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Super Sweet Mermaid Sewing Project

This is a tutorial on how to make a super sweet mermaid sewing project.
Prep Time5 minutes
Active Time15 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Keyword: summer craft, sweet mermaid and mermaid sewing project
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Author: Angela Milnes

Equipment

  • Scissors

Materials

  • Felt fabric – Green Orange, Blue, Pink and other colours
  • Thread and needle
  • Pencil or marker – to trace the template
  • Craft glue or fabric glue
  • Confetti – small
  • Yarn thread
  • Black gel pen
  • Template cutouts

Instructions

  • Print and cut out patterns from the template.
  • The template includes – 2 parts for body, 2 parts for tail, 2 hand patterns, and top and flower pattern.
  • Trace the patterns on the selected felt fabrics and cut them out nicely.
  • Take any one of the tail patterns and select the confetti you want to add to the tail.
  • You can either glue the confetti on the tail or stitch them, the ones I used had small hole in the centre.
  • Take the front body pattern and prepare needle with black or another color.
  • Use a black thin gel pen to draw the face details (eyes, nose and lips) on the front body pattern.
  • Stitch the eyes and the nose with the black or dark shaded thread.
  • Use a red or pink thread to stitch the lip.
  • You can also use a pink highlighter pen to make pink blush patterns on both cheeks of the mermaid doll.
  • Now take the back body pattern and place it on a flat surface.
  • Place the two hands cut outs on their places by slightly overlapping them with the back body pattern.
  • Place the front body pattern on the top of the back pattern, making sure both patterns match nice and evenly on all sides.
  • Stitch the body patterns along with the hands, together; but keep the bottom end open.
  • Stitch the two fabric tail patterns together as well; but keep the top end pen for the tail.
  • Once you’re done stitching the upper and lower parts stuff them with leftover felt pieces.
  • Place the upper body part about a cm inside the tail.
  • Prepare needle and thread to stitch both upper and lower body parts together around their joint part.
  • Choose yarn for the hair and cut several strands of yarns and also prepare needle and thread.
  • Stitch the yarns on the top and back side of the head part, the yarn stiches will be the hair of the mermaid.
  • Simply align the yarn strands from the top to back side of the head pattern and do running stitch over them with the head to attach them with the head.
  • Finally, you can either stitch or glue the top and the flower, as you want.