Ducktutorial

Duck with a knife
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JaneMagicCraft
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Hello, friends!
This is a tutorial on sewing a duck with a knife.
I hope you enjoy it.
What we need:
Pattern
Minky Fabric/fleece/velvet 6"*12" (15*30 cm) for duck (yellow)
3"*6" (8*16 cm) for beak and feet (orange)
1,5"*1,5" (4*4 cm) for knife (gray)
1,5"*1,5" (4*4 cm) for knife (pink)
Threads (matching fabric) and black for sewing eyes.
Beads for frog eyes (6-8 mm)
Scissors
Pen or pencil for drawing on fabric (using a disappearing pen or pencil is recommend)
Wooden stick
Straw or a felt-tip pen with a hollow end for for turning out parts.
Poly fill (stuffing)
Thin pins
Regular sewing needles
Sewing machine
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Cut out all paper pattern pieces and needed sizes of fabric.We start with sewing duck. Fold fabric in half
face sides together. Trace frog body on back of fabric. If you use fabric with small «hair» make sure to lay
pattern pieces in such a way that the "hair" is going downward ignoring the stretch.
Pin the fabrics together so that they do not shift during sewing. Mark where openings will be.
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Sew the body all the way around right on the line, Cut out about 1/6" (3-4 mm) all the way around.
leave openings un-sewn between marks.
Make sure to backstitch at the beginning and end
of every stitch line.
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Make small notches on rounded parts and under the wings. It will allow these areas to have smoother
curves in the end. Don't cut too close to seam.
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Turn the body to the other side. Make sure that opening marks match.
Put the pattern on it. Tracing in this way.
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Fold the duck body as shown in the photo. Pin the seams of the tuck. Turn inside out. Straighten the wings
Make sure that the lines of the tucks match on both sides of the fabric. with a sushi stick
Now stitch on the sewing machine. Cut off the excess fabric leaving an allowance
of 1/6" (3-4 mm.)
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We fill the body tightly, filling it with small pieces of stuffing. Do not stuff the wings. I use the dull end of a pencil and a sushi
stick as my stuffing tool. It should look like this.
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Close up opening. Make a small knot and a long stitch under the fabric to hide a thread. Cut the thread off.
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Cut out needed sizes of fabric for the beak and feet. Fold fabrics in half face sides Cut out about 1/8" (2-3 mm) all the way
together. Trace beak and each food twice on back of fabric. Mark where openings around.
will be. Pin the fabrics together so that they do not shift during sewing. Sew all the Make small notches on rounded parts.
way around right on the line, leave openings un-sewn between marks. Make sure Don't cut too close to seam.
to backstitch at the beginning and end of every stitch line.
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Turn inside out all parts. To turn out I use a straw or the hollow end of the marker pen and a sushi stick.
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Stuff the beak, tuck the edges of opening We don't fill the feet. Sew up the openings on the feet, turning the edges inwards.
inwards and close up the openning.
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Pin the beak in place where you like it. Join it to the body with a plenty of short stitches.
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Pin the feet in place as it is shown on the photo. Join them to the body with a plenty of short stitches. It should look like this.
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Pin the eyes (beads) in place where you like them Sew them to the body making some stitches.
I start so as the knot is hidden under the eye.
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Done. To sew a knife, fold the pink and gray fabrics face sides together and stitch them.
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opening
Fold the fabric in half as it is shown on photo and trace the knife pattern. Sew all the way around right on the line,
leave opening un-sewn. Cut out about 1/8" (3- mm) all the way around.
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Turn inside out using a straw or the hollow end of the marker pen and a sushi stick. Stuff, fold the edges inwards
and sew up the opening as it is shown on the photo.
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Done. Next, I put the knife under the wing and make a few stitches connecting the body
and the wing.
Great!
You did a fine job! Thank you!

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