How to make a felt panel?
Decorative decorations give any room a special color and comfort. Felt is an excellent material for creating such crafts. It can be used to make various panels, covers and covers, as well as jewelry and toys. The advantage of the material is the variety of colors, its flexibility and ease of use. A do-it-yourself panel made of felt can be used both as an original decor and as a gift to a loved one.
What is required?
The panel is an element of decor in any room. You can use it to decorate walls, ceilings and even the facade of a building. Children can be involved in the creation of such an application. This will develop fine motor skills, imagination and improve imagination. If the work is carried out by an experienced craftswoman, the details are usually stitched with threads. Children can use glue instead of threads to fix parts. Beads, buttons, ribbons, as well as sisal and natural materials are used as decorative adornments.
Felt is a non-woven material. This is a felt that is usually made from rabbit or goat hair, or synthetic materials. The material can have a difference in thickness, also vary in density.
Paintings made of felt can be bright and colorful, but you can also choose pastel delicate shades for panels.
The choice of color depends on individual preferences, as well as on the theme of the chosen composition. So, for a girl, a product in pink tones is more suitable, and for a boy it is better to choose an option in bright colors, with contrasting details. To make a felt panel with your own hands on the wall, you will need certain materials and tools.
- Felt cuts. You can pick up all sorts of colors of the material, depending on the chosen theme.
- Cardboard.
- Scissors.
- Sewing needle and thread kit.
- Additional decorative elements.
An important part of the job is choosing a pattern. You can do it yourself or print ready-made options with patterns, taking them, for example, on the Internet. When doing crafts for children, it is better to choose plots that are understandable to them. Various animals, sea creatures, food or favorite toys can be options for the picture.
Sewing small Velcro to the details, you can make a kind of game out of the panel. Such educational crafts will allow kids to have fun. A similar game will help them learn the names of animals, plant a vegetable garden or collect fruits in a basket. Recently, paintings have become popular. The panel outwardly looks like an ordinary painting with a certain plot, with the name of the child.
You can indicate not only the name of the baby, but also the date of his birth.
Crafting ideas
A panel made of felt can serve not only as a decorative element of a room. It is used as an organizer with pockets in it or as a place to store jewelry. Beginners are better off making simpler crafts. Painting "Autumn", made of such material, will be an excellent option in this case.
For work you will need:
- a piece of blue felt to create a background;
- pieces of multi-colored felt;
- frame made of wood;
- colored paper;
- PVA glue;
- decor.
The work on creating an autumn picture is carried out as follows.
- You need to take a stencil, using it, cut out the leaves for the applique with scissors. In the absence of a stencil, you can take the leaves collected on the street, outline them along the contour.
- Cut templates applied to colored paper and cut out.
- They take thick cardboard and cover it with blue felt to create the main background. Secure with a frame.
- Details are cut out of brown fabric, which will serve as a trunk for the tree.
- Crown of a tree cut out of multi-colored felt.
- In a chaotic manner in the picture post autumn falling leaves.
- At the end the applique is decorated with beads or rhinestones.
The contour of all the details and the veins of the leaves are sheathed. To fix the parts, you can use a needle or glue them with PVA glue. To add volume to the details, use a synthetic winterizer. The panel "Summer" is made in a similar way, for which pieces of multi-colored felt are used, giving them the shape of ripe fruits.
The picture is complemented by decorative elements in the form of scraps of fabric, pearls and buttons.
More experienced craftsmen can handle the winter composition. Anyone can do it if they wish. Cutting out the necessary details from the template and connecting them in the right order, you get a beautiful winter picture. The craft consists of many small details, so such work will require attention and perseverance. The panel "Seasons" turns out to be very beautiful. It is better to hang such a product in the nursery, where it will look good and attract attention.
A felt picture in the form of a flower bouquet will also look great. To make flowers, choose one of the options for the template you like. You can make a flower using one or more layers of fabric. The color of felt colors is made monochromatic or contrasting.
Using a paper template, draw the outline of the flowers and then cut the blank along the outline. The bud details are folded from the largest petal. A round piece of felt is used as the core and fixed in the center of the flower. Small beads, beads or rhinestones will decorate this piece.
For the leaves, take a green fabric and cut out suitable parts from it. Using glue or a needle, the petals are attached to the flowers.
Beautiful examples
Making cute felt murals and paintings is fun.
Crafts with an interesting or fabulous plot will be appropriate in the children's room. Personalized panels are very popular. Usually they are given to the baby as a birthday present. Favorite toy on the item will delight the birthday boy.
Not only children will be happy with such a gift. Floral arrangements made of felt will become a decoration of your home.
This is a great option for a dining room, living room or hallway.
Even unpretentious and simple felt crafts look very cute.
Creating crafts from felt will allow you to make an original decoration, showing your imagination and putting in work. Such a product will become a pleasant gift that will remind you of a certain event.
For information on how to make a felt panel with your own hands, see the next video.
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