DIY soft toys. How to sew a soft toy - a few simple ideas

One of the most popular anti -crisis hobbies is sewing soft toys. This is cheap, since they can be made from old things or inexpensive materials, while buying a new toy will cost a penny. In addition, sewing toys is very soothing. They can be done with children, developing the creative abilities of babies.

Toys of your own manufacture - excellent gifts to grandchildren and granddaughters, nephews and nieces. Beautiful quality products can be sold for the New Year, Valentine's Day or without reason. What is not the idea for business?

How to sew a soft toy with your own hands

Needlewomen use a huge amount of techniques for making soft toys. The lanky tildes are sewn with a machine, lay small toys made of wool, knit bright dolls in suites from yarn, make traditional rag dolls from old shreds. This is an incomplete list of materials and techniques from which soft toys are made.

The more experienced the craftswoman, the deeper she knows the technology, its horizons are wider. Beginning needlewomen use more simple sewing techniques, which do not require special skills, except for the skill of sewing forward with a needle or other basic seam. We will try to figure out the principles of sewing the simplest toys.

We sew soft toys with our own hands, patterns

The sewing of any, even the smallest product begins, with cutting. Ready -made soft toys patterns are available on the Internet or special print media. Having selected the toy model, transfer the contour of the patterns to transparent paper, and the field on a dense cardboard base. From cardboard it is not necessary to cut out many details of the same shape - this is a template. If the details are indicated for the details (indicating the number of tissue pieces of the corresponding form) it must be put on the template.

When the templates are ready, transfer the contour to the wrong side of the fabric. Circle with a pen, pencil, soap or chalk - as you are convenient. Thus, for the manufacture of a pattern and preparation for revealing, you need:

• flat surface;
• scheme of patterns in print;
• cardboard (from the packaging of tights or a box of sweets);
• simple pencil;
• washing;
• sharp scissors for paper and for fabric;
• material corresponding to the model.

When cutting, pay attention to the fact that there are mirror parts (ears, or tail) that need to be cut, applying the template to the fabric folded in half.

How to sew a soft toy

Having cut out fabric parts, try to sew them correctly. The first rule - put in the face inward and go all the parts along the contour, leaving holes. Typically, soft toys begin to sew with the performance of seams of large parts, after - they sew small ones.

1. The second rule is the output for turning and stuffing should be small and convenient. Depending on the size and material of the parts, leave the hole from cm 1 and above. The location of the open scar should be the least noticeable (on sewing details, etc.).
2. The rule is third - through the exit you need to gently turn out the part without tearing it at the main seams. Small details are turned out with long thin stupid tools (an ordinary handle with a cap will fit).
3. Rule fourth - stuffing. Through the hole with the help of the same handle, the details are filled with Hollofiber or the other light, filler, capable of taking and holding in shape. Some models require the use of axial bending wire, the edges of which need to be twisted with the filler so as not to tear the toy, and the limbs should be attached to the wire in the center of the base - the “spine”.
4. Rule fifth - you need to sew out the output from the front side very carefully. The hole for sewing small parts, coinciding with the joint with the base, is not sewn separately: it will be one sewing seam.

Directly for sewing you will need the following tools:

• sewing machine (if not, you can flash parts manually);
• pen with a cap;
• filler (it is best to use Hollofiber);
• needle;
• threads;
• thimble (for rough fabrics and small details);
• furniture (toy eyes, nose, mustache, wigs or buttons and threads, for some models - wire for limbs).
• super cliff or glue-pistol (for fastening non-sewing parts).

Pay special attention to the purchase of accessories. Even the most inconspicuous toy from the jam comes to life when the master uses running plastic eyes, and not soulless buttons. If there are no funds for the purchase of accessories, find 2 buttons on the leg and depict an eyeball, iris and pupil with acrylic paint or gouache with glue. Cover with a transparent varnish on top.

We sew soft toys with kids

Not every mother was lucky to be born with the talent of needlework, but even the most clumsy seamstresses will be able to give the child a joy made with his own hand. Primitive toys can be done with the child. They do not require expensive materials and superpowers. All you need:

• simple pattern;
• cardboard, pen and scissors;
• sock, or pieces of colored felt;
• needle with threads of different colors and thicknesses;
• running eyes.

The child will always like the fruit of his work, so involve him as much as possible in the process of creating a toy.

How to sew the simplest soft toys with the hands of mom and child

We will consider some of the most popular fairy -tale characters that can be sewn on simple patterns. It will be a coffee-vanilla cat; A cat and a bunny made of bright h/b socks and a felt bear and an owl. For more experienced seamstresses - the task is more complicated - a rooster of fabric scraps.

DIY soft soft toy cat

The principle of manufacturing a coffee-vanilla fragrant toy is in the simplicity of the cut. At the same time, drawing skills will not be superfluous. In order to make a odorous cat, you need such materials and tools:

• white or flax of white color;
• filler;
• scissors, pencil, cardboard;
• brushes of different thicknesses, acrylic paints, a glass of water;
• contour or black gel pen;
• pVA glue;
• soluble coffee and dry ground spices: vanilla and cinnamon.

DIY soft fragrant toys scheme 

1. Draw a contour on the wrong side, folded twice as a fabric according to the template.
2. Cut the toy on the contour on the typewriter, leaving a hole on the stomach.
3. Turn the toy with a wooden handle of a brush.
4. Fill the filler and sew a hole manually.
5. Attach a thread to the toy (on it it will hang on a grill on a grill when dried in the oven).
6. Prepare a fragrant solution: take 0.5 hours of each spice and 0.5 tbsp. Coffee, mix and pour 70 ml of hot water. Add 0.7 tbsp to the cooled liquid. glue. Such a solution for one toy will be a bit too much, so make several cats for gifts to the friends of the child at once.
7. Cover the coffee-red slurry toy.
8. Bind the cats to the grill and send to the oven to dry for 15-30 minutes. If the toy is dry both outside and inside - you can start further action.
9. Draw a muzzle with a simple pencil, draw eyes and heart with acrylic paint.
10. Put out the outlines with a contour or pen.
11. The toy is ready: it smells nice and looks beautiful.

The charm of a coffee-vanilla toy in a genuine personality. From one workpiece with primitive outlines, you can make a lot of dissimilar cats and cats. In addition to jewelry with hearts and butterflies, cats can be “stained” with sour cream or write comic expressions on them. Such a toy is a way to throw out all the creative energy. This is a great souvenir for the child and adult.

Do -it -yourself soft toy

The convenience of using felt is that it does not crumble, it can be bought in any store for creativity with colored sections of about 20x30, spending a penny. Fetter toys usually sew small and do not turn. They start by sewing the parts, and finish - with a seam around the base of the toy, leaving a passage for stuffing.

The outer seam is most often used “forward needle” with a thread to the tone of the felt. Sometimes decorative stitches are made with dense threads of contrasting color. Decorate such toys with pieces of felt with glue or threads. Sometimes they use accessories (eyes, bows, etc.).

The stuffing is performed using a thin stupid tool (brush or handle). Creatively do not limit yourself to sewing in templates: simple toys can be created from standard figures, taking as a basis a picture with the image of the product.

DIY soft toy - Bear

Instead of a pattern, take a ready -made image as a basis. If you have a fantasy, create an interesting character design yourself, having previously drawn it on paper. If not, translate the picture from the screen.

Notice that the body needs 2 parts (back and front part), and the eyes (2 felt circles) are sewn only in front. Leave the seam for stuffing open above your head - you still have to attach the tape, fixing it with a seam.

DIY soft toy

Funny owls are the weakness of many novice artists. In simple details, you can convey mood and feelings. The owl eyes are large, therefore it will not be difficult to make them expressive: sleepy, joyful, upset, etc.

In a schematic drawing, all details are clear:

• the basis in the form of a silhouette of an owl is 2 pcs.;
• wings - 4 pcs. (2 on each side);
• fundamentals for the eyes and tummy - 1 pc.;
• eye apples - 2 pcs.;
• pupils - 2 pcs.;
• paws - 2 pcs.;
• the beak - 1 pc.

First, the front of the toy is decorated. After - sew the parts of the wings and stuff them. Sew to the back. Connect the front and rear parts, leaving a hole in the middle below. We stuff the toy and sew the hole.

DIY Soft toys

Children's socks that are no longer suitable in size can be turned into funny soft toys. The color of the socks does not matter. The brighter and colorful, the more interesting. The closer to the same color, the more expressive the details will look.

DIY soft toy

• For the manufacture of a playful cat, you need a pair of socks. We use one completely, scraps will remain from the second. From the first sock we make paws, ass and torso: put it with the heel up and make cuts. From the edge to the heel and from the fingertips to the middle of the foot.
• From the heel of the second sock, cut the muzzle with one -piece with ears, and tail.

• We sew the details, stuff, sew the tail and head, sew the remaining holes. We decorate the cat with eyes or buttons, ribbons, bows and antennae.

DIY Soft toy

• We need 2 socks: 1 - white, the second - pink. For the base, part of the white sock from fingers to the heel is useful to us (the heel itself is not needed). Loose a segment of a white sock with a filler, sew it up. Now - we tighten the workpiece in the middle of the thread, separating the head from the body. On the edges of the body we pull off 2 small balls - these are paws.

• We cut the pink sock into several parts, from which there will be pants and a bunny sweater.
• From the remnants of the white sock, we make pens and ears, as indicated in the diagram. We sew the rest of the body to the base and make markings on the face with a gel pen.

Rooster - Tilda soft toy with your own hands

Tilde toys are noteworthy of an unusual form. All of them have long limbs, and the body, bypassing the neck, smoothly turns into the head. All tildes are usually dressed. Therefore, do not forget to put on a dress or overalls of the simplest cut on him.

The work on the manufacture of Tilda is complicated, so you can not do without a pattern. Reveal the contours of the details.

For sewing you need:

• 2 type of fabric: cotton and bright decorative fabric (for clothes, the design of which can be thought out yourself);
• stuffing (holofiber);
• needle, threads, scissors, chalk;
• color paints for fabric (acrylic);
• brush.

1. We make templates on the pattern and cut out all the parts from the fabric. Next - we follow the basic rules of sewing: we sew individual parts, turn out, leave holes, stuff, sew parts of the body with each other.
2. After the base is ready, it needs to be painted. Red make a scallop, beak and beard; yellow - paws.
3. Now it remains to sew the cockerel clothes and it will look fashionable and fun.

DIY soft toys in stages is easy to make if there is a good idea and any stained material. Swate with your children. Swate yourself for the soul. Swate with commercial benefits. The main thing is to do it with soul and heart.

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