Soft toys - not only the attribute of childhood, but also a symbol of comfort and comfort. And if the toy is done with your own hands, then this thing is also with the soul. It is very valuable and touching. Soft toys created with their own hands is the best gift, souvenir, as well as decorating your own home.
Toy classification
If we talk about the diversity of soft toys, it is worth considering such categories as "Tilda", Teddy "primitive toys", "Amigurumi", "Pillow toys", "Portrait toys", "attic toys." Special chic can be considered a kit for a child consisting of a clothing element and a soft toy made of one fabric. Simply put, a girl in a dress in a polka dot is going and carries a bunny, stitched from the same fabric. The most interesting idea for a gift or image for a photo shoot. This direction is only gaining momentum, and the idea itself can be interpreted in different ways. If you want to make a soft toy with your own hands so that it does not look everyday and trite, take advantage of a similar idea. Success is guaranteed.
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The world of Tilde toys is so diverse that it will not work in a few words. Tildes are simple and miles: hares, ducks, snails, cats, horses, bees and just dolls. And combines simplicity, natural fabrics, small sizes and fantastic attractiveness. A professionally completed toy-Tilde will not leave anyone indifferent - it has a character that is reflected in every detail, in clothes, in hairstyle, accessories.
Amigurumi - crocheted soft toys of small size (from 2 to 15 cm). All the details of such toys are carefully tied, they are endowed with the mood and individuality, animated. This "jewelry" work requires special skills, schemes and colors of yarn. Amigurumi - not only men and animals, these are bagels, cupcakes, sandwiches, as well as creatively "thought-minded" household items.
The art of Teddy toys is so multifaceted that legends can be seen about it. Lovers and masters of toys in the style of "Teddy" are a separate "sect". People consisting in it know the secrets of the selection of fur, making and painting the fabric, patterns of clothing for the minimum size bear. Teddy-style is not only bears, these are foxes, hares, deer, mosses, hedgehogs and other characters, who sometimes look as if they would get to our generation from Praprababy. Intense, shabby, burnt into the sun, with a patch on the tummy toys - just a carefully thoughtful work of the author, and not the echo past centuries.
First steps in toy business
To sew a soft toy with your own hands, it is not necessary to be a highly qualified specialist. If there is a desire - everything else will be applied. Tailoring of soft toys with your own hands for beginners will not cause special difficulties, if you start with simple cuts and clearly follow the instructions.
Now the toys of the cushion type of primitive cut are very popular. Children like such friends, they take them with themselves in the kindergarten, for a walk, to the cottage. They are easily erased, do not deform after washing, they can be used as a toy-fighush. Cozy, from natural materials with eco-friendly filler - these toys are ideal satellites for a child. Made with their own hands. Soft toys from the fabric can become a family relic, if you consider creatively. Many mothers sew cute cozy characters from those little things that the child was wary, being completely Croha. This allows you to "perpetuate" the warmest, gentle memories that every woman keeps in his heart. There is a huge selection of patterns of soft toys. With your own hands (for beginners it will not be much difficulty) you can make a product for every taste.
Funny frog sews quite just and has all the right to be someone's favorite toy.
The Patchwork Style Horse will look bright and original.
And wonderful hoppodhki, selected in the desired color scheme, will decorate any interior and add comfort.
It's easier than it seems
To sew a similar toy-primitive, a pattern is needed, cotton paper fabric (sitherium or coarse), sealed with adhesive lining for strength and wear resistance, threads to the product tone and sewing accessories. Hollofiber or syntputs are suitable as a filler.
The pattern is translated into the fabric, the parts are cut, given the allowances on the seams. Head and carcass have several overhead items that should be sewed before the entire detail will be sewn. Placing eyes, nose, muzzle, stepping the details of the head. The same actions repeat with a toy toy. The handles and legs are stitched separately and only after that they are connected to the body part, sometimes it is convenient to do with buttons: carefully and creatively.
Important moments for beginners
Before you figure it out how to make a soft toy with your own hands, it is necessary to study important subtleties of sewing such products.The main principles of successful result are as follows.
- Observe the scale of the pattern, separate items, try not to use the technique "I painted you." The pattern should be downloaded, print and translate to the fabric is the most important stage, 50% of success depends on it.
- Remember about indents and allowances on the seams, make cuts in the specified places before turning out the toy.
- When sewing soft toys, all the details must be carved onto the tissue in one direction. If you do not comply with this item, then in the process of stinging, symmetric parts (paws, ears) are deformed, which will definitely ruin the appearance of the product.
- Figure a soft toy better with high-quality filler, such as syntheph. Synthenboard when filling the toy often creates the effect of "cellulite", especially if you work with a thin cloth.
- Small details are easier to flash along the drawn circuit, and after that cut.
Toy pillow
Sew such toy simply. A soft cloth is needed, like a fleece, filler and threads of the respective shades. The combination of gray with pink is very successful, bright and harmonious. A simple pattern in the form of a bagel, the upper part of which is divided to undergo the ears, will allow such work quickly and without much effort. The pattern itself consists of 4 parts of the ears, 8 parts of the paws and parts of the tail, which in the finished form is in charge of the two main parts of the carcass (with the exception of the ears). By connecting all the necessary items, the toy is turned off and pinch the filler quite tightly. At the final stage, the hole for the packing is sewn with a secret seam, the elements of the face are decorated. Soft toys stitched with their own hands, the photos of which are presented above, easy to perform, beautiful and original.
As a gift or for the soul?
Probably, it is most important before the start of any case to understand what you expect in the final result, for whom or for what purpose is sewn toy. Sometimes what happened is globally different from what was planned to sew. The toy is simple, not quite perfectly tailored, but the child does not produce her from the hands, sleeps and eats only with her. And it happens on the contrary: a beautiful, performed "on the pitch" mild toy and remains unclaimed. It is inexplicable, but the masters of handmade toys say that if something "was born," will certainly find the owner. Each doll must have his own man, because the soul lives in it.