The topic of our today's master class is a New Year's cockerel made of felt, which, of course, we will sew with our own hands, and in addition, we will provide you with a detailed pattern so that you can easily repeat all the steps and acquire a bright toy, a symbol of the coming year. In the last article we talked about how to do it, but if that character was serious, then today’s is more like a cockerel from a children’s fairy tale.

To sew a felt cockerel with your own hands, you will need:

felt of different colors in two versions: thick and thin (in our case, thick - red and yellow; thin - red, blue, green, yellow and orange);

sewing threads in red, blue, green, yellow and orange;

sewing needle;

scissors for cutting threads and cutting;

soap or tailor's chalk for marking dark felt;

a simple pencil for making notes on light felt if the chalk is not visible on it;

any non-lumpy filler (ours is silicone);

two beads for eyes or floss for embroidering black eyes;

paper pattern (for printing or redrawing from the monitor is given below).

To pattern the felt cockerel, as you probably guessed, a regular children's coloring book for little ones was used: a minimum of small details, clear contours. You might like this idea and pick up another coloring book to repeat the felt experience. It will be interesting - we promise!

For convenience, we numbered the parts of the pattern.

From one printout, cut out the numbered pattern pieces. We leave the second one as is: it will be useful for checking the sewn parts with the whole cockerel. Felt is quite plastic and can cause slight deformation in work, especially if sewn by hand. If you have the silhouette of a cockerel on hand, these errors can be easily avoided.

Cut out a felt cockerel for the New Year according to the template

We work with thick red felt. On it we trace one piece at a time the parts of the pattern, numbered 1, 8, 9 and 13 (comb, paws and upper tail feather).

Pay attention to the photo below: on the pattern pieces, one of the sides is drawn with a red felt-tip pen. It is along this side that you need to extend the pattern, forming a seam allowance, and only then cut it, taking this allowance into account. This rule applies until the end of our master class.

A line of yellow felt. On yellow thick felt we outline the beak (part 2), leaving an allowance for sewing it in. On thin yellow felt we trace the second tail feather (part 12), two parts in a mirror image. The seam allowance runs along the inside of the feather.

We do not cut off tail feathers No. 10 and 11 from each other on the pattern. We cut out such a double piece (one part) from green felt, leaving a seam allowance on the bottom cut.

Now we cut the pattern with parts 10 and 11 and cut out part 11 from orange felt in 2 parts, in a mirror image. Seam allowance - along the bottom edge (see template).

We do not remove the green felt, but cut out part No. 5 from it, two parts in a mirror image. The allowance goes along the upper figured part, we align it on felt. You won't need green felt anymore.

Red thin felt. From it we cut out 2 parts of the beard in a mirror image (part No. 3). We do not leave allowances.

And now - two wings; also in a mirror image there are two parts and also without allowances.

On dark blue felt we outline parts 4 and 6, the head and abdomen. And this and that - 2 parts each. On the head, we straighten the part that goes under the beard - this will be a kind of allowance. And on the body we give an allowance in the area of ​​the wing and tail.

Felt cockerel toy: design and assembly

On our diagram we place the wing on top of the body, aligning the cuts with the outline of the silhouette, and sweep both parts. Then we sew along the wing with a buttonhole stitch with red threads. We took two needles, threaded one into one for basting (contrasting), and into the other we inserted sewing threads for stitching the rooster toy.

We do the same with the second pair of parts. We do not cut the red thread, leaving a long tail.

We change the thread to blue, fold the parts of the head and plumage in pairs, check their location with the pattern, and baste them, and then sew them with a buttonhole stitch.

The cockerel's tail is perhaps the most complex design in the entire toy. On the template, we put together a sandwich from a green and two yellow parts (the orange ones are not needed yet, but they are in the photo).

We sew a sandwich from three parts: two yellow and green. We sew the part that will not be covered with an orange feather with a buttonhole stitch with yellow thread. The rest, for speed, is stitched “forward with the needle.” It will not be visible in the finished work.

We place an orange feather on one side in the space allocated for it. We sew with orange thread, slightly turning back the top layer of yellow felt so as not to accidentally sew the second layer.

Please note: we sew with a buttonhole stitch, and we sew only the meeting point of the yellow and orange feather. The lower cut of the orange feather remains unprocessed.

We also sew an orange feather on the other side of the tail.

We still have a large red feather made of thick felt. Change the thread to yellow. We place the red feather between two layers of yellow felt. You can sew it on in two ways: at one time, sewing through the entire sandwich, or in two passes, using a needle to grab only one yellow layer and the top part of the red felt. We found the last method convenient.

Let's return to the design of the head. If you don't plan to recess the eyes, now is the time to sew them on. If you want to drown it, we will sew it on later, after stuffing the toy.

We check the location of the goatee element on the head with the pattern and baste it with a contrasting thread. We do the same with the second pair of parts.

Using a loop stitch with red thread, we sew the beard at the junction with the head on one part; When sewing on the second one, we do not cut the thread, but leave it long (although the fastening at the place where the needle stops will not be superfluous).

We fold both parts of the head with the wrong sides facing each other and sweep them together.

We sew the beard over the edge with a loop stitch. We fasten the thread and cut it. Change the thread in the needle to blue.

We insert the beak and sew it through with a buttonhole stitch, grabbing both layers of blue felt and carefully fixing a piece of yellow felt.

Now it's the scallop's turn. We place the perky comb in its proper place and stitch it. If you want to make a toy pendant, for example, to decorate a Christmas tree, you can also sew a looped ribbon with a comb. Continue sewing until the end of the blue felt.

According to the template, we apply one of the parts of the body to the formed head and baste it. We do the same with the second part.

We change the thread to green, sew the back seam of the plumage and sew both parts of the body to the plumage.

Let's sweep the tail!

We return the red thread to the needle and sew the wings from the plumage, through the tail (grabbing only the upper part of the felt), after which we make a tack and cut the thread.

We turn the cockerel over and thread the long tail of red thread that was left earlier into the needle. We sew both wings with a buttonhole stitch and move on to sewing the tail on the second side.

We still have a hole left. Let's go back to the head. Lightly fill it with silicone or padding polyester.

Let's add beady eyes. We tried to make white felt backings for the beads, but we didn't like how it turned out. Without backing, just beads, they turned out to be much better.

At this stage, add filler, distributing it evenly throughout the body. Then using blue thread (so as not to change) we sew the open seam on the head; change the thread to green and finish the seam on the plumage. A felt cockerel, made with your own hands according to our master class and the presented pattern, is ready to join your holiday. Here is a photo of our handsome guy.

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The rooster, which will become the symbol of 2017, can be made with your own hands as a cute gift for the New Year. There are many options for making a bright Rooster from, but in this material we will share detailed instructions on how to make the 2017 Rooster symbol with your own hands from felt. The applications of such a souvenir can be called universal: it can become, and if you sew a loop to it, then the cockerel will have a place on the holiday tree. You can also attach a pin to the back of the product, and then the felt Cockerel can be used as a handmade brooch.

Instructions on how to make a Rooster from felt

Before you start working on a felt Cockerel, you should make sure that you have all the necessary elements to create it, because when all the parts are ready for use, the work goes much faster.

Material you will need to make the 2017 Rooster symbol with your own hands from felt:

Pieces of felt of different colors (white for the base, brown for the legs and beak, blue, green, orange for the feathers on the wings of the Cockerel and his tail, cream for the body of the bird);
Floss threads in the same colors as the pieces of felt;
Double-sided adhesive fabric for gluing applications (web);
Small beads for eyes;
Scissors;
Iron.

Instructions for implementation:

1. You can find a stencil of a cockerel on the Internet; you need to print it out (you can draw the image of a cockerel yourself, if you wish).
2. Using the printed stencil, you need to cut out a rooster pattern from white felt. There should be two blanks. One of them is the back one, it needs to be put aside for now.

3. All the details of the cockerel (tail, wings, beak, and so on) are first glued to the base using cobwebs (the base is the front part of the pattern made of white felt), and then sewn along the contour with floss threads. This must be done so that the cockerel does not accidentally lose one of its parts, and also so that the product itself looks more voluminous.
4. Next, you need to place double-sided adhesive fabric under a piece of brown felt and cut out the cockerel’s legs. The part is placed on the base, and a heated iron is applied to it, which must be held for about 5 seconds so that the fabric sticks. Of course, you cannot hold the iron for longer, otherwise the fabric will simply burn.

5. From a piece of cream felt, you need to cut out the body of a rooster; it is advisable to make small indents from the edges, since at the moment of sewing both parts together, the final size of the product will decrease, and the rooster may lose its proportionality.
6. In the same way, you need to cut out the body of the cockerel from the cobweb, the size is the same.
7. You also need to make a head pattern from white felt and web (all patterns must be at least 7 millimeters larger, otherwise it will be impossible to attach other parts of the cockerel on top of them).
8. Next, again, using a hot iron, you need to glue the body and head of the cockerel to the white felt base.
9. You need to separate the wing and tail from the main pattern. The wing pattern must be made separately, using white felt and web.
10. First, the wing pattern must be placed on the main blank in order to aim exactly where it is best to attach the wing.
11. Next, the wing is glued with an iron.
12. From multi-colored felt and cobwebs, you need to cut out all the feathers of the bird’s tail separately; the colors can be combined in any way you like, which ones you like best. Each part is glued with an iron to the main workpiece.
13. Next, you need to cut out a rooster’s comb from red felt and glue it.
14. A part of the wing is cut out from orange felt and also glued to the main workpiece.
15. Next, you need to cut out a beard from red felt and a beak from orange felt, and also glue them to the main workpiece.
16. Next, very painstaking work begins, because each individual piece must be sewn along the contour of the product with threads of the appropriate color. You will often have to change the threads and insert them into the needle, therefore, if there are many needles, you can immediately thread threads of different colors into them and calmly do the stitching. The contour is made with an intermittent or dotted seam, the design of which can be seen in the photo.

17. Using brown threads, you need to sew on the beak, making a small seam, going beyond the contour of the part, this will be a continuation of the beak for greater relief.
18. Next, you need to sew on an eye with white threads, and around it with black threads make three strokes, which will become the cilia of the cockerel.
19. Next, you need to sew the bird’s legs with brown threads, leaving strokes simulating claws.
20. When all the parts are stitched along the contour, you can sew the two sides of the cockerel using a U-shaped seam. When stitching, you need to leave a small hole to fill the inside of the product with cotton wool or synthetic fluff. At the end of the work, this hole is also sewn together with a U-shaped seam, the execution diagram of which can be seen in the photo.

Every child's greatest pleasure on the eve of the New Year holidays comes from decorating the Christmas tree. Children will be able to fully demonstrate their talents not just by hanging toys on spruce branches, but by making them in advance with their own hands.

The symbol of 2017 - a colorful rooster - is the most popular children's craft before the New Year holidays. But a cheerful cockerel made with your own hands will come in handy at all subsequent New Year's Eve celebrations as a bright, kind and original Christmas tree toy. Children 10 years and older will be able to make such a craft on their own, following the master class demonstrated below. And children from 4-5 years old can create together with their mother.

What you need to sew a felt rooster for a Christmas tree

To sew a rooster you will need:

Master class Rooster on the Christmas tree - main part

First of all, the head is decorated on each half of the rooster figurine. The upper part with plumage is placed on top of the body. In certain places (see photo) white circles are sewn on, imitating the eyes of a bird with a black bead-pupil in the center.


Next, the remaining parts of the toy are connected one by one. For this, a buttonhole or overlock stitch is used.

Before assembling the toy, your child can practice making a seam like this on any scrap:

When it comes to the cock's comb, at the same time a loop formed from a silk ribbon is sewn into the upper part of the toy, with the help of which the toy can later be hung on the Christmas tree.

The last elements of the rooster are sewn on the three elements of its tail.

When sewing them in, each fragment should be slightly overlapped with the previous one.


The lower part of the toy is not treated with a seam. First, you need to put the required amount of padding polyester into the cavity of the figure to give the felt rooster volume.


And only after this is done, the lower edge of the figure is sewn with the seam already described, thus completing the work of assembling the toy. Ready!

New Year's felt crafts are always neat and beautiful handmade holiday souvenirs.

According to the Eastern calendar, 2017 will be the year of the Rooster, so it will be nice to include such a small gift.

Today we will offer you photo ideas for felt crafts in the form of a Cockerel or Hen, which are easy to make at home.

Such handmade gifts will turn out to be special, original, memorable and very beautiful, because felt is easy to process.

New Year's craft Chicken made from felt hearts

Do you want to make souvenirs for the Year of the Rooster with your own hands? Try making a chicken from felt. All parts can be cut out in the shape of hearts and glued together.

You will need:

Felt in different colors
padding polyester or cotton wool
thread and needle
small bead for eye
beautiful ribbon
scissors
stencils of large and small hearts, they can be made from cardboard
fabric glue

How to sew a felt Chicken:

1. Cut out two large hearts from light felt. Fold together and sew around the perimeter. Without finishing the stitching a little, fill the hearts with padding polyester or cotton wool. Then sew to the end and cut the thread.

2. Cut out four small red hearts of different sizes for the wing, comb and wattle and several colored ones for the tail.

3. Glue the two red parts of the scallop and sew it to the body.

4. Fold the third red heart in half and sew it in the middle of the body so that one half remains unsewn and gives the product a voluminous look. This will be the wing.

5. Also fold the fourth heart in half and sew on it like a rooster’s beard.

6. Roll up the yellow heart and sew on the beak.

7. Make an eye out of a bead.

8. Glue the remaining colored hearts one after another on the top of the heart, like a rooster’s tail.

All that remains is to sew on a beautiful ribbon so that the Cockerel can be hung up like a New Year’s toy.

Such a felt souvenir will definitely bring good luck in the New Year!

Fridge magnet Rooster made of felt

You can make an original Cockerel magnet for your refrigerator with your own hands, for example, from felt fabric. This is a educational craft, it’s not difficult to make.

It’s nice to make such a gift yourself and give it to someone as a small present. For example, it will please people born in the year of the Rooster, or on the New Year of the Rooster, close people and friends.

Materials you will need:

• white and red felt
• sequins flowers
• wood beads
• ribbons
• shifty eye
• floss threads iris
• universal glue
• magnet

How to make a Rooster magnet from felt:

1. Cut out all the necessary details from the fabric: beak, scallop, wings.

2. Sew a wing to one of the body parts.

3. Insert a comb, beak and ribbons between the main parts.

4. Connect with a chain stitch, stitching on both sides at the junction with the red elements.

5. Place beads on the ribbons and tie the ends with a knot. Secure with glue.

6. Glue the eye and sequins onto the wing.

7. Glue a magnet to the back side. If the magnet is large, you can hide it inside. Before doing this, check whether it will stick through the felt.

The felt Cockerel magnet is ready!

Here are some other options for refrigerator magnets in the shape of a Rooster:

Felt chicken on a skewer for the New Year of the Rooster

A skewer with a Cockerel, this craft is also called a “felt lollipop”, can be placed in a flower pot, and can also be used to decorate Easter cakes.

You will need:

• yellow, orange and green felt
• threads
• padding polyester
• beads
• skewer

How to make chicken on a skewer:

1. Make patterns from paper and use them to cut out 2 parts of the body, a beak, a comb and circles for decoration, as in the photo.

2. Place padding polyester inside for volume and sew the parts together with double orange thread, stringing small beads onto each stitch.

3. Decorate the chicken with green circles, onto one of which you need to sew black beads on both sides - eyes.

Felt Rooster crafts are also good because they can be left until Easter, and they will not lose their relevance for many years, and not just for the 2017 New Year of the Rooster.

Happy creativity!

Neat and miniature felt toys are becoming increasingly popular. They are easy to work with even for children. It's always nice to give them. Such surprises, made from the heart, have a special value: they keep warmth and pleasant memories. The symbol of the New Year will be an excellent souvenir for friends and family. It will definitely bring good luck. To make your own felt rooster, learn a simple pattern.

What will you need?

To work on the toy you will need:

• Soft felt (red, light green, yellow, red, white, gray, green/turquoise, blue/dark blue);
• Down (synthetic);
• Threads to match the felt;
• Fabric glue or glue gun;
• Scissors;
• Button;
• Fabric marker;
• Stick for stuffing fluff;
• Eye.

Making blanks

To make a felt rooster, transfer the pattern onto plain paper. Carefully cut out the image.

Using a paper figure you can quickly cut out a couple of blanks. You can use gray and white colors for the body, as in the picture. Or use felt of the same tones. In the same way we prepare blanks for future parts: tail, beak, wings, scallop and more.

Please note that when cutting feathers, an allowance is made in the upper part - about 4-5 mm. This allowance size will be used in other parts.

Collecting details

It is optimal to start working from the tail. To do this, glue the bottom feather to the applique. All subsequent feathers are superimposed on top of the previous one. This overlapping pattern will add volume to the toy. Without any allowance, cut out only the last one – the green feather.

Take the white pattern and cut out the head. Make a neck from red material with a small allowance on the sides and top. Apply a few drops of glue and secure to the base.

Using scarlet material, cut out a beard with an allowance at the top. It is attached over the neck plumage, overlapping.

The head of a felt rooster is cut out from white material with your own hands. Cut out the scarlet crest and beak without any allowance and glue it on.

The wing is made from two yellow parts. They are sewn together with a regular seam in the shape of the letter “P”. Don't forget to fill the wing with down before finishing. Decorate the place where the part is sewn with a button.

The second blank is made in this way. Together they are sewn together to match the color of the felt. It is better to move from the paws towards the tail and towards the beard. Fill the New Year's souvenir with down in the belly area and sew it up.

A little time and a cheerful do-it-yourself felt rooster is ready, and the master class clearly demonstrates how quick and easy it is! You can attach a small loop and it will make a great toy for the New Year tree.