Appliques from felt: patterns and description of basic decorative joints

You can create applications not only from paper, but also from felt. Such applications come out much more colorful and realistic. They can decorate not only the children's room, but also any room, having picked up the necessary subjects. Also, a small application in the form of a flower will adequately decorate the cap of the little princess. Creating applications from felt, patterns can be easily found on the Internet. In this article, some interesting ones will also be presented. Such applications can easily be called pictures, from which it breathes with warmth and comfort. To create them together with children is a great time together. Babes can make gifts to loved ones in the form of appliqués! They will definitely like it.

What is felt

Felt is a dipped fluff made from natural or man-made fibers, produced in sheets, with a standard size of 20 to 30 cm. It is painted in different bright shades of color, which is ideal for making appliqués. While working, behaves no worse than paper, and maybe better. Felt can be glued, can be stitched or stitched with various patterns. The edges of the felt perfectly hold the shape, which does not require any additional processing. It has a different thickness. For applications perfect thin felt. A thick kind of material can be used as a basis for application.

Basic decorative seams

The solid pluses of felt suggest that there is nothing complicated in making self-made appliqués of felt, schemes can be different. To decorate felt applications it is also necessary to have small sewing skills for various seams. The main seams are:

• Tambour stitch;
• Hinged suture;
• Stem Seam

Best of all words will explain the technique of making the joints of the scheme:

Tambour Stitch:

Hinge:

Stem:

Also, the so-called French knot can serve as decoration. It is very simple in execution: a thread with a needle is stuck from the wrong side to the face. Around the needle, several turns are made and pierced back to the wrong side.

Making of applique

In this section the master class on creation of children's application in the form of a picture with an owl is considered, which will decorate any room. Before you start, you need to prepare the necessary tools:

• Felt the right colors. It is better to take a thin form of felt.
• Ready-made patterns for applique from felt for children;
• Threads of a moulin;
• Needles;
• Scissors are simple in different sizes and can be curly;
• Adhesive;
• Marker;
• Frame.

By pattern, the pattern is transferred to the felt and all the details of the application are cut out.

On the front part of the owl are glued all the elements except the wings. Wings are sewn with a stitching suture to her body. The same type of seam is used to cover the entire owl in a circle.

Thus decorate and other details of the applique.

Elementary flowers are collected from felt.

Now the background elements are glued to the prepared elements of the picture. And it is fixed in a frame. Here such picture turns out.

Creating applications with children

Children will be happy to participate in such crafts. Not only because they make themselves something beautiful, but also because they spend time together with their mother.

When creating children's applications from felt, stencils can be found on the Internet. And here are some of the simplest ones.

When making such crafts with children, depending on their age, they can be entrusted to cut out the details, or from the template to transfer the picture to felt, glue. Older children can be entrusted and embroider patterns on the details of the application. Any child will have a lot of fun when the result of the work appears. Such an application can now decorate the clothes of the baby, or glue the girl to the hoop.

Crafted applications will bring joy, warmth and comfort to the house. A variety of colors of the material can translate any creative idea into reality.