How To: Felt Keaton Legend Of Zelda

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  Step 1

  **Download my pattern from above**
  Print this out onto paper; you can make it bigger or smaller if you like.

  Cut out pattern pieces.
  Fold yellow felt in half, this will save time by letting you cut out two pieces at once. Using your pins, attach the body, head and neck to yellow felt, cut around the pattern.

  When cutting out the tails, fold the yellow felt in half and place the part of the pattern that says ‘fold’ against the fold line. Cut out 3 tails.

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  Step 2

  Take the body pattern and cut along the dotted lines to separate it from the ‘lower body’ piece. Fold the white felt in half and just like when cutting out the tails place the lower body pattern piece against the fold of the felt. Use pins to keep in place and cut pattern out.

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  Step 3

  After cutting out all the pattern pieces it’s time to sew them together.
  
  Thread your small needle, tie a knot at the end so that both strands of the thread are knotted, this will make the thread stronger and less likely to break when sewing.
  Start by sewing the lower body and body together.

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  Step 4

  Continue sewing all pattern pieces together. The actual paper pattern will help you understand where each piece connects. Just use the letters as a guide. A connects to A, B connects to B and so on.

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  Step 5

  Leave an opening at the tail end so you can turn inside out and stuff.

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  Step 6

  After you’re done sewing you need to turn Keaton inside out so all of your sewing is hidden and it has a nice smooth finish.
  Use your thumb to start turning it inside out, then use something long with a blunt end (I’m using a knitting needle) to get into the little areas like ears and legs. Also use the needle to push stuffing into these small areas too.

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  Step 7

  Stuff Keatons head with pollyfill or other soft filling. Only stuff the head for now.

  Thread the Black DMC cotton through the big needle and tie a knot at the end.
  We need to be able to reach the face with the needle; this is why we are not stuffing the whole thing yet.

  Push the needle through the back opening towards the head and pull the needle through the face where you want the eyes to be.
  I wanted my eyes to curve so I put a little knot in the middle of them so they didn’t just go straight when I pulled the DMC tight. I also sewed another layer of DMC at the bottom half to help disguise the knot and give it more of an eye.

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  Step 8

  Push needle down and out of snout and sew around it to make a nose.
  Tie knot and hide it in the body.
  Continue to stuff the rest of the body until it’s quite tight, still leaving back open so you can sew in the tails later.

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  Step 9

  Water down some white acrylic paint and use your brush to paint half of both ears. Wait for it to dry and then paint tips of ears black.

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  Step 10

  Fold tails in half, sew them up (leaving bottom open) and turn them inside out.
  Once again water down some white acrylic paint and dab it around the top of the tails.
  Let the paint dry and then paint black acrylic at the tips of the tails, make it streaky so it looks more like ‘fur’.
  Let paint dry then stuff and sew up the bottoms.

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  Step 11

  Sew tails together and then sew them into the opening at the back.

  In order to make Keaton sit you need to squeeze him together into a sitting position and then sew around the bottom so he stays like that.

  To finish him up you need to sew tails closer to body with a few stitches and then sew front legs together

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  Step 12

  Keaton is done!

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Spookachtige · Erie, Pennsylvania, US · 10 projects 14th May 2014

Cute! =3

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Hello Sweet Taco · Melbourne, Victoria, AU · 30 projects 30th September 2013

Woooo! Plaese send me a photo when you have made him!~

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kimberly.hodges.5059 · Maumelle, Arkansas, US · 2 projects 28th September 2013

I love Keaton! now ill have my own to hug and show off ill make him out of flece

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