A felt tiger can become a cute souvenir of the upcoming 2022, which you can use to decorate a New Year tree or the interior of a room, or you can give it to someone close to you for good luck. It is not at all difficult to make a felt minke whale with your own hands, the minimum cutting and sewing skills obtained at school in labor lessons are enough. This kind of creativity will be liked not only by adults, but also by children.
- Tools and materials.
- How to sew a Tiger Cub?
- Ready-made ideas for felt Tigers.
- Patterns and patterns.
Tools and materials
Before you start working directly, 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, mustache fishing line and additional decorative elements, for example, satin braid or a small carabiner for hanging.
Soft felt is suitable for sewing bulky toys. 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 colors, you will need an orange, black and white non-woven fabric. Of course, you can show your imagination and sew a blue or blue wild cat, because in 2022 the Blue Water Tiger patronizes.
As for the threads for sewing parts, then you can not waste time selecting shades that match the color of the felt, but use just monofilament. 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.
You will need filler to add volume to your toy. For this, holofiber or synthetic winterizer is suitable. These materials are quite lightweight, it is very easy to care for products that are filled with them.
Sewing a toy is impossible without using a pattern. Having decided what the symbol of the year will look like, and choosing the appropriate template, you need to print it on paper. If you do not have a printer at hand, you can simply attach a sheet of tracing paper to the monitor and gently trace around 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 ordinary office paper. For reusable use, you need a base made of 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 applied to the felt of the appropriate color and traced around the contour with a self-disappearing marker or crayon. Then carefully cut, making seam allowances where necessary.
- Next, you need to sew or glue small details: stripes on the body, eyes, muzzle elements and more.
- After that, you need to sew in pairs the details of the head, body and paws. For felt toys, the buttonhole stitch is most often used.
- Fill the future Tiger with padding polyester 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 (legs, head, tail) and finally arrange it. Make a mustache out of the fishing line, slightly shade the drawing on the face and ears with paints.
A tiger made of felt, sewn with one’s own hand, is a unique thing, in which there will be a piece of the warmth of the master who worked on it.Therefore, when creating cute souvenirs for the New Year 2022, you do not need to be afraid to move away from the template and bring your own zest to the work.
Felt Tigers and Tiger Cubs Ideas
Patterns and patterns of felt Tigers
Do not forget: if you have not found the pattern of the Tiger you like, you can use the pattern of the cat, then add black tiger stripes to its skin.
