✅ DIY felt tiger: patterns for the New Year 2023

Tools and materials
How to sew a Tiger cub?
Felt Tigers and Tiger Cubs Ideas
Sewing Patterns and Patterns of Felt Tigers

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Tiger made of felt can become a nice souvenir of the upcoming 2023, which can be used to decorate a Christmas tree or the interior of a room, or you can give it to someone close for good luck. Making a felt minke whale with your own hands is not at all difficult, the minimum skills of cutting and sewing received at school in labor lessons are enough. Not only adults, but also children will like this kind of creativity.

Tools and materials.
How to sew a Tiger cub?
Ready ideas for felt Tigers.
Sewing patterns and patterns.

Tools and materials

Before you directly start work, you need to prepare the necessary tools and materials. To sew a felt tiger, you will need:

soft felt;
threads to match the material or monofilament;
filler;
scissors;
sewing needle;
glue "Moment Crystal";
tailor's marker or regular chalk.

Additionally, you may need beads, beads or ready-made eyes, a mustache line and additional decorative elements, such as satin braid or a small carabiner for pendants.

For sewing voluminous toyssuitable soft felt. It holds its shape well, does not fray at the edges, while it has sufficient extensibility, so it can be given any shape. As for the color scheme, you will need orange, black and white non-woven fabric. Of course, you can show your imagination and sew a blue or blue wild cat, because the Blue Water Tiger patronizes 2023.

As for the threads for stitching details, you can not waste time choosing shades that match the color of the felt, but use just monofilament for it. This transparent fiber will make the seam invisible and the work neat.

It is not necessary to sew all the details together. For example, thin dark stripes can be glued with Moment Crystal glue or any other suitable for working with fabric.

To give the toy volume, you will need a filler. For this, a holofiber or synthetic winterizer is suitable. These materials are quite light, and products filled with them are very easy to care for.

Sewing a toy is impossible without using a pattern. Having decided on how the symbol of the year will look like, and choosing the appropriate template, you need to print it on paper. If there is no printer at hand, you can simply attach a sheet of tracing paper to the monitor and carefully trace along the contour with a soft pencil without strong pressure.

If the pattern will be used only for sewing one tiger, then you can make it on a sheet of plain office paper. For reusable use, you need a base made of a more material, such as cardboard.

How to sew a Tiger cub?

Regardless of the chosen template, work on a felt toy will include the following technological processes:

The paper pattern must be attached to the felt of the corresponding color and circled along the contour with a self-disappearing marker or chalk. Then carefully cut out, making seam allowances where necessary.

How to make felt stripes on Tiger

Next, you need to sew or glue small details: stripes on the body, eyes, muzzle elements and more.
After that, you need to sew the details of the head, torso and paws in pairs. For felt toys, buttonhole stitch is most often used.

Fill the future Tiger with synthetic winterizer or holofiber, and then sew up the hole through which it was filled.

At the final stage, you need to sew together all the details of the toy (paws, head, tail) and finalize it. Make a mustache out of fishing line, slightly shade the drawing on the muzzle and ears with paints.

Tiger made of felt, sewn by hand - this is a unique thing, which will have a piece of warmth of the master who worked on it. Therefore, when creating cute souvenirs for the New Year 2023, you do not need to be afraid to move away from the template and add your own flavor to the work.