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Step 4Start Sewing!
Okay, grab your light green embroidery floss. You'll see that it's made up of 6 individual strands. Cut a piece of floss off - no longer than your fingertips to your forearm. There's a Greek saying, "Long on thread, short on brains" - mainly because if you've got too much thread to work with it'll just get tangled up!
Okay, now take two of the strands of the embroidery floss and pull them apart from the other strands. It might get a little tangly, but be patient and unwrap them slowly and it'll be fine. Now you have two light green threads. Thread these together into your needle. If you really suck at threading needles, you can grab a needle threader at your local craft store for like 50 cents. Tie a knot in the long end of the threads, and let's start stitching felt together.
Line up two pieces of felt so that they line up perfectly. Pinch them together to keep them from moving, and start overlock stitching them together. Don't make the stitches too far into the fabric, or your seams will be big and ugly. Just make sure your needle is going through both pieces of fabric. Stitch from end to end. Once you have finished up one side of the pieces, get another piece of felt and line it up with the edge of one of the pieces you've already sewn. Repeat the overlock stitch along this edge as well. When you're done, it should look like the third picture below. If you run out of thread, knot it off and pull out another twon strands of floss to sew with.
The steps above are essentially the same for the mouth flap design - just sew together the three long pieces. We'll get to the smaller pieces in the next step.
NOTE: How to Sew image below is from Aranzi Aronzo's "The Cute Book" - it's a great little book that teaches you to make felt mascots. If you liked making Microbe, go pick up this book! Also, Aranzi Aronzo, please don't sue me, I'm just using your example because it's second best (after Microbe, who is the best at everything).
Okay, now take two of the strands of the embroidery floss and pull them apart from the other strands. It might get a little tangly, but be patient and unwrap them slowly and it'll be fine. Now you have two light green threads. Thread these together into your needle. If you really suck at threading needles, you can grab a needle threader at your local craft store for like 50 cents. Tie a knot in the long end of the threads, and let's start stitching felt together.
Line up two pieces of felt so that they line up perfectly. Pinch them together to keep them from moving, and start overlock stitching them together. Don't make the stitches too far into the fabric, or your seams will be big and ugly. Just make sure your needle is going through both pieces of fabric. Stitch from end to end. Once you have finished up one side of the pieces, get another piece of felt and line it up with the edge of one of the pieces you've already sewn. Repeat the overlock stitch along this edge as well. When you're done, it should look like the third picture below. If you run out of thread, knot it off and pull out another twon strands of floss to sew with.
The steps above are essentially the same for the mouth flap design - just sew together the three long pieces. We'll get to the smaller pieces in the next step.
NOTE: How to Sew image below is from Aranzi Aronzo's "The Cute Book" - it's a great little book that teaches you to make felt mascots. If you liked making Microbe, go pick up this book! Also, Aranzi Aronzo, please don't sue me, I'm just using your example because it's second best (after Microbe, who is the best at everything).
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