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by 786Ayesha on June 6, 2014

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Instructable Robot Magnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Intro: Instructable Robot Magnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 1: Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 2: Enlarge & Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 3: Trace to Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 4: Patch work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 5: Cut eyes & ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 6: Give ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 7: Attach felt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Step 8: Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Step 9: Give Fingers & Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Step 10: Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Step 11: Eyes & dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Step 12: Enlarge the chest buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Step 13: Filling wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Step 14: Glue it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Step 15: Cut.. cut ... cut... all around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Step 16: Hello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Step 17: Hot glue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Step 18: Instructable Robot with my collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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Author:786Ayesha
I am a day care mom who loves Sewing, and Pen palling.Any one who wants to exchange snail mails send a private message.

Intro: Instructable Robot Magnet

Since 15 years I have been collecting fridge magnets from the countries where I traveled to.As a souvenir I buy a magnet related to the country.It can be a map / flag /
country picture or a tourist attraction that I have seen there.Other than these I don't collect any other type of magnets.
I have a whole lot of country magnets which my penfriends send me from different parts of the world.Unfortunately these do not go on to my fridge door.Unless I have
been to that country..The instructable robot has touched my heart and I decided to make one for my fridge door.The robot has a special place among my collection of
magnets.

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Step 1: Requirements
What you need to sew the Robot
Cotton Fabric - Robot colors
A piece of felt to the size of robot you are going to make
Carbon paper
Pencil
Threads -brown,black,grey
Scissors
Top pins
Fabric glue
Glue gun/glue stick
Magnet 2
Sewing needle

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Step 2: Enlarge & Print

Enlarge the robot picture to the size you want,and print out a copy.My robot print is 5 inches long.

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Step 3: Trace to Fabric

Trace out the robot to the fabric.

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Step 4: Patch work

The easy way would have been to just glue the yellow fabric over. But I wanted to do some thing creative.So I started doing patch work.This is fun and easy and I always
liked sewing.Cut the yellow fabric into small pieces.I cut them into different shapes and did the patch work according to how the pieces were.If you want, you can cut
them into exact size of your choice and place them accordingly.It took me only half an hour as I am pretty fast in hand sewing. :)

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Step 5: Cut eyes & ears

Cut tiny eyes and ears out of red fabric.

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Step 6: Give ears

I have used fabric glue to paste ears & eyes.This glue is washable in 60deg.Apply glue on to the red fabric ( ear) and insert under the yellow fabric and paste. (See
image 3)I have not sewn the yellow fabric on left side. On the right side paste over the yellow fabric.

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Step 7: Attach felt

Cut a piece of fairly thick felt to the size of the robot and pin it on the wrong side.To do any embroidery stitches the fabric has to be a bit thick to protect gathers and it will
be neat and easy to sew.

Step 8: Outline
If you have applique stitch on your sewing machine use that to out line.I have used a different stitch because this is quicker.Some places I have done hand sewing.you
can view them in the next steps.

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Step 9: Give Fingers & Wheels

Ah! my robot needs fingers and wheels.Hand sew with black thread.

Step 10: Antenna

I used the sewing machine to give him this pair of antenna on the ears.

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Step 11: Eyes & dots

It is time to give a pair of eyes.So that the robot can see all my instructables. Paste the red fabric eyes and hand sew the the outline with black thread.Sew five black dots
on the border of the dress and both hands.

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Step 12: Enlarge the chest buttons

I had time to do a little more creativeness.So here I am enlarging the chest buttons and filling with brown thread.it is easy to use two needles with different colors.Simply
fast to hand sew.Doesn't he looks nice?

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Step 13: Filling wheels

Here again filling the wheels with grey thread.This is not the end of it. There is more... ...... go next step

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Step 14: Glue it

How about giving a neatening on the back of the robot? Yes! this has to be done.Apply a thin coating of fabric glue and paste a piece of fabric to cover the whole mess.
Let it dry completely .

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Step 15: Cut.. cut ... cut... all around

Finally .....it is time to cut.Cut away all the excess fabric around the robot.You need a good pair of scissors and a lot of patience.If you accidentally cut the black edging,no
fuss you can slowly hand sew with black thread.Watch out and be careful!!.I used the normal sewing scissors.Embroidery scissors will be great.

Step 16: Hello

Here I am ready for the magnet...............

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Step 17: Hot glue

Heat your glue stick and paste the magnets on the wrong side.One for the head and one for the body.

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Step 18: Instructable Robot with my collection.

Here is my collection of Magnets.And the Robot has a place in the middle of all the magnets.
Thank you for taking time to view my Magnet Robot.
Your votes and comments are most welcome.

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Comments
11 comments Add Comment

Tarun Upadhyaya says:

Jun 27, 2014. 11:14 PM REPLY

Congratulations for making to finals :)

786Ayesha says:

Jun 29, 2014. 10:42 AM REPLY

Thank you Tarun!I was really dissapointed to see that the Robot was not featured.There were some instructables which I didn't expect to get featured at
all, but it did.This was not and I wonder why? It's my own idea as in reall I am a magnet collector.Atleast this came to the finals....am happy about it.

Tarun Upadhyaya says:

And there you are with a first Prize :). Congratulations!!!!

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Jul 1, 2014. 10:12 PM REPLY

xpat73 says:

Jun 27, 2014. 6:25 AM REPLY

So cute!you are seeing it every day .

Abigail02 says:

Jun 9, 2014. 3:39 PM REPLY

This is so neat! I love how you patched the body!!

786Ayesha says:

Jun 20, 2014. 2:13 PM REPLY

Welcome!

jessyratfink says:

Jun 9, 2014. 12:34 PM REPLY

He looks so good!! Love all the stitching. :)

786Ayesha says:

Jun 9, 2014. 1:24 PM REPLY

Thanks! How do you figure out if the robot is a HE or a SHE?

jessyratfink says:

Jun 9, 2014. 2:50 PM REPLY

No idea honestly, but it seems like most of us on the site in the beginning just assumed Robot was a he! I have it stuck in my head now. :P

Danger is my middle name says:

Jun 9, 2014. 12:20 PM REPLY

This is so cute! I love the patchwork body :)

786Ayesha says:
Thank you! I too love it.

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Jun 9, 2014. 1:24 PM REPLY