This master class will teach how to sew a toy Dolly of sheep from the felt with her own hands.

January 9, 2018 handmadebase

Materials and tools:

felt (gray, white, beige, black, green, red),
eyes and nose (piercing),
sewing thread (gray, white, beige, black),
synthetic fluff,
bell.

Manufacturing method: Copy the pattern.To make cutting easier and prevent the pattern from shifting, pin it to a folded piece of grey felt.Cut out two pieces.Separate the head from the pattern and cut out a head blank from beige felt. Cut out a tail from white felt, leaving a 1 cm margin at the base of the tail.Cut out the head pattern, make a hairstyle out of white felt, and a nose out of black felt.You can start assembling the toy. Place the pattern on one of the main blanks (gray) to determine the position of the head.Place the nose and hair on top.Glue the head first, then the nose and hair. You can use Moment glue for this.Cut off the legs of the blank (only one, leave the other one with the legs).Sew the outline of the head with white thread, and the outline of the nose with black thread (using a running stitch or basting stitch, as it is also called). Mark the smile and the places for the eyes.Sew the smile with black thread.Use scissors or an awl to make holes for the eyes. Attach the googly eyes.From the back side, strengthen the eyes by putting onpressure rings, which are sometimes attached to the eyes. If there are no such rings, you can apply a layer of glue on the back side around the pin using a hot glue gun. Or just wrap the pin with a thick layer of thread, fortunately it has a thread, and the threads will not go anywhere.The eyes are firmly in place. Now make a few stitches with black thread to represent eyelashes. The front part of the sheep is ready, put it aside for now and work on the back part.Cut out the legs from beige felt. Allow a small allowance at the top of the legs.Cut out hooves from black felt. Glue the legs with hooves and tail to the base.Place the front part of the toy on top.Pin both pieces together.Sew the edges with a grey thread using a U-shaped stitch, and sew the area around the legs using a running stitch. Do not sew the head yet.Fill the sheep with synthetic down through the unsewn area.Now, using beige thread, sew both parts of the head, sew along the contour of the legs and tail.Sew a bell to the head.To complete the romantic image of the sheep, I decided to make a flower for it. I cut out a stem with a leaf from green felt, and a flower from red felt.Using black thread, I sewed the flower to the stem, making several intersecting stitches in the middle.I sewed the flower onto the sheep, as if she was holding it in her mouth. It seems that everything is ready.Looking at the sheep, I couldn’t understand for a long time what was going onshe's not like that. And then it dawned on me! She has the wrong, not sheepish, nose. It would seem that this is a toy, and she can have any nose she wants. But I like to do everything right, so, after admiring my creation and sighing, I ripped off the nose.I installed a small punchable nose on the sheep (the pin remained inside the toy, I secured it through the hole left after I ripped off the previous nose).All that's left is to change the muzzle a little by stitching the second part of the smile. This way, in my opinion, is better.The sheep turned out to be very cute and kind. I'll call her Dolly. Master class from Milena

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