In any house, you can find a unpacked sock, which cannot be applied by destination, and in this case many throw such a thing. But from socks you can make wonderful cute dolls, which will be happy to play kids. Socks dolls can be the most different: large and small, in or without clothes, in the form of animals or men. Even a child can make such a doll, unless of course it will be under an adult supervision. The main advantage of such dolls is their safety, because they have no solid parts and harmful materials. Inside such dolls are packed with a soft material, and the eyes and spouts in them are usually embroidered. That is why even the smallest can play with such dolls, so you can safely make a sock doll even for a semi-annual baby. This example provides information on how to make a nice and soft dog from the sock. For the manufacture of such a doll, you will need: old socks (and categorous, and cotton), syntheps or wool for filling, thread, scissors, beads, possibly flavored fabric. Take a sock of suitable color, cut off its upper part as shown in the image. You also need to cut off another narrow strip of 1 cm wide - it will be the tail of the future dog. With the cut top of the sock, you can make the front paws of the puppy. From these parts form parts, stuffed with cotton and flash the neck "Forward needle". Excess fabric can be trimmed.
From the main part of the sock will be formed torso. For this, the carved part is folded along the length as indicated in the photo, and and cut on the curly line - thus the dog's ears are obtained. They are stitched along the contour, and then you can fill the ears with cotton or syntheps, or leave it as it is - then the dog's ears will hang. At the base of the ears tied with thread. At this stage, it is necessary to fill the head of the doll by filler. In order for the head of the dog to get a smooth and necessary form, it is better to stuff it upper. After that, the head, as well as the ears, you need to bandage with a thread at the base.
Then the sinyproun or cotton body is stuffed and stitched as shown in the photo. Feet shape with threads and needles by grabbing light stitches torso in the right places.
The tail is done as shown in the figure: the pre-carved narrow strip is stretched into the ring and fold the flagella, and then this flagellum is folded and folded again - the tail of about 5 cm is obtained. Then you need to sew to the body of the dog's front paws and spout A small ball made of a sock stuffed with a wool. The eyes can be made of beads from butchers or just embroider two crosses on the muzzle. Sometimes in store accessories you can find on sale already ready-made plastic eyes for dolls. You can decorate the dog in your own taste: for example, make it from trimming skin or leatherette collar, tie on the neck ribbon with a beautiful bow. You can even make a small bone from the remains of the sock, also fill it with cotton wool and sew the dogs to the muzzle. Making such dolls is very easy and fast, but the pleasure of such work brings both adults and children.
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