Making A Felt Toy & Dolls Quilts, Handmade Gifts

hi guys and welcome back to my channel my name is Rachel and I make videos about quilting and my creative life anywhere that you can find me on the web is listed down in the description box below Instagram and Tik Tok and you can stay up to date with what I'm making daily now if you watched my previous video when I went to the morvin show if not I'll leave a link to it down below lots of you will see that I bought this pattern which is by house of Xandra and it's a fa uh dog pattern and his name is Harold and I bought this and I told you at the time that it was a present well it was actually a birthday gift for my mom her birthday has now passed so it's safe for me to show you what I've been up to um in the in the video I said that I didn't purchase the kit for him well no I did I purchased the kit for him but I didn't intend to make the clothes so I was hoping that I could get two Ted is out of the one kit if I didn't do his clothes and I've also bought what's her name Harriet this one will be a pattern that I'll make for myself having made Harold there's definitely some amendments to this pattern that I'll feel more confident about making and that I'll definitely make some changes so when I was at the show I purchased some different colors of felt to Z up his clothes I didn't want him just to be in all gray it's not really my mom's style those are him him naked and his clothes and let me show you what I've done so here is Harold all made up his body was supposed to be the same color as his arms but because I was just trying to utilize the fabric that I had and he'll have clothes on anyway um I just did him a different color I should say that this is only the second toy that I've made I started a material rabbit in lockdown and I only finished her about 2 months ago she's not the best I didn't use any inter facing I just used poly cotton so she's a bit wrinkled but you know that was my first attempt so this is my second attempt first time I've ever used um f to make any type of animal so I'm really pleased with how he came out there's all lots of um what's that Stitch called it's all detailed with that um his neck is sewn on he's got a waggly tail and all of his limbs are completely mobile he can sit down and I think he looks absolutely adorable sitting down but the problem is when he has his shorts on they're too stiff because they're also made a felt so he can't sit down but he can stand up by himself so he's quite pleased with that so um the changes that I'll make when I do the bunny pattern first of all I've had a look and I don't really like her ears so what I think I'll do is just use the ears off Harold he's got very rabbit like ears hasn't he so I'll use his ears and she'll have floppy ears but I'm not going to make the dress out of felt I did buy some felt to make her dress but I'll make it out of material so that she can sit down in it um I'll make everything else out of felt perhaps her shoes there are her shoes maybe I'll make those in the colored felt that I bought for her dress so for this to be gifted I've got some finishing touches to add I've bought a beautiful gift box and I'm going to make him a little pillow and a Quil and he'll be in the little gift box as if it's a bed he's a very Noble and sophisticated man so what do you think to some glasses I need to stitch them on in place so I'll probably just put some tacking stitches at the back but I think they look cute do you wait till I can't leave them on but let me show you the rest of his outfits so he's got so he's got a shirt he's got some shorts with orange Pockets to match his orange waste coat so what I'm going to do today is I had to order some tiny buttons so I'm going to stitch the buttons onto the shirt and also at the trousers I'm going to sew all of the clothes on um just cuz my mom isn't going to play with them it's just going to be for display so what I did when I made the trousers because I'm going to stitch them on underneath they're going to overlap at the back and I'll just attach them with a butter but I left the waistband off on the example his shirt is tucked into the shorts but I think I put him a few extra pounds on the tummy area so his shirt's a bit tight and then he just doesn't look right with his with him tucked in he's a little bit on the chunky side so so yeah I'm going to have his shirt on the outside his shirt will be buttoned up and yeah what do you think he's going to look so cute [Music] so um I'm also going to make a little quilt for him like I said so I'm now going to rumage into all of my stash I'm thinking because he's got the green trousers he has got a blue box so I was originally going to do a Blue Quilt but I'm thinking cuz he's like yellows blues uh because he's yellows oranges and greens I think I'll do a green quilt and I really enjoy doing half Square triangles so I think I'm going to make it out of half Square triangles and just do it Scrappy um so let's get on with that and then it'll all be finished ready for gifting so I'm recording this on Friday and it's my mom's birthday on Wednesday so I've got a little bit of time to get on with it and because Harold has gone so well I am now so motivated to make more teddies when I was at the festival of quilts last year I bought a kit to make a wonderful Hedgehog so I feel confident enough now to get on with that she's a little bit more complicated she is M def fa but I think she's sewn on the machine and she's got a dress an apron a little Bonnet just's a lot more complicated but perhaps I'll do that as part of my series of using up my stash before going to the Festival of quilts again because maybe I'll enjoy it and I'll buy another one because the patterns are adorable so I think I'd end up buying another one even if I didn't make her so if you would like to see a video on that please leave me a comment and that will encourage me to make that video I recently bought a kind of like a scrap bag of 10in squares of this green tilder and I decided to buy the green not because I had this project in mind but because I thought I don't have a lot of green in stash who am I not buying the pink or the purple variety but I thought this would come in great and it matches really nice so I've had a rumage through my scrap bin and pulled out some other matching fabrics and this is how I organize my Fabrics just by color this is just the scraps in these Ziploc bags um any sort of sizes go and then I just rumage through and pull out what a fancy using and that's all I'm doing here with this project [Music] I have no idea if I've cut enough here so I've cut some and I've left the rest in the basket so if I need to cut more I'll just cut more so let's turn these into half Square triangles [Music] so this is where I've got to I've made him quite a big pillow so I'm think I'm going going to fill this with lavender cuz my mom absolutely loves lavender but the reason why I made such a big pillow is so it'll fill up the majority of the gift bag but also he has got quite a wide head so I want him to be comfortable and then this is the quilt top that I've made I've just put a really nice green border on it and I'm going to today quilt and bind it and it will just sit in the Box maybe I'll cover him a bit higher and um so yeah I'm going to use scrap wadding for the inside um for the back I'm sure I'll find something from stash I'm going to machine quilt this before I turn this into a pillow I am going to put a layer of w in and then quilt it and then turn it into a pillow just so the Top's nice and quilted um and then fill it with lavender from there but then I also made a couple of weeks ago this really nice Foundation paper pieced cup and teapot my mom would call that a coffee pot um we recently went to a car boot sale and she got a gorgeous uh pot like this for £2 and it was worth a couple of hundred so she got a real bargain so I wanted to get this um I'm going to bind it and I'm just going to put like a little loop on the top of both of these so that she can either put it as display the loop can just go behind inconspicuously if she wants to use it as like a placem or something she can do whatever she wants with them but these were just little extras that I made and I just thought I want to make those um so I might as well give it to her for a birthday so for that I've got some Ruby star binding because this is Ruby star fabric that I've used so I've got two lots of that different so I'll just use those and that's a little Ruby Star saying there this fabric here that's in the middle this is from Rainbow Fabrics it has since sold out because rainbow fabric specialize in dead stock and ethically Source Fabrics so they don't always get to restock very quickly on repeats of fabrics but they do come back however they have very Affordable Fabrics and this is one of their Fabrics that they very kindly sent to me and I thought it was very fitting for the tea and coffee theme they have very kindly provided a discount code for my viewers where you can get 20% off and I'll leave that in the description for you I recently used one of their Fabrics a satin for quilt backing and it's come out beautifully so I do really recommend them so we've got that one this one I'm going to hand quilt I think because I think it will look really nice with some hand quilting details just around the edge so that's going to be hand quilted but these I'll do on the machine probably with the green thread so I'm going to get them all basted up now and then get quilting them and hopefully we'll have those finished today is Tuesday and her birthday is tomorrow on Wednesday and we're going out for a picnic so hopefully I'll get well I will get everything finished even if I have to work until really late but I'm sure I won't be rushing I promise Mom if you're watching this video I wasn't rushing this has only been in the works for about 6 weeks and I've left it till the day before to finish everything off but I knew that Harold would take me the longest time and I'm glad he's finished and he's not rushed or anything so it's just the extra finishing touches that I've probably overcommitted to okay [Music] I just had to show you exactly how short I am on The Binding that's just typical isn't it so I'll have to dig something else out from my scrubs and Get It joined on typical [Music] so I have now completed Harold's pillow H matches my outfit doesn't it so when I filled the lavender I filled it to I can feel it in there about there and then I put some toy stuff in and then did the same again and then top it off with toy stuffing so that when I was ladder stitching the top it just didn't flow out and it just smelled really nice I've had it in with the box with Harold it's going to make me sneeze I've had it in the box with Harold now for while last night everything's been finished so it's made everything smell really really nice so that's his pillow and I've just used scraps there I used a leftover half square triangle and then just put the two side pieces a top panel another side piece another top panel and I wanted it to be quite big because he's got a big head and I wanted it to take up quite a bit of room in the the gift box so that's the first part finished I'll show you his quilt so this is his quilt now all completely finished and quilted I did quilt it on the machine but you can see just how wonderful and textured it is and it feels very nice and soft and then I've just put a um this was a fat water that came in the stash Builder box that I got from the seers club um and I found their fat quarters come in so handy might not typically be one that you would buy yourself I would never have bought this uh fabric but it goes beautifully and it's great to build your stash to be a little bit more diverse because if you watched my channel this isn't usually the colors that I would wear work with but I've got some small scraps so this just worked out great when Harold's in bed the quilt is going to be folded down like that so it looks really nice you've seen Harold quite a few times now I'll show you him in the Box in just a moment and then I did finish off both of these little um I've put a hanging loop on the back but I've done it so that it's folding down if she doesn't want to use it to hang but it can hang on the wall maybe in the kitchen that might be quite nice um but she could just still use that as a coaster now it won't interfere it's only thin it will stay flat so that's the one and then here is the other and I'm going to put those at the bottom of the box kind of looks like he line on a mattress goes with the color of his shirt and it just matches quite nicely so I'm really pleased with those and as well as doing hand stitching on on these I then also did some very fine then I also did some very fine machine quilting and I did them in two opposite directions I hope you can see you might be able to see a little bit more on the back we put him in his bed let's get him in so we've got those I'll put that there I'll have to put his pillow in after cuz otherwise the pillow will drop took his ears behind and then cover him with the duv the duv the quilt so there he is all in the gift box don't you think he just looks adorable I think she's going to be so pleased with him so we're going to a picnic today cuz it's really been warm the last couple of days so me and my sister are going to a picnic in a really nice uh Park where there's a lake and things so yeah we're all going to take a picnic share the food out I've bought a little cake and hopefully she'll enjoy this I am going to tie the box with a ribbon but this is the only ribbon that I've got and I don't think it 100% matches but it'll be a nice touch I will leave the link for where I purchased Harold from he was a kit so I'll leave the link to the website where you can purchase them from I'm not sure if they ship overseas so they are based here in the UK um so I'm not sure about that you might have to inquire with them they might be able to sort something out if you was keen and like I said at the beginning of the video I've got a Harriot and I am Keen to make her but I think I'll make her with a fabric dress so that she can still sit down because I don't like that Harold can't sit down now so I hope you guys have enjoyed this video I know it's slightly different to the quilting content but you still have to put a little quilty spin on it and even with a teddy he still needs a quilt so until next time you take care and bye-bye

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Length: 20min 22sec (1222 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 30 2024