Do-it-yourself owl pillow
Homemade soft toys, which can be placed under the head, decorate the interior of the room, they are used to protect the sides of the children's bed. Often, rollers in the form of animals and birds, made of bright fabrics and materials, are used as headrests. It is suggested to have a diagram of how to sew an owl pillow with your own hands, patterns and step-by-step instructions are suggested to have in front of your eyes, if you have a desire to do needlework.
Owl Pillow Making Guide
To sew a soft object for sofa use in the shape of a bird, you need to stock up on tools and accessories for work. Creativity begins with a pattern - you can make it yourself from an old newspaper, a sheet of Whatman paper, or use ready-made forms. Any fabric in the house will serve as the material for the pillow shell, and felt, leather, etc. are used to decorate the outlines of the owl. The tool is a needle, pins, scissors, a sewing machine. Other items: buttons, beads, colored threads, pencil, glue, synthetic winterizer as a filler.
Fabric base
Before you sew the pillows of the owl with your own hands, patterns are made for each part of the body, the bird's head. The basis for the body is selected from dense, preferably denim. The muzzle, beak, eyes are made of felt of different colors. Work order:
- Designate one of the front halves of the body, making out the head and stomach on it.
- The bird's beak and eyes are glued or sewn on. If glue is used, the operation can be performed after filling the casing.
- Connect the front and back of the pillow with a seam.
Sewing the parts, turn the shell inside out through the hole left so that the eyes and beak are outside.
Important! Cutting fabric involves leaving a seam allowance. The details of the head are cut out without reserve - exactly along the contour.
Felt sheath
Felt is a dense woolen material for making hats and toys. The colors are bright and different. To sew felt blanks, use a needle-forward seam: gaps, stitches alternate at an equal distance. Manufacturing techniques:
- colored details on felt canvases are fixed with pins;
- a knot of thread is hidden between the patch and the base;
- an alternative option for fastening the eyes, the beak with the shell is gluing.
Tip: a distance of 5 mm is maintained between the eye circles.
A tail is sewn into the back of the body. The felt body is sewn together, stuffed with filler through the left opening, after which the hole is sewn up.
Sewing a roller under the head
Pillow sovushka can be of any size, perform various functions. It all depends on the imagination of the craftsmen, the materials at hand. The prepared parts are sewn with a zigzag seam with a machine (for appliqués).
Life-size image of a feathered
The standard size of the pillow is 50x70 cm, but the dimensions of the decorative headrests can be of any size.Owls are small - up to 200 mm in height, large - 0.7-0.8 m.
In any case, the actual size of the bird will be respected.
Hint: a pillow in the form of a couple of owls will be within the recommended 5x70 standard.
Pillow toy
The owl toy pillow is made for a child - you can play with it, take it with you to bed before going to bed. The patterns are taken from the Internet, the patterns are transferred to the fabric, and the details are cut out.
Sew on the beak, wings, eyes. Buttons are used to simulate pupils. Sew the halves with the right side inward, leaving an opening in the upper part for inserting the filler. The last operation is to sew up the hole.
Crib sideboard
An owl-shaped pillow can serve as a kind of enclosure inside a crib: its cylindrical shape contributes to this. For the manufacture of the side, cotton fabric is taken as the basis. The material should be selected in bright colors.
The manufacturing process is no different from sewing owl pillows for other purposes. You can fill the casing with pieces of foam rubber or down.
Developing headboard for children
The pillow made in the shape of an owl will be improved by complementing it with a pillowcase with developmental elements sewn on top. Their forms depend on the age of the children: the interests of a 2-3-month-old baby differ from the desires of a three-year-old child.
The pillowcase is made according to the same patterns as the body of an owl. Educational subjects choose different shapes: a circle, a square, a flower, an apple. Material - wood, plastic, foil.
Important! It is necessary to fasten all the elements to the pillowcase firmly, reliably so that the child cannot tear off, bite off, gnaw off the object of interest.
Decor features
It is not necessary to strive for anatomical precision when making a toy pillow. It is better to use dense fabrics - they keep their shape well. Owl decorations:
- fringe imitating feathers;
- embroidery on the shell material;
- buttons, beads for the image of the eyes;
- lace, bows, tassels on the ears.
Owlet felt pillows will look good in the interior of the children's room.
An interesting solution for the living room: a pocket for the TV remote control under the wing of an owl.
Sewing a bunny pillow
Step-by-step instructions will help you to make a stuffed toy in the shape of a hare on your own. For work, you will need materials that were used when sewing an owl. The fabric can be applied orange, white, black. Performing operations:
- Cut out a pattern of a head with long ears from paper - the basis of a bunny pillow.
- Transfer the contours of the template to the fabric using pins, arrange 2 blanks.
- Sew both halves, leaving an unstitched area.
- Fill the shell with padding polyester, sew up the hole.
Paws are sewn to the finished pillow - the head of the hare, appliqués are pasted, depicting the elements of the muzzle: eyes, mouth, nose.
Attention! Before stuffing with filler, the casing is turned inside out to hide the seams.
In conclusion, ready-made patterns for sewing pillows-animals, birds speed up the process of making a useful toy, but do-it-yourself blanks make the decor original. Moreover, if a child participates in creativity.
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