Felt - what is it? Felt toys - patterns. New Year's toys from felt by own hands

The needlewomen of the world adore felt! What it is? This is a fertile material for the manufacture of brooches, keyrings, magnets, flowers, postcards, caskets, topiary, sewing soft toys, developing rugs, vegetables, fruits, dolls Tild, handbags, Christmas decorations, appliqués for clothes. Let's consider in detail properties of felt and master classes on manufacturing of various toys from it.

Felt: what is it?

It is a material made of synthetic and natural fibers. Artificial felt is also called felt, or fleece (but these are equivalent terms). Natural material consists of dried up remnants of rabbit fluff, hair, sheep's wool. All fibers by drying and felting turn into a non-woven fabric. Thanks to this structure, the felt can be cut, bent, glued, without fear of crumbling and damage to the material.

He does not have a wrong side and face, so the seams can be applied on the front side without turning the part, as they do when sewing toys from ordinary fabric. The thickness of the material can be from one to nine millimeters, therefore from felt the patterns will approach both for coasters, and for artificial flowers.

The most popular among the craftsmen is a material made of wool, acrylic, polyester, viscose, mixed, modeled. Each of these species has its positive qualities and disadvantages, so their properties are important to consider when creating a particular craft, decoration, applique.

Woolen, half woolen, modeled

• Woolen. The thickness is from one to five millimeters. In the composition of more than 90% of natural wool, but because of its products have the same properties ("sits down" after washing, lohmatitsya and slides when rubbing). The material is very soft and wrinkled. Suitable for making ornaments and decorative accessories. Sets of eight varicoloured sheets (19.5x28.8 cm) cost from 132 rubles.
• Simulated felt. What it is? This material that is treated with a special impregnation, which when wetted by water takes any shape, bends, and after drying continues to preserve them. There is one sheet of German production (30x45 cm, 2-2.5 mm thick) from 288 rubles.
• Half-woolen. In its composition it has 50% wool and the same amount of acrylic or viscose. This kind is more smooth, soft and flexible compared to woolen felt. Has a rich color palette. Not suitable for sewing large items, bracelets, all-necklaces, non-slip toys, as it does not keep fit and loach. Ready-made applications, stickers, sets of creativity cost from 200 rubles.

Acrylic, polyester, viscose

• Acrylic felt. What it is? This material is obtained from recycled plastic, and therefore it has a huge variety in colors, keeps the shape, it is easy to clean, does not shed. But at the same time it glitters, creaks and slips, which many craftsmen do not like. Felt is not suitable for sewing stuffed toys, because the material does not stretch, and therefore the seam will simply burst. Also has the property of rolling down, does not tolerate high temperatures.
• Felt polyester. The material is dense, but soft, does not crumple, keeps the shape, does not shed. It makes beautiful New Year toys. From the felt, the patterns of each part are made in two or three pieces, since the material is thin and transparent. But after washing, the product made of polyester fiber will look like new.
• Felt-viscose. Smooth to the touch, durable, yet plastic. It does not collect static electricity, therefore it is suitable for making pins, rims, elastic bands, soft toys, appliqués for clothes. The material perfectly holds the form, does not sit down after washing, but can be wrinkled.

Fir-tree toys with own hands

Christmas tree can be decorated with any toys. They can be printed and non-slip from thick felt. The variety of the material is suitable for anyone, since the size of toys is small, so do not be afraid of deformation of the form.

Thin felt felt is used as a normal fabric. Translate the template to the material, cut it, thread it from the wrong side and turn it to the front. To make the bends clear, from the underside on all edges make small incisions to the seam. Such toys are stuffed with sintepon. Decorated with decorative buttons, beads, ribbons.

New Year's toys made of felt more than five millimeters thick can not be stuffed or turned out. That is, attach a paper template to the material, cut it exactly according to the pattern. Sew the details on the front side (the edges of the product are visible). Sometimes a solid sintepon is put between the layers of material to give volume to the product.

Using different thicknesses of felt, you can make different snowflakes. Do not stuff small jewelry with sintepon, just sew and decorate with beads or a button in the middle. Large snowflakes (more than ten centimeters) are worn and filled with a loose sintepon. Sew a ribbon-loop, decorate with a button.

New Year's lambs

Interesting New Year souvenirs - lambs of felt. Patterns will be as follows:

• Two large circles with zigzag edges for the trunk;
• Two ovals for the head;
• Two details in the form of a cloud for bangs;
• Two petals for the ears;
• Four long strips with oval ends for the legs.

Stitch on the front side of Christmas toys (from felt). Patterns bangs stitch, a little stuffed sintepon. Connect the details of the head, from above sew the ears and bangs. Each ear at the base of the fold so that formed in the middle of the detail wrinkle. Sew beads, embroider a nose in the form of a slingshot, paint with acrylic paints of a cheek.

Stitch your legs (they can not be stuffed), put them in the trunk. Before packing, sew the head of the lamb and the eyelet (if it is a Christmas tree ornament), a blank for the key fob or a magnetic tape. Decorate the toy with a bow. It turned out a beautiful souvenir lamb of felt with their own hands. The toy can be monophonic and multicolored.

And you can combine two techniques. For example, sew a felt sheep from the felt in a side cut, stuffing it with a little sintepon. A wool to sew at the expense of yarn (sold special, with lumps, from 270 rubles per hank). Each lump is folded to each other and sewn around the product. Then the eyes and nose are sewed with threads.

Birds from felt

Birds from felt can be stuffed, multilayered, embroidered, monochrome, multi-colored. Such toys can be used as Christmas decorations, didactic material and as pendants on developing mats. The easiest way to do this is to translate the details of the bird into a felt, cut out, sew details. The trunk is lightly filled with a sintepon, sew an eyelet to the back, to the head bead-eyes and wings. More often such small birds are made by younger schoolboys at labor lessons.

If you use a mulina, you can get extraordinary felted birds with your own hands. Patterns consist of a trunk and a wing. For this purpose, a light, one-color material is suitable. Cut out the details, all the lines, bends, feathers, embroider a multicolored mulina. Then you sew details, fill it with sintepon, sew a loop and get a decorative bird.

Multilayered birds are more difficult to perform, as several colors of felt are required, dozens of small details. Since each feather in the wings is cut out separately. Further in the right places all the details of the bird are sewn (beak, each feather, "cheeks", crest, etc.). This is realistic non-printed toys with their own hands made of felt, they are used as didactic material.

Hares-Tildes

Many Tilda toys are all-piece and are made of fine felt, although there are small details. Lambs, dolls, angels, rabbits, deer are sewn with clothes, but ducks and some rabbits go without clothes. To make the latter you will need to make only two parts, sew them together and fill with a sintepon. Ears and legs are separated by a seam, and eyes and a nose are sewed with threads, cheeks are painted with acrylic paints.

More popular with children are other felt toys. Patterns do the following:

• Two torsos with a head in a side section;
• Two solid parts for the outer and inner surfaces of the ears (similar to the propeller);
• Four hands;
• four legs.

Fold the linen fabric and felt together, translate the detail of the ears, cut out, sew. You do not need to fill them with sintepon. If you want standing ears, then you sew each ear separately, filling it with sintepon. Then, separately sew the arms and legs, turn it to the front side, fill it with sintepon. In the legs insert a wire base so that the hare can stand. Then sew the body with the head, while filling and sewing all the paws. It remains to embroider eyes, mouth, dye his cheeks, sew clothes.

Original trees

Unusually look trees made of felt, made with their own hands. The needlewomen make them flat for postcards, panels, pillows and three-dimensional for decorating the room. With flat trees, the principle of operation is understandable (the same as for paper applications). Consider how to do three-dimensional trees.

1. Conical. Take any cone (foam plastic, plastic, sewn), it is sewn on or pasted leaves from felt. Most of the trees are made in this image. Then they are decorated with beads, buttons and other decorative material.
2. Branched. Such trees are made just as easy as felt lambs. Patterns of a trunk with branches cut out from brown felt, leaves - from green shades. Fruits can also be sewn from this material or use ready made material (cones, plastic fruits, knitted products). The trunk is seamed with a suture outward, packed with sintepon, the wide bottom of the tree is sewn. Top with thread or glue ordinary leaves of thick felt and fruits.
3. Branched with a prepared barrel. The trunk is made of twigs, wire as for artificial trees. Then the leaves grow on the branches. So do some Christmas trees from felt. Draw whole branches, reminiscent of oak leaves, in zigzag lines. Stitches the details, lightly stuffed with sintepon, put on a branch and fixed.

If you need to make a dangling crown, then do a solid trunk (the process describes the second master class). From the felt cut out the leaves, sew them on a long string. Further, these branches are sewed to the trunk of a tree.

Educational toys

Due to the fact that the felt keeps the shape, excellent developing mats and toys are obtained from it. For example, vegetables, fruits, food. They are made in a flat and three-dimensional form. For babies it is enough to make figurative "benefits". Then there are enough two halves for a vegetable, a leaflet with a twig. Consider how to make pepper, eggplant, carrots, peas and a banana of felt with your own hands.

• Pepper. Cut two halves of a vegetable and two twigs. Patterns of pepper stitch, fill with sintepon, insert a twig, the details of which you grind off without filler.
• Carrot. It will take two parts of the carrot and the same half of the green. The manufacturing process is the same as that of pepper. Then the horizontal strips are embroidered with threads on the carrot. If you sew a loop, then vegetables can be used as New Year's toys. From felt you can sew three-dimensional carrots, but then make a pattern that is conical, as for a strawberry.
• Eggplant. Cut two halves of a vegetable, twigs, sepals. Eggplant stitches and is filled with sintepon. You put a twig, on the sides apply sepals, stitch the stitches.
• Peas. It will take two parts of a long wide leaf for peel and six circles for peas. Peas fill with sintepon, stitch. Details of the peel with each other grind, fold in half horizontally. From each end you sew the edges, put the pea in and attach it. By the way, peas, like many toys made of felt by their own hands, needlewomen are used as didactic teaching material. For this, a peel is sewn to the peel, the pea is made of different colors and adheres to the velcro. Then the kid develops small motor skills, studies color and learns the account.
• Banana. The middle is made of two details in the form of sharp-nosed leaves. You sew them, fill it with sintepon. Next, from the felt of a different color, cut out the same details, but of a larger size. Sew it up to half and insert the core, secure with threads. In order to keep the peel of the banana shape, use a modular felt.

Didactic benefits

Of felt make whole developing mats and benefits. To do this, take a blanket (bedspread) and sew on it all the details of one topic. For example, to study the rules of the road with a child, you need a road with markings and road signs, cars, traffic lights, buildings, trees. These details can be sewn and used as a background for the game.

There are visual didactic toys made of felt. Patterns do, based on the theme. For example, to study the time of the year on the canvas you sew a tree trunk with branches. Next, sew separately sun, clouds, clouds, rain, snowflakes, green, yellow, red, brown, grass, berries, mushrooms, flowers.

On the canvas and to the underside of the details sew the Velcro or button. Bottom to the canvas is attached a bag with these details. Then the child, on the instructions of an adult, fixes this or that time of the year. In such didactic manuals, three-dimensional elements (vegetables, fruits, animals, for example, the same sheep) are especially important.

From felt with their own hands create whole fairy tales with all fairy-tale heroes. Such toys will help not only to restore the events of your favorite fairy tale, but also to develop the speech of the baby. They are made to be stuffed, "fingered", flat on a stick. The last two kinds of toys are used for theatrical performances. Felt allows you to make each handcraft original, and the applications from it will decorate any design.