A one-year-old I know was having a birthday party today. I had been toying with various present ideas for weeks, but suddenly it was an hour to the party and I hadn't started anything. Sweet Tea and I whipped up this serious little guy in about 50 minutes. If you want to make something similar, here are the steps:
- Draw the body shape on a piece of fabric. Make it a little fatter than you want the final toy, to give room for seam allowance.
- Cut two body shapes out.
- Cut the eyes, nose, brow, etc. out of different fabrics.
- Sew the smaller parts to the larger parts. I went in this order: pupils to eyes, brow to face, nose to face, eyes over nose and brows. Use a close zig-zag stitch to hide the raw edges.
- Make little triangular pillows for feet, loosely stuffed with poly-fiber-fill. You don't have to close the ends of the pillows because they'll be sewn into the body.
- Sew zig-zag stitches over the foot pillows to make 'toes'
- Put the feet over the front of the toy, upside down. You want the pointy, unfinished end of the pillow sticking out past the bottom edge of the toy.
- Put the back of the body over the front. The part of the feet you want to have showing at the end will be inside, in between the front and back of the body.
- Sew almost all the way around the outside of the toy, sewing over the feet. Leave yourself about 3 inches unsewn so you can turn the whole thing right side out.
- Turn him right side out and fill with stuffing.
- Sew the hole in his side closed.
