The upcoming year on the eastern calendar will be the year of the Yellow Earth Pig. She is generous, purposeful and kind. And our New Year pig-toy is also incredibly charming.
Sewing such a pig with your own hands is not difficult. A beautiful soft toy will be a wonderful decoration for the New Year tree, or a keychain for a bag or children's backpack. In addition, the charming piglet is a great addition to the main gift for relatives, friends and relatives.
You will need:
✂ toy pattern
✂ faux fur
✂ white calico
✂ cotton fabric with print
✂ threads and needles for sewing
✂ synthetic winterizer
✂ chopstick for chinese food
✂ acrylic paints
✂ brushes
✂ eyes for toys
✂ black and pink cotton threads
✂ waxed thread
✂ crochet hook
How to sew a textile doll with your own hands
Step 1
We make a simple pattern of the body, ears, legs and piglet of a pig and get to work.
Step 2
I previously duplicated faux fur with non-woven fabric, as it stretched too much.
When working with fur, it is important to consider the direction of the pile!
Fold the fur with the front sides, pin a paper piece of the pig’s body on it, then cut it out.
Step 3
We grind the body parts in a circle on a typewriter, leaving the hole for stuffing with padding polyester open.
Step 4
We cut one part of the ear from fur and the other from satin or other cotton fabric. We fold the parts with the front sides and grind them, leaving the lower section of the ear open.
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Step 5
We cover two parts of a patch of sateen and four pairs of identical parts of the legs of a pig from white calico. We grind the details on a typewriter, leaving holes for eversion and stuffing.
The result should be such a set of parts.
Step 6
We turn out the details of the legs and first each one is slightly filled with padding polyester using a chopstick for Chinese food.
We form a hoof, pulling it with thread for sewing as shown in the photo.
Then we do not tightly press the legs to the full length, so that they keep their shape.
Step 7
We fill the patch and embroider its contours with black cotton threads. All nodules are left on the back of the patch. Sew the hole with a hidden stitch.
Step 8
We turn the ears to the front side, with a needle we take out the villi that have fallen into the seam.
Along the edge of the ears we lay a decorative needle-forward seam.
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Step 9
We set the eyes, and then stuff the pig’s body with a synthetic winterizer using a bamboo stick.
If you need to make the toy heavier, then inside the body you can sew a bag with small stones. Such a pig can not only decorate the tree, but also sit under it without any support.
Step 10
We embroider the eyebrows with black cotton threads, gently sew a patch in the center of the face. Too long pile of fur around the eyes and eyebrows can be cut a little, otherwise it will hide the features of the "face" of the toy.
Step 11
We create the mood for our pig and embroider a good-natured smile!
Step 12
We sew a hole for stuffing with a secret stitch. The villi caught in the seam are removed with a needle for sewing.
Step 13
We turn the lower section of the ears to the wrong side and sew them with a hidden stitch.
Here's a "smile" we get!
Step 14
Sew stitches to the pig in secret stitches.
Step 15
From a waxed black thread we make a suspension, sew it on the top of the toy.
Step 16
Now let's start coloring and tinting.
We mix the paints to get a nice shade of pink and paint the paws, we make the hooves darker with brown acrylic.
We tint the edges of the ears, the fur around the eyes and on the seam of the body with acrylic paints.
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Step 17
And, of course, what self-respecting pig will walk without a tail? My toy has a crocheted tail made of pink cotton threads.
The author of the master class and photo: Elena Soldatkina
Lena is a long-standing forum member of our site. She is the mother of two wonderful children and a talented needlewoman. Sews on Burda for himself and his family, very skillfully knits. For the past few years, she has been fond of making Tilds and textile dolls using mixed media. And today is not just her hobby. Each Lena doll with its own story, with its own world. Creating them, Lena gives them a piece of her soul and infinite warmth, and then her dolls come to life. And then they surely find their house and mistress.
You can get acquainted with Lena’s work in more detail on her Vkontakte, Instagram, Facebook pages and at the Masters Fair.
Material prepared by Julia Dekanova
