Master class of creating a New Year's craft for oneself - a boot for gifts.
The New Year is rushing towards us, and with itpre-New Year's chores - making up a holiday menu, decorating the house, and preparing New Year's gifts. Moreover, the last point, as a rule, takes the most time and effort, because you want not only to please your family and friends with a necessary and desired thing, but also to do it somehow unusually, in a fairy-tale way. Surely, both children and adults will like the original packaging in the form of a boot, which can be filled to the top with candies and other sweets or put a bottle of exquisite alcohol in it. And such a boot can also become a stylish New Year's decoration for your home, in general, a necessary thing, which is not at all difficult to make with your own hands. How exactly? Read below in my master class with a detailed description and photo.For the New Year's boot we will need:
- sheet felt color;
- satin ribbon is thin;
- sewing needle;
- colored threads of floss or reel threads;
- scissors;
- paper;
- simple pencil.
Progress of work.We start work with the execution of a sketch of our boot, it can be made in different shapes. Most often, such products have the shape of a felt boot, a master class of one of them is already on my page of this site. However, a boot with a decorative curled toe looks more original and unusual, this is exactly what we draw and make sketches of the future decor on it.We cut out the sketch from the paper along the contour and transfer it to a sheet of felt of the main color, folded in half. In our case, this is a fabric of a pleasant blue shade.Carefully cut out two absolutely identical pieces of the future boot from felt.We cut out decorative pieces from felt pieceselements that we will decorate our craft with. In addition to the initially conceived design, in the process I decided to add a snowman figure in a hat, we also cut it out. After that we place all the details on the front part of the product, as we plan to sew them on.We start from the top of the boot, sew tothe first decorative element, so that the product turns out brighter and more elegant, we specially select a thread of a contrasting color. For sewing, we use a regular stitch "needle forward", we try to make the stitches the same, medium size.Using exactly the same principle, we sew two more decorative details onto the toe and heel of the boot.Now we move on to making the snowman applique, we sew it on, like all the other elements, and we decorate the snow hero's hat with a piece of satin ribbon of a suitable color.Using black floss, we embroider the snowman's eyes in the form of two identical small snowflakes, embroider the mouth and sew on the carrot nose.We lace our boot with a thin satin ribbon, sewing it on with a “forward needle” stitch, and decorate it with a small voluminous bow.When will the decoration of our boot befinished, you can proceed directly to sewing it together. To do this, we ideally connect both parts together along the edge with the front side facing up and sew them together using an overcast stitch, while trying to make the stitches the same size.Finishing touch.In the upper right corner we sew a small loop to the boot, made from a thin satin ribbon, thanks to which our product can even be hung on a branch of a holiday tree.Here is a wonderful New Year's boot for gifts that we made.