New Year's Eve with your own hands

It is said that a small soft toy or figurine in the form of a symbol of the year brings good luck to the house and success in all endeavors. Almost certainly, such a talisman will become even stronger if you make it yourself. New Year's eve in the coming year will become a real symbol and almost all shops and retail outlets will be hung with a variety of toys, posters or other similar decorators for the home. We'll sew and make ourselves such a home guard for the whole year from the simplest and most handy materials.

Sheep - New Year's souvenir

If you "do not make friends" with the sewing machine or the needle as a whole, then we will make the mascot in the house in another way. Consider how to make a New Year's lamb from a skein of threads and ordinary clothespins.

1. So, we'll prepare clothespins, acrylic paints, a couple of pieces of cardboard and white threads.
2. We cut out the base from cardboard. On it, we will wind the yarn and create a three-dimensional figure. In fact, the foundation is nothing more than a normal oval and a slightly stretched stretch on it. It is painted with black or dark brown paints. The painted part will later become the muzzle of a sheep.
3. We plan the location of the legs of the lamb and attach the clothespins. They will also be painted with acrylic paints.
4. Next comes the second stage of making the New Year's sheep with their own hands . We begin to actively reel the yarn, trying to make the coils are not very dense, but avoid lumens. We work in different directions.
5. The task is to wind so much yarn to make the body of the sheep.
6. Well, now for our New Year's toy lamb from pieces of felt or similar material we cut out the ears. Then cut off a piece of tape and hang a bell around his neck.
7. Here is such a wonderful New Year's sheep, made with her hands, decorate the New Year's table and just the interior in the room.

How to sew a New Year's lamb?

If the house has children, they will definitely appreciate the next option of making a New Year's toy of lamb. This time we will sew a sheep from pieces of fabric and fill it with a sintepon or similar material.

1. In this master class manufacturing New Year's sheep will have to print here is a pattern. Next, attach all the details to the fabric. The main part (trunk) will be of white fabric, and the head and legs are black.
2. It is very convenient to make such toys out of felt and similar fabric.
3. So, first we need to collect the front of the toy. To do this, we apply the details of the face, namely the ears and the round blank in black, then we sew it all. You also need to embroider a spout with a thread, and make eyes from buttons or beads.
4. To the muzzle turned out to be voluminous and cute, you need to add a little sintepona during pritachivaniya details. Then you will get a three-dimensional drawing when you start to embroider a spout.
5. We take the second part of the trunk. We attach all four paws to it. Of black felt, we cut out eight parts, and therefore each foot will also be stuffed with sintepon. We sew two parts of the foot, turn it to the front with a pencil and fill it up with a little. Sewing to the second detail of the trunk of the lamb.
6. So, both parts of our New Year's lamb are made, and therefore it's time to put everything together. We are laying a decorative stitch along the edge, leaving a very small hole. Through it, the toy is stuffed with a sintepon.
7. Well, the final touch: decorate our lamb with ribbon or any other decor.

As you can see, you can make a New Year's talisman with your own hands in different techniques, so problems will not arise exactly. And you will get an excellent topic for a cozy and useful evening for yourself and your child.