Do-it-yourself soft toy monkey

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Now a popular type of needlework is the manufacture of interior dolls. They become not only decoration, but also the favorite characters of the kids. Dolls are made both in the form of people and in the form of animals. Very interesting toy monkey. With your own hands, you can do it in different ways: sew or crochet.

Production options

Do-it-yourself soft toy monkey can be made like this:

• Sewn according to a simple pattern of fleece or felt, including in the form of a pillow.
• Sewn from a complex pattern of plush, faux fur in the form of a realistic animal.

• Made in the form of a tilde doll.

  

• Designed after a scented loft toy.
• Made from colorful socks or golf.
• Crochet as a miniature object or near life size.

As you can see, there are many ways to create a soft toy. Some are very simple and suitable even for inexperienced beginner craftswomen. It is better to choose complex patterns and patterns if you already havehave skills in needlework.

What you need

So, a do-it-yourself monkey toy can be sewn in one of the above ways.

To work, you need the following:

• pattern or paper, pencil, eraser for making it;
• scissors;
• fabric;
• chalk;
• pins;
• needle and thread;
• sewing machine (you can also use a hand stitch);
• filler (holofiber, synthetic winterizer, shreds);
• decor (plastic eyes, nose, clothes).

If you will knit a toy, you will need a hook and yarn of the appropriate sizes, as well as a pattern.

Pillow Monkey

The do-it-yourself monkey toy is easy to sew in the form of this functional interior decoration. The sequence of work is as follows:

1. Make a pattern according to the sample shown in the photo or use the template from the following illustration. If you do not have enough experience, take parts 1 and 2 and combine them into one, although the ears can be sewn separately, and you can also add a body with arms and legs to the toy.
2. We act in a simple way: cut out a blank muzzle with ears from paper.
3. Fold the prepared fabric in half right sides inside.
4. Pin the pattern from the inside with pins, circle the contour with chalk, makeseam allowances.
5. Cut out the pieces.
6. Bast, then sew along the seam, leaving an opening for turning inside out and stuffing.
7. Turn the piece inside out.
8. Stuff the prepared material inside.
9. Carefully sew up the hole with a thread and a needle by hand.
10. Sew plastic eyes, nose, glue or fasten before stitching the hole if you bought the corresponding design elements. Embroider a smile. You can initially provide for a volumetric detail of the muzzle 3 in the pattern above or a flat one that follows the contour of the head.

A very simple do-it-yourself monkey soft toy in the form of a pillow, a small magnetic souvenir or a pendant can be made of fleece or felt with stitching details on the right side when you do not need to turn the product inside out. These materials do not crumble along the cuts, and small parts from them can even be glued to the base.

Attic Monkey

How to sew a do-it-yourself monkey toy in the form of a pillow, you studied in the previous section. By the same principle, using the simplest pattern, consisting of two parts, it is easy to sew an original souvenir, which is called an attic or coffee toy. For their manufacture, simplified forms of animals are used. Details are cut out of cotton fabric, previously dyed with a decoction of coffee or tea. Depending on the concentration of the ingredients in the solution and the exposure time in it, the fabrics receive shades from light to dark brown. If usenatural coffee, the fabric will acquire a pleasant aroma. You can also add dried aromatic spices and herbs as a filler.

The inscriptions that adorn the torso give a special zest to such toys. Clothes for such characters are usually not sewn, and the entire decor is done with paints, for example, acrylics. To keep the colors bright, the surface where the corresponding elements will be drawn, for example, the eyes, is pre-coated with a layer of PVA.

Do-it-yourself soft toy monkey: patterns

If you have time and enough experience, sew a full-fledged animal, for example, from faux fur. Here you definitely can not do without patterns. Use the blank from the following illustration or make your own.

The manufacturing process will follow the same technology as for a simple product. The difference is that one part, for example, the head will be made not from two, but from more parts to make it more realistic. Make each piece in turn and sew the pieces together.

Do-it-yourself tilda monkey soft toy

Patterns for any monkeys can be developed independently. Not very difficult to create are tilde dolls. These products are very cute and beautiful. For their manufacture, ordinary natural fabrics are used, and not fur. The tilde doll has elongated proportions, elongated arms and legs.

Usually inventedcertain emotionally colored character. You can make a monkey boy, a girl, a princess with a bouquet of flowers, a basket of gifts. Tilda is usually dressed in beautiful clothes and even shoes. Humanized animals are obtained. As a base material, you can take a pink or light brown fabric. Clothes are made from any materials: they use both lace and satin, they knit sundresses, dresses, panties. Here such a cute and romantic soft toy monkey-tilde can be made with your own hands. Patterns are easy to build on your own, modeled on the finished product.

Sock Monkey

There is another easy way to create cute little animals. To make a beautiful soft toy monkey, you don’t have to make patterns with your own hands. Very original and funny characters are easy to make from ordinary golf or socks.

It is better to take plain or striped products. Use the diagram with the following illustration or cut out the details of the monkey yourself from the products you have.

1. The head is made from the front of the toe (where the fingers are located). Cut off part of the sock to the desired size.
2. Fill the blank with holofiber and pull off the free edge with a thread and a needle in the form of a bag, and then carefully sew the hole to form a head.
3. From the cut heel of the sock (well, if its color is contrasting), make a muzzle by sewing it to the corresponding part of the head and fillingholofiber.
4. Make the torso elongated from the part of the sock from the foot or elastic in the same way as you did the head, only sew on both sides.
5. The paws and tail are made in the same way.
6. Details sewn together.
7. Sew on the elements of the muzzle (eyes, nose).
8. If desired, make an outfit for the monkey from any fabric.

The cheerful striped monkey is ready.

How to crochet a monkey

There are a lot of patterns for crochet monkeys. The simplest toy can be made on the basis of balls and circles.

The scheme for creating a flat circle is shown below. The voluminous ball is knitted similarly, only the middle part is made with the same number of loops in several rows, and then decreases are made.

The principle of making a monkey will be as follows:

1. Tie the right size ball for the head
2. Make a slightly larger ball for the torso.
3. For the ears, make two flat circles.
4. Hands and feet can also be easily simplified to small balls by attaching them to the body on hanging threads or braided braids. The best option is to knit in the form of tubes of the desired length based on a ring of air loops of the appropriate diameter.
5. You can decorate the muzzle and the monkey itself in any way, as well as sewn.

As you can see, a do-it-yourself monkey toy can be made in different ways: from an ordinary plush to a cute romantictilde or miniature amigurumi monkey. Choose the way you like. Create designer toys to decorate the interior and delight children.