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Making a Felt and Ribbon Turkey


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November 25, 2014

stitch bodies togetherThis colorful ribbon turkey can be used as an ornament, attached to elastic for a napkin ring, or even used as a baby toy!

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Supplies:

  • 7 1" wide ribbon (asst. colors, 5" long)
  • 2 1/4" wide ribbon (yellow, 2" long)
  • felt (lt. brown, yellow, and red)
  • embroidery floss (lt. brown, black, yellow, and red)
  • sewing needle
  • scissors
cut ribbon
 

Steps:

  1. Create templates for the turkey body, beak, and waddle.
  2. body template
     
    beak and waddle template
     
  3. Stick the templates to the felt (using rolls of tape) and cut out two bodies, a beak, and a waddle.
  4. felt bodies
     
    beak and waddle
     
  5. Use coordinating embroidery floss to attach the beak to the turkey "front". Then attach the waddle.
  6. sew on beak
     
    sew on waddle
     
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  7. Create the eyes using a French knot.
  8. sew on eyes
     
  9. Use a lighter to melt the ribbon edges to prevent fraying. Fold the pieces of ribbon over and pin them to the back of turkey "front" to create feathers. Use a basting stitch to attach the ribbons to the felt, then remove the pins.
  10. baste on ribbon feathers 1
     
  11. Fold the 1/4" ribbon pieces in half to create feet. Pin them in place.
  12. pin on feet
     
  13. Sandwich the ribbons between the turkey "back" and "front". Sew the bodies together using a backstitch. Remove the basting stitch.
  14. sew body 1
     
    sew body 2
     
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  15. NOTE: To make napkin rings, attach a loop of elastic to the back to wrap around cloth napkins. To make an ornament, attach a loop of ribbon to the back to hang it from. Leave it as is for a baby toy.
  16. turkey napkin ring 1
     
    turkey baby toy 1
     
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