Instructions socks whale

• 2018

A whale is too big to cuddle? This not! Thanks to the easy-to-follow instructions, he will certainly not stay alone for long.

You need this:

• paper
• French chalk
• 1 pair of men's socks in blue (about size 43)
• 1 pair of white tennis socks (approx. Size 43)
• fiberfill
• Embroidery thread in gray
• Embroidery thread in white
• Craft felt in white
• Fabric pencil in black
• scissors
• pins
• Sewing machine and matching yarn

And this is how it's done:

1.) Download the templates, print on DIN A4 and cut out. (Entire guide with templates available for download under the article.)
2.) Lay the template for the belly on a tennis sock, mark with the tailor's chalk and cut out. Pay attention to possible direction of the ribs. Do the same with fins (2x) and fluke (1x), but also cut each one out of a blue sock.
3.) Lay the white and blue piece of fabric for the Fluke on the right side and sew together with the sewing machine. Leave an opening to the body, turn it over and fill it with stuffing. Turn right and fill.
4.) The fin parts, each 1x blue and 1x white also merge right to right and sew together with the sewing machine. To the whale body at the narrowest point, leaving an opening for turning and filling open. Turn right and fill. After filling the fins with filling cotton, pin the opening with a pin and set aside.
5.) Prepare the body. Unfold the other blue sock with sole and hoe laid out in front of you and place the template for your stomach on the blue sock. Transferring with cutter chalk contours. Cut out the whale back with scissors.
6.) Fold the cut blue part to the right side, put the hoe out of the body shape of the whale and sew it. Place the white and blue parts right to the right, put together with pins. The prepared fins between the blue and white part at the desired point pointing inwards, so that they can be sewn with the same. Leave an opening at the narrowest point for filling. Check shape, sew together with the sewing machine, turn over and fill with filling cotton.
7.) Sew the filled fluke by hand onto the finished fullbody.
8.) Embroider the given pattern on the fluke with embroidery thread using a basting stitch.
9.) Cut two small circles of 1 cm diameter from white craft felt. Paint half of it with black fabric crayon.
10.) Fix the felt eyes relatively far in front and close to the white fabric with textile glue. Additionally sew with white embroidery thread with two stitches in black.

Here you will find the instructions including template for download.