Felt Yoda

Sometimes I receive requests about felt toys that must look like a famous character of a movie or cartoon. Recently I received one like that and I had to find solution about how to make Yoda out of pressed felt. 

I'm now uploading the template that I made and picture of the toy that I made.

Felt Yoda template

In order to make Yoda form felt you will have to follow few simple steps:

1. Cut out the shapes that you can see on the Felt Yoda template (the body by default is green and the clothes are brown, but you can choose other colors of course)

2. The lines of the face you can make by embroidering them with a bit darker green yarn

3. Cut out and stitch the eyes.

4. Stitch the front and the back part to one another using the simple blanket stitch (you can see how to do it here: http://feltideas.blogspot.com/p/felt-boxes.html)

5. Stitch the clothes using the same stitching method 

6. Add any other accessories that you like

Felt Yoda

 

Felt toys for Christmas

Felt toys for Christmas

Felt is great material for craft projects espacially in the winter. The materialitself gives the sense of warmness and cosiness, as it is made from wool. There are a lot of DIY projects around the net about how to make unique decoration for the most of the holydays, all by yourself.

I warmly recommend the projects for Christmas ornaments. These are easy to do and will give uniqueness to the Christmas decoration. You can use simple shapes and use your imagination to make them special. For example you can cut out the shape of a Christmas tree from  pressed felt about 3 mm thick and use different ways in order to make it colorful and pretty. One option is to the cut the same shape and connect them with simple stitch, or may be if you feel like you can make some embroidery that will give style to your Christmas project. Another option is to use the needle felting technique in order to make shapes or add another color to your ornament.

Christmas felt ornament

All you have to do is to cut 2 identical shapes from pressed felt. Don’t forget that the decoration of the two sides is best to make before you will connect the two parts. You can choose to use embroidery, stitch another piece(s) of pressed felt, stick or sew beads or other decorative objects, or use needle felting technique. After finishing with the decoration of the two shapes stitch them to one another, preferably using the blanket stitch and don’t forget to fill your new toy-ornament with cotton.

Cristmas felt ornament

I prefer to use only stitching and no glue, even it’s much slower, for my point of view, the results are prettier.