Hiii, so this is my first time ever making a tutorial so i'm sorry if some of it might not be understandable or if i miss some steps! i'll try my best :D so i decided i wanted to make a
pocket sized Togepi plushie tutorial because i searched online for
ageeeesss looking for a tutorial and pattern for a togepi so i could make one for my friend but couldn't find a pattern anywhereeeee! but now i have made one hehe ^__^
This is also the first attempt of making a togepi plushie which fits on the palm of my hand measuring around 3 and a half inches tall. I made it so that it sits down but you can always adjust any parts of it so it can look however you want. you can also just size up the pattern pieces if you want to make a larger scale one!
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So lets start! umm first, materials:
- skin colour, white, pink, red and dark blue felt (i used a really light skin colour for togepi's head, hands and feet but you could change that if you wish)
- red, black, blue, beige and white thread
- cotton stuffing
- fabric glue
- pins
- needle
and here are the pattern pieces that i drew and cut out myself
(i wouldnt recommend printing this off as some pieces may need size adjusting depending on how you make it)
PS: i am using a 0.5cm-1cm seam allowence for all the pieces that need to be turned inside out, you can change this if you want to.
After cutting out the pieces onto the felt, you start off with sewing an egg shape with the 4 pieces of skin colour.
ABOVE:
1. place one on top of the other and then sew down one curved side. repeat this with the other 2 pieces.
2. opening up the unsewn side on both pieces, pin two of the unsewn sides together and then repeat step 1 on this side which has been pinned together (no pins in the photo because i usually only use pins when i absolutely need them)
3. now turn the egg shape inside through the last unsewn side and stuff with cotton sutffing till very full so that it makes an oval egg shape.
4. sew up the remaining side after fully stuffed.
HAND EMBROIDERY I THINK? making the face! :D you're going to use the zig zag with a flat side and this will be togepi's face/head.
ABOVE:
1. draw out togepi's face onto the center using a photo online as a guide
2. i think this is hand embroiding.. using red thread to create the mouth. you start from a top corner of the mouth and then straight to the other top corner of the mouth so you create a single red line on the top of the mouth. continue this to the bottom of the mouth by just moving side to side and also moving in slightly each time so you create a little triangle for the mouth.
3. using the same technique in step 2 make an eye
4. create the other eye and the lines. (i think its always easier to do one whole side first so that you can copy from the side you have already done to mirror it ^__^
Next pin togepi's face around the top of the egg making sure it sits on there so that the back links up. i find it easiest to make a crown with the togepi face and pin this together and then pin it onto the egg body! then sew this onto the egg body! and now you basically have a naked togepi :P
next we are going to make togepi's egg shell for him! ^3^
(i originally thought i needed 4 of these pieces but i ended up needing 5 of them, so the number of pieces you need here may vary depending on what size you've made your togepi egg body)
ABOVE:
1. with the 5 of the white egg shell pieces, you are going to do the same thing as you did when making the togepi egg body at the start. place one piece on top of the other and then sew down one side. repeat with another two pieces.
2. pin the next side on making sure it your togepi body fits inside it. you may need to add or remove some egg shell sides! :o
3. sew all the sides together the same way as step 1
4. turn your egg shell inside out and make sure togepi fits inside it well!
decorating his shell!
ABOVE:
1. draw some triangles of different sizes onto red and blue felt. (look at a photo of togepi online to see the shapes that are on his shell!)
2. cut these out
3. now cut holes into the center of them
with these shapes all cut out, you can sew these onto the egg shell using red thread for the red triangles and blue thread for the blue triangles OF COURSE :D (you could always just use fabric glue to glue these down if you cannot be bothered to sew them on)
place the togepi body into the egg shell and line up where you wish to shell to stay on his body. once done, cut a tiny triangle off from the shell in the front of togepi's face so that his face isn't covered up! AS SHOWN ABOVE ^^. umm now put a little amount of fabric glue within the insides of the egg shell (do not put lots of this on in patches as it will bleed through the felt and would take longer to dry)
ARMSSSS!! well hands :~)
ABOVE:
1. cut the 4 pieces out onto skin colour felt
2. placing one on top of the other, sew around creating the hand shape
3. turn this inside out and then stuff with cotton stuffing
4. repeat step 2&3 with the other hand.
THE LITTLE TOGEPI FEET!! C:
ABOVE:
1. cut out the 4 small ovals for the feet
2. cut out the two pink semi circles for the pads on the bottom fo togepi's feet! :D
3. placing one piece on top of the other, mark off the size you actually want the feet to be
4. sew half way around the foot.
5. turn the foot inside out
6. stuff the foot
7. sew up the opening edge. (to hide the stitches you have to carefully fold the open edges inside to make the seam allowence inside, pin this together. and then stitch but doing a running stitch through the inside seam allowence you folded
8. sew the little pink pads onto the bottom of the feet.
optional: you can sew toes onto his foot too
sew his feet onto his body where you want them to be!
Sew the hands were by togepi's side so he looks happy :P
(The hands i made for him were too long so i had to cut them down quite a lot)
YYAAAYY AND FINISHED!! hope some people do use my tutorial and i hope you can understand it. sorry if you can't understand some parts P:
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Please leave a comment if you use my tutorial! and links if you decide to make one from my tutorial, i'd love to see! thank you for reading :D
///////////giving this little plush to my friend, Leanne. hope she likes it hehe. its her favourite pokemon :~)
