Monster Plushie Tutorial

Here's how to make a cute little monster for yourself!


First you draw and cut out a pattern for your monster. On this on I used a picture Peanut drew. Its fun to close your eyes and draw scribbles and loops then try to make something out of it, but anything you do make sure its wide and bold and a little larger than you'd like the monster to be.

These are some things I came up with yesterday while I was drawing with my eyes closed. Who knows, when I'm bored I may make one of them!

Lay your pattern on the cloth and cut two pieces. This monster is going to have hair all the way around it like Peanut drew so I basted (held it down in place with large stitches) some rick rack about a fourth of an inch from the edge.
Then I laid the other piece face down and backstitched along the stitches I made for the rick rack (You don't have to use any rick rack if you'd like to have a hairless monster)
Remember to leave a hole about 3 inches long while stitching the skin together. After your done turn the monster's skin right side out and stuff him. And add any extra stuff, on her picture, Peanut drew a spider that I thought was so cute I had to put one on. Extra stuff are always cute!
Lastly, cute out eyes, mouth and nose from felt (on this one I used a button for the nose) Maybe you could do sharp pointy teeth, or a small smile or a wide smirk, or no mouth at all. You can have big googly eyes or small beady ones, only one eye or maybe six!

You can also cover your monster's nakedness by making a shirt. You can wrap a piece of scrap fabric around him and measure where you should sew. Then fold it in half inside-out and sew. Then make arm holes (if your monster has arms)

I've also seen it done with socks. Its easier since you don't have to sew, just cut holes for the neck and arms, but I've never done it because I haven't found the right size socks that I can just cut up. My monsters are fairly small so I think I'd need baby socks. For larger monsters you can use your own socks (if you'd like to cut them up...)

Would you like your monster to have hair? Here's how:





Put thread, the same color as the yarn you want to use for the hair, and poke it through the front of the head as close to the top as you can get. Then put the tip of the yarn onto the needle but don't pull it all the way though.

Figure out how long you want the hair then bend the yarn at that point and poke the needle through the yarn leaving a tiny loop on the needle. Do that four or five times then put the needle through the back of the scalp to the front. The little loops of yarn should be in a group on top of the head.

Thread the needle through the front of the scalp to the back and repeat making little loops until you have a head full of beautiful hair.

You can do a little hair, or a lot. Use fuzzy yarn for a completely different look. Make it short or long...or make it short in the front and long in the back and make a monster mullet!!

After your done be sure to give your monster a name (something crazy that you'd never name your kid is best like Sebastian or Napoleon or Winifred) Then give him a personality and a hobby (you don't want a bored monster, that's just inviting trouble!) Make him a house to haunt, sew him a little monster quilt, give him a Myspace and voila, your done!