Cute cat key pendant handmade tutorial, it is both exquisite and cute, why not make one for your friends and loved ones ~ a very exquisite handmade fabric art, can also be used to decorate mobile phones and bags ~ specific DIY method of pendant , please refer to the detailed illustrated tutorial below.
Material: Table cloth - front: linen or other light-colored cloth (cat face): one piece of 6×6cm or more.
Fabric: 9×9cm or more, three pieces of different colors or one piece of the same color.
Top fabric - back: one piece of floral cloth 14×14cm or more; lining: two pieces of floral cloth 14×14cm or more; cotton covering: two pieces 14×14cm or more; ribbon: one piece about 55cm; embroidery thread: DMC 817 or Others are similar to dark red and half a meter; suture: appropriate amount, gray is recommended; ribbon (optional): about 15cm. Adhesive lining for bow (recommended for novices): one piece of 14×14cm or more.
Tools: scissors, needle, tweezers, pencil or eraser pen, bead needle, lighter, iron (optional).
Finished product size: approximately 12×7cm.
Preparation method (with adhesive lining):
1. Draw the paper pattern on the hard cardboard and cut it out with scissors. The picture on the left is a lazy cat - cute version; the picture on the right is an elegant cat - mature version.
2.Draw the paper pattern on the back of the two fabrics and the adhesive lining. Note that there should be at least 0.7cm seam allowance on each side of the pattern.
3. Sew the top fabric and the adhesive lining with flat stitches according to the paper stitch, open the top fabric and scrape/iron it, and trim the excess seams;
The front of the adhesive lining is sewn together with the cover fabric.
Sew the back of the adhesive lining after sewing the top fabric.
4. Continue to sew surface fabrics 2 and 3. Note that each stitch is made with the fronts of the two fabrics facing each other.Turn it over and scrape it flat before sewing the next piece. In this way, sew the three pieces of table fabric to the angle you like. Note: Before sewing, you should first try to see if the size of the fabric after opening is large enough.
5. Join the three sewn pieces of surface cloth (cat body) and linen cloth (head) horizontally. Note: Be sure to keep the angle of the body cloth, otherwise the cats clothes will be crooked. Can be fixed using pins. Also: Linen is sparse, so the seam allowance should be left wider.
6. Turn over the linen and scrape it flat.
7. Take a piece of lining cloth and lay a piece of cotton on it. Place the surface fabric and lining fabric face to face, and lay them out in the order of surface fabric-lining fabric-padding. Sew according to the outline on the fabric. Note that the needle starting and narrowing points are both at the bottom of the paper pattern; the needle starting and narrowing points must be reinforced with back stitches.
As shown in the picture above, from left to right are the surface fabric, lining fabric and quilting.
8. Turn over the fabric, carefully trim and spread the cotton along the stitches with scissors; then trim the surface fabric and lining fabric 0.7cm outside the outline of the stitches.
9. Cut back openings at each contour protrusion.
10. Turn the fabric surface from the surface fabric to the lining fabric to the front side, and use tweezers to sort out the shape. Iron/smooth your cats surface.
11. Carefully tie a knot with a ribbon around the cat’s neck. Trim the ribbon shape and lightly burn the ribbon tip with a lighter to prevent loose strands. Use tone-on-color crimping along the ribbon/neck to secure the shape. )
12. Sew the bottom with a hidden needle.
13. Sew the other side of the cat key bag similarly.
14. Align the front and back pieces, sew the outer fabric of the front and back pieces with a hidden needle/topstitch, and push the lining toward the cats body while sewing. Tie a knot and hide the threads into the cats body. Note: Do not sew tightly between the ears, leaving at least 0.5cm before wearing the ribbon. The bottom of the cat is not sewn.
15. Draw the cat expression according to your preference and embroider it with embroidery thread. There are already several prepared cat expressions in the picture. I hope you can use your imagination to make more cute expressions!
16. Fold the long ribbon in half and tie it into a knot. Take the remaining fabric ends and sew a small bag as you like. After flipping it over, fill it with the remaining quilting and put the knotted ends of the ribbon into it. Sew with a hidden needle to fix it.
17. Thread the other end of the ribbon into the cats head, and a cute and cute cat pendant is DIYed.
Tips:
1. Use back stitching to start and tighten the stitches every time you sew flat stitches to make the finished product firm
2． Linen is sparse and easy to deform, so the needle size should be relatively small (0.2-0.3cm) when sewing to ensure the quality of the sewing.
3. Due to the addition of quilting, the shape of the front and back pieces may not be ideal when finishing (the outline may shrink in some cases). When sewing the front and back pieces, pay attention to using the stitches with hidden needles to pull out the shrunken fabrics.
4. The cat expression is embroidered using redwok - also known as outline embroidery. The stitching method is back stitching, and the stitches should be as even as possible, when there is a curvature, the needle should be as small as possible so that it can rotate evenly. Different colors of embroidery thread can be used to match the patchwork color scheme.
