive green thread so that it will not show on the stem.

Cut a piece of green thread about 12 inches long, thread it onto the needle so it is doubled over and knot the ends together. Sew the leaves on the needle as shown below in the picture. This will form a pucker at the top of the leaves to make the stem look more realistic.

Sew all seven leaves onto the thread and pull them to the bottom of the thread. Flip the leaves over and run the needle through the first leaf again. Pull the thread tight to gather the leaves and tie knots in the thread to secure it. When you turn the leaf cluster back over, you can see the puckering action of the leaves make it look better.

Attach the stem to the top of the strawberry using hot glue.

To make the stem top, cut off a thin strip of green felt about 1/4″ wide or a little smaller than that. Cut a 3/4″ section off and start rolling it up. When you get towards the end, add a little hot glue and continue rolling it until you get to the end. Using a dab of hot glue, attach this stem to the leaf cluster.

There you have it, a realistic looking strawberry with a stem. What do you think? Doesn’t seem too hard, does it? You can make as many or as little as you want.

Classy strawberry decor

These fabric strawberries are great bowl or vase fillers. They really are adorable sitting in a bowl. I could see them working wonderfully as kitchen decor too! Or even as accents in a room with a red and pink color scheme.

I also decorated a tablespace with them which I will be sharing with you soon.

Another thing I have found out after making them is that they make great cat toys! Ha! One (or both) of our cats have been stealing them off the table in the middle of the night and playing with them. Stinkers. 🙂

Here are some other summer crafts you may enjoy!

• Easy summer crafts and DIY projects
• Fun and easy summer wreaths
• DIY summer wall decor
• 10 DIY projects perfect for summer

I will be back soon with another strawberry treat… a dessert this time! 🙂 Until then, have a great week!