New Year's holidays are approaching, St. Nicholas Day, Christmas. These are the most favorite holidays of our children. After all, they are associated with receiving gifts. If you want to please your beloved child with something original, soft to the touch and pleasant, we can give useful advice: sew a child a hare of felt.
This is a favorite children's character of many fairy tales and cartoons, and it’s very easy to sew. Let's see why, in recent years, the use of felt for children's crafts and the manufacture of soft toys has gained such popularity.
What is felt
This soft and fibrous material is made on the principle of felt by heating, moistening and bonding the fibers of sheep’s fur mixed with rabbit wool. Now they produce natural, semi-artificial and fully synthetic felt. It is sold in separate small sheets in sewing accessories stores.
He fell in love with hand-made masters because it is very easy to build crafts from it, the material is malleable, does not crumble, it can be cut like paper, glued, stitched. For the manufacture of crafts, you can choose any color and shade, which makes it an absolutely indispensable material for needlework.
From sheet felt, you can make applications and toys. Wall panels look smart. In the article, we will consider how you can quickly, beautifully and interestingly create a toy rabbit from felt. We will tell you in detail about the necessary materials, about how to make a pattern and fasten the parts together.
Drawing patterns
Any production of crafts begins with a drawing or pattern. To make it, you do not have to be a professional artist and have incredible talent. It is enough to have a computer and the Internet.
After selecting a picture with the outline of a hare, you need to print it and transfer it to cardboard. Cutting the image along the contour, we get the finished pattern. Such an image must be transferred twice to the felt sheet according to the template. For the second time, the template will just need to be flipped over.
You will get two identical parts that you just need to sew along the edges with a thread. You can take a beautiful shiny thread floss. In order for the hare from felt to be voluminous, it is necessary to fill it through a small hole with cotton or synthetic winterizer, and then finally sew it.
Decoration work
To make the toy bright and like the baby, you can decorate it with felt applique in other colors. Thin ovals made of pink material can be inserted into the middle of the long ears of a hare of felt. Make a white face, black nose and eyes. To attach a mustache sticking out to the sides, which can also be made of felt, only by cutting the material along the edge, such as a fringe.
Instead of eyes, you can sew black round buttons. And to sew small features of the muzzle with thread. Separately, you can make an orange carrot with green tops for your hare from felt with your own hands.
Now consider another toy character, which is made of parts connected together.
Bunny from individual parts.
It is possible to make a rabbit felt toy not integral, but from separate parts. The body is presented in the shape of a nesting doll: two circles - one larger, the other - smaller in size, connected by concave smooth lines. After drawing the template, its contours are transferred to felt folded in half. All details are paired, so you can cut out the details immediately by folding the sheet in half.
The paws consist of two ovals of the same size. For legs, they are larger than for hands. It's easy to draw carrots, leaves too.
As you can see, sewing a hare from felt is very simple. You do not need to be an artist to draw such light details of a normal shape. Since felt is a material that does not crumble, it is not necessary to overcast the edges. Pink heels for the animal can simply be glued. The remaining parts are sewn together with threads. Instead of eyes two black buttons of a round form are sewn.
Felt hare pattern
Such a cute bunny can be made from patterns from several parts. Ready-made templates are transferred to felt sheets. Parts are sewn together from the inside from the inside so that the joints are not visible. Volumetric parts are stuffed with cotton after almost complete stitching and turning out. In the remaining slot, the filler is stuffed with a stick. Only then is the part sewn to the end.
To make the tail, a circle of felt is cut out, a cotton ball is placed in its center. Stitches are stretched around the circumference of the pattern with a simple thread of gray color, then it is tightened tightly and a knot is tied.
After transferring the ears template and cutting out the details from the material, you need to sew the tuck from the wrong side. Then they are sewn together, also from the inside, paired parts and the workpiece is turned on the front side. Then cotton or sintepon is stuffed with a long stick, then not much, the ears should not be thick.
The muzzle and heel pads are made in white or light gray so that they contrast with the main shade.
It remains to sew the button eyes and make a black spot for the nose. It can simply be glued to the tip of the nose by cutting out a circle of black felt.
Whole bunny
You can make such a small hare of felt with your own hands as a pendant on a backpack or woman’s bag. Now it is a very fashionable trend. This is a one-piece bunny that can be cut simply by the outline drawn on cardboard.
Even a small child is able to complete this task, and even the hand-made master will cope all the more. Then the resulting template is transferred to the fabric and scissors cut from a sheet bent in half. The edges are not stitched together, you must not forget to leave a slot for the filler. Since the figure is small, even a wand is not needed, this task can be performed with your fingers.
To make the bunny colorful, you can add small details to it. To make a ponytail, you can make a pompom from pink knitting threads.
Recall how to do it. It will take two little rings of cardboard and pink yarn. Cardboard parts are wrapped with threads and threaded through a central hole. When everything is completely wrapped, a knot is tied and the threads are cut. To do this, pass the scissors between the rings and carefully cut everything. A simple thread is passed between the rings and a strong assembly is tightened. Then cardboard boxes are cut and the pompom is pulled out. If the threads stick out unevenly in different directions, then after manufacture they are trimmed.
Pink threads can embroider a nose. It remains only to attach eye-buttons. To keep the hare on a child’s bag or backpack, you need to sew a chain or rope with a metal key ring. Everything, the craft is ready!
Conclusion
Now you know how to make felt rabbit in various ways. It can be a big toy or a small keychain on a bag. But to sew all felt products is easy, pleasant and simple. And you can make a pattern using patterns drawn by hand or printed from the Internet. This is not at all difficult. So good luck with your work!