The world of fantasy knows no boundaries. Often when creating masterpieces, masters use various materials and improvised means. One of the directions is do-it-yourself felt crafts. Folk craftsmen say that if you once pick up a warm piece of felt and make something out of it, you will never stop creating interesting things from this material. Colored patches encourage creativity, calm the nervous system and put you in a positive mood.

Before you dive into crafting, you should learn what felt is and what types of material are best for crafting.

On a note! Felt is a dense material with unique thermal conductivity, which is produced non-woven from sheep or goat wool, as well as from thin rabbit fluff.

For patterns of products, natural and/or synthetic types of material with different densities are used. For beginning craftsmen, it is very important to decide on crafts in order to choose the right type of material.

Exist different types material:

1. Acrylic felt is a completely synthetic type that is recommended for children and beginner needlewomen. The smooth surface of the material allows you to make simple and lightweight felt crafts, for example, false summer or autumn flowers, cases for mobile phones, and various souvenirs.
2. Wool felt is a natural material. It produces useful products that have practical applications, for example, booties for babies, slippers, stylish and beautiful hats for girls.
3. Wool-blend felt is a combined material consisting of 2/3 synthetic fibers. It is flexible, holds its shape well, but falls apart during heat treatment. It is recommended to sew children's stuffed toys and small decorative elements from this material.
4. Bamboo felt is a more durable material and quite expensive. The viscose impurities that make up textiles give the crafts wear resistance. However, for a child or a novice craftsman, this type of felt is very difficult to process.

Everything you need for needlework

Before you dive into the creative process, you need to stock up on materials and tools. In addition to felt, the following will be useful in artistic needlework:

1. regular and zigzag scissors;
2. sewing threads of various thicknesses and colors, as well as floss thread;
3. pattern or template made of thick paper;
4. glue and glue gun;
5. needles, pins and other fixing devices;
6. colored marker, pencil and ballpoint pen;
7. decoration elements (beads, buttons, seed beads).

On a note! A pattern diagram is an essential component for creativity, but with certain artistic inclinations and experience, you can completely do without it.

Felt owl

It's best to start with simple crafts. Ideas for creativity can be drawn from fragments of Soviet cartoons. A simple option is a wise owl made of felt. To work, you will need several scraps of fabric of different colors and shades.

A small master class on how to create a felt owl step by step:

1. Before starting work, you should prepare paper templates of the owl's parts - these are the body, eyes, wings and beak.
2. After placing the template on the felt, the necessary part of the craft is cut out. Seam allowance is not taken into account, since the parts are cut straight to size.
3. By attaching the eyes, wings and beak to the front side of the body, it is necessary to achieve the most successful placement option; all elements should be secured with pins.
4. The next stage is sewing on the parts. By stepping back 2-3 mm from the edge of the workpiece, you can carefully sew the parts together using a regular seam.
5. For experienced craftsmen, you can complicate the task: using padding polyester to add volume to the wings and beak.

A felt owl is not very difficult to make. You can sew a loop to it and decorate the wall of your room. Having mastered the initial creative stages, you can move on.

Felt cup stand

Fragrant tea with lemon or orange will become even tastier if the cup with the drink is placed on a bright lemon stand. This tea ensemble will look very festive and beautiful. You will need 3 colors - orange, yellow and white felt. Working tools: scissors, thread and needle. Steps to create a citrus stand:

1. Prepare 2 large circles of orange and yellow. Cut out 2 more circles with a smaller diameter, which will imitate citrus peel, and 8 colored triangular slices of orange and lemon.
2. Citrus slices are carefully placed on the white blank and secured with pins.
3. Before sewing on the parts, it is necessary to give the product volume. As in the previous master class, this is padding polyester. Each triangle is sewn equidistant from each other.
4. The final stage is sewing the top and bottom parts of the stand and aligning the edges of the craft.

This tea drinking accessory will add freshness and creativity to your kitchen interior. A citrus stand can be a great gift for friends and family. To diversify your creativity and gain artistic experience, it is recommended to make your own cup stand in the shape of the sun.

Fridge magnet

Today it is difficult to imagine a refrigerator without magnetic decorations. You can make a felt magnet with your own hands and add to your collection. You can take various cartoon characters as a basis - owls, cats, elephants.

On a note! Children will be able to make felt magnets in the form of mushrooms, stars or other simple shapes.

The manufacturing technology is quite simple and similar to previous crafts. The only innovation is a small magnet sewn or glued to the inside of the felt figure.

Ideas for creativity

There are many various options felt crafts. If you apply diligence, imagination and show artistic taste, you can create truly real masterpieces of folk art. These could be educational crafts for children, decorations for your own wardrobe or room design. A few different ideas for creative inspiration:

1. Easter Egg from wool felt. This craft can be used to decorate a room on a holiday.

2. You can update your spring wardrobe with felt crafts in the shape of a rose or other flower. Such a product can harmoniously fit into an outfit as a hair decoration.

3. In the creative process you can’t do without a pincushion. A decorative version of felt crafts can be made in the form of a house, sun, frog or mouse.

4. It will be easy for beginning needlewomen to make a decorative felt cover for a notebook, book or weekly journal. By adding a cheerful applique with the image of Simon the cat or another cartoon character, you can please your child with an unusual craft.

Small pieces of felt left over after sewing a coat are not the most varied raw materials for making a colorful souvenir. Many housewives prefer to sew a beret from leftover fabric. Craft kits in specialized stores provide a larger assortment that allows you to create entire felt paintings. Small felt crafts are rarely voluminous, and if they are made with stuffing, very little filler is used for these toys. More often, to make crafts from dense material, glue is required, and threads are used only to decorate the edges and join large parts with a decorative overlock stitch.

Small felt crafts are rarely voluminous

The simplest and easiest crafts that you can make with children are keychains, consisting of one main part. Small ones cut from thinner fabric are glued onto it. Rhinestones, decorative braid, buttons, and beads can be used as decorative elements.

Felt makes interesting crafts for the interior - beautiful pictures, bookmarks for books, panels that can depict an autumn forest or orchard, a portrait of a mother or an entire voluminous yurt.

Funny animals

• The main detail of the future product is an irregular oval, an egg. Based on this shape you can make a hare, a cat, a dog.
• For decoration you will need a thin cotton braid; it is needed to mark the boundary between the body and the head of the toy.
• Ready-made eyes, two buttons or beads.
• Colored chintz scraps with small patterns will help decorate a plain piece.
• Small details - ears, paws, tails are cut out of felt.
• All overhead parts are attached to the base using PVA glue.

Attention! A decorative overlock stitch is more than just decoration. It is done on all parts and serves to connect the parts together.

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How to make a felt bookmark: template

The most Original gifts are made by hand. For small bookmarks, patterns are not needed if you have templates such as a ruler or a round box on hand. You can use them to draw a bookmark template on a sheet of paper if the decoration does not have a complex silhouette.

• A straight strip is drawn along the ruler - it will be the basis of the bookmark.
• The upper part is cut out together with the main part of the bookmark.
• Thin felt is used for decoration if glue is used to connect the parts. There can be several layers of overlay elements.
• When joining parts with threads on a sewing machine, a zigzag stitch is used.

The most original gifts are made with your own hands

The simplest and most original bookmarks are made with the faces of cartoon characters - bears, hares, little mice. The main thing is to clearly draw the outline of the head, and for design you will need circles, ovals and triangles.

1. It's even easier to do original bookmark using satin, narrow grosgrain ribbon or cotton braid. This element will connect two felt figures.
2. For the top element, you can choose the face of a cartoon character. The bottom of the bookmark is ideally complemented by a multi-layered felt flower. An easy to make, but very effective flower will be made from three 5-petal blanks. The lightest of them will look better in the middle, between the largest and smallest blanks. The petals of each blank should be the same size.
3. All elements are attached to each other with glue.

The number of tones in the product is determined depending on the availability of material or based on your own preferences.

Felt owl: product diagram

To make an owl you will need:

• 2 colors of felt – gray and pink or brown and yellow;
• It’s better to get ready-made eyes (green, yellow or brown) from a craft store;
• You can also buy a plastic beak there;
• A small piece of black thin skin or binding material will be required to make cilia.

The owl can be different

Ready-made eyes, claws, beaks are suitable if the applique is 20-40 cm high. For smaller crafts, you will have to use felt or thick leather to make the beak, and the eyes can be made from beads, buttons, and mother-of-pearl beads.

Construction of the pattern:

1. Draw an egg on a piece of paper.
2. We cover its upper part in a circle.
3. We draw “cat” ears on top. The silhouette may turn out to be cat-like, but this similarity will be significantly reduced when all the parts are assembled.
4. Draw a curved wing.
5. You need to cut out the basis for the eyes; for this you need to draw a figure eight with symmetrical circles.
6. A pocket is cut out along the bottom of the first workpiece. Thanks to this solution, there is no need to cut the paws.
7. To decorate the bird's neck or one of its ears, cut out a bright bow. To decorate it, you can use a bead or rhinestone.

When cutting the material, you should take into account that there should be 2 pieces of the body, as well as the wings. In order not to make a mistake with the direction of the wings, it is better to cut them out at the same time, or make a chalk outline by bending the felt in half.

Product assembly:

• The front part is decorated - all prepared parts, except the wings, are glued to the workpiece.
• The two parts of the bird's body are folded together. They need to be secured with an overlock stitch.
• To give the toy volume, the incompletely sewn piece is filled with batting, synthetic padding, or cotton wool.
• The last to be glued are the wings; they are completely or partially located on the front of the souvenir.

Sovunya from Smeshariki

Not the simplest owl pattern will be needed to make the charming heroine of the famous animated film “Smeshariki”. Patterns of parts can be made by printing one of the pictures you like best, intended for coloring by kids. The less small parts, all the better.

In order for the cartoon heroine to be recognizable, you need to carefully choose the color of the material. Special attention It is necessary to pay attention to drawing the eyes. Gouache and acrylic are more suitable for painting on materials. The disadvantage of gouache is that it is unstable; it will soon begin to crumble and wash off when wet. Acrylic is more durable. Its quality, which dries transparent, will help convey the depth of the wise bird’s gaze.

Felt watch: how to draw a pattern

Saving time is one of the the most important features person. A colorful clock with moving hands will help your child determine the time by the location of the hands on the dial.

Saving time is one of the most important human traits

1. Draw a circle using a compass.
2. Stepping back 5 cm from the edge of the workpiece, we outline a circle with a smaller diameter.
3. From material of a contrasting color, cut out 12 rectangles 1 cm wide by 3 cm long.
4. We make stencils of numbers. They will be needed to mark the dial.
5. Using chalk or a sharpened soap, we draw lines that form right angles - from 6 to 12, from 3 to 9. Between 12 and 3, you need to mark two points equidistant from adjacent lines. The same must be done with the remaining segments of the diameter of the outer circle. You can use an alarm clock or a wall clock with a dial as a marking scheme.
6. Rectangles need to be glued and numbers drawn.
7. All that remains is to cut out the hour and minute hands and movably fix them in the center.

Felt tree: step-by-step instructions

Felt crafts are very versatile; this dense, soft material makes excellent flat and convex appliqués, soft-stuffed toys, pincushions, and durable voluminous crafts.

To make a volumetric deciduous tree you will need:

• Brown felt for making a barrel;
• Two tones of the same color material on the leaves;
• Stable cone-shaped object;
• Batting for stuffing;
• Synthetic threads No. 40;
• Sewing machine.

Felt crafts are very versatile

Work process:

1. A tree trunk is drawn on a sheet of paper; its lower part should be so wide that the cone-shaped base, after connecting the two halves, can fit inside.
2. At the top, to form a fabric crown, it is enough to draw 4-6 branches slightly forked at the top. These parts should also be somewhat wider than those that would be used for souvenirs in the making of children.
3. The leaves are cut out according to a single template. A dark sheet of felt is folded with a light one. Each element will be double.
4. Leaves are attached to the branches using a sewing machine. The seam will go down the middle of each piece. The bottom edge does not connect to the base.
5. Having folded the tree parts with the leaves inward, the crown elements must be sewn together. It is more convenient to do this manually, using a “needle forward” stitch.
6. The part of the trunk free from leaves is easier to stitch on a typewriter. Leaving the lower part untouched. This hole is necessary for filling the branches and trunk with batting.
7. A short, heavy insert is inserted into the base of the barrel just before the bottom is sewn up with fine stitches. The bottom parts are connected through the edge.

To give miracles, you need imagination. The simplest, most surprising element may be an owl peeking out from the branches. The simplest scheme The pattern consists of drawing an expanding parabola and connecting its ends with an arc that forms the protrusions of the ears. All that remains is to decorate the muzzle and tassels on the ears.

How to make a picture from felt

To create a felt panel, you don’t need a master class, you just need a good sketch. It can be translated from a book, if the volume of the base is small, or you can enlarge the schematic image you like on the computer. You can print a simple drawing in a single copy. To cut parts that overlap each other or are very close, it is better to take 2 prints of the image.

Hand work with felt will have to be quite painstaking if a peacock is to appear in the picture, demonstrating the beauty of its tail. Here you will have to do a lot of work with scissors, dividing the material into thin strips. It’s easier to make a three-dimensional picture for the dining room, on which products will be placed - loaves, apples, bananas, oranges. Their choice depends on the availability of the appropriate felt color. 2-3 layers of batting will make the picture textured. It is more convenient to attach decorative elements to the “canvas” using sewing machine, zigzag stitch. Only the threads need to be matched to the details.

Using the same principle, you can make Pinocchio, Cipollino, the little mermaid, whose things do not require detailed drawing of small elements. When making panels for a children's room, one should not forget that every hero should have a friend. It is better to choose heroes in pairs:

• Malvina with Pierrot or Artemon;
• The Little Prince with a fox, rose or lamb;
• A portrait of SpongeBob or the Little Mermaid will be organically complemented by a crab;
• Even in the image of a flowerpot with flowers, a butterfly will not be out of place.

Felt wallet (video)

Cute cat made of felt (video)

From felt you can make not only cute toys, but also useful objects for a child - watches, fake sneakers - lace-tying trainers, various flowers with buttons in the middle on which they are put on. In contact with soft products that can be put on, fastened, tied, children develop fine motor skills and acquire essential life skills.

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What is felt?

First you need to understand a little about what this material is before you start working with it. Previously, fibrous nonwoven products were made from wool.

However, technology does not stand still and today it is made of synthetic material. It has a varied density, so you can create different products.

To buy the necessary felt, you need to understand what kind of product you want to make from it.

Let's look at the main types of felt:

Acrylic felt is produced entirely synthetically. Counts the best option for beginner needlewomen. Yes, and its cost is very modest, so anyone can buy it. They make flowers, phone cases, and small souvenirs from it.

Bamboo felt. Made from bamboo fiber mixed with viscose. It is very stable in operation, but the cost is high.

When synthetics and wool are mixed, a wool blend type of material is obtained. It is mainly used for decorating products.

Wool felt. Made from natural material, you can make it yourself if you wish. They make large items, for example, slippers and hats.

bur for making crafts

Felt alone is not enough, additional tools are needed:

• scissors;
• pattern paper;
• decorative elements;
• threads;
• needles;
• marker;
• pins;
• glue gun

The patterns themselves can be found online if you are not sure what you can do yourself.

Felt owl

Recently, this topic has been popular among many needlewomen. Let's try to make a product from pieces of material.

We select colors from the same shade range; they must be combined with each other. We take a leaf of each color.

Manufacturing stages:

We make templates from paper of the main parts of the owl. We draw the body, wings, eyes and beak. Using a pattern, we cut out the parts from felt. Note that there should be two torsos.

We are gradually collecting our bird. We attach all the main parts to the outer part of the body using pins. Try to put the elements different ways to find the most harmonious arrangement.

We sew the parts in the usual way. In this case, it is necessary to retreat about 3 mm from the edges. We select the threads to match the color of the felt being sewn.

Today, felt is one of the most popular materials for needlework. There is nothing surprising here: felt has a huge number of advantages that make it simply irreplaceable.

• Felt is a non-woven material, so it does not fray at all. Working with him is easy and pleasant - that’s why he is one of the the best materials for children's crafts. As soon as your baby learns to cut paper figures with scissors, you can start working on felt.
• Felt has no front and back sides. In any case, your product will turn out elegant.
• Working with felt is in many ways similar to working with paper - just like paper, it can be cut with ordinary scissors, stitched, and glued.
• Felt is pleasant to the touch, has a bright color palette - making crafts with it is interesting for both adults and children.
• Felt goes well with a wide variety of materials - beads, beads, fabric, embroidery thread, yarn, braid, lace, buttons, etc.
• And finally, felt is universal - you can use it to make jewelry, shoes, clothes, toys, handbags and wallets, elements of holiday decor, various household and interior items - pillows, pincushions, children's mobiles...

The only “minus” of felt is its relatively high price. But believe me, the pleasure of working with this amazing material is worth it!

Types of felt

At craft stores, you can buy sheet felt individually or in sets, similar to sets of colored paper.

The composition of felt is:

• Pure wool is one of the most expensive; usually painted in rather restrained shades. Very pleasant to the touch, environmentally friendly material with good antibacterial properties; used most often for sewing children's clothing and toys. Wool felt has a drawback - it requires careful care, as it can easily become deformed when washed and ironed.
• Wool blend - with the addition of synthetic fibers (acrylic or viscose). It is painted in bright colors and can be of different thicknesses. Suitable for sewing clothes, making toys, decorations, appliques, etc.
• Synthetic felt is the most affordable felt. It contains 100% acrylic, viscose or polyester. Clothes are not made from this felt, but it is quite suitable for a variety of children's crafts, appliqués, and other things. The advantages of synthetic felt include rich and bright colors, strength and wear resistance. The disadvantages are a certain “creaky” quality that is unpleasant to the touch and relative transparency (which can be overcome by using several layers of material instead of one).

In addition, felt varies in thickness (thick, semi-thin, thin) and in appearance(smooth or fleecy).

Before purchasing felt, there are a couple of questions to ask yourself:

• Will it ready product come into contact with human skin (and especially with the skin of a child)?
• How will the finished product be used (will it stand quietly on a shelf, will it become a little fidget’s favorite toy or an element of his clothing - and, accordingly, will it be washed frequently)?

The answers will help you choose the right material and get maximum pleasure from the work and the result.

Using felt

Felt, as mentioned above, is universal. Therefore, it is simply impossible to list all the options for its use. I'll try to name the most basic ones.

Decorations

From felt you can make unusual jewelry for little and adult fashionistas without much effort and serious handicraft skills. Hairpins and elastic bands, bracelets, brooches, beads, decor for bags, hats, shoes can be obtained in the most different styles- from classic to boho, from rock to shabby chic.

Clothing and accessories

Hats, berets, and jackets are sewn from pure wool felt (often handmade). Wool-blend felt is suitable for creating baby booties and slippers.

Semi-thin and thin felt can be used for bright decorative appliqués, which will give ordinary clothes a hand-made touch that is so fashionable today.

Interior decor

Felt is an excellent material for creating rugs and coasters, decorating sofa cushions and photo frames.

If you need to decorate your home for the holidays, felt is at your service! New Year's toys, Easter decorations, garlands for a birthday or wedding, and even decorative bouquets - all this can be made from felt.

Toys

The possibilities of felt in creating children's toys are truly endless. These include three-dimensional figures stuffed with padding polyester or holofiber, educational rugs and soft books, bright sets of letters and numbers, and mobiles for the little ones.

Crafts with children

Felt is indispensable as the first material for children's creativity. Requiring no special skills, bright, safe, durable, it provides great opportunities for creating applications and a variety of homemade gifts for family and friends.

Good afternoon, dear craftswomen!

Nowadays, felt toys are becoming increasingly popular. First of all, they turn out very cute. Secondly, felt is a very noble material: felt does not crumble and is easy to work with. Sewing from felt is a pleasure. By the way, you can sew felt toys as fun with your child. Such crafts made from felt can also be used as brooches, magnets, pincushions, keychains, educational games for children, and a mobile pendant for a crib.

Material felt

Felt has many advantages:
- felt does not crumble;
- double-sided felt;
- felt has a large palette of colors
- felt comes in different densities and sizes;
- felt can not only be sewn on, but also glued

Felt- it doesn’t look like felt, but to make felt, they usually take more delicate animal hair. In other words, felt is a dense compressed wool mass. Felt is cut into sheets of certain sizes and thicknesses, and felt also comes in rolls.

The Craftswoman has selected a variety of felt toy patterns for you; they will help you create cute dolls and animals.

If you have never sewed felt toys, don’t despair, you can handle it, as sewing felt toys is quite easy! You can see this process in our previous lesson.

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Felt toy patterns

Here you can download felt toys for free. Print out the toy pattern from felt or draw it directly from the monitor screen.

Felt zebra pattern

Using this pattern you can make a felt zebra to create your own home safari.

Felt animal patterns

From the following toy patterns you can make a mouse, a bunny, a cat and a dog - the main parts of the patterns are identical, from them you can make a stylized collection of felt animals. This is suitable for a fairy tale or for studying animals. You can also make a pendant for a baby’s crib from animals. uniform style from felt.

Pattern of a girl - a princess from felt

And from the following pattern you can make a wonderful girl - a princess.

If you give such a gift to your child, he will be delighted! And for the little princess you can make a house, a crib, clothes and felt with Velcro. You can change her bows and jewelry. A real friend for your daughter! And the princess-girl pattern made from felt will be below. Print it using a printer, or redraw it from the monitor screen.

Felt elephant pattern

You can also make an elephant toy from felt. If you make an elephant and a small dog out of felt, you can teach your child fables with “live actors.” Have you guessed what fable you can learn? That's right, "Elephant and Pug"!

Felt dog pattern

Where there is an elephant, there is a pug! You can make such a cute felt dog together with your child; it will be a very pleasant and useful pastime.

Felt fox pattern

We also bring to your attention a selection of felt chanterelles. Three different ones, your choice!

Felt lamb pattern

A wonderful felt lamb will be made from this pattern! A real cloud!

You and your child can make a whole farm of sheep, cows, and dogs!

Felt hare pattern

Look what a beautiful bunny you can make from this pattern! I just want to feed him felt carrots! By the way, you can also find a carrot pattern in this article.

Felt cat pattern

Life isn't the same without a cat! Do you agree? so we cut out a pattern from paper and sew it for ourselves home friend- felt cat!

Felt cow pattern

Such a cute felt cow from this pattern will be cute grazing in the meadow! The color of the cow can be made different, for example, the cow can be white with a black spot.

Pattern of vegetables from felt

Make a cute vegetable garden using our felt vegetable pattern. Bulk cabbage, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, eggplant, peppers, pumpkin, beets, potatoes, etc.!

Felt hedgehog pattern

The hedgehog is a very popular animal for children's crafts. Sew this hedgehog out of felt, cut out leaves, mushrooms and apples from felt and glue it onto the hedgehog’s spines with Velcro. It will be a wonderful element of play with your child!

Pattern Winnie the Pooh bear made of felt

Felt hippopotamus pattern

We suggest you make a cute hippopotamus from felt, the hippopotamus pattern is below. You can visualize with your child the song “If it’s a long time along the path, if it’s a long time along the path...”

Felt crocodile pattern

Felt tiger pattern

Red and black felt, and the little tiger cub will delight you with its cute face!