Stuffed Toys

	Stuffed Toys 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. All the website owners have also included their favorite crafty tips on making stuffed toys.
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Great Stuffed Toys Websites

Sock Monkey Fun!
	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. Sock Monkey Making Crafty Tip 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.
957 Visitors Since Aug 31, 2006 Additional Details



soozs big adventure
	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. Crafting with Felt Crafty Tip 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.
642 Visitors Since Jan 30, 2007 Additional Details

Funky Friends Factory Soft Toy Patterns & Kits
	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. Sewing Stuffed Animals Crafty Tip 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!
1537 Visitors Since Jan 18, 2008 Additional Details

Craft Tales
	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. Sewing with Faux Fur Crafty Tip 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.
190 Visitors Since Nov 23, 2009 Additional Details

Funky Sock Monkeys
	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. Making Sock Monkeys Crafty Tip 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.
257 Visitors Since Mar 26, 2010 Additional Details



DIY Fluffies Soft Toy Patterns
	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! Stuffed Toy Making Crafty Tip 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!
775 Visitors Since Aug 10, 2010 Additional Details

Allsorts
	Combine the talents of a children's book illustrator, avid crafter and soft toy maker and you'll get the wonderful Jenny B Harris who shares her adventures in crafting in her Allsorts blog. Free stuffie patterns, decorating ideas and all sorts of crafting goodness can be found here. Stuffed Toy Making Crafty Tip When making soft toys from woven fabrics use a pinking shears to trim the seam allowance. That way you'll have less fabric in your seam and your fabric will be less likely to fray.
274 Visitors Since Feb 2, 2011 Additional Details

sweater eyes
	Darling soft collectibles and hand-made lovelies, all hand made by Multi-media artist, Katie Vanderhaeghe. Have you ever heard of a catopus? Crafty Tip Eco-felt is cheap, easy to work with.. the problem? It looks like cheap felt. Solution? Boil the felt for 10 minutes, carefully take the felt out and roll it into a tight tube (to get the water out a bit), then lay it flat to air dry. Result: felt that is thicker and softer.
56 Visitors Since Aug 26, 2011 Additional Details

The Fairy Ring - Handmade Toys
	The Fairy Ring is a handmade toy store, specialising in the sale of handmade felt toys, patterns, craft kits and craft felt. Visit our DIY section for tutorials, videos, patterns and kits. Crafty Tip As a toy maker with over 15 years experience, my advice is to make sure you have a dedicated space for your crafty hobby, otherwise it will take over your house :)
48 Visitors Since Dec 11, 2011 Additional Details

Elements of Soft Toy Design Abby Glassenberg, soft toy designer and author, is offering a wonderful series of informative blog posts on soft toy design and construction. She covers everything from turning tiny pieces right-side-out to gussets to stuffing small pieces. The tutorials are well-explained and fully illustrated. Stuffed Toy Making Crafty Tip Use a pair of hemostats to stuff tiny areas in your stuffed toys. The have blunted tips and allow for precise placement and hard stuffing of small pieces like arms, legs and even elephant tusks. 179 Visitors Since Feb 2, 2011 Additional Details Is this your site?