How To Make A Stuffed Animal From A Sweater

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I got existent lucky when it came to handmade gifts this holiday season for ii reasons: 1) my three closest girlfriends all accept lilliputian girls around one year onetime 2) I recently inherited a bag of my grandma's fabric scraps. Boom! Fourth dimension for some handmade blimp animals with free stuffed animal patterns.

3 Gratuitous Stuffed Animal Patterns

After a little Pinterest surfing (like an entire Lord's day afternoon) I narrowed down to 3 complimentary stuffed creature patterns that I could make in an afternoon. I pre-washed and ironed my fabrics, prepped my patterns and was off. Hither are the patterns used, customizations made, and how they turned out.

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#1 Owl Stuffed Animal Pattern

Ownership a bag of Poly-fil from JoAnn fabrics is actually what started this whole stuffed beast tangent. I needed some stuffing for another projection and while choosing which to purchase I saw an Owl Plushie pattern and directions on the dorsum of the handbag.

The blueprint was created by Vanessa over at Tried & True for Fairfield World. I couldn't resist.

Materials

• Owl Plushie pattern (become the pattern hither)
• fabric scraps
• felt scraps
• thread
• polyester fill
• 2 buttons

Directions

I tried this pattern twice making a 2d larger stuffed owl. I modified the club of instructions and take noted those changes below.

Cutting the pattern pieces from the dorsum of the Poly-fil bag. Follow the supplied instructions for cutting the textile.

Sew the body panel and the other panel together matching marks creating a cone.

Baste around the border of the opening.

Stuff the cone with polyester filling. Pull the opening tight and tie off the basting stitch to hold in place. Add more filling if needed.

Using a blanket sew, paw-run up on the large felt circle to the base of operations of the cone. Click here for an awesome tutorial to learn how to blanket stitch.

Pull down the tip of the cone and sew onto the front of the body console to create the beak. Sew on the small felt circles and buttons for eyes.

Both of these stuffed owls turned out perfect! The smaller owl'south beak was stuffed and the larger owl's nib was not. They have slightly different looks and still expect and feel cracking.

#ii Bear Stuffed Animate being

The 2nd free stuffed animal pattern is Mr. Ted from Clair of Craft Schmaft. This pattern is so piece of cake because it's made from only two pieces of material. I customized my version of Mr. Ted by using a different fabrics for the forepart and back as well as buttons for eyes and the nose.

Materials

• Mr. Ted Design
• fabric scraps
• felt scraps
• 3 buttons
• polyester fill
• thread

Directions

Print and cut out the Mr. Ted pattern. Trace design onto the wrong side of the fabric scraps and cutting out.

Onto the front side fabric, sew on the felt snout slice, mouth shape, olfactory organ button, and eye buttons.

Please note that buttons on blimp toys for babies and toddlers isn't a great thought. I learned this very quickly.

Sew the two sides of the comport together leaving the lesser open.

In Claire'south tutorial, she points out the need for notching the ears. I too notched other precipitous corners.

Turn the conduct correct side out and make full with stuffing.

Hand sew the opening using a sideslip run up.

I just dearest this footling bear blimp fauna. He'due south squeezable and loveable!

#3 Rabbit Blimp Animal

This rabbit stuffed animal blueprint comes from Martha Stewart. This stuffed fauna was the hardest to make of the three and took the longest. There are x pieces of fabric to cutting and some manus sewing to be done. Martha recommends making this rabbit from menswear which is such a cute idea to use Daddy's quondam clothing to brand a new blimp brute for kid. Awww…

Materials

• rabbit stuffed animal blueprint
• fabric scraps
• felt scraps
• 3 buttons
• polyester filling
• thread

Directions

I followed Martha's instructions to make this rabbit stuffed beast as well as customized him customized with a pocket on the front, felt snout, button nose, button eyes, and a felt tail.

Impress, cutting, and assemble pattern pieces.

Sew ear pieces and arm pieces correct sides together and so flip right side out. Iron the ears to sit flat.

On the front side of the rabbit stuffed animate being body, sew on the pocket, felt snout, button nose, and button optics.

On the backside sew on the felt tail.

Fold the ear pieces and pivot down to the forepart side of the body pieces.

Sew the torso pieces right sides together leaving a 1″ opening on 1 side for an arm and a 2″ opening on the other side for the other arm and room to add stuffing.

Turn the body pieces right sides out. Use a chop stick to fully unfold corners.

Stuff the rabbit torso and arms.

Hand run up on the arms onto the body using a slip sew. Add more filling if needed. Slip stitch the opening airtight.

This little rabbit stuffed animate being turned out bully. My hubby's favorite of the bunch.

This group of costless stuffed animal patterns were so easy to make and used upwardly some fabric scraps. Thanks to Vanessa, Claire, and Martha for their artistic inspiration, the picayune girls beloved them. :)

Source: https://scratchandstitch.com/3-free-stuffed-animal-patterns/

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