Children’s childhood is spent in the company of toys, and there are a few toys that children can really remember. Below, our production department editor has compiled an article about cute woolen puppets for you. Making tutorial, if you want to make a doll for your child, but don’t want to make a too complicated doll, the wool dolls here are very suitable for you mothers. The dolls made with wool are very simple, but very beautiful. I believe Kids will really love these wool dolls. Next, let’s learn how to make woolen cartoon puppets!
Illustrations of making handmade puppets
- Prepare fabric: Use fabrics of different colors to cut into the shapes of eyes and cheeks. Samples are dark brown (6mm) and light pink (12mm). Completely attach the eyes with adhesive and temporarily attach the cheek to the middle area.
- Sew the cheeks (using thread of the same color). Sew round edges with threaded stitches.
- Repeat and sew the other circles (eyes and cheek areas).
- After the last stitch is sewn, hide the stitch in an inconspicuous place, such as the seam line on the puppets head. The last stitch is tied and the cutting line is completed.
- Use red cotton thread to make the dolls mouth. Pierce the needle through the mesh (insert it into photo 3 and come out of 2.
- As shown below, sew with red thread.
- Next, make one stitch and reverse the stitch, and make two stitches forward. (In the photo, go in from 1 and go out from 2 to 3)
- One stitch.
- Again, stitch backwards and forward. (From 2 to 4 in the photo)
- Finally, it is sewn to the ideal position like this to complete the stitching.
- Finally, sew a stitch under the seam,
- Put the needle through the final thread,
- Finish tying the knot.
- Put the needle behind the head and cut the thread.
- To make eyebrows, sew the eyebrows with two black cotton threads. Fold the thread in as in step "7",
- Sew in two round trips. Then, follow steps "13" to "15" to make the knot
- Suture the left back stitch and tie it with a knot and cut off the thread.
- Sew the eyebrow on the other side in the same way. The puppets face is complete.
- To make the dolls hair, wrap the wool around a thick paper with a thickness of 20 cm.
- Cut both sides, the effect is as shown below.
- Sew the hair to the seam of the dolls head.
- You can sew the forehead and back hair like this.
- Adhere to the hairline of the head with adhesive and apply evenly.
- At the back, apply adhesive to the entire back of the head,
- Adhere the wool to the back and wait for the adhesive to dry.
- In the middle of the head, make another section of hair, as shown below.
- Sew it securely to the top of the head.
- Move the hair evenly to the left and right, cut off the long part to complete the hair. The cute cartoon short-haired doll is completed.
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