Felt doll brooch: pattern and sewing steps

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:35

The fashion for brooches has been holding for several years. A huge selection in stores sometimes confuses potential customers. After all, the wrong choice of this accessory can spoil the image, and at the same time empty the buyer's wallet.

How to wear brooches

There can be many options for using such an accessory:

1. On a blouse. It is preferable to wear it under a buttoned collar or on either side. It is worth considering that the brooch should be light, because a heavy one can stretch the fabric with its weight.
2. On a jacket or coat. Just like on a blouse, wearing on one side of the collar, on the side of the chest.
3. On the dress. At the bottom of the neckline, on the straps, on the waist.
4. On a T-shirt, jumper. In almost any part of the thing - on the side, under the neck.
5. On headdresses. Caps and hats are meant here.
6. On jeans. On a pocket or on a belt.
7. On accessories. Brooches can be worn fastened to a handbag or clutch, on a belt.
8. On shoes. Brooches can be fastened to shoes (if you have two small identical brooches) or boots. This is perhaps the rarest version of them.wearing.

Children's brooches

Accessories for little ladies are a separate fashion trend. Many girls are very fond of brooches and wear them with pleasure. Such a bright and cute accessory will cheer up those around you and the hostess herself. Of course, various cartoon characters, animals, flowers, and, of course, dolls are relevant for children's brooches. They can be worn on any of the clothes described above.

As a rule, brooches for adults are more detailed. For children in such accessories, small elements are not worked out. Brooches for little ladies can be made, in principle, from all the same materials as for adults - from beads, fabric, foamiran, and also from felt. After all, this material is quite safe (note that if you take woolen or half-woolen felt for work, then in some cases it can cause allergies). Moreover, do-it-yourself doll patterns made of felt are also quite easy to make.

Materials for making

To work, you will need about an hour of free time and the following materials:

• hard Korean felt in different colors;
• threads to match felt;
• needle;
• self-disappearing marker;
• scissors;
• brooch clasp;
• felt doll pattern;
• cardboard;
• black beads;
• Moment Crystal glue or glue gun;
• dry blush.

Production steps

Make your ownbrooch is easy enough. You can even do it with a little fashionista:

1. Print the felt doll pattern on the printer in the desired scale.
2. Cut out all the details with scissors.
3. On the felt, circle them with a self-disappearing marker - the silhouette of the doll on beige felt, the hair on brown or orange, and the dress on any desired. Clothes made of felt with a pattern will look very interesting. When using a self-disappearing marker on dark felt, it may simply be invisible - in this case, you can use a thin bar of soap.
4. Using scissors with sharp ends, carefully cut out the details of the felt doll brooch pattern.
5. On the cardboard circle the silhouette and cut it out a little smaller.
6. Sew two beads on one part of the body in the face area.
7. Draw cheeks with blush. Mouth is optional.
8. Sew the two largest details of the felt brooch pattern with a buttonhole stitch (or running stitch, but then the stitch step should be very small), laying cardboard between the details to make the body.
9. If necessary, it can be glued to felt.
10. After the torso is sewn on, hair needs to be sewn to the head. The larger part of the felt doll pattern will be located at the back, and the small part will play the role of bangs.
11. The next step is to make two holes on one part of the dress through which to insert a brooch pin. How it looks can be seen below.
12. Use a needle and thread through the holes in the metal to fasten the fastener to the felt. Or you canuse glue.
13. Put two parts of the dress on both sides of the body and sew together.

This product can be a great gift for a little fashionista. And older girls can be involved in the manufacture of brooches, for example, by entrusting them with circling patterns or at least choosing the colors of felt they like. This will help to bring up good taste in the girl, as well as teach her to needlework.

Variations for making a brooch

One of the interesting modifications of the chrysalis is as follows - according to the pattern published above, the chrysalis is cut out of felt without arms and legs. They will be made of thick threads with a bead and a knot at the end.

Another interesting type of brooch is just the head. The manufacturing technology will be almost the same as that described above. Also, hair can be made not from felt, but from yarn. And then it will be possible for the doll even to braid pigtails!

A very interesting use of such a doll is that it does not necessarily have a brooch detail. You can sew it to an elastic band, attach it to a headband, make a patch on clothes.

You can also give the doll something in the hands, for example, a flower or a handbag. Also, craftswomen can be offered a variant of a dress not sewn from felt, but knitted.