Felt monkeys

It is already the end of October and we can already say that we are entering the home stretch of the end of 2015 and the arrival of the long-awaited 2016 monkey. The fluffy and airy sheep, the symbol of 2015, which it was, is being replaced by a cheerful and funny monkey. The year promises us many good changes, which will be easy and fun, like the life of a funny monkey. No matter how difficult it is to end the year, you still need to gather your courage and meet the next year with all honors. The New Year is always a new branch into which you need to step with ease with new thoughts, dreams and desires. St. Nicholas Day, New Year, Christmas and Kutia are the most magical holidays of the year, so you need to prepare for the magic accordingly. What's a holiday without a New Year's tree? Its presence in the house is simply necessary, it is especially desirable that it be real with its own forest and natural smell. Throughout the house we hang beautiful garlands, shiny rain, New Year's figures, and we hang beautiful balls on the Christmas tree. And, of course, it is customary from year to year to hang a ball or figurine on the Christmas tree, on which next year’s animal will be.So the 2016 Christmas tree must have a monkey hanging on it. You can buy something with this funny animal in the store, or you can be a little unique and sew funny felt monkeys yourself and decorate both your Christmas tree and congratulate your family and friends with such an interesting gift.
Now let's look at a master class on sewing an interesting monkey from felt and for this we will need:
• Felt in brown, beige and white colors, soft and 1 mm thick;
• A pair of eyes with eyelashes with a diameter of 12 mm;
• Threads are white and brown;
• Needle;
• Pattern;
• Silver and emerald rhinestones;
• Red satin ribbons 3mm wide;
• Bells of gold color;
• Sintepon;
• Scissors;
• Pencil;
• Glue or glue gun.

Lay out the pattern and cut out the following body parts from it.

Now we apply these elements to the felt and cut out two body shapes, two tails and two heads from brown felt, and cut out a face from white felt.

We fold the body blanks and begin to sew them together with cap stitches. Starting from the middle, we begin to stuff the body with filler.

The torso is sewn together, let's move on to the head. We put together the parts of the head.

We stuff and sew the brown blanks. Now we take brown threads, pierce the white face and begin to sew the face to the head with the seam forward.

Now we sew a mouth and nose in the center with threads so that the face is smiling. We add eyes.

Now we sew the tail blanks together and also fill it a little with filler. All the parts are ready, you can start assembling the monkey. The monkey will be hanging, so the hands will be below.

Glue the head onto the body, with the tail on top. We glue rhinestones on the ears, tail and paws.We cut off two pieces of red ribbon, one will be a loop, and in the second we will thread a bell and tie a bow. Below the face we glue a bow with a bell, and at the top we glue a loop from the ribbon to the paws.