Felt Polyhedron Keychain

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  Step 1

  First, gather all your materials. Not pictured are the jewelry plier, wire cutter, and jump ring.

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  Step 2

  Next, create a template on the scrap paper by drawing an equilateral triangle. Mine had edges that measured 3.5 cm each, but feel free to size up/down depending on how large you want your key chain.

  If you're having trouble drawing it yourself, just google search 'equilateral triangle', size an image in word and print it out as your template :)

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  Step 3

  You'll want to cut out 6 triangles using your template and about 3 cm of ribbon.

  I lined up my triangles in the way that I will want to sew them together, and used felt from largely the same colour families because that fits my style. Feel free to do yours however you like :)

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  Step 4

  Next, we can start sewing! Just take two triangles that you want to share an edge, and start blanket stitching the two of them together down one edge.

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  Step 5

  Keep sewing... making sure that you're always paying attention to which triangles are getting sewn together so the pattern turns out the way you wanted initially.

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  Step 6

  One way to envision the finished polyhedron is that there are three triangles up 'top', and three triangles on the 'bottom', and the two sets of triangles are connected to each other in the middle.

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  Step 7

  When you have sewn together almost all the pieces of felt, make sure to sew in the ribbon loop - this is what will help attach the felt polyhedron to the key ring.

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  Step 8

  Next, when you have about 1 and a half sides left open, stuff a little bit of polyfill into the polyhedron. I tend to under-stuff rather than over-stuff as I find it helps to keep the shape better.

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  Step 9

  Continue sewing after stuffing, and tie off once every edge has been sewn.

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  Step 10

  Next, feed one end of the metal wire you have through the ribbon loop you've sewn in.

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  Step 11

  Twist one end of the metal wire around the other end of the metal wire and snip off any excess with your wire cutter.

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  Step 12

  Then form a loop with the end of the wire, and link on the small bit of metal chain. Any chain will do really, and I just happened to have some jewelry/necklace chain on hand.

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  Step 13

  Then twist the end of the wire towards the original loop, and snip off any extra bits with your wire cutter.

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  Step 14

  Finally, attach the chain to the key ring with a jump ring by using your pliers :)

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  Step 15

  Tada! If you don't have any chain available, then using some thick thread or thin rope will be fine as well. Here I have used some bakers twine and also added a couple wooden beads 'cause I'm fancy like that.

  Enjoy!

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