Charmander Plushies! <$5 gift!

Hi Everyone! 

Long time no see! Do not worry, I have another tutorial for you all :] 

Charmander Plushie!!

I recently got a suggestion to do a Charmander plushie. How could I say no? Charmander's are adorable! I love all starters though.

This is a really cheap craft that would make a great present for all Pokémon lovers alike! Assuming you already have paint, needles, and thread it'll run you about $2, if you're rounding up how much stuffing you will use!

Here's what you'll need!:

• One piece of orange felt, 33¢ at Michael's, 27¢ at Hobby Lobby
• One piece of yellow felt [a scrap would do fine] also 33¢/27¢
• Tiny amount of red felt, 33¢/27¢
• Embroidery floss or thread in any color [I used white]
• Sewing needle
• Stuffing [$5 for a HUGE bag]
• Paint for the face and details

From those supplies, the pieces you need to cut are:

1. Two body pieces of equal size, orange felt
2. One tummy piece, yellow felt
3. Two arm pieces of equal size, orange felt
4. Two feet pieces, orange felt
5. Two little circles for the "pads" of the feet, yellow
6. One tail piece, orange felt
7. One flame piece for the tail, red
8. One smaller flame piece for the tail, yellow

Make a stencil! You can feel free to follow my example or create your own! & cut them all out :]

 Once I had everything cut out I tried a couple things before I started sewing.

 Arms up.

 Arms down.

Having sewed the tummy piece on.

 Sewing the tail on.

 Tail, then red flame, then yellow flame.

 Sewing pads onto the feet.

 Sewed the arms and feet on.

 Blanket stitch the two pieces together.

 Leave enough unsewed to stuff the plush.

Stuff the plush! Make him as fat or as small as you'd like :]

Here's the back after stuffing!

 Then I started practicing the face. Some silly drawings here!

 Mixed an eye color using sea breeze, silver, and metallic ice blue.

All three from different brands.  I wanted them to shine!

 Started with an outline of black using a very small paint brush.

 A little more, pleased with the eye color!

Here's the face before adding the rest of the mouth.  Was tempted to leave him like this! What do you think?

He looks a bit evil! But maybe he's more mischievous.

 Here's Charmander trying to take over the world.

 Another back view.

 His left side.

And right side.

So this plushie actually took me longer than others I have done.  I kind of struggled conceptually. I really like the result though.  

He doesn't stand up on his own, but I didn't want him to.  If you make a Charmander and do want him to stand up, refer to how I made my hijabi dolls stand up here: http://milkpolka.blogspot.com/2013/07/hayah-hijabi-dolls.html

If you make this craft please send me a picture! I'd love to see your take on it. :]

If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, please email me at milkpolka@yahoo.com 

Hope you're having a great day!
♥ Riley  


P.S. Charmander is now available in my Etsy store! I'd love it if you took a look! 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/160573333/cute-hand-sewn-charmander-plush

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Hoppip Plushie! MilkPolkaMon!

Hoppip Plushie!♥

Continuing with my Pokémon Plushie theme: Hoppip!

[Also, I'm considering calling them MilkPolkaMon?]

Completed Hoppip Plushie :]

Make a stencil! :]

 Here are all my pieces, two for the body, two for arms, four for legs, one for a tail, and two leaves.

 Laying out everything.

 Sewing on the arms to the front, only sewed the top so that they can move up and down but they won't come off.

 Sewing the legs together and stuffing them.

Sewing the tail onto the back side [will sew it all together later].

 Detail in the leaves!

 Sewing the leaves, tail, and legs on to the back.

 Back of the back.

 Placing the front on, ready for sewing! :]

Sewed around 75% of it, now stuffing!

 Back side.

 Painted on eyes using a yellow paint. 

 Painted on a mouth!

 Painted on ears!

 Finished back of the Hoppip!

Finished front of the Hoppip!


Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my post!
♥Riley


P.S. Update! Hoppip is now available at my Etsy shop! https://www.etsy.com/listing/160941179/hand-sewn-felt-hoppip-plush?ref=shop_home_active



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Pikachu Plushies!

It's hard for me to believe that I haven't done a pikachu plushie yet!!
So here we go!

♥Pikachu Plushies♥

As usual, the first thing I do is make a stencil and cut out the pieces of felt I need for the project.  I needed two body pieces and a tail.  Pikachu's tail has a brown stripe, so I needed to cut some brown felt to size.

 This is my stencil/inspiration/cutest thing I've ever drawn.

 Cut out some cheeks using red felt! Traced around a pen cap for more perfect circles than I could come up with.

Also, You need two feet and two hands/arms. 

 By now we should have this and be ready to sew! [Note: Use more brown felt to make the stripes Pikachu has on his back, I forgot and things got more difficult!]

Attaching the brown piece to his tail, as well as the whole tail to the body in one fell swoop.  As you can see I did this with black embroidery floss.  It's so near to the color you can hardly tell it's there. 

Attach the feets!! :] They're so cute.  I used white 10g DMC embroidery floss for the feet.  As you can tell, I used a very different stitch than on my Hayah Hijabi dolls [http://milkpolka.blogspot.com/2013/07/hayah-hijabi-dolls.html].  I'm evolving! :] (Pokémon pun intended)

 Next, sew the black tips onto the ears!  I would probably do this another way the next time I made them.  

This is what the backside of the body looked like at this step in the process.

 To give the tail more stability I did three little stitches along it.  This makes it much more stable and they're almost invisible.

 What the stitches looked like on the back side.

This is what I had at this point.

 Sewing on the cheeks ^-^

 Time to sew it all together!

Finished product!! I stuffed mine A LOT.  I think we can all agree that a fat Pikachu is a favorite Pikachu, right? 

    





Well, I love my Pikachus fat. 

 The back of my finished Pikachu Plushie.

I couldn't bring myself to paint the rest of a mouth on him.  I loved it too much this way!

Thank you so much for taking time to read my blog post,
♥Riley