Homemade Clown Pouch

• Chalk
• Craft Glue
• Needle
• Ribbon to Suspend Clown From
• Scissors
• Stick to Stuff
• Thick Skin Color Nylon Thread
• Thread to Sew Clothes
• For Clown's Body:
  • 5" Length Bamboo Stick
  • Absorbent Cotton
  • Embroidery Thread for Eyes
  • Polyester Fiberfill
  • Red Felt Piece
  • Rouge for Cheeks
  • Skin Color Felt
  • Woolen Yarn
• For Clown's Clothes:
  • Elastic Or Rubber Thread
  • Fabric for Clothes (Striped or Polka Dot Pattern)
  • Felt Sheet for Cap And Shoes
  • Red Fabric for Collar
  • Zipper

• Clown's Body:
  • Pattern Making:
    • On the wrong side of the skin color felt, use the chalk to make the pattern.
    • Make a square. Round off the edges and curve the sides a bit, with the chalk.
    • In the center of the left side of the square, make a greater than sign with its open end touching the edge of the square.
    • On the right side, make a less than sign.
    • Cut the rounded square and the signs from it. This will be the face of the clown.
    • The upper part will be the forehead while the lower part will be the face of the clown.
    • Cut out two such squares.
    • Make a pot like shape and flatten its sides.
    • Bottom side of the pot should be very flat while the neck of the pot will be the neck of the clown.
    • Cut out two such pieces to make the body of the clown.
    • Make two parallel lines that are slightly curved and end in comma-head shape to make the arm of the clown.
    • Cut out four such pieces to make the arms of the clown.
  • Sewing:
    • Sew the face pieces together on the wrong side of the fabric, leaving the bottom opening.
    • Turn it inside out.
    • Stuff it well with polyester fiberfill and sew the opening together
    • Embroider the eyes and nose of the clown.
    • Cut out a mouth of the red felt and glue it on the face.
    • Loop the woolen yarn together several times and tie it tightly in the center.
    • Stitch it from the center to the head of the clown.
    • Cut the yarn ends to make the hair of the clown.
    • Brush rouge on clown's cheeks in a circular pattern.
    • Sew the body pieces together, leaving the opening at the end.
    • Turn the clown's body inside out.
    • Wrap the absorbent cotton on the stick and stuff it in the body.
    • When the body is well stuffed, cut the neck diagonally for about one-third of an inch.
    • Cut out a slit in the lower head on the back of the clown and insert a stick in it.
    • Let a little part of the stick projecting out and insert it in the clown neck as you position the clown's neck to the clown's body and stick it together.
    • Stitch edges of two pieces of the arms together on the wrong side of the fabric and turn it inside out from the opening on the upper end.
    • Use the stick to fill it with polyester fiberfill and sew the opening together.
    • Make another arm similarly.
    • Stitch the arms to the clown's body.
    • Stitch ribbon to the back of the clown to suspend it from.
• Clown's Clothes:
  • Cut out a half circle from the felt sheet for clown's cap.
  • Make a cone of the circle and stitch its edges. Turn the edge of the cap for about an inch.
  • Stitch the cap on the head of the clown.
  • On the wrong side of the fabric, make a pattern for the shoes, using the chalk.
  • Cut four pieces and stitch the edges of two pieces together, on the wrong side, to make two shoes.
  • Turn the shoes inside out and stuff them with polyester fiberfill and sew the opening together.
  • Sew a one-piece for your joker but make the belly of the joker much longer than the actual body, so that you can put things in it.
  • Make sure that the back of the joker has a zipper, after the portion that hides the body of the clown, so that it can easily be opened up and closed back.
  • Tighten the cuffs on the arms and legs using elastic.
  • Insert shoes in the legs of the one-piece and elastic should hold them in place.
  • Cut out six-inch wide strip of fabric, fold it in half and stitch its edges.
  • Make a collar from the fabric using the gathering stitch and stitch it on clown's dress.