Felting wool Toy “Dog” with your own hands. Master class with step-by-step photos. A dog made of wool How to felt a dog out of wool

Let's make the dog look like a spaniel.
We begin to felt the dog from the head.
We make a ball from white wool.

After this, we need to felt this oblong shape.


At the end we leave the wool untouched. We will use it to attach the part to the head.
We roll this part onto the ball.


We work through the entire head with a needle so that the joints are not visible. If necessary, add a little white wool to hide the joints. You need to felt it tightly.


We outline the cheeks and the line of the mouth. We don’t outline the nose; we’ll glue it on ready-made.


For now, we put the head aside and move on to the body.
The dog's body should be slightly curved.


After all, the dog will sit.


Where the neck is, we leave the wool unfelted.
Now we move on to felting the hind legs.
First we roll the ball. And we need to flatten it slightly.


We try on the ball to the body so as not to make the foot too big or small.


We felt a piece similar to the one we felted for the muzzle.


And roll it onto the ball as shown in the photo.


This is what the back leg looks like.


We roll it over the dog's body.


Similar to the second case.


Now we make a sausage from white wool. And we make the front leg.
Poke with a needle to get a bend at the bottom.


We fold the paw to the body.

Let's move on to the next detail. The tail will be felted from black wool.
We leave the wool unfelted at the top.


We roll the tail to the body. And use unfelted wool to paint the back of the dog.

Next we make ears from black wool. They should be teardrop-shaped.


We roll them to the dog's head.


We paint the back of the head with black wool.


And in front we also add black fur in place of the eyes, leaving the forehead white.


We bring the head to the body and shape the muzzle.
Glue the nose with transparent glue. We make eyebrows and eyes from brown wool. You also need to make pupils in the middle of the eyes. We make them from a small piece of black wool. Once again we go over the entire toy with a needle and cut off the protruding hairs with scissors.

Our master class will tell you how to make a wool belt with your own hands. A belt or belt is necessary for a person. They are needed to maintain clothing on the body, to decorate it, and to complement the ensemble. This is a necessary and important element. Belts and sashes are available for men, women, and children. There are many types and purposes of belts. Our task today is to make a healing belt.

We will need:

1. Dog or cat hair - at least 50 grams.
2. Textile.
3. Elastic band (6-7 cm).
4. Elastic band 50-60 cm long.
5. Velcro 20 cm.

The dog's fur has a special structure and is endowed with healing properties. Wool products improve blood circulation and warm your back well. The belt can seriously help with rheumatism or when you have a serious cold in your back. We spread the wool onto the film.

First row. We lay the wool on the cellophane from right to left with a slight overlap.

The second row is the opposite - from left to right, also overlapping. The third row is applied like the first. The fourth is like the second. The result is a pie about 35/80 cm.

Next, prepare a soap solution. Plane the soap and dissolve it in hot water. The soap should be the simplest, without glycerin and additives. It is more convenient to pour the resulting solution into a spray bottle, but you can also simply pour it into a jar. Wet the wool with a hot soapy solution until our “pie” becomes thinner. It is very important not to damage the layers! Otherwise, felting may not work.

We turn it over, wind it again and continue rolling.

The size has decreased - don’t be alarmed, this is how it should be. The next stage is washing. Rinse with hot water in a basin. It is better to do this with conditioner to remove the dog smell. There is a lot of waste during washing.

Let the water drain. Dry the resulting felt, but not on the radiator. Better in the sun or outside. Steam with an iron, which will give the wool greater density. Comb gently with a slicker brush to remove any prickly guard hairs. Next, take scissors and cut off the excess.

You can leave the belt as is, just sew on a couple of straps and wear it, but we’ll make it more comfortable.

In the future we will need a sewing machine, but you can sew it by hand. The dimensions turned out to be 20/60 cm. We adjust it to suit you or the person for whom you made the belt. The work is done.

Many of us have dogs that we brush from time to time. Those who do not throw away combed dog hair are doing more than wisely. You can use it to make a dog hair belt with your own hands.

It's not difficult at all and quite fast. Felting one product takes about an hour with all the preparatory steps. After drying, all that remains is to sew the fabric and attach the fasteners.

However, it should be noted that only hair that has been combed from a dog will mat well. The sheared one cannot be felted, no matter how hard you try.

Our task is to obtain a very dense felt blank, to which you can sew ribbons or attach fasteners for ease of use.

We will now tell you how to felt a dog hair belt with your own hands with a photo and description of the felting process based on personal experience.

What are the benefits of dog hair?

Dog hair has a healing effect on the human body. Both our grandfathers and our grandfathers’ grandfathers knew about this. It is used to treat radiculitis, osteochondrosis, arthrosis and arthritis, and various muscle pains. Colds and kidney diseases, pain in the knees and wrists can also be treated with dog hair.

A felt bandage made from dog hair soaked in a saline solution, dries on the body, helps get rid of bronchitis cough, relieves inflammation in the cervical region, knees and elbows.

The more prickly the belt or bandage is, the more effective its therapeutic effect. Of all the products, a belt made of dog hair is the most famous and popular means of getting rid of all kinds of pain in the back, knees, and neck.

In addition, combed dog hair can be spun and knitted into socks, mittens, sweaters and vests. Even a small amount of dog hair can be used to felt or (will help get rid of headaches) knee pads and cuffs for wrists and ankles. Needless to say, everything that you can make with your own hands from dog hair is extremely useful. Throwing away combed dog hair is a sin.

On a note

Felted dog insoles perfectly warm your feet and prevent them from sweating. If you put such insoles in house slippers and walk barefoot in them, then calluses on the soles will go away quite quickly. Even very old ones.

How to quickly and easily felt dog hair

First, prepare everything you might need:

• combed dog hair (we had more than half a store bag)
• film (best of all, bubble wrap, which is used for packaging electronics), but if this is not available, you can take a mosquito net or, as in our case, plastic vegetable packaging from the supermarket;
• a bowl for hot soapy water;
• laundry soap (only the simplest one will do, without any fragrances or softening additives);
  a grater on which this soap will need to be cut;
• a wooden rolling pin for dough or any wooden stick (even a shovel handle, only shortened);
• spray bottle for spraying.

Wet felting

First, we take a piece of film with a margin of approximately 15 cm on each side of the expected belt size. This is necessary so that you can tuck the edges of the dog hair “layer cake” (this will create a smoother rectangular shape, and you will not need to cut off precious pieces of the felt mat).

Now we take the dog’s hair itself and begin to “ruffle” it. We will do this with our hands, but carefully. How to do it? Rinse and gut a small ball of dog hair until fine and fluffy.

With such scraps we lay out the entire first layer of the workpiece in one direction. We put our disheveled scraps so that they overlap one another. This way we avoid bald spots and voids in the rug.

The next step is to apply a second layer, but in the opposite direction. We do not allow omissions and do not forget about overlaps. So we lay at least 4 layers. If it is possible and there is a lot of raw material available, more layers are possible.

The felt will be denser and stronger. The result was a fluffy “layer cake” of scraps of dog hair stacked one on top of the other.

Now we need to thoroughly moisten all this with hot soapy water. Why hot? Hot water straightens the hairs, and the soap solution helps them adhere to each other into a dense mass.

Attention

This is the most crucial moment. Wetting from a spray bottle is not quick, but it is reliable. Pieces of wool will not move anywhere, voids or lumps will not form. But you need to take into account that dog hair doesn’t get wet well, so you can water it by hand, trying not to knock a single piece out of its place.

When everything is properly wet and the workpiece has become twice as thin as our fluffy original rug, you can pour a bolder soap solution. But not in a stream or stream. Its density and durability will depend on how well our entire future belt made of dog hair gets wet.

In our case, the mesh allowed soapy water to spill through the top. On the one hand, this is good and convenient, on the other hand, bubble wrap, although it prevents the wool from getting wet, makes it possible to felt the wool very tightly. You have to remove the top film and very carefully wet the unprotected rug.

Tuck the edges of the bottom film inward (we had a rather stiff mesh, so there were problems with tucking). Now you can cover the wet and settled mat with a second film or mesh. We carefully but very tightly roll the resulting film pancake onto a rolling pin (it is most convenient for our purpose).

To prevent this whole structure from unwinding and falling apart during the process of felting wool, we will secure our “sausage” with a rope in a spiral or with hair elastic bands along the entire length. We will hit and roll this whole thing, so we need reliable fixation.

Since we are making a dog hair belt with our own hands, we cannot allow valuable raw materials to go to waste. We tie it tightly, without tightening it, so that the whole structure can be pounded without fear and, at the same time, without tearing the wet felt. We want to end up with a belt that is tight, durable and free of torn holes.

Well, now it’s time for the mechanical part of the work. We take a rolling pin with a workpiece wound around it and begin to squeeze it with our hands, roll it and tap it on all sides on the table or, as in our case, on a bed of wooden balls. If it’s not there, it doesn’t matter - on a flat surface, preferably wooden, it turns out no worse. So we roll and knock for 15-20 minutes.

Attention

We tap on all sides more than we roll. This way there is less risk of deforming the workpiece.

Then we carefully unwind and see what we got. If bald spots appear or something has moved, we correct it. Place scraps of wool on the voids and moisten them generously with more soapy water.

We wrap the bottom film together with the edges of the wet workpiece to make a product of the correct shape, again lay the film on top and roll everything back onto the rolling pin. We knead, tap and roll for another 20 minutes, or even half an hour.

The density of the felt, and, consequently, the quality of the future dog hair belt, which we are now making with our own hands, will depend on how long and how diligently you subject the workpiece to mechanical stress.

Now you can rinse the “sausage” under running water. We do this without unwinding or unfolding the workpiece.

Next, you need to untie everything, lay out the resulting felt mat on a flat surface, remove the top film and wash it again with soapy water. If you did everything as it should, the resulting thick felt mat can even be carefully rinsed.

Drying the felt blank

Dry it flat on a towel, just as we usually dry knitted items. You cannot throw it on a rope or attach it to a battery. Felt is easily deformed, and you will end up with a crooked, unusable product.

On a note

We dry it only well, and use only natural drying conditions: in the air or in the sun.

The most important part of the dog hair belt, when dry, will be a dense mat, approximately the width of the back or slightly longer.

Making a belt from dog hair - fabric, fasteners

Note that a belt made of dog hair works best when it is put on a naked body with the felted side to the skin. The fabric is needed only so that the belt will serve us longer and fit more comfortably on the figure.

It is best to cut out a shape that is comfortable for the back from our blank, cover one side with fabric for strength and sew on fasteners. Practice shows that it is most convenient for a belt made of dog hair, felted with your own hands, to have a Velcro fastener. They are the easiest to make and they will not be overly bulky, which means they will not interfere with walking in a medical belt.

There is no need to throw away the leftovers. They can be sewn onto a strip of fabric and used as a therapeutic bandage for any sore spot. You just need to secure it so that it stays in place. You can make a knee pad or a narrow headband. Figure out how to put the leftovers to good use.

It will take very little time to make a belt made of dog hair with your own hands, but you will not need to spend money on a purchased belt, which, moreover, is neither dense nor thick. As a rule, this is an almost translucent thin layer: short-lived and ineffective. May dog ​​belt sellers forgive me!

It was this fact that made me look for my own answer to the question of how to felt a dog hair belt with my own hands. Moreover, there were always dogs living in the house and a lot of hair had accumulated from them.

Everyone is happy with the result. Now three family members have their own back treatment belts. All that remains is to decide who will take a belt from, and who will get a belt from the wool of Zlata or Risa.

In general, felting wool is a quite exciting and interesting process that both adults and children can do. To purchase the necessary material and tools, you will not need a lot of effort and time, since any handicraft store has such devices. In addition, it is worth paying attention to the fact that a special needle is used for felting, and several sizes with different sections and sizes are required for 1 work.

Felting decorative dogs is quite possible at home, since the process is not complicated, but it will require patience and perseverance. It is worth noting that felting, which uses a washing machine, is now very popular.

This type of felting is recognized as the simplest and easiest and perfect for beginners.

The product will require a dense mold, which will be used for deboning. It is wrapped in wool and placed in a golf course made of nylon fabric.

Master Class:

1. The blank of the future toy part is placed in a pre-prepared nylon bag and sent to the washing machine.
2. A detergent for washing woolen items is poured into the desired compartment.
3. The washing mode is set without soaking and without drying.
4. The temperature should be selected at 40-50 ᵒC.

After the washing is completed, you can take out the finished, felted parts. It is advisable to remove the parts as carefully as possible so as not to damage the integrity. After this, each part is assembled into a single toy.

Wet felting from dog hair for beginners: instructions

Wet felting is a little more complicated than the previous method, but no less popular. In this case, wet felting is carried out from dog hair using gauze and soap solution.

The material is laid out on the surface of the gauze according to a pre-prepared pattern.

To make a soap solution, you need to grind pieces of soap into shavings, preferably a couple of pieces. Next, the mixture is poured with boiling water (2 l). Everything is thoroughly mixed and left for 2 hours until completely thickened. After this, you can begin working with dog hair, the master class of which is very simple and you do not need to attend lengthy felting lessons to achieve mastery.

Instructions:

1. An oilcloth is spread on the surface of the table.
2. Gauze is placed.
3. It is necessary to lay the base, then the background and ornament of the future drawing.
4. The threads need to be laid out in crosses and stripes. In this case, you should ensure that there are no holes in the canvas, and that the material is laid perpendicularly. The thickness of the entire canvas should be perfectly even.

After the process of laying out the material is completed and compliance with the intended scheme is checked, you need to sprinkle it with water. Next, the canvas is covered with nylon material and coated with a soap solution. Excess liquid is removed with a napkin. Next, you need to gradually and not sharply rub the canvas by hand, now the workpiece with plastic wrap. Thus, the material gradually falls down and a single canvas with a pattern, for example, a dog, is obtained.

Dry felting a dog: stages

A dog using the dry felting technique is an equally simple option for beginners. To complete the work, you will need to prepare unspun wool, as well as needles that have special notches.

The peculiarity of dry felting is the tangling of wool fibers with each other, due to which they are gradually transformed into felt.

This felting is carried out by using a needle with a triangular or star-shaped cross-section. After preparing the wool, corners and a piece of foam rubber, you can proceed to practice. The material is placed on foam rubber and begins to tangle with needles. The base of the crafts can be made of padding polyester, which is covered with wool on top.

Nuances:

1. When working with a needle, you need to be as careful as possible so as not to get hurt or break the tip.
2. The needle should be held perpendicular to the foam.
3. In the process of forming any felt crafts, the thickest needle is initially taken, which is gradually replaced by thinner ones.

If there are flaws on the item, they are smoothed out by using an additional, but small amount of sulfur.

Master class on felting a dog from wool

To make a dog felting, you will need wool, a needle, a sponge, scissors, glue, and a toy spout. In this case, a spaniel dog will be made. Felting starts from the head. Take white wool to felt the ball. Next, the oblong part falls down, so that on one side it remains intact.

Due to the unused end, the body and head are connected. The entire head is worked out with a needle to eliminate the appearance of joints. If necessary, you can add some wool. Felting is carried out as tightly as possible. The line of the cheeks and mouth is outlined. The nose does not need to be marked as it will be glued.

The dog's body should bend slightly as it will be in a sitting position. To felt the hind legs, you first need to make a ball, and then give it a flattened appearance. The balls are tried on the body to see if they are the right size. Both parts are prepared and pressed onto the body. Thus, 2 hind legs are made.

Similarly, you need to make 2 front legs and place them on the body. For making a ponytail? Black wool is suitable. Likewise, the top part is left uncovered to attach the tail to the dog's body. Black wool will also be needed for the ears, which should have a teardrop shape. They are installed on the dog's head. The back surface of the head is decorated with black wool.

The eyes are formed with exactly the same material, and the forehead should remain white. The nose is installed in its rightful place using transparent glue. For eyebrows, brown wool is suitable. Don't forget about the pupils of the eyes. Next, to complete the work, you need to go over the entire surface of the product with a needle to eliminate hairs and defects. If necessary? Too long and unnecessary hairs are cut off with scissors.

Felting a dog from wool (video)

Such creativity can attract both children and their parents, as it develops motor skills, logical thinking and spatial perception. Creating original toys with your own hands? can I use them? both for home decoration and as gifts for loved ones.