Finger Puppets: Duck Patterns and Beak

Video Transcript

"OK, when you have your pattern cut out then we're going to just place it on top of the felt and cut around your pattern. Now you can sew this by hand. I simply do a top stitch all the way around, or you can sew it by machine also making a top stitch all the way around and close to the edge. OK, next we're going to cut out the beak and we're going to use some orange felt for the beak and you want to cut a strip about a half inch wide like this and fold it in half, and then round off the top like this. OK, so I have a strip of orange felt about a half in wide and I fold it in half and rounded the top and now I'm going to fold it again, and that's the beak, and we're going to place that right where the beak should be up in the head between the two pieces of yellow felt like this. And then just secure that with a pin and when you sew your mitt together you're going to sew all the way around with just about an eighth of an inch seam allowance all the way around, top stitching an eighth of an inch around, and you will catch in the beak as you come around."