For work, you need materials:
- dense white calico.
- sewing machine.
- scissors.
- acrylic paints.
- brushes for paints.
- filler for a souvenir.
- needle with a strong thread.
- black gel pen.
- a piece of brown cloth.
- medium size beads.
- thin cord.
- lighter.
- a pencil.
And we always start work with a drawing of a future product. We select the desired size, taking into account the fact that when filling the product will decrease by 0.5 cm from all sides. First, draw the silhouette of a mug with foam. Then, on one side of the side of the circle, draw the head of the fish, and on the other side there will be a tail. But it needs to be simplified to the shape of the handle from the mug. Then you can draw two eyes on one side of the head, like a flounder. We draw another funny mustache on both sides. And cut out this sketch.
We apply this template on a double folded fabric. It is also necessary to take into account that the elongation of the fabric is across the width of the toy. Up and down it should not reach. Then cut out with allowance for seam allowances.
And we sew along the contour, we leave only a segment on the tail for filling. Only 0.3 cm of fabric is left from the stitch line. And then gently twist through the tail and adjust all the corners of the product. Take any filler.
And you need to fill the whole toy, pushing into all corners. The fish should turn out plump.
Now you need to sew a piece for filling with a needle and thread.
We take a pencil and apply all the contours of the intended product. Do not forget about the second side, where we also draw everything.
Now we need a strong thread, because we begin to tighten the toy along the contours. Let's start with the beer foam. We pass along the wavy line. We introduce the needle, on the one hand, and try to output it on the other side in the same area. We make small stitches and slightly tighten the thread. When the line is sewn, we will make several recesses-points along the foam itself. Then go to the stripes of the mug. And then a small detail remains inside the pen. The fish turns out to be a little flat. And in the upper part of the toy we will make a small loop of thread for hanging to dry.
Now we turn to acrylic paints. Take white and brush it on the foam.
When it dries, we need brown paint. But with it we will apply only strips along the lines of the seams, painting the threads and slightly shading the contours of the applied paint on both sides. You also need to paint over the outer contour of the entire toy. Do not forget to do this from two sides. And give time to dry completely.
When the fish is ready, we begin with a gel pen to draw contours on the head. We outline the eyes and nose, then the mustache. From the back on the head we outline a little scale. We pass to the tail and draw characteristic lines also from two sides. Then we outline the iris with white paint and dry it. On the foam, we also darken the recesses, perhaps it will be more interesting in beige.
From the back, the fish is also beautiful.
Now go to the decoration. From brown fabric, we cut strips 1 cm wide and the size of the circles above and below, taking into account a small hem. Using a lighter, we process the edges of the strips, and we have 4 of them.
We need to sew these strips to the mug, we will use 8 beads of medium size, suitable color. Take the first strip, make a small hem of the fabric inside out. We fix the needle and thread and put it on the front side. And we do stitches along the edges of the strips as when pulling together.
We get two strips on both sides. With the black pen we put the pupils of the fish.
All that remains is to replace the thin thread on the foam with a beautiful cord and attach the beads to the joints of the strips. The fish is ready for beer. You can use a souvenir or pendant.
Good luck to all!
