Owl made of felt: a pattern of voluminous toys and applications

Creating toys with their own hands is now becoming an increasingly popular form of creativity. What a pleasure to make toys out of felt! It's so simple that you can attract children, even the smallest ones, to this process. Bright colors, docile material, speed of production ─ what else do you need to work on toys? Only fantasy. This article discusses the process of creating a toy using the example of an owl. In order to create soft owl toys from felt, a pattern is needed in any case. It can easily be found on the Internet, and you can fantasize and draw your unique owl.

Before you start

If you have not previously had to deal with such material as felt, then having worked with it once, it is already impossible to switch to anything else. It is a soft warm material, which has many bright colors, very obediently behaves in the work. Its edges do not require additional processing, it can be sewed only for the sake of decoration. Felt is produced by knitting animal hair or artificial fluff. It has a different width. But for making a toy it's better to take a thin felt. Of course, to use a better pure wool felt - it is more hygienic and outwardly looks better than artificial. However, if the toy is supposed to be washed often, it is better to take a synthetic felt, since wool from such processes can be deformed. Before you start to sew a toy, you need to check whether it sheds artificial felt. To do this, a piece of felt is sewed to a white cloth and washed. If the owl toy is intended not for games, but for decoration, then for its sewing it is possible to take any kind of felt.

Simple master class

This section considers the master class of owl from felt by one's own hands. In order to make a beautiful voluminous toy of felt in the form of an owl, the following materials and tools will be needed:

- Felt of the required colors;

- Workpiece patterns;

- Needles;

- Pins;

- Beads, buttons, beads and other decor elements;

- Scissors;

- Threads for stitching and decorating( the threads of a mulina are the best);

- Ribbons, laces, braid, etc.;

- Packing( sintepon, holofaber, sintepuh, etc.)

- Adhesive.

To begin with, the templates of the owl are converted to felt, doubling it. And now the details are cut out. It is better to have several pairs of scissors. For the main parts, you need medium-sized scissors. When cutting small elements, such as eyes, beak, it will be more convenient to use small nail scissors. To give an interesting shape to the edge of the detail, for example, near the eye area, you can use curly scissors. Cutting the elements of the toy into patterns is the longest process in creating a toy. Then everything will go much faster and more interesting.

Now, when all the details are cut out, you need to sew all the details on the front of the toy with the help of a notch, the same goes for the decor. Use here you can not only thread in the tone, but also play with the color and try the threads of a contrasting hue. Elements of decor, such as lace and ribbons, as well as eyes, can be gently glued.

The back seam is stitched to the front of the toy by the suture seam, leaving a small piece to fill the toy with a sintepon. When stitching these parts, it is necessary to stitch and handles with legs between them in the appropriate places of the toy. To stuff the toys it is better not to use cotton, since it does not hold the shape well, and after washing it can get into the lumps, and then the toy will cease to be even and bulky. All the toy is ready!

The application of an owl made of felt will not be any worse. She can decorate a children's room or a group in a kindergarten. Also, children will also like to create such applications themselves.

The technique of creating applications is the same as creating a three-dimensional toy. The only thing that all the details are cut out in one copy, both for the face of the toy, and are glued to the base. The basis can serve as a thick felt. Such crafts with their own hands can be a wonderful gift. Several patterns of wonderful owls: