Felt lamb: how to make a beautiful souvenir

Looking for new DIY craft ideas? Need to urgently make small gifts? A felt lamb will be an original and pleasant surprise. To make such a thing is very easy. You can come up with a lot of options.

Felt lamb: DIY souvenir

The popularity of this type of needlework is easily explained by the characteristics of the material. It has a non-woven dense structure, so there are no scattering edges on the cut parts, that is, it is not necessary to sew them. This is done for decorative purposes. In addition, the felt is easily connected with glue, and from this material you can cut out a shape of any complexity and size. Even very small details in the form of peepholes or the middle of the flower are neat.

Using this technology, both flat products, embossed, and voluminous soft toys, for example, pillows, are made. There are good opportunities for creativity in this type of needlework thanks to the wide color gamut of the material.

Do-it-yourself lamb from felt can be made as a keychain, decorative pendant for the interior, decoration for a bag, gift wrapping, as a Christmas toy. Everything is limited by your imagination.

Materials and Tools

A felt lamb is made easily. You will need the following:

• multi-colored shreds;
• patterns;
• pins
• chalk (optional);
• scissors;
• glue or needle with thread;
• decor (beads, satin ribbons, braid).

If you made a template or took a sample, simply cut out the paper parts, attach them with pins to the material and cut along the contour. You don’t even have to chalk the blanks, as they are easy to cut with an attached template. When performing miniature crafts from felt, allowances for seams are usually not left. Parts are hand- sewn together with an overcast seam along the edge from the front side.

If you are doing something big, such as a pillow, then it is better to consider allowances. But the seam can also be done from the front, and not from the inside.

Patterns

To get a beautiful felt lamb from felt, use the templates below. Print them to the desired scale, cut from the sheet and use.

The first and second options consist of a minimum number of parts. So, you can make a flat and semi-voluminous souvenir.

The template below allows you to make a lamb with filler from syntepon or holofiber. The toy turns out bilateral. A tail is provided at the back, so this souvenir can be hung on a Christmas tree or used as a key ring.

The following template, unlike the previous ones, has different parts for the front and back legs.

All patterns consist of simplified shapes that are easy to draw. Having tried to make a lamb according to the template, you can create schemes yourself, and accordingly various images of your little animals.

How to sew a lamb from felt

So, you have chosen a pattern, made a pattern, further actions will be as follows:

1. Lay out the parts on matching color patches of material;
2. Attach with pins;
3. Circle the contour or immediately cut the blanks from felt;
4. Sew items sequentially. If a part of a lamb, for example, a foot, consists of two parts, combine them, sew a seam along the contour along the contour. Small objects are often left flat. What is larger and requires volume must be filled with holofiber or synthetic winterizer.
5. Pay special attention to the face of the lamb. Eyes can be made from beads. If there is filler inside the head, the balls can be sewn pretty tightly to the base, forming a recess around the eyes. This will add more realism to the character. Since you are making a seam on the front side, nodules need to be done where they are covered by other parts and remain invisible.
6. To decorate the product, use ribbons, bows, sequins and other decor. If you are carrying out a pendant or Christmas tree toy, do not forget to sew a loop.

Here you can make such a cute souvenir with your own hands.

How to sew a felt pillow lamb

This type of needlework can so captivate that you will want to make something more significant for interior decoration. Make one or more pillows for your sofa. They are performed both according to one template, and according to different ones. Both options will perfectly decorate your sofa.

The pattern is easy to use any of the above. The meaning of the work is that the base, that is, the pillow itself, will always be made of two identical parts, between which there is a layer of synthetic winterizer, holofiber or other filler. The thickness of the pillow, and accordingly the volume of the lamb, will depend on its quantity.

You can sew parts on the outside, leaving a decorative edge. All the elements that need to be placed on the surface of the pillow, it is better to sew to stitching the base. Paws, ears, decor are better to attach after.

So, you saw that the felt lamb is made very quickly and simply. This type of creative activity is suitable as a developmental activity with children. Even babies are able to glue finished parts. Try making a lamb of felt with your child. Let the execution of such crafts will become your family hobby.