Stuffed toys to collect and stuffed toys to play with; whatever you are looking for, you will find here. Learn how to make your own felted, cloth and furry friends or find unique and sometimes fantastical toys made by others.
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Custom Hand-made Sock Monkeys. Cute ready to adopt Sock Monkeys. Clothes and accessories for your Sock Monkey.
Free knitting, crochet, and sewing sock monkey clothes patterns.
Sock Monkeys in the Wild photo galleries.
When making a Sock Monkey one of the most important features is the mouth. I find that positioning the mouth piece and pining the bottom half before sewing helps keep it centered and helps sculpt the shape of the mouth. In this way you can make the Sock Monkey have an upturned smile, with any style heel.
Learn how to make your own Steiner Doll from this fully illustrated tutorial. Tips for hats, hair and other embellishments are included. And, don't forget to join Sooz on her adventures through life in the rest of her blog.
It can be tricky pinning a pattern to felt. Once you get the first piece cut use it as a pattern for the next one since the felt sticks together without pins.
Soft toys you’ll love to make! The Funky Friends Factory is a unique range of simple Patterns and Kits for cuddly Soft Toys.
Visit the website for a free guide to making soft toys and other fun stuff with fleece. Members get discounted prices and a free ‘Easy Teddy’ PDF with their FIRST purchase! Now also available – Cross-Stitch & Teddy Bear Patterns.
Cut off all your ‘starting and finishing’ threads as you finish EACH seam, this way you won’t end up getting them caught in your seams as you sew.
The worst thing I did whilst cutting off threads was to nick a hole in the side of a rhino, which I was making as a gift for a work colleague. I didn’t have time to make another one so I patched him with “Fray–Stop” but he didn’t look his best!
Original designed teddy bears, soft dolls and hand puppets. I also make rabbits, mice, dogs and cows. Along with these I have also designed and made a baby blanket with bear head attached and toilet tissue dolls that store that extra roll of tissue in the bathroom.
When making an animal from fur make sure you only cut the backing and none of the fur. This is done by using very sharp scissors and only cutting little snips at a time.
A growing collection of free quality craft projects. Be sure to check out the many stuffed toys and doll patterns we offer and don't miss our great tutorial on movable joints for stuffed animals and dolls.
When making a stuffed animal with faux fur, if you do not have a printer where you can print on cardstock or you simply do not have any cardstock on hand, go ahead and print the pattern on regular paper, cut out the pieces and glue them to a manila folder or other lightweight cardboard to create pattern pieces that will be easier to trace onto the fabric.
Find out how to make basic looking red heel sock monkeys and also how to make fun original looking monkeys using novelty socks and many different techniques.
Some socks fray more than others, and it becomes very apparent when it's time to stuff a monkey. So, if you zig zag (with the sewing machine) along the raw edges of the sock that are to be hand sewn eg: between the legs, around the mouth piece and at the ends of the arms, it will support those areas and prevent the fraying.
At the DIY Fluffies shop you can find cute kits and soft toy sewing patterns!
Lots of adorable plushies like a dragon, an elephant and many more!
There is also a free duck tutorial available!
Stuffing a soft toy can be a difficult thing. My tip is to always start with stuffing the small parts like the feet. Save the bigger parts like the body for last. To stuff very small parts a chopstick is very usefull!