We will need: white and red knitting threads (you can take acrylic or cotton), a hook of the required size (we will take number 2), threads and a needle for sewing parts, filler, copper or aluminum wire for hands and staff, Moment glue ", yellow threads for making a staff and a bag with gifts, two beads for the eyes.
Step one. We knit the head.
We begin our work by knitting the head of the toy. To do this, we knit two VP (chain loops) together and start knitting in a circle, when the head reaches 5 cm, we decrease the loops and make a circle like the one in the photo.
Step two. Let's make the body.
The body of the toy is as easy to make as the head.To do this, take red threads, knit two VPs, start knitting in a circle and add loops after 1 cm. As a result, we end up with a body that looks somewhat like a bell.
Please note that the lower part of our bell must also be closed. To do this, we will knit a circle with a diameter the size of the lower circumference of the body from red threads and sew them together.
As a result, we have both a torso and a head, but it’s too early to sew them together.
Step three. We knit hands and mittens.
Next, you need to make two hands of our future Santa Claus with mittens. We start knitting with red thread, knit 12 chain loops, close it in a circle and tie about 4-5 cm along it. Then change the thread from red to white, knit another 2 cm and close our knitting in a neat semicircle.
Step four. We connect the torso and arms.
In order for Santa Claus to get a real fur coat, you need to use a hook and white threads to knit a strip of white threads on his body along the length of the lower circumference and where the fur coat is fastened. We got the following.
Now you need to connect your arms and torso. But first you need to make sure that your arms can bend. Therefore, we take the wire and insert it into the place of the future hands.
Then we stuff our hands with filler (cotton wool or something else) and insert them into the right places. We sew the arms to the body using regular threads.
Step five. We sew the head with a cap to the body.
It’s time for us to sew the head to the body, but before that we’ll make our Santa Claus a hat made of red threads. To do this, we knit 15 VPs, then we go in a circle and after 3-4 cm we close the knitting. You can attach a pompom to the hat.
We sew the hat to the head using regular threads, and then sew the head to the body.It turns out the following.
Our toy already looks like Santa Claus, however, she lacks a beard, mustache, eyes, legs, a staff and a bag of gifts.
Step six. Let's make a staff.
A magic staff for Santa Claus is a very necessary thing in the household. And it is quite easy to make. To do this, take a wire of the required length, coat it with glue and begin to wind a yellow thread onto the staff. Then we bend the top of the staff, and we get the following.
Step seven. Beard, eyes and nose.
It is very easy to knit a beard for Santa Claus. To do this, take white threads and knit a chain of 10 VPs. In the next row we make double crochet stitches. That's all the beard is. We make the mustache in a similar way, only not from 10 loops, but from 4.
We sew a beard and mustache to the face of the toy, choose a place for the eyes, sew on beads with black threads, and then thread a white thread into a needle and make a thickening of threads instead of a nose.
For beauty, you can embroider snowflakes on the body of Santa Claus with the same white thread.
We get an almost finished toy with moving arms.
There is little left to do: felt boots and a bag of gifts.
Step eight. We knit felt boots and a bag for gifts.
Felt boots are easy to knit. We take white threads, knit 2 VPs, then knit in a circle 6-7 cm, close the knitting, we get a white “sausage” of threads, make another one of the same kind, sew the legs to the body of our toy.
Then we take white threads and, using regular knitting in the round, make a bag 7-8 cm high, tie thread straps on top and our Santa Claus is ready.
Look how beautiful and New Year's it turned out.
Good luck in your creativity!
