How to make New Year toys from the tissue with their own hands?

In recent years, many of us have opted for homemade Christmas decorations. This is especially true in families where there are small children who can accidentally get injured by glass balls. Therefore, young parents, and simply creative people prefer to make New Year toys of cloth with their own hands, patterns for which can be cut out of felt, felt or any other suitable material.

Varieties of homemade Christmas decorations

All the existing fabric Christmas toys can be divided into three types:

• Flat;
• Stuffed;
• Decorated.

To sew flat New Year toys from the fabric with their own hands, it will take quite a bit of time and, of course, patience. First of all, you should draw a sketch of the future decoration. Its dimensions should correspond to the size of the original. After that, the outlines of each part are transferred to felt or any other dense material. In the case of a thick soft fabric like fleece or corduroy inside, it is recommended to insert a cardboard blank. This will give the toy the necessary rigidity. The cut out fabric details are neatly sewn together - and the decoration is ready.

If you put cotton wool, sintepon or other soft filler instead of cardboard, you will get a more bulky and rounded product. To New Year toys made of fabric, made with their own hands, have acquired a finished and aesthetic appearance, they can be decorated with buttons or figured braids. Stitched Christmas decorations can be decorated with paillettes, embroidery or beads.

What materials can be used to make Christmas decorations?

Many European needlewomen make New Year toys from the fabric with their own hands. To do this, they often use fleece. A good alternative to this material can be dense coat or felt fabrics. To create original Christmas ornaments, you can even use flax. But in this case, you will have to spend a little more time and effort. Fleece toys are usually decorated with all sorts of beads, original buttons and appliqués.

How to make a decorative herringbone?

Such New Year toys made of cloth by their own hands (the photo can be seen above) are in no way inferior to store analogues. To make a decorative fabric tree yourself, you must stock up with small red beads, paper, glue, pen, round plate, cardboard, needle and thread. In addition, we need a lacy and cotton cloth of white and green hue.

First of all, you need to make a cone that will shape the future toy. For this we need a regular round plate. Putting it on the cardboard, you need to circle the contour. The resulting circle should be carefully cut with scissors and divided into four parts. Then a cone is twisted from this workpiece, for bonding which you can use glue or a stapler. Precisely the same piece is made of green cotton cloth. Sew it right on the cone of cardboard. To decorate the Christmas tree, we need a white lace fabric. It is glued in the form of a not too dense spiral so that a green base can be seen from under it. In the resulting gaps, you can paste red beads.

How to make a Christmas tree toy "Grusha" by yourself?

In order to sew such a New Year's decoration, it is advisable to stock up with gold braid in advance, as well as a cloth of green, red and yellow color. At the initial stage, a pattern is made of yellow material with your own hands. It must be cut in two copies. Then a small piece of red material should be sewn on the front side. After this, you must carefully sew the two patterns together. At the top of the future pear, you need to sew a green bookmark, imitating a leaf. The fringing can be decorated with gold braid.

Christmas decorations in one color range

In recent years it has become fashionable to hang New Year toys made of fabric, made and worn in one color. So, often you can see a forest beauty, decorated with red beads and balls, silver stars or gold toys. In order to make many single-color ornaments, it is necessary to purchase a large amount of suitable material.