Soft toy - pillow with his hands

Contents:

• What you need to create a cushion toys?
• Secrets of the manufacture of machinery
• PARTS
• Example pillow toys: frog

Someone might say that soft toys - absolutely useless thing and just collect dust in the house. But psychologists disagree and argue that children necessarily need their own stuffed animals, and preferably made of different materials that can be studied in the course of the game.

In our stores there is no shortage of such toys - from the cute teddy bears to the terrible and obscure microbes. But today we do not talk about them, and how to create a soft cushion toys with their own hands. After all, the thing you created, in any case will be unique and will bring a lot of positive things to your child.
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What you need to create a cushion toys?

If you decide to make a funny soft pillows with their hands, which at the same time will also serve as a toy, you will need:

• Various patches. Large and small, ribbons, lace and different fabrics, oilcloth, felt or leather.
• Threads of different strengths and colors.
• Filling for pillows (hollofayber, padding polyester or any other soft material).
• Buttons or beads (for the manufacture of noses and eyes, if the cushions in the form of animals).
• Needles, thimbles, scissors.
• Tailor meter, ruler and chalk - cutting our items.
• Sewing machine and iron.

Do not refuse help to create a fun baby toys. This activity will be very useful for children, develop their self-discipline. You will help develop his perseverance, and develop fine motor skills. We think, to remind that the creation of pillows will help develop creativity kid, too.

But attracting the child, it is important not to forget about safety. Needles should not be stored without a thread, and it is better if in a box where they are, will be a magnet. Tools, which will operate the child must also be safe, the same scissors with rounded tips. And work on the sewing machine or iron - only under the supervision of an adult, the child is not injured hand.

A suitable pattern can be found in specialty stores, or create your own, show imagination. Another option - it is an old toy and strut pattern copied from it. We are for the manifestation of his own imagination, it's a great chance to realize their vision of the world!

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Secrets of the manufacture of machinery

Making fun of pillows with their hands consists of several stages. First, you need to select the material for the manufacture of toys and prepare it for making (wash and steam the fabric). Then you need to cut out parts of sour cream, ask them to fill a pillow and decorate it nicely.

The ideal material for a pattern to be cardboard. Solid curves better adhere to the tissue and may be more useful in the future. The finished pattern must be applied to the wrong side of the fabric and tightly pressed, outline the edge of the chalk or pen. Mel often used when cloth crafts dark. But keep in mind that it can distort the dimensions of the finished parts.

For cutting out parts necessarily need sharp scissors, or can be "jammed" fabric.
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PARTS

Stitch pillow better with the help of a sewing machine, and it should be done strictly according to the planned lines. Usually these toys are quite large and stapled on the reverse side and then turn. If you decide to make their own hands a little cushion, the joints can be performed from the outside, then they will act more and decorative element.

Before we turn out a finished product, be sure to trim the all seams and make small incisions on them. This will help turn the pillow, and its edge as a finished product will look very neat and beautiful. Threads Sewing select the maximum matching fabric.

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Example pillow toys: frog

Want to have fun at home settled frog and pillow-time? Let's make such crafts with their hands. We need a green cloth head and eye, yellow - for the abdomen and green felt (or any other fabric that will not crumble) - for legs. Smiling mouth, we will embroider on the finished pillow red thread floss. Now we have to make only three balls, and the frog is ready!

Details of the eyes and head recruited thread seam "forward needle". Now, we fill them with synthetic padding and tighten thread. Try to evenly distribute the pack, so as not to get any lumps. Tighten the string tighter and fasten it. We should have three balls, two of which are small - one large eyes and - the head, she's torso.

For more balls attach tummy. To do this, take the yellow fabric and sew it as a loopy seam trim. On the ball, which act as the eyes, embroider threads pupils. At the head embroider mouth. At the bottom, on the side where we have a yellow belly, sew foot-stand. Here and ready on our merry frog, which may well serve as a soft and comfortable pillow. And most importantly, you have made it yourself!