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You can even make them smell like lavender!!
These were created when i saw 'softie' on cut out and keep, my friends birthday was coming up and i asked her her favorite colours and animal, and i made these!! unfortununately i couldnt bear to give the first two i made away, so i made the red one for her, then i decided to make a how to!
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Step 1cut out a simple design for your softie, the simpler the better, I chose a bat :)
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Step 2Choose your felt, and draw around the paper pattern onto the chosen material, my paper patteren is a bit scuzzed up because i had used it three times before i made this tutorial :)
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Step 3Like this :)
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Step 4do it again on to the same piece, or onto a different colour if you want your front and back to be different colours
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Step 5Now, Cut 'em out :)
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Step 6When you have them both cut out, you may still have some pen on the peices, place the bats back to back with the sides that have pen on together, if they dont quite fit together, just trim the edges a bit.
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Step 7Decide which one you want to be your front, and which to be the back. Choose some buttons for the eyes.
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Step 8choose your embroidery thread, It needs to be about 2 and a half times the perimeter of your design, and sew the buttons on. also embroider a mouth. it can be a smile, a shocked mouth, a pout, a cross, whatever really. you dont even have to do one if you'd prefer not to
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Step 9Begin simply blanket stitching from the top of the right hand ear, almost all the way around
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Step 10
Now, from here onwards, im afraid i got a little carried away and finished the project before realising that i hadnt taken the photos, so they are just cartoons from here onwards...
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Step 11Sew all around leaving just the part between the ears open.
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Step 12OPTIONAL STEP!
if you would like to fill yours with lavender, i suggest you stuff the wings with cotton wool first cos its really difficult to fill the wings. also roll a peice of cotton wool betwen your hands and line the bottom of your bat with this so that the lavender is more secure. -
Step 13STILL OPTIONAL STEP fill the rest with dried lavender buds, and roll another peice of cotton wool to line the top with.
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Step 14
or you can just completely fill it with cotton wool... if you like
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Step 15sew up the top gap, tie a knot and your done!!
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Step 16now, SHOW IT OFF!!!!
its a tutorial on how to blanket stitch, it may look long, but im just being thorough!
www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/how_to_blanket_stitch
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Thanks for all the nice comments too n_n
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but im such an idiot i dont know what the heck is it to blanket stitch..
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