Do you like to make souvenirs yourself? A very interesting gift is a coffee lamb. With your hands make it easy, the materials used are available. The product is original in that it exudes a pleasant aroma.
Coffee lambs (goats) with their own hands
Эти животные являются символом года, поэтому can be executed as a New Year's souvenir or presented on the name day to the person who was born in the corresponding year. In addition, for those born under the sign of Aries, you can also present a pretty merry lamb.
The meaning of coffee toys is that they have a characteristic color and aroma. To make such a souvenir in two ways:
- Sew a three-dimensional white fabric soft toy that will be pre-processed in a decoction of coffee;
- To make a souvenir (in the form of a relief or a three-dimensional object) by sticking coffee beans on the prepared frame.
Both methods are simple to implement, but traditionally coffee is a toy that is stitched products that resemble old toys from grandma's chest, so they are also called "garret".
Materials and Tools
You should have a beautiful and neat coffee lamb. It’s easy to do with your own hands, but take care to prepare everything you need in advance. You will need the following:
- Cotton fabric (calico, chintz) white.
- Whole bean coffee.
- Pattern or paper to create it .;
- Pencil, Eraser.
- A piece of chalk.
- Scissors.
- Pins.
- Needle with thread.
- Sewing machine.
- Filler (holofiber or other material).
- PVA glue.
- Acrylic paints.
Если будете делать сувенир, обклеивая поверхность The basis of coffee beans, the fabric is not required, but for the application of glue is better to use a heat gun. You will also need a cardboard for the manufacture of the frame.
Fabric dyeing
So, you have prepared everything to getBeautiful soft toy - coffee lamb. It is easy to sew the product with your own hands. Dye fabric at home is also easy. It is better to give the desired shade before cutting out the details, but it is possible and after. However, it is better to paint the fabric, rather than the finished toy. This will allow for more accurate operation to prevent wrinkles during dyeing and drying. Otherwise, the color will be uneven, there will be spots.
So, for coloring is needed:
- Heat-resistant capacity.
- Spatula for stirring.
- Coffee beans (you can use instant and even add tea brew).
- White fabric.
Fabric dyeing technology
The sequence of work is as follows:
- Heat water in a scoop.
- Put in a cup of coffee, tea.
- Boil the composition.
- Strain, otherwise there will definitely be spots on the fabric.
- Put the material in the filtered solution and bake it.
- If you are satisfied with the resulting shade, remove the fabric from the solution and place on a flat surface to dry. You can use the iron, ironed through a rag.
Technology of making coffee toys
So, you dyed the fabric, dried it and ironed it. The material is ready for use. The technology of making toys is as follows:
- Draw a pattern on paper or print a pattern.
- Cut out all the details.
- Spread the items on the fabric and pin with pins. The same parts are best performed on folded matter twice. The flap should be on the wrong side to you.
- Circuit the parts in chalk along the contour. Allow for seams.
- Cut elements. Usually, simple patterns are used for coffee toys, when the product is made of only two parts.
- Fold the cut blanks face up inside.
- Flip through manually, and then stitch the seam on the machine, leaving a hole for turning out.
- Remove the product and fill with padding polyester.
- Sew a hole by hand on the front side.
- Cover with PVA glue those areas of the toy on which you will paint with acrylics (face, tummy);
- Wait until the layer dries out;
- Brush the necessary details.
All is ready. If desired, you can make a suspension of satin ribbons or decorative cord. This loop is better placed in the seam.
Similar technology will be implemented andcoffee sheep magnets do it yourself. In this case, the toy should be made small, and after manufacturing, a magnet should be glued to the back of the toy. But you can use another method described in the next section.
Lamb magnet made of coffee beans with your own hands
A fragrant souvenir can be made using another technology, in the form of a flat and volumetric product, on the surface of which coffee beans are pasted, following the example of a coffee topiariya.
- Draw on the cardboard the shape of an animal or only the body, if your sheep will consist of separate elements;
- Apply glue with a brush (if PVA) orheat gun and apply, pressing to the surface, coffee beans. You can glue on a spiral, if the body is made in the shape of a circle (oval) or in rows;
- Perform the remaining parts in any technique, for example, draw.
- Glue a magnet to the back of the souvenir.
The product is ready.
Lamb of coffee beans with their own hands in the formthe magnet can be made in the form of a volumetric animal, on the basis of a ball, for example. Manufacturing technology will not differ, only to glue the grains will have not a flat plane, but a complex surface. Do not forget to provide the part where the magnet is attached. If a foam ball is used as a base, it is better to cut a part on the back of the product in the form of a square or rectangle so that the magnet adheres firmly and qualitatively.
So, a coffee lamb with your own hands can be made in several ways. Choose what suits you best and what will be easier to do: sew or make coffee beans.
