From an early age, boys' favorite toy is a car. Young motorists are happy with any gifts as long as they are related to automobiles. These are children's houses in the shape of cars, beds in the shape of cars, soft toy cars and much more. But to babies It's still dangerous to give away most machines. This is where it comes to the rescue felt fire truck, patterns of which are maximum simple, or other felt transport. Making such products with your own hands is not difficult. They are completely safe even for newborns. felt toy, stitched with your own hands, it will be an excellent gift for a godson, nephew or friend’s son.
DIY felt cars - patterns
Felt car pattern very simple, consists of only a few parts. Before starting work you should prepare:
- Andheads;
- nfiller for toys (you can use padding polyester or holofiber);
- andyellow, blue, black, red and gray threads;
- nshearers;
- feter red, grey, blue, yellow, black and blue;
- Topencils or crayons to trace the pattern and make notes;
- bI think
Some people recommend using synthetic fluff as a filler. Here everyone chooses for themselves. To sew felt locomotive, You will need a different pattern. Stencils for a truck, car, or fire truck are also different. Felt is considered the most suitable material - it is convenient to work with and does not cause allergies.II and completely harmless. Some tips from the professionals:
- Don’t rush – sewing small elements on a machine will not speed up the process, but on the contrary, will complicate it.
- If there are crooked stitches or uneven edges, it is better to rip out the failed area and re-stitch it.
- To make the toy stable and make it heavier, you can add cereal or peas to the filler..
- It is necessary to use short stitch machine sewing mode.
- Car wheels can be sew from felt with the filling itself or replace them with buttons.
- If seam location difficult, it is better to use manual movement sewing machine The same should be done when turning or flashing small elements. Instead of pedals, the wheel is turned by hand.
How to sew a car from felt - transport from felt, patterns
A good pattern and the correct sequence of actions are the main keys to success in sewing a felt toy. Let's look at how to make a machine with your own hands step by step:
- Pattern. First, you should draw on a piece of paper the transport that you would like to make. After this Let's take it apart into details. Each side part of the car, the roof, and the lower part are depicted separately. Separate rectangles are used for this.We draw the windows separately. There are three types of them in the car - rear, side and front. We depict on paper the central parts of the wheels and the wheels themselves, you can one copy, if the car has the same wheels.
- We apply the patterns of the body side parts to the red material. We outline them with chalk or pencil. Cut out the two resulting parts. Rectangular top and bottom Let's make it from gray fabric. We attach and cut out two shapes.
- The windows in the car will be blue, so we put the window patterns on blue felt. We determine the number of windows ourselves. Usually made: front and rear windows - one each, side windows - four, six or eight.
- We use black material to make wheels. There can be four, six, eight or ten - this is an individual decision. We use yellow material for the middle of the wheels. Sew yellow circles of smaller diameter to the center of the black circles.
- We sew the windows at the back and front to the top gray rectangle. For sewing, you can use blue or blue threads.
- We sew the red side parts with the side windows. We connect the upper and lower parts, obtaining a solid part. Next you need to sew red felt to the roof and bottom of the car. The same should be done with the second side part.
- Sometimes it turns out that the top or bottom of the machine is too long. In this case, you just need to cut it to the desired length.
- We fill the machine body with filler as tightly as possible. Afterwards we sew it up all remaining holes on the body. It is advisable to use gray threads.
- We sew black wheels with yellow centers and paired elements. It is necessary to leave a small hole on each wheel to fill them with padding polyester or padding polyester. After this We sew all the seams to the end.We connect the wheels to the car body.
This concludes the sewing of a safe soft toy for children. Child any age will not be able to harm himself with a felt machine. You can choose any colors for the parts - the body can be two-color, as in the example, or one-color. If the pattern is larger, the baby will be able to give the opportunity to sew your own pillow machine. It will surely become his favorite toy.