Please read on for a more detailed howto on how to sew one...

So, first is what you will need:

• 1 Pcs: 34x40cm of white fluffy cloth
• 1 Pcs: 34x40cm of green (or bamboo-ish brown) fluffly cloth
• 2 Pcs: 34x9.5cm of the same white fluffy stuff
• 2 Pcs: 34x9.5cm of the same green (or bamboo) stuff
• 2 Pcs: 40x9.5cm ... white?
• 2 Pcs: 40x9.5cm ... green/bamboo
• 2 Pcs: 34x40cm of very stiff textile interfacing
• 2 Pcs: 40x17cm of very stiff textile interfacing
• 2 Pcs: 34x17cm of very stiff textile interfacing
• 1 Pcs: ~30x35cm red felt
• 1 Pcs: ~30x35cm double-sided-glue textile interfacing
• A sewing machine
• A good fabric-scissor

As always i will post the progress pictures from making the tile here, sub-texted with instructions what to do:

I'm quite pleased with the final result - especially the sides are as stiff as they should making the whole tile "box-y" enough to look good. A little drawback is that the thick textile interface make a "crumbling" / bending-cardboard-like noise when you rest your head on the tile, so it's not a ideal pillow to sleep on.

As always - if you want detailed help, better measurements or more more detailed explaination somewhere, please mail in or leave a comment! Hope you enjoyed this one!

This is one of the awaited chrismas present tutorials, a gift we've made for a good friend who happens to like everything thats cat-ish, especially - of course - if it has its origins in otaku-culture, like this:

Nyamo and Miyuki (figure)

We decided to give a Nyamo (the small catish thingy) a try and make it. As a base we used the well known Poring Plushie pattern, attached ears and tail, cut the right face and swoosh, there it was. But step for step for now...

First take a sheet of Cloth thats quadratic if you fold it in half, so 25x50cm for example, add the markings as shown.

Folded cloth with markings

Sew along the markings, fold the cloth over and add the markings once again, this time on the folded side, like this:

After sewing fold over again, mark again, go

After cutting off the excess fabric it should look like this:

Cut off the excess edges

Then we want to cut off a round piece so we can attach a circle which works as a base later:

Mark the bottom cutout

You need to measure the base with a flexible measure to know how large your circle has to be (notice saber lily in the background watching the action!)

Pin the bottom to the bottom cutout

We decided that the tail will be simple sewed from a large piece (27x12cm) of cloth with a double round shape (4cm in heigt) at the end so the end (when sewed together and turned inside out) will look nice and round.

The tail ... mockup

See the markings for the round cutout at the end:

Pin up the tail for sewing

Fill and close the tail now so its ready for attaching.

Tail sewed, mockup (aahhh, don't look at that shape)

Attach the tail, you'll notice you filled it too much .

Fastening the tail to the corpus

Then the most important part, the Neko-Mimi.... i thought i'd not scan the Shapes and provide them as a pattern cause its so dead-simple, everyone can make it. So you also have a bit more of your own.

Yay, Neko Mimi

They consist of 3 parts each, two "main ear" parts and the "inner pink" which will be hand-sewed onto the sewed-together-and-already-turned-inside-out-main-ears

This is how the pink gets on the Nekomimi

Don't make the same mistake as i did...

But sew it on there nicely

XFin

Yay, the ought to look nice

The face, as always is one of the biggest problem, cause it will determin how cute and nice the plushies look will be when finished, so some experimenting needs to be done, first the eyes, with standard-sparkle....

Cut out eyes, glue the sparkle on the eye-black

No Hitler-beard for Nyamo...

Not bad already, the mouth wasn't quite it... also the eyes are not too nice. If you've seen lucky star all that nyamo does is yawning, so a more sleepy face needs to be found...

Better ... not quite

Yay, but too ... awake and lively

Its not nyamos face in that state, but THAT IS IT!

Better, smiling knee

And sleepy eyes on Nyamo

Only the whiskers are missing

And fin, with whiskers!

And yay, with whiskers

Now, i hope this is a nice idea for everyone who loves making things themselves, and loves lucky star. If you have a dear otaku/nerd whose birthday is coming up, or who you want to give this for chrismas (well, planning early ... a bit) or any other occasion, i think nyamo is a nice idea . I hope you enjoyed this tut, and maybe also enjoyed making a Nyamo yourself.

Hope to read you soon again, up for more plushies, tinkering and general nerdism .

Hell yes!

Hey! Eefi again with more plushie goodness. It' even moar awesome than evar!

Oh God, this has to be the most disturbing plushie I've ever made...

I made this plushie for a friend as a Xmas gift so this post is published now (I know you've following our feed, roBernd :p). Do not miss to make this one for next Christmas for a dear friend! They will be stunned for sure (make them absorb some of the internet culture before if they aren't geeks already)!

What you'll need: Use fluffy yellow cloth (25 cm x 50 cm), get white, black, dark purple and pink felt. If you have leftover fabric in the matching colors that's fine too.

The awesome smiley is just made of a sphere. Since I've written a throughout description of this pattern already (see here), just use the instructions there. Except for that it'll be bigger (remember: it's dimensions for the smiley are: 25 x 50 cm) and it'll be yellow this time.

Trimming the first two sides

Almost there! Cut out the face from felt. Use this svg file, print it on paper and use it as a template

Me being curious how it will look like

Before glueing on the parts

If you care, you can sew on the features instead of just glueing but I was rather lazy here :p

:awesome: !

Mr. Saturn does not look pleased...

Hey, Eefi here~! I made one of my favorite headgears from Ragnarok Online! This plushie emerged from the attempt whether the sewing pattern for Poring's body works for other not so regular shapes as well. Apparently, it does although I had to make a few changes. I don't have any in progress pictures since I wasn't sure if it'd work out and I'm not that keen to make a second one in the near future. The arrow is a somewhat of a pain to make and everything has to be sewn by hand! (Which is the major downside because it takes ages!) If you're lucky and your sewing machine is tamed to the extend so you can sew veeery slow, do it with the machine. Our's isn't, making every curved stitch nearly impossible.

Also, there's no pattern this time.

Cut out a 12x24 cm rectangle from red fleece. Fold it once so the wrong side you'll be sewing on is outside. You'll get a square on which you need to draw the shape on. Make sure you sew all along the edge on the open side. For the remaining ones, follow the sketches. You should close the bottom as you can still stuff your apple from the top hole.

Stem: To make things easier and avoid sewing this one at all use a pipe cleaner as the stem. Otherwise: Cut out a 4x2 cm piece from green fleece. Fold once lengthwise, sew along the dotted path (whip stitch) and turn it inside out:

Leaf (optional): Isn't included in the original Apple of Archer but makes the apple look more like an apple. Cut out two leaf-shaped pieces, sew along the edge, turn inside out. Use darker thread to sew on the leaf structure if you like.

Arrow: White in the original picture, I used black fabric here. Might try it with white or gray fabric if I redo it. (What I haven't tried is making the arrow out of two pieces since you won't see the middle part anyway.) Cut out a 25x2 cm piece, fold once lengthwise, sew along the dotted path below. Please note that both sides are open. Try to turn it inside out, I wish you the best of luck. (Before you give up and throw it away, cut off two pieces that you want to use for the back and front parts. How long you make them is up to you. Try turning them around again.) Make the arrow head and the feather tail like the leaf. Don't assemble the parts yet.

Stuff everything. If you can manage, the arrow will be robust enough, but you can still put some wire in. Cut two little holes in your apple to put the arrow through. You may have to re-stuff the apple again. Sew the arrow to the apple. Now sew the remaining parts onto the arrow. If you made a leaf, sew that onto the stem before sewing it on your apple (while closing the apple).

You're done! For making it a real headgear, sew on a hair clip or attach your plush apple to a hairband.

[Removed a picture with me wearing it because I look horrible. It'll wobble when you walk so it's quite amusing - although it will fall off after some time. Will try attaching it to a hairband later.]

So we've been busy sewing a few of them. Unfortunately we haven't quite gotten to the idea of blogging and being all Web 2.0 at the first plushies, so no pictures of them.

Okay so what do we have here?

The OC-Bunny <TODO>

Next is Kirby:

Which is a part of the idea of sewing every (at least more or less sewable) Nintendo Character .

And what do we have here?

A Poporing! The green version of the loved-by-everybody-pinku-jellyfish-blob of Ragnarok, the Poring (of which our first two Plushie-sewing-tries are already given away). A nice Tutorial on how to sew *Rings and Drops is also being worked on, so stay tuned if you want your own *Ring/Drops.

And last but not least: Boing! ZOMG!

Mr Saturn! Everybody who played Earthbound gotta LOVE Mr Saturn! (Super Smash Bros. * too, you can throw him around, after all!). We used this Tutorial as a base for our Saturn, we just made him a bit less cutaneous for the user to achieve a better cuddle-result. Also we've noted a little problem in the original Tutorial as you can see - the Nose. Its kind of to blobby, a bit too large and not long enough. Also stay tuned for a fixed pattern for the Saturnose.

But anyways, all of them have been quite fun to make - also there will be a great deal of Tuts on Sewing those plushies as we make them.

My first selfmade plushie pattern turned out to be the original character bunny-thingie of a friend. (Hey, I don't have any website to link back to give you credit! If I see you again sometime I'll gladly give this one to you.) This first try actually turned out all right, so here's my first tutorial.

What you'll need: fleece fabric: red (15 cm), white (15 cm); felt: black, white, pink; stuffing material | Pattern: PDF or SVG

Head and body

Cut out 26 x 11 cm (head) and 22 x 11 cm (body) strips. Fold them once, while paying attention that the right sides face each other and you're sewing on the wrong side. Try to draw the stroke that's dotted above (the blue line on the picture below), making it as smooth as possible. (Please deal with my crappy sketches.) Start at a fourth of its width. When you're done, you're ready to start sewing. Be careful at the outer edge! You're going to have to close it manually if you're unlucky and sew too close to or even outside the edge.

Like this. Only prettier.

Trim those parts and fold them like this (I'm just too bad at explaining it.). Make sure you leave at least a little hole at the top and/or the bottom so you're still able to turn it inside out! Don't close it completely (even if I have done it before)!

Just sew it like you did the step before. Trim those sides too and turn it inside out. Stuff both parts and close them with the ladder stitch.

Ears, arms and feet

This part is pretty straightforward. Pin two of the same parts together (again with wrong sides facing each other) and sew along the outer edge. Trim, turn inside out, stuff, close.

It's time to put all these parts together (using the ladder stitch again)! The limbs may not lie the way you want them to if this is your first time doing it. But there's no catch, so be patient.

Face

Cut out the features (I actually forgot to include them into the pattern file..) from felt. Use this picture as a reference:

Sewing them on is a pain (too small) so glue has to be enough. On a second note.. you might as well paint the mouth on. Mine broke four times in the process. How I managed anyway is even a mystery to me.

Yay, you're done!