DIY SOFT TOY "GIRLFRIEND - HORSE" - NEEDLEWORK TECHNIQUES

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The best toy and even an item of interior decoration is a do-it-yourself horse. This is an exclusive product in a single copy, the embodiment of individual creative ideas. It is impossible to make a similar toy, each of them has its own character and differences. With it you can play, give, use to create an original interior. She will become a real and irreplaceable girlfriend.

The article offers only a sample of such a toy, a master class on its manufacture. An interesting option in a combination of two horses, but this solution is individual, creativity does not recognize patterns and restrictions.
Materials:
1. Fabric of various textures and colors. Here is white cotton.
2. Yarn, woolen threads for the tail.
3. Sintepon.
4. Finishing materials: ribbons, brooches, suede.

Manufacturing process:
To begin with, we take a horse pattern, height - 15 cm, width - 11 cm. The figure shows the notches necessary to prevent the fabric from puffing, and a place for the tail.

We cut out 2 details from the fabric, for this we fold it in half with the front side inward. We pin the pattern, mark the allowances for a 1 cm seam and cut it out.
We fold the threads for the tail together and sew in the middle to form the tail.
We fold the horse’s parts with the face inward, pin the tail to one of them so that it is inside, between the parts. We sweep, stitch along the entire perimeter, except for the lower part of the legs. These sections should be open, through them the horse turns out and stuffs with a padding polyester.
We make notches in designated places, not reaching the seam. We turn on the front side. The corners can be straightened with a needle or a blade of scissors, the main thing is that they are all sharp, without creases.

Getting to stuffing toys. You can use long sticks to evenly distribute the padding pad in all parts of the horse. The main secret - the toy should be tightly packed so that there are no sagging and friability. No lumps should be allowed, filler should be distributed evenly.
We proceed to the formation of hooves, the recommended fabric: suede, leather, dense drape. Circles are cut to the size of the lower part of the legs with a small allowance.
Details are attached to the leg and sewn to the lower part according to hoof allowances, figuratively speaking, the part envelops the bottom of the leg. In order for the horse to stand firmly on the surface, it is recommended to hoof hooves. We connect the hoof tissue with stitches with a padding polyester inside the leg. Work requires patience and skill. It remains to cut strips from the same fabric. They will close the place of sewing together the legs and allowances of the lower part, and form the appearance of the hoof as a whole. It is advisable to use curly scissors, the details will have a neat appearance.

We proceed to decorate the horse. If the horse is sewn from fabric with a pattern, then you can skip this item. In this case, it is decorated with embroidery. To do this, figures are cut out from a dense fabric for every taste: flowers, hearts, apples. Then they are sewn to the horse’s body with a seam. On top of the parts we pass the threads for embroidery or ordinary sewing. The figures are completely filled with stitches, as a result, the effect of volume embroidery is created.
To complete the image of a cute girlfriend-horse, we tie a ribbon decorated with a brooch on the neck. There are no borders for imagination, you can decorate with flowers, bows, beads.