Here's what you'll need:
- Felt material with a soft structure in dark green, black, sand colors.
- Small pieces of felt in rich colors (bright yellow and pink) for the flower.
- Threads in beige, black, marsh shades.
- Needle for sewing or embroidery.
- Scissors.
- Simple pencil, chalk marker.
- A piece of cardboard.
- A small amount of holofiber.
1. Print and cut out the cactus and pot templates.
2. From beige felt, cut out one piece for the pot: base, bottom and rim. From black felt, cut out a circle with a diameter of approximately 8-10 cm to imitate the ground.
3. From dark green felt, cut out 5-6 identical parts for the cactus. Make one identical flower piece from pink and yellow felt. Make a stripe for the middle of the inflorescence of any bright color.
4. Take the wide rounded piece (the base of the pot) and connect its short edges.Sew them together with beige thread using a butt or overlap stitch.
5. Take the bottom of the pot, sew it to the base with an overcast stitch (or over the edge).
6. Take a narrow rounded strip and sew its short sections end to end. Then wrap this part around the top of the pot and sew along the inner contour. To do this, lay a finishing stitch in the form of a dotted line.
7. Then join the top edges of the pot and the rim using an overlock stitch or any other stitch you desire. Straighten the pot, give it a beautiful shape.
8. Cut a circle from cardboard the size of the bottom of the pot. It is needed for stability.
9. Place a cardboard circle at the bottom of the pot. Check if it fits well with the bottom in size.
10. Move the black circle towards you and pass a thread along its entire edge.
11. Pull the thread, put holofiber inside.
12. Tighten the thread, secure the tie with several stitches and a knot. Using your fingers, form a rounded piece with a smooth spherical surface.
13. Take out the pot. Place a ball simulating soil into the pot. If it doesn't completely fill the space of the pot, take it out and put some synthetic litter in the bottom.
14. Place the soil in the pot and level it with your fingers so that it is evenly distributed across the top.
15. Take the green cactus elements. Fold them in twos, sew them together in pairs with an overcast stitch.
16. In the middle of the fastened parts, lay a vertical stitch, piercing the material right through with the needle.
17. Then sequentially attach all the cactus parts to each other, sewing their centers together.
18. Sew the main part of the cactus to the soil, capturing all sections of the base.
19. Make sure that the edges of the plant are distributed evenly over the surface of the ground (you can first pin them down with pins). Place the cactus and soil in a pot.
20. Take parts of the inflorescence and sew them to each other in the middle.
21. Cut the core strip on one side with scissors into small pieces. On the other side of the strip, do not cut to the edge.
22. Roll the strip into a roll.
23. Sew the core to the flower with hidden stitches.
24. Place the flower on the top of the cactus or anywhere else you want. Sew the inflorescence to the cactus.
25. Straighten the petals of the inflorescence and the edges of the cactus with your hands, giving them the desired shape.
