TOY HAMSTER

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Hello dear readers. In this article, we will tell you how to make a toy hamster with our own hands, which will look like a real hamster - a repeater. Despite the fact that instead of a special mechanism inside this toy will have an ordinary squeaker, this cute hamster will be able to please children well or simply decorate the room:

For the manufacture of this toy will need such materials and tools:
- Paper for making a sample (paper from ordinary notebooks is suitable);
- Marker, pencil;
- Ruler, eraser;
- Filler (cotton wool) and tweezers;
- Fabric with a light brown fur;
- White fleecy fabric;
- Beige fabric (suitable leather);
- scissors, needle;
- Threads of white or light brown color;
- Needles for stabbing;
- Eyes for toys;
- Tweeter.
Getting started, we must first draw on paper samples of the individual parts for the preparation of crafts and cut them out. Each of the parts should be marked and written on each of them, where there are upper, lower and left on the right side. In order not to lose the cut out samples and see how the craft made from them would look like, we decided to glue all the samples using adhesive tape:

In the resulting figure, we designated the areas on the face, in which there should be eyes, ears, paws and tail. At first, we wanted to make a mouth, and so we drew it on a sample:

So the resulting figure looks on the other (left) side:

Next, we need to take a marker and draw lines on this figure, dividing it into separate parts, along which we will cut out the details from the fabric:

Now we take the white fabric and cut out the bow of the three figures from the paper figure (two cheeks with a chin), and then we cut off the part of the chest (i.e., we cut out the details that the article will have to be white):

Next, from this fabric we need to cut these parts with a small area of allowance (about 0.5 cm.) And connect them together with seams:

After that, we take out the light brown fur fabric and cut out the frontal part with the sides and nose from the paper figure along with the occipital part and the crown, and we pin these details to the fabric:

From beige leather fabric, we cut out a small detail of the nose and sew it to the three white details:

So all the parts sewn together look on the wrong side:

Now we need to connect these details with seams with the “frontal” part of light brown color:

Next, we take one pair of toy eyes and cut out two details of the ears from beige leather. These details can be done by cutting out a small round shape from the fabric and cutting it in half. We took leather beige fabric and brown fur fabric from old boots that were not suitable for wearing; our beige fabric has two layers joined together: a layer of brown and a layer of beige fabric that can be separated. But now, in the manufacture of the ears, these two layers need not be separated so that the finished parts of the ears are stronger:

Now we glue the eyes over our white "cheeks" to our craft and sew the ears, folding their parts in half. You can take on the sewing on the back of the head:

When the details of the ears and the nape with the crown are sewn, three parts of the body will need to be cut from the light brown fur fabric: two side and one back detail:

These three details need to be sewn to our craft, connecting their sides with a white "brisket", and then fill the resulting craft with cotton.
At first, after sewing on, a toy not filled with cotton wool looked ugly and seemed too distorted. But when filled with cotton, her appearance suddenly changed for the better and she became more like those toys that are sold in stores.
Also, when filling with cotton, we prepared a squeaker, which we must put inside:

Having brought the squeaker inside the toy and filling it with cotton, we will have to sew to it the bottom of a round piece cut out of fur fabric according to the model:

We sew each part manually, without using a sewing machine:

After that, we set about making paws. From light brown and beige fabrics, we cut in pairs two such details:

We turn each of these parts with the wrong side out and sew them, leaving a small free space so that the finished parts can be turned out of the wrong side and filled with cotton:

Having sewed the parts, with the help of tweezers we turn them out of the wrong side and fill them with cotton:

Next, we need to sew both parts together. In the same way we make the second foot:

After that, we cut two pieces of beige fabric from the beige fabric to make the lower paws and make seams on them. From a large circular figure, folded twice (into a triangle), we make a part of the tail:

We need to turn out the sewn-up parts of the paws from the inside and fill them with cotton wool, then sew up the holes through which the filler was introduced. After that, the legs will be ready and they can be sewn to the toy:

We sew the tail detail on the back:

After that, everything - our handmade hamster toy is ready:

In the photo below to her left is a second toy - a hamster, but from the factory, a real hamster is a repeat. However, a do-it-yourself hamster seems a little more beautiful here: