Handmade articles of fabric: ideas for children and beginners (117 photos)

One of the most fascinating types of needlework - handicrafts from scraps and remnants of fabric. Handmade "Tilda" dolls, souvenirs from denim fabric, bags, mats, plaids and blankets in patchwork style, as well as decorative patches for stylish clothes.

The simple and affordable ways to combine materials and the quick-edging techniques shown in the post are easy to put into practice.

What materials and tools do we need?

In any home, you can find a large amount of unnecessary scraps suitable for fabric crafts for children. This type of needlework activates brain activity and concentration, develops fine motor skills.

Unlike paper, the patchwork is a more complex material for needlework. Its edges must be properly processed, seams must be even and neat.

Useful tip: If this is the first time that a child is holding a needle in his hands, offer as a first experience to carefully sew on the buttons of a soft toy. This too is an important part of the learning process, including boys, the experience will come in handy for a lifetime. He should be able to thread the needle, make a knot, hide it on the wrong side of the product and secure the end of the work.

To make any fabric crafts for children, you will need simple sewing supplies:

• a set of needles (in a needle holder);
• bobbin thread of different shades;
• small scissors with sharp ends;
• cotton or synthetic wool for stuffing stuffed toys and crafts;
• Pieces of fabric (preferably not very high density, but so that the edges do not crumble).

Sewing skills are learned over the years, so it is better to start with the simplest. This figure cutting on templates, mastering the basic types of stitches. Pre-explain to the child safety rules - how to work with scissors and a needle.

No matter how much fabric, it is important to teach your child to cut sparingly, laying out templates. Many children tend to cut in the center of the fabric, even if it is old curtains.

Fabric craft ideas for beginners

Small fabric crafts for beginners are good practice for those who want to learn to sew competently and beautifully.

Many famous designers have confessed that when they were children they started with clothes for dolls, for example, for their little sister. Even boys are sometimes passionate about maternizing makeup or a tack for their mother, as in the example in the photo.

Decorative patches from non-drying materials can easily be mastered by beginners. Hearts, smiley faces and cute faces made of felt, leather or suede will help you restore children's things, giving them new meaning.

Embroidering the edges of napkins by hand is a laborious task. It is a little more interesting to make sock cloths and napkins from natural fabric with fringed edges.

By removing 8-10 threads along the edge of a chintz or linen square, they design an original product from which you can even make a doll amulet.

Useful tip! It is worth decorating a homemade handkerchief with a fringed edge with a small embroidery. The initials on one corner of the napkin will turn an ordinary product into a nice name gift.

Teach your little girl how to make neat straight stitches - soon she'll be sewing like a professional seamstress. Toys and clothes for Barbie are great practice for the little dressmaker.

Handicrafts in patchwork style

Original products from fabric with their own hands with the laying out of the pattern - a traditional way of working in patchwork style. The aesthetics of a patchwork quilt or bedspread for a baby's crib with their own hands depends largely on the layout of patchwork and the neatness of sewing.

"Top flight" - mats and rugs in the form of paintings, laid out of different materials. In this case, each fragment has its own shape, symmetry is not as important as the overall pattern.

Patchwork crafts for the home

Decor from colored pieces is the easiest way to update the interior.

Patchwork for the kitchen is a good practice for sewing small items of fabric. They can have any meaning, such as cute animal faces, flowers or fruit.

Children's room can be decorated with a themed collection in the form of sweets. All made of fabric with their own hands:

• ice cream cone;
• cupcake;
• chupa-chups;
• candy;
• candy bar.

Important! Children's "edible" decor is suitable only for those children who are no longer pulling everything in their mouths. If the child is prone to fullness, has an excellent appetite, from such decor it is better to give up.

Homemade dolls and fun soft toys in small formats are easy to sew, but you need a pattern and some sewing experience.

Varying the clothing and emotional mood of toy "faces," it is easy to create a whole collection. It will take a worthy place on a shelf or in a glass display case.

Developmental crafts from fabric with children

When a child has no experience in sewing products from fabric with their own hands, it is important to interest in an attractive design and a simple way of execution.

If something does not work out, an adult should help - show how this or that stitch is performed. It is better to start with the simplest - to show how to make a pattern, for example, for a stuffed toy.

A flat toy stuffed with absorbent cotton or synthetics is the simplest example of needlework, where children are able to do most of the work themselves. Ready-made halves of a Cat, Doggy, Reindeer or Teddy Bear, adults should help a child to perform, showing the basics.

The toy, stitched along the edge with a contrasting stitch, will simplify and speed up the work - sewing and piping are done simultaneously. All that's left is to decorate the face.

Useful tip: Purchase a haberdashery store "running eyes," this will enliven any craft in the form of an animal.

For the advanced level - developmental books and mats and for children, made by the hands of adults. For example, a doll book with pockets that contain the necessary items for daily use.

When a child uses items for washing, feeding and dressing the doll, he develops himself.

Fabric crafts for children

Some of the most practical are handmade soft toys used as sofa cushions. Excellent decor for the children's room.

Many elements can be instructed to do it yourself, for example. For example, he himself will be able to synthepe rays for the Sunny, ears for the Bunny or horns for the Reindeer.

felt figurines of animals is very easy to perform with children, especially if there are patterns and clear descriptions of the work. Today you can learn any technique from scratch, using the free video master classes.

In the photo - the best examples of what to make from fabric with their own hands together with a child.

Jeans fabric crafts

Junk jeans are the best way to make toys and crafts without the cost of buying fabric. "Jeans" comes in different densities, summer and winter, it combines well with other fabrics. The main value is the natural eco-friendly basis of this material.

Important! Masters recommend to take not a very stiff fabric, combining with other fabrics of the same density or slightly softer. Then the crafts from denim will look very effective. Very thick or dense denim, which hardly stitch household machines, suitable only for furniture covers.

Practical bags made from old jeans are a fashion accessory that you can help pattern for your teenage daughter. Original applique will make the bag exclusive.

Practical sofa cushion pillowcases and denim rollers are another way to fit mountains of unwanted pants that have been piling up for years.

These pillowcases are provided with a zipper for ease of use. It will decorate the cottage or country house. Unusual decor - all the same appliques, as well as ruffles of other natural material.

New life of old things

Zealous owners do not waste anything, many materials are reused. They are easy to use, working in one of the techniques.

It is most convenient to work with materials that do not need to work the edges. For example, you can make slippers, bags, gloves, coasters for hot cups, and many other useful things.

Depending on the properties of the craft, use materials that do not require processing:

• thin felt;
• lace cloth;
• lining fleece;
• overcoat cloth;
• artificial suede;
• imitation leather.

Original handicrafts made of scraps of fabric of the same format can easily be cut, folded and assembled from the same fragments or lay out according to the type of modular origami:

1. A beautiful purse made of petals in the form of a flower.
2. Volumetric balloons for interior decoration.
3. Pouf-pillow with a cover made of colored flap.
4. New Year's decorations by our own hands from the remnants of velvet, brocade, kapron and satin.

A more advanced level - miniature toys in random execution or in the Japanese tradition. They are made in a combined technique, using knitting, sewing and making faces from salt dough.

Motanka is a traditional Slavic amulet made of fabric and braid placed on the face in a cross.

New Year's crafts from fabric

The most interesting theme for updating interior decor is the holidays. Every year they honor some animal according to the oriental calendar. Their fabrics can be constructed with your own hands a cute face - a symbol of the year:

1. An example for the year of the Dog.
2. The Year of the Cow or the Year of the Bull.
3. The Year of the Sheep.

Today, many people refuse to cut down Christmas trees for the sake of a few days of Celebration. The New Year's beauty is replaced with artificial products. Spheres, snowflakes, garlands and other decorations on the tree are easy to make with their own hands:

1. Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden in the "Tilda doll" technique.
2. New Year's balls of fabric. They can be wrapped with satin ribbons or embroidered with beads and sequins.
3. The garland with their own hands.
4. Christmas Angel from a fringed napkin.
5. Beaded embroidered Christmas trees are great "exchange" gifts for office colleagues.

As you can see from the many samples in the photo, fabric crafts for beginners and skilled craftswomen are a great way to give a second life to the colored flap and remnants of beautiful fabric.

This is an endless topic for implementing good ideas, from quite practical interior items, ending with Christmas toys that will please your loved ones and guests for just a few days.

Photo of easy fabric crafts