How to make a doll house of felt with your own hands?

Puppet houses made of felt have recently become very popular. Many mothers are wondering how to make such a toy for their daughter. Variants of houses can be invented a lot, they will functionally differ from each other, depending on the destination.

Toy house

In the dolls are all the girls, and the dolls need to live somewhere. A doll house, of course, can be bought at a toy store. But it is much more interesting and interesting to make it yourself. могут стать интересной альтернативой покупному изделию. For example, cabinets of felt can be an interesting alternative to the purchased product. In the felt toy can be located rooms - living room, bedroom, dining room, even a bathroom. In this house can live a small real doll, or maybe the same little girl. Houses made of felt can be sewn by this pattern.

This pattern is universal in that with its help you can sew many options for doll houses. You can simply cut out a small house from a sufficiently large cut of felt or drape, without forgetting to cut out the floor separately, decorate it and collect it in a single whole with the help of various fastening methods. You can divide the drawing into separate components - floor, 4 walls, 2 roof parts - and collect a single unit. Another pattern for sewing felt houses is shown below.

Houses made of felt, made on the proposed patterns, will be voluminous and look in general terms this way.

The principles of making a toy felt house

A voluminous house must hold a form. Therefore, it must be done multilayered.

• The outside is made of felt. It is decorated with decorative elements - windows, shutters, doors, flowers, fences - anything that the craftsmen look like a real house or a castle of the princess.
• The inside can be made of a thin sheet of foam rubber and a dense polyethylene film (made of covers for sold coverlets, blankets and pillows). The film will protect the house from moisture, foam will be the material that helps keep the shape.
• The interior decoration of a toy house can be very different! It is most convenient for a homemade toy to have one room with access to the yard. Although, if desired, you can make such a craft and two-three-tiered. Then there can be several rooms in the house.

It is impossible not to mention how to make a floor. The house must be reliable, even if it is a toy, and even a felt one. Therefore, when sewing the frame of the house in the floor cavity, over the film and foam rubber, it is necessary to lay a dense sheet of cardboard - from the packaging box for example.

How to decorate the house and how to close it?

Since toy houses made of felt are a three-dimensional design, this allows the use of voluminous items of furniture. They can also be made from fabric or materials at hand, or you can use purchased toy furniture of the appropriate size.

There are several ways to assemble a doll house from felt:

• Sew on the side seams on the front side two detachable zippers;
• Use Velcro valves (with Velcro tape);
• To connect parts of the house with decorative large buttons and buttons.

In any case, the house must be securely closed so that during the transfer not lose things.

Small house-bag

Sewing a house for a doll of felt can be not only in three-dimensional three-dimensional version, but also in the form of a small handbag, which the child will be convenient to take with him for a walk, a trip or a visit. Approximately the pattern of the toy bag looks as shown in the photo below.

A drawing is made on a sheet of paper in the supposed size of the bag, additional "rooms" are attached to it. On the sketch, you can immediately draw the situation to make individual items in accordance with the size of the handbag.

In this craft, it is important to provide reliable fasteners, so that during the carrying of the handbag nothing is lost. For this it is more convenient to make a separate closing pocket, in which the child will be able to remove all the removable parts and the pupa.

Interesting little house-bag

Houses made of felt, made by hand and having the form of a children's handbag, suggest the use of mostly flat elements. The whole situation is imitation of real objects (table, bed, wardrobe or bath). But they can be filled with functionality. For example, make a crib in the form of a pocket, one corner of which reclines. Pupa "goes to bed" and takes cover with this corner-blanket. The bathroom should also be made reclining - attach the upper part of the bowl to the hat gum, sewing the rest of the parties tightly to the house. Then the chrysalis can "take a bath." You can also make curtains, it will add realism to the toy. Another interesting option - to make the doors open in the cabinets, on the shelves (a small button-pen, and inside the appliqué depicting everyday objects). Variants of how to make the house-bag environment, weight, you just need to put a little bit of fantasy and desire to surprise and please the daughter.

House-book

Very interesting doll house of felt in the form of a book. If the folding variants of such a toy can not have a huge number of "rooms", then the book house is a limitless, in fact, an opportunity to create a puppet world from felt. Each turn of a toy book - a room, a room, a park, a forest, a garden - anything you can make in such a toy! A house-book made of felt is created on the principle of a small house-bag: a two-dimensional world with fly-away components. And for such a toy it will be more convenient if the doll hostess is also a felt doll.

How to collect a book-house? This is the most important question in this work. You can, of course, turn to a specialized workshop and pierce the eyelets, where large rings are inserted, on which the sheets of the book are then turned over. But it is more convenient to fasten the cabinets of felt in the form of a book with the help of braid, besides, such a book can easily be supplemented with the necessary pages - suddenly the doll will go on a trip?

Felt housewife of the felt house

Houses made of felt, if they are a flat toy - a handbag or a book, suggest the use of a small puppet or a felt pupa in the game. A toy made of felt can become an original addition to the house, as it can also be sewed with outfits, make accessories. And for her, you can make a whole felt family, including pets.

Here is the pattern of the doll and the basic elements of her wardrobe.

To dress up a chrysalis, it is enough to sew on a body a piece of Velcro Velcro, which has "claws". Then the clothing itself will cling to the doll and stay in place. Such a piece of Velcro is best done in the form of a swimsuit - and the pupa will look more interesting, and clothes will hold better around the whole calf. This same technique can be used to change the doll's hairstyle.

Sewing doll house of felt with your own hands is easy, you just need to put maximum imagination and desire to do an interesting thing. Felt - a unique material, it is well processed, does not strew, it can be different in thickness, and how many colors - any imagination can become a reality together with felt. Good luck!