Pillow is a monkey. Pillow with your own hands for the New Year: patterns

If you like to do needlework, and now prepare for the holiday and are looking for ideas for an unusual gift, make a functional interior decoration. For example, a monkey-pillow with your own hands can be performed in several ways: quite simple and more complicated. Study the recommendations and try to make an original gift yourself.

Monkey pillow with your own hands made of cloth

Any pillow can combine functionality and be an element of decor. There are several options for making such a souvenir:

• A square or rectangular pillowcase is decorated with appliqué or embroidery in the form of an animal (realistic or cartoonish).

• A product that repeats the shape of a head with a flat or three-dimensional muzzle and sewn individually with ears.
• Also, a monkey-pillow with your own hands can be made in the shape of an animal figure entirely with paws and tail.

As you can see, there are several options. The first is the simplest, the last one will require more time and experience.

Tools and materials

To make a beautiful monkey-pillow, you need to prepare all the required materials with your own hands. You will need the following:

• Pattern or sample piece.
• Paper for patterns, pencil, eraser.
• Scissors.
• A fabric of suitable quality and shade (artificial fur, fleece, plush).
• Pins.
• Portnovsky chalk.
• Filler (sintepon, holofayber).
• Threads with a needle.
• Sewing machine.
• Additional details (plastic eyes, nose, satin ribbons, buttons, cloth for making clothes).

In a word, you need all that is required for sewing any three-dimensional decorative product.

Technology of work

Any monkey pillow with their own hands on the New Year or another holiday is carried out in a similar way, only the number of parts produced will be different, and the complexity of the work will increase. The sequence of product creation is as follows:

1. Find the finished pattern or build the details yourself on a graph paper or thin paper.
2. Cut out the details.
3. Lay the elements on the fabric from the wrong side and pin them with pins.
4. Circle outlines with chalk.
5. Make allowances on the seams, if they are not provided for in the pattern.
6. Cut out the details.
7. Fold the paired elements face down inside.
8. Fasten them with pins.
   
9. Sweep, and then stitch along the seam line, leaving a hole for eversion (do not short the seam in the ring).
10. Fasten the threads and unscrew the workpiece.
11. Fill with sintepon or holofayberom.
12. Gently sew the hole manually.
13. If the pillow consists of several parts (separate ears, tail, muzzle elements are provided), follow all the parts using the same technology. The holes for filling the workpieces should be left at the joints of the parts or near them to make the hand weld less noticeable.
14. Sew or glue the plastic eyes. If there are no ready, you can embroider them.
15. If desired, decorate the monkey with additional details, for example, a bright bow.

How to make a pattern

So, you've probably already decided what your monkey pillow will be. With your hands for the New Year, you can make such a souvenir as a ready-made template, or developed independently. Pattern in the first way is done like this:

1. Choose a suitable workpiece.
2. Print it on the right scale. If the sheet size is not enough for the whole part, print on several and glue.
3. Cut out all the elements and use for work.

If the printer is not at hand, and the pattern is needed urgently, you can redraw from the screen, and in the case where the shape of the parts is complex or a few, translate the contours onto the glass or transparent plastic marker and then onto the paper.

If the creative abilities in you are well developed and you want to create an exclusive thing, draw out how your pillow will look and then draw all the details.

Monkey pillow with your own hands: patterns

There are several pieces that you can use as templates or as options on the basis of which you will create your own. On the first blank, located below, you can make several types of pillows. The easiest to sew, if you merge part No. 1 and No. 2 (2 pieces) into one shape. In this case, you will need the following:

1. Cut out the head pattern with the ears from the paper.
2. Make from a fabric two identical preparations of a head with ears.
3. Before stitching elements, perform darts located at the top of the head.

Then everything is done according to the above technology.

The second, more complex option, can be done using more details:

1. Take the part number 1, number 2 and number 3.
2. Cut out two parts No. 1, four - No. 2, and one - No. 3.
3. Separately sew the ears from the pair of paired parts No. 2.
4. From part 3, make a muzzle of a lighter material than the base. Do not forget about the dash.
5. Sew the head from parts number 1. Sew the ears in the appropriate places.
6. Sew the workpiece from part number 3.
7. Make your eyes and decor according to the above technology.

According to the first template from this section, the most complex monkey pillow can be made by one's own hands. Patterns of parts will be required by all. In addition to the one mentioned in the previous method, you need to do the following:

1. Make two parts No. 4 (this will be the trunk).
2. Sew from the paired elements No. 5 and No. 6 palms and feet, respectively.
3. From parts No. 7 and No. 8, run the legs and handles.
4. Sew all the manufactured elements in series with each other.

Interesting templates

The next image shows one more workpiece. On it the body is executed as one with the head and ears, there is a detail of the tail. The muzzle and cap can be sewn from any bright fabric of a suitable shade.

If you do not want to dwell on simple products, use the next workpiece. This monkey is made in the form of a full-fledged soft toy. The pattern shows where to leave a hole to fill the mold, where to perform darts and how many details it will take.

How to sew a simple pillow

The easiest (for beginners) pillow-monkey with their own hands can be made of fleece. This material is pleasant to the touch, soft, and most importantly - it allows you to sew details even on the front side, since it does not crumble. The same is good felt.

Work like this:

1. Choose a simple pattern of the product, which will consist of two parts (squares, rectangles, circles, head with ears).
2. Cut out both parts according to the technology.
3. Fold the elements face down and stitch the decorative seam by hand or on the typewriter. Before closing the seam, fill the product with sintepon.
4. Cut out the details of the muzzle from the same fleece (you can have another shade) and sew them on the side of the pillow where there will be a "facade" or both if they are supposed to be the same.

Pillow-toy

Sewing a monkey pillow with your own hands is good and in the form of a full-fledged three-dimensional object. Especially interesting is the option for the child.

The product can be transformed from a toy into a pillow (folded into a flat shape due to detachable parts, made, for example, on Velcro). An interesting option is to make a pillow for the car, which is convenient for the kid on the road, and at home will play the role of a toy. Creating such a functional thing will require enough time and experience.

So, you learned how to make a monkey-pillow with your own hands in many ways. Such a souvenir will be especially pleasant for a child and, incidentally, not necessarily for the New Year.