Little Crickets Felt Fun Has Us Dreaming of Pie

With pie on the brain these days (if your calendar's not marked, write down November 13 for Chow Bella's Pie Social and dust off your cookbooks), we couldn't resist sharing a couple slices of sweet dishes that will hold up even in this heat -- they're felted. Buy a pattern...

By Amy Silverman

August 17, 2010

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With pie on the brain these days (if your calendar's not marked, write down November 13 for Chow Bella's Pie Social and dust off your cookbooks), we couldn't resist sharing a couple slices of sweet dishes that will hold up even in this heat -- they're felted. Buy a pattern to make your own on etsy. Little Crickets Felt Fun also offers patterns for inedible edibles from a sack lunch to a pile of veggies to a birthday cake.

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.