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Felt bull is a beautiful and not complicated themed craft for the coming New Year 2023, which can be sewn together with a child of kindergarten or primary school age. All the subtleties of working with this material, patterns of different bull toys and ideas for inspiration are collected in this article. The finished artiodactyl Borka can be hung as a toy on a Christmas tree, used to decorate an interior, turned into a keychain or simply presented.

Content:

  • how to choose felt;
  • materials and tools;
  • how to sew parts and stuff a toy;
  • patterns and patterns;
  • photo ideas for creativity.

How to choose felt for Christmas crafts?

Felt is a non-woven material that is obtained by felting from rabbit, hares, goat, sheep wool or synthetic fibers (polyester, acrylic). On sale, most often this material is sold in the form of A4 sheets, less often per footage.

Depending on the composition of felt, it happens:

  • woolen is a completely natural material, and therefore the most expensive, although it has its drawbacks: it shrinks and can be covered with spools;
  • half-woolen - has in itsviscose, which makes it smoother, softer and more pliable, but over time it can lose its shape and become ragged;
  • synthetic or eco-felt - the most affordable material at a price with acceptable quality.

Depending on the density, they distinguish:

  • soft felt - suitable for sewing voluminous products, cute toys, jewelry and hair clips;
  • material 1-1.2 mm thick - resembles paper and is suitable for making small design details, creating educational books, covers for notebooks, diaries and books, hair accessories;
  • hard felt 2-3 mm - you can easily make a bag, basket, laptop or tablet case, make a brooch from it.

In addition, on sale you can find not only bright plain sheets, but also printed material (ready-made or printed to order), with sparkles (glitter), which do not crumble and give the work a festive look, as well as American wool felt melange texture.

Advice! To sew a bull, you may need different types of this material (in terms of composition, density and other characteristics), so you should not throw away the scraps left over from other works. They may come in handy in the future.

Other necessary materials and tools

In addition to felt, to make the symbol of the year with your own hands, you need to prepare the following tools and materials:

  • aqua fabric marker, tailor's or regular chalk, bar of soap or gelpen - any of these devices available to draw patterns on felt;
  • scissors - high-quality cutting or stationery, "heron" embroiderers, as well as figured scissors are suitable, which, if necessary, will make the edge of the pattern scalloped, in the form of a zigzag or wave;
  • threads - you can sew crafts with ordinary threads for a sewing machine or hand sewing, but it’s better if you have more floss for decorative stitches on hand;
  • needles of different diameters for felt of different thicknesses;
  • filler - holofiber or sintepuh is ideal, it is better to refuse cotton wool and scraps of fabric, because they will not be able to stuff the toy beautifully;
  • lace and various types of decorative braid, pompons, beads, buttons, beads and other decorative elements that will enliven the symbol of 2023.

Important moment! If the toy will be made together with or for a child, then for safety reasons glued small parts that can fall off should be discarded. All items must be securely flashed.

How to sew parts: seams used

The seams on such toys are not just a way to fasten parts, but an additional decorative element, so before sewing a bull for the New Year 2023, you should master the most popular stitches:

  • seam "forward needle" - they grind small details or sew decorative elements along the edge;
  • seam "back to the needle" - not inferior in reliabilitymachine stitch, it can be used as a needle-forward stitch;
  • over-the-edge seam with an inclination to the left or right - for stitching two parts, it is important to ensure that the inclination along the perimeter of the entire part is in one direction;
  • loop or overlock stitch and its varieties - firmly and neatly connect the parts of the bull, additionally decorating it.

When sewing a toy with your own hands with any selected seam, you need to make sure that the distance between the stitches and their length are the same, otherwise the work will look untidy.

For voluminous crafts, before completely sewing two parts, you need to leave a small hole through which the bull will be filled with holofiber. It is convenient to distribute the filler inside with a pencil. Watch video:

Felt bull: patterns

Below are templates for various crafts to make the White Metal Ox happy in the coming year and bring good luck and luck to the owner of such a toy.

You can sew a bull or a cow according to any of the patterns yourself. To do this, follow:

  1. Print the template on paper, if necessary, increase or decrease the details in any graphics editor.
  2. Paper patterns cut out of felt of the corresponding color.
  3. Sew the parts together, fill the toy with filler, make eyes, a mouth, a nose and a bull is ready.

Ideas for inspiration

It is not necessary that the bull made of felt be like on one of the given templates. It will be much more interesting for the child if he draws his own symbol of the year, and then sews it together with his mother. In this case, parents will have to do the technical side of the work - building a pattern and helping with sewing. For inspiration, take a look at bull cartoons for kids or look at the following photos below.

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