#Elephant outline printable free

Attach the pin to the back piece of the elephant. (I took a skinny piece and folded it over the top and then stitched it down both sides and over the tusk.)ġ0. Wrap it around both sides to add a bit of strength for when you attach the tusk to the body and to make it look more like it is coming out of the elephant rather than just attached to it. Take a small piece of the reserved felt from when you cut out the body and use it to cover the base of the elephant’s tusk. About mid-way, pull the threads from one stitch to another a little tighter to create the curve in the tusk.ĩ. Once, you have made the graduated shape of the tusk, work your way back to the base of the tusk. It does get a bit fiddly as you get closer to the tip of the tusk but I think the look is worth it. The tusk is made the same way except you won’t be making the tuft. Fray and separate the yarn at the bottom of the tail to create the tuft.Ĩ.

Continue working down the tail, removing a ply of yarn as you go along. Keep removing yarn as you stitch down the tail until you are left with 3 or four strands. Stitch carefully so the cut end is blended and doesn’t stick out anywhere. When you get about 1/4 of the way along the tail, cut off one of the four pieces of yarn.

#Elephant outline printable free

Leaving a bit of the loops free will make it easier to attach your tail to your elephant. Using matching thread and a sewing needle, sew through and around the yarn to make a sort of bundle of the four lengths of yarn. Take the two pieces of 4-ply yarn for the tail and fold them in half. Attach hat to elephant body, the same time you are embroidering it.ħ. (My blanket was attached with hidden stitches among the gold beads which left the edge of the blanket loose from the body.)Ĥ.

Once you have finished adorning your blanket, sew to one of elephant body pieces. If using two pieces, like I did, embroider the smaller pattern piece onto the larger one.

Reserve scraps from cutting out your elephant ears and body for tusk.ģ. Good scissor for cutting in tight areas (the Westcott 5″ Titanium Straight Scissor with Microtip is my favorite)įelt elephant pattern from (click on pattern for printable, full-sized version)ġ. Small pieces of felt for the blanket and hatġ bead for the eye (can be switched for an embroidered eye, safety eye or felt eye)Ģ 5 inch lengths of 4-ply yarn for tail (use yarn where the ply’s can be separated)ġ 3 inch length of 4-ply yarn for tusk (use yarn where the ply’s can be separated) 1.0 x 2.0 inches tall for the elephant ears 3.5 x 3 inches for the elephant bodyĢ pieces of felt approx. Again, the idea was to see how differently we could interpret the same pattern. Both Mom and I opted to use contrasting felt colors to make the blanket and matching hat but the we decorated them quite differently. We could have also used just one piece for the blanket and embroidered it to look like a rug or we could have embroidered directly onto the elephant. I added a more prominent tail to my felt elephant. I think that so often the personality of an animal is shown by how they use their tail.

It needed a bit of changing to separate it from the leg anyway and I thought a longer trunk would balance the piece better. The second major change I made was to make the trunk longer. When I removed all of the details to get an outline for the body, I didn’t like the way the legs looked – either I would have to embroider the splits or redesign the legs. We thought with the blanket, even if we made very similar elephant patterns, how we beaded or embroidered the blanket and little hat would make each of our projects unique.Īs a reminder, here’s what the original looked like…the original drawing had somewhat small ears – like the Asian elephants do, a small tusk and a partially hidden tail. In another post, I’ll share with you Mom’s pattern. Today I’ll be sharing how they turned out and the pattern for my elephant. The idea was that Mom and I would each take the same elephant drawing and create our own version of it to make felt brooches. A few days ago, I mentioned our great elephant challenge.