How to make a purple teddy bear

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Many of us like to make toys using imagination and utility items. It often happens that something remains that has already become unusable. Don’t rush to throw it away, because it can still serve you well. You can make a fun toy out of such a thing.

In this article, let's look at a master class on making a wonderful bear cub from an old purple beret.
To work, we will need to prepare the following:

beret, ripped at the seams;
regular white threads;
needle;
filler,
wire for limbs,
buttons, pieces of cloth;
two beads for eyes.

You will also need threads (for example, “iris”) for the nose. Level of preparation for work: no higher than the simplest. The time required to make the toy is approximately 3 hours. Finished product size: about 30 cm.

Step one. We make a paper pattern and transfer it to fabric.
We start with the usual procedure. We make a pattern for the toy, cut it out of paper and transfer it to our fabric.
This pattern will look like this (at the bottom of the fabric, all the details are drawn using a black special marker)

Carefully cut out all the details of the fabric. We lay them out and iron them.

Step two. We sew the head.
We will start our toy by making a cute teddy bear head. To do this, you need to sew 4 parts together. First, the parts of the “face” are sewn together; at the bottom you should get a bulge in the form of a muzzle.
When this work is completed, you need to start making the ears. The two parts are sewn together, then they are turned inside out, filler is added to the ear, and the ear is sewn to the muzzle from the front side, as shown in the photo.

Then 2 back pieces are stitched together and sewn to the front side. The head is filled with stuffing.

It should be noted that it is better to sew parts by hand (although “virtuosos” of machine sewing can try to do all this work on a sewing machine).

Step three. We make the body of the bear cub.
For the body, you need to take the two largest parts, sew grooves on them (two grooves on each part of the future product), and then sew them together from the wrong side. Stuff the body. It turns out the following.

As a rule, the body is sewn to the head so that the grooves are on the front side of the toy (they emphasize the bulge of the teddy bear's tummy).

Step four. Front paws.
The paws are made from 2 parts, which we cut out of fabric 4 times. The two specified parts are stitched and filled. It turns out these plump legs are 5-6 cm long.

Step five. Teddy bear legs.
The legs are made more difficult, because you need to sew together not 2, but 3 parts. The third detail is a circle, which symbolizes the foot.
Therefore, the upper part of the legs is sewn first, and then an oval circle is sewn in place of the feet.In the photo you can see such plump legs, the length of which is 7 cm.

Step six. We sew the parts together and decorate the product.
Having completed the preliminary work to create the toy, we sew the head and body together. It may happen that the head swings too much on the body, then the toy needs to be given a “spine” using a wooden or plastic stick. You can also hide the stitches with which we sewed the head to the body by decorating the bear's neck with a small pink bow. You should “revive” our little bear by gluing beady eyes on him. This is what happens in the end.

Now we thread the wire into the places of the upper limbs and sew on the arms. Our little bear now has arms that can bend in different directions.

We do the same procedure for the legs. Skip the wire

and sew on the lower legs.

Teddy bear is almost ready. Now comes the time for imagination: using buttons, pieces of fabric and threads you can decorate the finished product. This is what a cute little animal we got.