“Hedgehog in the Fog” is a cult animated film that was recognized as the best cartoon of all time at the Laputa Animation Festival held in Tokyo in 2003, for which the author, Yuri Norshtein, became a Knight of the Order of the Rising Sun.
To be honest, as a child I didn’t like this cartoon at all, and I didn’t understand it... Having re-watched “The Hedgehog” at a more mature age, I unconditionally fell in love with all the characters, the dialogues and, of course, the amazing work of the animator. It is not surprising that the hedgehog himself has become a cult character and today I offer you my version of this hero. 
There will be a lot of photographs in this master class. Many people probably won’t understand why I show my actions in such detail, but I want even complete beginners to be able to create their own hedgehog.
So! Let's be patient, give us 10 hours of time, and let's get started!
For work we will need:
- Hedgehog mohair
- Viscose (preferably mustard color) or mini-damask
- A small piece of white leather/suede/minishtofa/leatherette
- Glass eyes on a 5 mm loop
- Cardboard disks 4 pcs. size 10 mm.
- Metal T-shaped cotter pins 2 pcs. size 15 mm
- Sawdust
- Metal granulate
- Oil paint color "Mars brown light", fabric outline red
- Threads, needles, scissors large and small, awl, pliers, brush, PVA glue, Moment glue
- Linen or cotton for the leaf and bag.
- Small button (if the bag will be attached to the paw)
- Copper wire
That's all! We can get started!
1. Cut out the pattern and transfer it to the fabric in accordance with the direction of the pile. 
2. Cut out all the parts, leaving room for allowance 
3. From the parts of the body, cut the pile “to zero” to the width of the allowance. This is done so that the parts fit as closely as possible to each other after stitching and the seam is not visible after stuffing. 
4. On the parts of the body it is necessary to make holes for cotter pins that will secure the upper legs. 
5. These holes must be glued so that the fabric does not “creep” in these places over time, and it will be much easier to find these holes when installing the paws. 
6. We cut the pile on the outside of the body to the size of the disc, for the most snug fit of the paws to the body. 
7. On the inner sides of the upper legs, use an awl to make holes for the cotter pins and glue the hole in the same way. 
8. We arrange the parts in pairs, sew them together and turn them inside out. 
9. Insert discs with cotter pins into the upper legs 
10. We stuff the upper and lower limbs. When stuffing the upper presser feet, it is important not to put sawdust between the disc and the fabric. 
All limbs must be tightly stuffed so that pressing on them with your fingers does not cause any deformation! 
11. Sew up the holes on the paws 
12. Using a needle or awl, pull out the pile from all the seams. 
13. Since the paws turned out to be very shaggy, we cut off the excess lint with small scissors 
14. Now that the paws look quite elegant, you can sew a button to one of the upper paws to which the bag will be attached. (if there is no button, the bag can be sewn to the foot or tied with a ribbon) 
15. Attach the upper legs to the body 
This is what you should get: 
16. Before you start stuffing the carcass with sawdust, you need to weigh it down with granules, then our hedgehog will have a pleasant “live” weight. To do this, you need to sew a small cotton bag and pour granules into it. The amount of granulate is purely to your taste. 
17. After the bag with granulate is sewn up, we lower it into the hedgehog’s body, placing it inside at the very bottom of the body. 
18. Now you can start stuffing the hedgehog. The sawdust needs to be thrombosed inside as best as possible. The hedgehog should not deform when squeezed in your hand. Ideally, the touch should create a feeling of wood inside. 
19. Sew up the body. We try to do this carefully so that the lint does not get into the seam. Afterwards we clean the pile from sawdust. 
20. Now we can start working on the lower legs. In order to sew them evenly and tightly, you need to cut out the space for them along the dart at the bottom of the body. 
21. Fasten the foot with a pin and sew in a circle. 
We do the same with the second paw 
This is what we get in the end: 
22. Now we will put the muzzle in order. First, let's remove the lint from all the seams. 
The hedgehog turned out to be very hairy, so we cut off the excess hair first along the contour of the face 
and then throughout the entire area 
For comparison, only one side has been processed 
Is there really a difference? We also make the other side of the muzzle beautiful) 
23. Next, you need to form indentations for the eyes on the muzzle. We press well the place where the eyes will be with something hard and round; for this I use the handle of pliers. 
You can see how our face took shape) 
24. Now in the center of our eye sockets we need to make holes for the eyes with an awl and glue them. 
25. Let's move on to tinting. We will do the tinting in 3 layers so that the muzzle is beautifully darkened and smooth transitions from light to dark are created. Before planting the eyes, we will apply 2 layers of paint to the face.
So, squeeze out a small amount of Mars Brown Light paint onto a napkin and while the excess oil comes out (10-15 minutes) we can take a coffee break and admire the work already done 
We cut off the brush almost at the root. Dip into the paint and squeeze until the brush almost stops leaving paint on the paper. 
We tint the upper part of the muzzle, as if dividing the nose into two parts and along the contour of the muzzle at the needles. 
Afterwards, we repeat the entire procedure, applying a second layer of paint slightly higher than the first to create a smooth color transition. 
Here's a comparison: one and two layers of paint 
The result should look like this: 
26. Let's put the hedgehog aside for a while and take care of the eyes. The hedgehog should have clear white circles around its eyes. To do this, on leather/suede/mini-shtofa or, like mine, leatherette, draw two circles with a mark in the center. 
Because I have leatherette, I glue the back side with PVA 
We cut out our round pieces, make holes in the center and insert eyes into them. 
27. Let's take our hedgehog again. Make a mark on the muzzle in the place where the mouth will be 
28. Because Now we are going to put eyes on the hedgehog, you need to take a large needle and a strong thread (long and preferably double)
We insert the needle from behind in the place where we began to sew up the body and bring it out into the hole we prepared under the eye, leaving a small tip of 10-15 cm at the back. 
We string the eye and insert the needle again into the same hole in the eye socket and bring it out to the place where we marked under the mouth (1 mm from the central seam) 
Now we insert the needle from the other side of the central suture, also retreating 1 mm, and bring the needle into the free eye socket 
We string the eye and insert the needle again into the same hole in the eye socket and bring it back to the back 3 - 5 mm from the left end of the thread 
Here's what happened: 
Now we pull both threads very tightly, tie a double knot and take the remaining threads into the body. As a result, we get a completely recognizable face 
29. Now let's embroider the nose. To do this, you can take both floss threads and simple ones, the main thing is that they are of a contrasting color. 
30. And back to tinting again. This is the final part of the hedgehog design.
To begin, carefully apply paint to the embroidered nose. 
Then, apply a third layer of paint to the muzzle, also moving slightly upward from the previous layer. 
Here's a comparison: 2 layers and 3 layers 
And a fully painted pug 
The only thing missing is the tinting around the mouth. We tint)) 3 layers: 1 - a stripe from the nose to the mouth, 2 - a droplet from the mouth to the nose, but shorter than the first layer, 3 - only inside the mouth. 
This is what our hedgehog looks like now: 
31. Notice how much the color of the paws now differs. This needs to be fixed. We tint the paws along the entire perimeter along the seam, also in 3 layers. 
32. Let's admire the result a little. 
33. We’ve finished admiring it, the hedgehog doesn’t have his bag of raspberry jam yet!
Take a piece of cotton or linen (I “stain” the fabric a little in coffee or tea in advance), transfer the pattern 
Draw polka dots using a red outline on the fabric (if someone has white fabric with red polka dots, they’re lucky) 
In order to secure the design, after drying, iron it from the inside out with an iron. 
Cut it out
Instead of a jar of jam, I use a wooden bead, you can just put cotton wool or something else inside 
We tie it beautifully and sew on the button 
And we tint the bag itself a little 
34. We give the bag to the hedgehog and admire it again)) 
35. Finished admiring! The hedgehog doesn't have a stand! I suggest making a stand in the shape of an autumn darkened oak leaf.
To do this, take coarse linen/cotton or any other dense, non-stretchy fabric (I use denim). We transfer the leaf pattern to the fabric, folding it (the fabric) in half. 
Then we cut off a piece of copper wire and bend it, repeating the main bend of the leaf. 
Remember that the fabric is folded in half? We open it and pour glue inside along the bend of the leaf, put a wire on it and sew it inside the fabric 
If desired, and I think it should happen, we reinforce all the side branches of the leaf skeleton with thinner wire 
We glue together all the parts of the fabric over the area of the leaf that are left without reinforcement 
It is advisable, for greater reliability, to also stitch the leaf along the contour 
Cover the leaf with paint on both sides (I use gold spray paint) 
After drying, use the oil paint used to tint the hedgehog to make the leaf more natural 
We wait for the leaf to dry, cover it with varnish and cut it out 
Bend it into a stand 
36. And now, with a clear conscience, we begin to admire the result!)) 
Happy creations!
Against the backdrop of the general fashion for small fur rabbits, you can stand out by sewing a toy with fur from your childhood - the main character of the cartoon “Hedgehog in the Fog”.
By aging the fabric with coffee, give your pet a vintage look, as if it has lived in your home for many years. To sew a charming coffee hedgehog toy with your own hands, you do not need to have tailor skills; the technique is very simple and accessible to beginners. You can use any fur for the needles, but the longer the hairs, the more luxurious the mane will be. Don’t rush to buy material - just keep an old collar or cuffs in your closet.
Materials and tools for creativity
If you have never heard of coffee toys and don’t know anything about them, we recommend them. To create an unusual coffee pot, prepare the following materials and tools:
- a piece of white cotton fabric;
- a strip of fur;
- a small piece of black leather;
- empty blaster for small tablets;
- ground natural coffee;
- padding polyester;
- pins and needles for hand sewing;
- sewing threads in white and beige colors;
- transparent universal glue “Dragon”;
- black permanent marker;
- white stationery proofreader;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- blue acrylic paint and pencil;
- a sheet of cardboard and a pen.
Step-by-step master class on sewing and decorating
Creating a Hedgehog in the Fog toy consists of several stages.
Preparing the textile base
On a cardboard sheet, draw the outline of the hedgehog’s body and one detail of the front paw. The figure is simple, so you can do without a pattern. Clarity is not required, since coffee pots are primitive.
Carefully cut out the parts. It's better to make a small toy.
Prepare a white cloth. It is better to use old leftovers, such as a worn white sheet. The fact is that worn-out fabric, washed many times, absorbs liquid well and will color more evenly. Fold the material in two layers. Draw one part of the body and two blanks of the front legs. Secure the layers with pins and cut out the Hedgehog's body with scissors.
Hand sew the legs. Use a needle back stitch. Turn the pieces inside out and loosely fill them with padding polyester.
Use the same seam to sew the body of the textile Hedgehog. When sewing, do not forget to sew on one of the front legs. Leave the hole for turning inside out in the place where the second leg is attached.
Carefully turn the base right side out.
Stuff the hedgehog with bluepon through the hole. Sew the second front leg using an invisible seam.
Brew strong coffee without sugar. Using a sponge or cotton wool, stain the toy with coffee drink. If the color appears unsaturated after drying, repeat the staining procedure. Leave until completely dry.
Fur decoration technique
You can use almost any fur, faux or natural, with a relatively long pile. Raccoon fur from the hood of some used jacket is perfect. Cut a strip equal to the height of the toy. From the side of the head, make a strip of fur already 1-1.5 cm deep. You cannot cut the fur with scissors, there is a risk of cutting off the pile. Cut from the wrong side with a stationery knife.
In order for the fur to fluff up beautifully on the head and below, first wrap it inward and secure the ends of the strip by 1 centimeter with thread. Sew a strip down the center of one side of the hedgehog-shaped coffee toy. Use a regular overlock stitch.
How to breathe life into a new friend
The eyes of a coffee hedgehog can be simply drawn or made voluminous. To do this, take an empty tablet blister. Use a pencil to line up two plastic containers. Cut out small circles from black leather and apply white dots on them using a stationery corrector. Place the leather pupils in plastic containers and apply clear all-purpose glue around the edges. Place a piece of white cardboard on top. Let the glue dry a little.
Cut out voluminous eyes. The glue should not dry completely, otherwise the bottom of the eyes may fall off when cutting out. If the glue is not completely dry, you can still glue it even if the edges of the eye parts come apart. Using the same glue, attach the eyes to the muzzle and draw a nose with a black marker. You can use acrylic or textile paints instead of stationery.
Draw the mouth.
Make a bag for your Hedgehog toy with your own hands from a square of white cotton fabric. Place the padding polyester on the square, fold the bag and secure with white thread.
Decorate the box with blue acrylic paint.
Sew the bag to the front legs.
The Hedgehog in the Fog toy will decorate a shelf in the bedroom or a chair in the living room, and if there are children in the house, then most likely they will fall in love with the hero of Soviet cartoons and ask to watch this cartoon.
Take a look at our master class on sewing other coffee makers - and. Today this hobby is very popular among children and adults. Fragrant souvenirs are suitable for a symbolic gift, especially if you add a wish or a humorous inscription to the toy.
Make a soft toy hedgehog you can do it yourself, having only small pieces of fabric and fur on hand. In our case, the fur will imitate the spines of a hedgehog. Download the hedgehog patterns presented below, adjust the scale you need for your work, and then, after making the patterns, cut out the required number of parts. Don't forget about seam allowances, which should be approximately 5-7 millimeters. It is best to stuff a ready-made sewn hedgehog with padding polyester.
It is very easy and quick to sew a beautiful soft hedgehog from an ordinary sock, as for example shown in the photo below. This craft does not need a pattern.
Have a nice creative time and beautiful crafts!
Here is a video of a master class on making not only a hedgehog toy, but also a very practical wardrobe item - mittens.
These hedgehog mittens look fun on your palms. You can choose the color of the yarn to your liking.
You can sew a wonderful hedgehog from an ordinary sock; you will need woolen threads, padding polyester, or material for stuffing the toy, and ready-made eyes to match the sock. The arms and legs for the hedgehog need to be sewn from the second sock. Everything else is shown in great detail in the photographs. I wish you success.
You can sew a cute soft hedgehog yourself if you try a little. To create it you will need very little material. Faux fur will serve as a fur coat (in this case, not prickly, but fluffy). The hedgehog's body should be made of a soft, pleasant material, such as fleece. For the eyes you will need regular beads. For stuffing we will prepare padding polyester. First you need to cut out the details of the future hedgehog. You can do this using this pattern:
The pattern shows that the belly will consist of two parts, and the fur coat will also consist of two. The bottom means one piece, the arms and feet - four pieces each, the legs - two pieces and a small round nose. We sew the parts together and stuff the toy with synthetic padding. The soft hedgehog toy is ready.
Well, while there are no answers, I’ll share what I personally managed to find on the Internet. In fact, making any soft toy is not so difficult, the main thing is to have a pattern for the toy itself and a little perseverance in order to cut everything out and sew it properly.
I managed to find this cute toy:
Making it, as it turned out, is not so difficult.
Sew Martin the Hedgehog according to the pattern. The soft toy Martin the Hedgehog is made from velor or fleece, and for the fur part, where the hedgehog has needles, you need to find good fur or mohair fabric. Any fabric with long or short pile will do, because a hedgehog can look like a porcupine or a hedgehog whose quills are smoothed.
Pretty Hedgehog pattern.
It is sewn from a piece of black felt or fleece, you will also need fur, the eyes will be made from pieces of leather, and the nose will be made from a piece of black fleece.
First stage. We sew the details along the line of the muzzle and belly.
Second phase. We sew the fur coat and belly at the side seams.
Third stage. We turn the sewn parts inside out and stuff them with padding more tightly.
Fourth stage. We attach the bottom wrong side to the body (wrong side and sew with a hidden stitch.
How to sew a soft hedgehog toy.
I offer a very simple pattern for a hedgehog toy or souvenir.
It can be printed and cut out.
Then we copy it onto the material, cut it out and sew it.
These are the hedgehogs, if desired, we can make them using this pattern. The first hedgehog has soft spines made of fleece, the second is all floral and bright.
How to do:
And one more pattern. This hedgehog is similar to the previous two, but still different, romantic.
Master class in the photo below.
This is a pattern for a hedgehog. Body and ears.
How to stitch.
See how to properly sew ears on a hedgehog:
And instead of prickly needles, the hedgehog has pink fur
We make the hedgehog's eyes and nose. You can also attach a ribbon to it.
I offer you a pattern for a cute hedgehog soft toy
We cut out the details according to the patterns in the drawing
Carefully sew together all the details of the hedgehog
Filling the hedgehog figurine with padding polyester
We embroider the mouth with black thread and sew on the nose and eyes. Your hedgehog is ready.
Hedgehogs are very cute creatures. Let's sew a soft toy hedgehog. For example, here’s a wonderful hedgehog toy based on the pattern:
To make such a hedgehog, we will take faux fur with long pile for the skin of the hedgehog with needles, light (flesh) fleece/velor fabric for the muzzle, tummy, paws, the inside of the ears, a little black velor fabric for the nose, eco-leather to embroider the inside ears (any fabric that does not fray), filler, fabric for a bow, half beads - eyes.
Here are the individual details:
Sew and turn:
We sew on all the parts for the head, sew on the body, sew on the parts on the back, and baste the ears:
Fill the legs a little, baste them, then sew the back to the body.
Hedgehog Syoma is sewn from felt and faux fur. Small and not at all prickly, it can become a cute toy for a baby or a fun one. The hedgehog attached bright autumn leaves made of felt to its needles; if desired, the hedgehog can be decorated with a mushroom or an apple.
Sewing a hedgehog with your own hands is not at all difficult; even children can handle this work.
To sew a hedgehog from felt, you will need:
- felt in gray, red and green colors
- gray faux fur
- stuffing material
- scissors, needle and thread
- green and orange “Iris” threads
- two black beads
- piece of black fabric
- thick cardboard
Master class: how to sew a hedgehog from felt and fur with your own hands
Print out the hedgehog pattern.
We cut out the details of the hedgehog as follows, not forgetting the seam allowances:
- Item 1 – two pieces in a mirror image made of gray felt.
- Item 2 – two pieces in mirror image made of fur.
- Item 3 – one piece made of fur.
- Parts 4 and 5 – one piece each made of gray felt.
- We cut out the leaves from red and green felt without stitches.
We sew together parts 1 and 2, parts 3 and 5 with a seam over the edge.
We sew the resulting three parts together, sew on part 4, leaving about 3 cm unsewn at the back of the hedgehog’s body in order to turn it inside out, insert the cardboard base and stuff it.
Cut out part 4 from thick cardboard.
We turn the hedgehog inside out. We insert the cardboard into the hedgehog's body. Cardboard is needed to make the hedgehog's tummy flat. We stuff the hedgehog's body with stuffing material.
Sew up the hole with a blind stitch.
Sew on black eye beads. We cut out a circle from a piece of black fabric, gather its edges with a thread, put a ball of padding material inside it, tighten the thread, and secure it with several stitches. It turns out to be a nose. Sew it to the hedgehog's face.
Using colored “Iris” threads, we embroider the veins on the leaves using a “forward needle” stitch.
Sew the leaves onto the back of the hedgehog. The felt hedgehog is ready! A wonderful gift for any holiday, for example, March 8th.
Duration: 2 45 minute classes with 10 minute break
Target: Explain the features of cutting and sewing fur toys.
Tasks:
- Explain and teach how to correctly connect fur parts with each other and fur parts with woven materials.
- Introduce children to interesting facts from the life of hedgehogs.
- Foster a love for wild animals and old Russian animated films.
Lesson type: combined.
Teaching methods: explanatory and illustrative, instruction, problem-search, independent (practical) work.
Interdisciplinary connections: biology, technology.
Health-preserving technologies: musical physical education.
Visual aids:
- sample; templates for cutting parts; using a laptop to show pictures of animals
Tools and accessories:
- faux fur, fleece, eyes, stuffing, needles, thread, scissors.
Lesson plan:
- Org. Moment
- Conversation about hedgehogs
- Practical work with breaks for physical education minutes and a break between lessons.
- Summing up. Exhibition of works
1. Organizational moment:
Checking readiness for the lesson.
Hello, let's start the lesson. Let's solve the riddle:
Angry touchy-feely
Lives in the wilderness of the forest,
There are a lot of needles
And not a single thread. (Hedgehog).
Well done. Of course a hedgehog. Today in the lesson we will sew a toy from hedgehog fur from the animated film “Hedgehog in the Fog” and the goal of our lesson is to correctly cut out the fur parts. We will use faux fur instead of thorns to make our toy soft and pleasant to the touch. And we will sew the arms and legs and of course the cute face of our hedgehog from fleece. Then we will stuff the parts and the body of the hedgehog with the remains after cutting the toy with pieces of fur and stuffing (sintepon or half-fiber), and sew the arms and legs to the body. Then we glue the eyes and draw the nose and mouth.
2. Explanation of new material.
But first, let's talk: why does a hedgehog need spines? Who else wears thorns for self-defense? Let me show you pictures and tell you a little about Mother Nature’s prickly creatures.
Through the impenetrable thorny cover it is almost impossible to get to vulnerable places, and areas of the body not covered with needles are usually carefully guarded (for example, a hedgehog curls up into a ball at the sight of danger). This list includes the most striking and dangerous representatives of the prickly fauna. View application. No. 5 is occupied by the Australian echidna. She lives, oddly enough, in Australia. This rabbit-sized, spiny-covered mammal comes in two varieties: short-nosed and long-nosed. If you disturb an echidna during a meal, it will burrow into the ground, and only a small forest of needles will remain outside - the animal will remain in this position until the violator of its personal space leaves. In addition, the echidna can curl up into a ball like the smaller prickly animal familiar to us - the hedgehog, and the echidna’s poisonous needles are hidden even in its paws. In total, there are more than 5 thousand spines on the mammal’s body, so this can be called an ideal defensive weapon! So, the Australian echidna, whose defensive weapon maims and kills anyone who approaches it. The echidna is so popular in Australia that it is even minted on one of the Australian coins
4th line occupied by porcupine fish or sea urchin, whose deadly needles normally lie calmly along the body. But as soon as the sea urchin senses danger, it suddenly sucks in a gigantic amount of water and/or air, the needles straighten and the fish turns into a huge prickly ball. No one will be lucky enough to swallow such a surprise.
How does this small fish manage to make such a transformation? The point is in the stomach of the sea urchin: dense walls allow it to expand several times when water is drawn in, and the rest of the internal organs during this process are arranged in an arc along the spine. It is the critical tension of the skin that allows the needles to stretch out and make the fish unsuitable for feeding.
Another “underwater” owner of spines is spiny box fish, I don’t know the exact Russian name, but something like a spiny box. Unlike the sea urchin, this fish's quills are constantly in alert condition, although it can increase in size, just like the porcupine fish by swallowing water, but in this case it becomes more like a pumpkin rather than a ball.
In 3rd place - armadillo lizard armed with sharp armor, living in Madagascar. The weapons of this reptile are sharp, hard plates of armor protecting the body. The armadillo lizard uses its spines in two ways: the spines on its tail are perfect for protecting the entrance to the burrow during quiet times, and in times of danger, the lizard puts its tail into its mouth, thus turning into a spiny wheel that can be swallowed without harm to itself. It's simply impossible.
2nd place goes to the deceptively graceful leonine scorpion ruff, whose 18 red and white hollow dorsal ridges are actually needle-like venomous fins that inject venom under the skin of its unlucky prey
If a person runs into such a needle, it will at least be very painful for him, and in some cases such a “touch” can lead to a fatal outcome.
Thanks to its painful and deadly weapon, this fish, as a rule, behaves quite brazenly and is afraid of few people at all, swimming slowly and naturally.
well and in 1st place as many have already guessed, there is a porcupine, known primarily for its long, thick, backward-pointing spines.
When danger arises, the porcupine straightens its quills and begins to shake its tail, producing grinding sounds somewhat reminiscent of a snake hissing.
If this warning was ignored, the porcupine tenses all the muscles of the body and releases all its quills directly into the attacker’s face, and whether it is a hyena or a lion, they will have to retreat in any case and will be very lucky if they survive at all after such poisonous acupuncture.
So, among the prickly ones, the hedgehog is the most harmless animal. Let's talk about it. What interesting things do you know about the life of hedgehogs?
Practical work.
Now let's remember safety precautions when working with scissors and needles.
We store the needles in a pincushion, count them before and after work, do not keep the needles in our mouths and do not pin them on our clothes; We pass the scissors with the blades closed and the handle away from us. Etc.
And now for physical education. (Showing a dancing hedgehog, children repeat after him)
For practical work, and to make the work easier and faster, I prepared the patterns for the parts myself and will now distribute them. To begin with, there are pieces of faux fur in front of you. Lay them out in front of you, fur side down. Take the pattern and look at it. On one side of the pattern template is marked with the letter A, on the other with the letter B. On one piece of fur, place the pattern with side A and trace, on the other piece of fur with side B and trace. This is so that the details are mirrored, i.e. one part is the left side, the other is the right side. Check that your work is correct. If you cut it incorrectly, the toy will not work. We take a stationery knife and cut the fabric along the contour and slightly stretch the cut parts. This is to ensure that the fur remains beautiful and even, especially for those who brought fur with a longer pile. Now let's do a little haircut. From the parts of the body we cut the pile “to zero” to the width of the allowance. This is done to ensure that the parts fit as closely as possible to each other after stitching. And the seam was not visible after stuffing. We lay out the fur pieces with the pile inward and begin to sew from the head to the middle of the back, and from the chin to the back, leaving room for turning. We sew and turn inside out. Now let's go to break to rest, and we'll continue working in the next lesson.
Lesson 2.
Before we continue, let's remember: what kind of toy are we sewing? Why does a hedgehog need needles? What other spiny creatures did you learn during your first lesson? Is it true that hedgehogs hunt mice? No, they don’t hunt, because hedgehogs have short legs, so they can’t run fast. Let's continue our work.
For now, let's put the fur parts aside and work on the face of our hedgehog. Fold the fleece in 2 layers and trace the muzzle detail and cut it out. If you look closely at the template, I colored a little red with a red marker on the side that needs to be joined together with a simple “step forward” seam. Try to sew as carefully as possible in small steps. Now, with the nose to the top, we carefully place the muzzle to the body so that the top seam of the muzzle coincides with the seam on the head of the hedgehog’s body and the bottom seam of the muzzle coincides with the seam on the chin of the body - we secure it with safety pins. We sew the muzzle to the body with a simple seam, carefully, in small steps, so that it is not visible from the front side. Now you can turn it out and take a look. Stuff the body and carefully sew the seam on the back.
Now we can start working on the lower legs. In order to sew them evenly and tightly, you need to cut out the space for them along the dart at the bottom of the body. Next we sew the legs and stuff them with padding polyester, secure them with a pin to the body from below, and sew them in a circle.
Next, let's take care of the front limbs - let's call it arms. We sew two parts in a circle, leaving no room for turning. Now let’s put our hands next to the hedgehog and see where the left and where the right hand is. We take the body of the hedgehog and stick pins where we want to sew the arms. Next, use the tip of the scissors to trim off the lint from the body a little, so that it is easier to carefully sew the arms to the body. Now let's rest a little.
Physical education minute
Let's continue working. On the side of the body, on the upper and inner side of the arm, we make an incision in the middle, through which we will twist the arms, stuff and carefully sew up this incision - at the same time we will sew the arms to the body. All that remains is to glue on the eyes and paint the nose and mouth of our hedgehog with acrylic paint. Our hedgehog is holding a bundle. There's probably raspberry jam for the little bear's friend. Let's cut out a “handkerchief” from white fabric. Let's wrap a piece of foam plastic, tie a knot, draw red polka dots and sew it to the hedgehog's handle.
Now let's clean up our workspaces and organize a small exhibition of our work. Let's see who got which hedgehog. What cartoon character does our hedgehog resemble? Did you enjoy working? Who else has needles? Why are needles needed? What interesting things did you learn about the life of hedgehogs? Many of your mothers watched the cartoon “Hedgehog in the Fog” more than once when they were children. And today we sewed a very similar hedgehog. We are so great. And if you give such a hedgehog to someone, I think this person will be very happy. We will spend the remaining time watching the cartoon “Hedgehog in the Fog.”
Literature:
- Using information from various Internet sites.
