A soft toy a hedgehog will be a wonderful gift for a child or a bright decoration at home. Pleasant and soft to the touch toys made from bright rags of fabric look cozy and have a special home aura. To make them look neat and proportionate, special attention should be paid to cutting details. If everything is done correctly, you get an even pattern, a hedgehog with its appearance will delight everyone around.
Materials required for work
A soft toy a hedgehog made of fur will be a great gift for the baby, and if the child knows how to handle a needle and thread, then he can be brought to work. To make a toy yourself, you need to prepare such materials and tools:
- fur of medium hair;
- felt and artificial leather;
- cardboard;
- wire;
- beads or buttons for the design of the muzzle.
Step-by-step instructions for making toys from felt and fur
To make a beautiful hedgehog made of felt, the patterns must be correctly constructed, it is best to choose a more suitable scheme in specialized publications or on the Internet.
The head needs to be cut out of fur, felt is needed for making paws and a muzzle, and artificial leather will be spent on sewing ears and paws. The first step is to cut your head and grind the undercut. Be sure to outline the future location of the ears and other details. Next, grind the head, turn it on the front side and fill it with stuffing material.
After that, they proceed to the manufacture of the body. You need to grind the tucks, the upper and lower sections remain open. Next, you need to grind the details of the legs. The lower legs are filled with printed material and stitched to the lower part of the body, while the cut remains open. Next, you need to sew the body and head using a blind stitch.
The hedgehog is almost ready, it remains to sew the upper legs. Details are also stitched, turned on the front side and filled with packing. Now the legs can be sewn to the body in pre-marked places. It remains to fill the trunk with stuffing material, close the lower cut with a hidden seam and draw a muzzle.
Making a toy is not so difficult. Absolutely any hedgehog from felt can turn out, the patterns of this toy are presented in a wide variety of variations.
Sock hedgehog
A cute and funny toy will turn out if you use a couple of short socks to make it. From one of them you need to make the body and head. For these purposes, the toe is stuffed with soft material, and the heel will become a muzzle. The part is twisted several times to get a neck. After that, the upper and lower parts must be sewn together. Do not worry if it comes out uneven, because the back and sides will be covered with thorns.
Next draw up the muzzle. It must be pulled down by sewing eyes. Then it is necessary to make pompoms from woolen threads and sheathe them with a hedgehog, starting from the head. Handles and legs are made from the second sock and sewn to the toy. In this case, the pattern is not needed, the hedgehog will turn out very beautiful without it.
Pompom Hedgehog
If you don’t know how to sew a hedgehog with your own hands, then the first thing you need to do is prepare multi-colored woolen and ordinary threads, a needle, scissors and buttons for making the muzzle.
A pompom is the main element that makes up the hedgehog. With it you need to start work. Pompons are made according to the standard scheme from two circles of the same diameter (the size of the toy will depend on their size).
The paws can be made in the form of braids of threads, and the muzzle is formed using buttons.
Educational toy for kids
If desired, a small hedgehog can be sewn from fleece, which will contribute to the development of fine motor skills of the hands. Moreover, a loop can be sewn onto the toy, for which it is hung on a developing mat or carousel above the crib.
Below is a pattern, a hedgehog thanks to it will turn out to be smooth and beautiful. It needs to be transferred to paper, before being corrected in accordance with the desired size of the toy.
All details are transferred to the fabric, cut out, taking into account the allowances, sewn, stuffed with a filler body and fill out the eyes. Special attention should be paid to the manufacture of thorns.
You need to cut a few strips, as shown in the pattern, and flash them in the middle, picking up a little. On each side, incisions are made so that a fringe is obtained. Each strip must be sewn to the body, the entire back should be in needles.
Little tricks
- In accordance with the rules, the patterns are placed in the direction of the shared thread. But in this case, the toy will turn out to be more slender and elongated. In order for the hedgehog to acquire a more rounded shape, it is cut out in the direction of the duck (along the transverse). It is worth considering that all the details are cut in one direction.
- There is a little trick when processing small parts. When the pattern of the hedgehog with your own hands will be transferred to the fabric, do not immediately cut out the details, you can first stitch them along the contour, and only then cut, taking into account the allowances (about 3 mm). If there are convex or concave lines, you should cut the fabric in these places, slightly not reaching the line.
Buying a stuffed toy in a store is easy. Especially for home decoration and for gifts there are a wide variety of options. But if you make a beautiful toy yourself, you can be sure that the second one will no longer be.
Having made a beautiful pillow in the form of a frog, a needle-hedgehog, interior cats and much more, you can safely brag to your guests. Homemade textile toys require some skill. The main thing is the development of some technical techniques and the prepared pattern. In this case, the hedgehog, cat, teddy bear or bunny will turn out simply with a bang.