Reindeer
Extract from Scandinavian Needlecraft: 35 Step-by-step Projects to Create the Scandinavian Home • By Clare Youngs • Published by Ryland Peters & Small
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Adults and children alike will be unable to resist the charm of this soft toy.
Adults and children alike will be unable to resist the charm of this soft toy—you just want to pick it up and squeeze it! The embroidered decoration is a simple back stitch. You can change the size of the toy by enlarging or reducing the size of the templates, but do not make it too small as the antlers will be difficult to turn out.
<b>Taken from Scandinavian Needlecraft by Clare Youngs, photography by Carolyn Barber and illustration by Kate Simunek, published by <a href="http://www.cicobooks.com">CICO Books</a>. Text copyright Clare Youngs. Images copyright CICO Books.</b>
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Step 1
Enlarge the reindeer templates by 200 percent, transfer onto the boiled wool fabric, and cut out.
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Step 2
Using dressmaker’s carbon paper, transfer the embroidery pattern onto the white felt semicircles. Embroider the motif in back stitch and French knots, alternating between pink and orange as shown in the photo, below, and using three strands of floss (cotton). For the reindeer’s eyes, work three orange French knots close together, using all six strands of floss (cotton).
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Step 3
With right sides together, pin one felt semicircle to each body piece, easing the fabric around the curve. Baste (tack) and machine stitch.
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Step 4With right sides together, pin and machine stitch one hoof section to the bottom of each inner leg piece.
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Step 5With right sides together, pin and machine stitch one hoof section to the bottom of each leg on the two body pieces.
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Step 6With right sides together, pin and machine stitch the inner legs to the two body pieces along the side and bottom edges.
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Step 7With right sides together, pin the underbelly to the two body pieces, taking care at each end to finish the stitching in a point. Baste (tack) and machine stitch, leaving a gap in the seam at the top of one of the front legs to turn the reindeer right side out.
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Step 8Starting where the inner legs join the body, pin and machine stitch the front and back together. Match up the line of stitching and carry on around, taking particular care on the curves of the antlers.
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Step 9
Starting with the antlers, turn the reindeer right side out. Use the handle of a long, thin paintbrush to help ease the tips of the antlers out. Stuff the toy, using the paintbrush handle to get the stuffing right up to the ends of the antlers and taking care to keep the stuffing firm at the top of the legs.
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Step 10
Turn under the raw edges at the gap in the front leg seam and slipstitch the gap closed.
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im so making this with my mum at christmas time 
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