Do you ever have a day the place you may use a rainbow? Me too. As an alternative of ready for one, make your personal! And on this case, you possibly can hand sew your rainbow and provides it a cute face too.
Together with being a enjoyable approach to make a smiling rainbow, it is also a bonus sample that goes together with the August Sew Squad field! For those who’ve by no means heard about Sew Squad, it is a new subsription field for artful youngsters and tweens. And I had the privilege of desgining these climate stuffies!
Contained in the field it has every part it’s worthwhile to make them, plus a bunch extra tremendous cute stuff. There’s nonetheless time to get this field, however it’s going to change to the following one (with a brand new craft method) quickly.
BUT, when you’ve got the Climate Stuffie field, you may simply wish to add to the cloud, lightning, and raindrop so that you even have a rainbow. And also you in all probability have nearly every part it’s worthwhile to make this bonus sample.
Relying on how you narrow the fleece the comes within the field, it’s best to have sufficient white, aqua, and yellow to make the rainbow. You may simply want some pink (or one other shade) fleece. I purchased 1/4 yard for beneath $2 on sale.
Making this rainbow is a bit more difficult than primary stuffies, nevertheless it’s not that a lot completely different. Are you able to make one? Let’s do that!
Here is what you will want:
Small quantities of pink, yellow, aqua, and white fleece*
Pencil
Scissors
Stitching clips
Stitching thread
Needle
Black felt
Black and white embroidery floss
Stuffing
*You possibly can truly use any shade for the again. White is only a suggestion.
DOWNLOAD THE RAINBOW STUFFIE PATTERN PDF
Print and lower out the sample items, then hint them onto your fleece. Do that for all of the items besides the face.
I made the highest bow pink, the center yellow, and the underside aqua. The again hafl-circle piece is white. However you possibly can combine it up and use any colours in your rainbow!
Fold the highest and center items in half to search out the precise center after which clip them collectively like proven. The appropriate sides of the fleece must be going through one another.
It appears to be like bizarre now, nevertheless it’ll get the place we want it shortly.
Deliver the ends of the yellow right down to match up with the ends of the pink. Preserve the suitable sides going through one another. Use stitching clips to carry them. Then clip the sections between the center and the ends.
Hand sew alongside the clipped edge with again sew about 1/4-inch from the material edge.
There can be some areas the place it looks like there’s extra material on one edge than the opposite. That is okay! Simply preserve stitching, however preserve the clips in place till your stitching is correct as much as it.
Observe the identical course of so as to add the blue backside part of the rainbow. Once you’re achieved, it ought to appear to be this!
Reduce out two eyes and a mouth from the felt. I used freezer paper to chop mine out, however you possibly can lower the paper templates and maintain them onto the felt with a tiny dab of gluestick. It can peel proper off while you’re achieved chopping them out!
Sew the face onto your rainbow with whip sew on the sting of the felt.
You can too use white embroidery floss to sew just a little twinkle on every eye.
Place the rainbow entrance on the half circle again with the suitable sides of the fleece going through one another. Use stitching clips across the edges.
Sew across the edges with again sew and doubled stitching thread. I recommend beginning on the underside edge so the opening is within the blue space.
Flip the stuffie proper aspect out and add some stuffing inside. Do not add an excessive amount of as a result of it could make the rainbow a humorous form.
Sew the opening closed. I used ladder sew for this.
And your rainbow stuffie is all completed!
I am fairly positive that when issues are feeling laborious and also you’re caught with a day that is grey and lonely, hugging a rainbow will assist. Even just a bit.
By the way in which, this rainbow makes use of hand stitching as a result of that is what the August Sew Squad field is all about. BUT, for those who like utilizing a stitching machine, you should utilize that to stitch this collectively too!
And for those who’re a Sew Squad member, hi there! I am so glad you are right here and I hope you’ve got enjoyable making all of your climate stuffies!