DIY: How to Make Animal Soft Toys

Hi all, i love making something nice for my girls (handmade with love), especially when it's time when their special day...BIRTHDAY is approaching! I just need to spend my TIME!

Here, i would like share these handmade soft toys that i made for my 2 girls. The older one requested a bunny and the younger one asked for a kitty.

Materials: Fur fabric (size 40x45 cm), 1 cm ribbon (length 18 cm), felt (for eyes & nose), thread (black), poly fiber, UHU glue and a decorative flower (optional).

Here are the steps with pictures:

1. Draw a picture of a bunny/cat on a piece of paper.
2. Cut it out and place on the fabric. Make sure you fold the fabric to make it 2 layers so you will get 2 pieces. Please ignore the outer line on the paper, it's not seam allowance. I just tried to make it bigger.
3. Pin it on the fabric.
4. Get ready to sew with your machine. Sew along the paper edge slowly and carefully. I will recommend needle no.9 for a better result.
5. Sew around it and leave a gap/hole about 6 cm.
6. Then, cut it out with 0.6 cm allowance (refer picture 6).
7. You will get bunny/cat figure as shown in picture 7.
8. Turn it inside out through the hole.
9. You will get a more perfect figure as shown in picture 9.
10. Get ready some felts and cut out the eyes and nose. You may replace the eyes with wiggly eyes or buttons.
11. Then, hand stitch the bunny/cat's whiskers and mouth with black thread. Stitch slowly as this is the tricky part as i stitch it starting from the inside, then continuously. So, make sure your thread is long enough.
12. Now, you can stuff it with poly fiber. Fill the ears first, then head, body and tail.
13. Apply some blush powder to make two pinkish circles on its cheeks. Your soft toy now is 98% done.
14. Cut a strip of 1 cm ribbon, length around 18 cm. Put it around its neck and glue the end of the ribbon. And i glued a decorative flower to its ear. You may use a felt flower or a button.
15. Done!

Enjoy :)