DIY Felt Dog
Woof! Want to make yourself the cutest stuffed felt dog you have ever seen? This little guy was designed and made by our designer Krista and we have all been fighting over him since. Even our studio dog Enzo has fallen for him.
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Become a MemberSitting at just 6″ tall, this cute felt stuffie is simple to make using our downloadable pattern on the right hand side at the top of this post. Print out the PDF, cut out the templates then transfer these to your felt using chalk or a white crayon. Cut the pieces with sharp scissors then you can follow our simple step-by-step tutorial below. We used blanket stitch, running stitch and a low temperature glue gun to assemble our stuffed dog so this is a good project for young ones or newbies to the craft scene. If you need more help with embroidery stitches, check out this post full of information! You can find a full list of materials used in the pattern PDF below.
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Instructions
- Cut felt pieces according to the pattern.
- Add a dab of hot glue to the nose and tongue and attach to the muzzle.
- Using black embroidery floss, stitch details for the mouth beginning under the nose and along the top of the tongue. This was about seven stitches total.
- Stitch the finished muzzle to the front of the body using white embroidery floss. You can use a dab of glue to keep it in place.
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Have fun making this little guy – we would love to see your versions of him, so please share pics with us over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and we will share our faves. Enjoy! ~ Lia
Tools
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (optional)
- Detail Scissors
- Embroidery Needles
- Clover Applique Sewing Pins
- Stuffing Tool or Chopstick
- Needle Threader (optional)
Materials
- 2 black buttons or Craft Eyes – 6mm
- Wool Blend Felt– White, Black, Latte, Blush, Carmine, Brown
- Embroidery floss: White, Black, Tan, Red
- Polyester Fiber Fill — Lia Griffith Stuffie Puff
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23 Comments
Do you have a teacher discount, I teach 6th grade hand sewing
Yes, we do. Email hello@liagriffith.com and Emily will pass that along.
I have a question. Could you explain how to sew a blanket stitch around the ears. I struggle with that.
Thank you
Hi! Check out this post, there are lots of helpful tips! https://liagriffith.com/basic-embroidery-stitches/
Could you possibly do a quiet book, maybe with faies, if possible? I love all your felt ideas and ,also, your paper flowers. So beautiful.
Love this! We will add this to our list of project ideas.
Hello. I have two questions.
1. Is it possible to make the dog smaller? Body in PDF template is ~14.5cm height and I would like to be more like 10cm. Is it going it work?
2. Sizes of felt on Benzie Design website are in inches or cm? For example: 6×9.
Thank you in advance.
Hello! You can print the PDF at a lower percentage if you would like a smaller size. Benzie’s felt sizes are listed in inches.
I recently found your site and I have fallen in love with felt crafts! You should do a cute little mouse stuffie.
Welcome Nikki! We actually have a cute mouse stuffie that can easily be made without catnip 😉 https://liagriffith.com/felt-mouse-diy-cat-toy/
I love this dog and the rest of your ideas! Please just tell me what is the thickness of felt which u used for tgis dog? Thanks in advance!
The felt is about 1mm thick, from Benzie Design.
Hello. Which colors of Benzie Design felt were used?
Hi! There’s a list of colors in the PDF download 🙂
Oh its so cute! I have to made it 🙂
Thank you!
This is so cute; I can’t wait to make some for my friends and grandkids. I can customize them to look like their actual dogs. Thank you, Lia!
What a great idea!! So cute!
OH MY GOSH, that pup is so adorable! And I love that beautiful paper. I’m telling you, I go through so much mail every day it makes me crazy, but when I get to yours, it always makes me smile. Really, not sucking up, I mean it ? Can’t wait to see if you do farm animals.
Thank you so much Beth!! I’m glad that my emails make you smile, because your comments always make ME smile 🙂 Farm animals are definitely on the list!
Oh for crying out loud, you will most likely get so many comments for this little dog. He/she is so sweet/adorable/cuddly as all get out. Don’t know how you figure out logistics but do to perfection.
Will make one for daughter’s family to emulate their adorable little beagle. He is sweetest little guy and even loves his grand parents, we’d take him in heart beat but think they might miss him and our dog would have his nose out of joint, our cat too.
Sure hope my stash of felt holds out.
Krista you have one heck of imagination to figure out how to make this new “pet”. I’ll have to make one like our dog, just in black with white, he’s black lab/border collie. Will do my best to do any I make as cute as can.
Better get myself ready for physical therapy today at 1:00p.m. Have great rest of week. What’s next? Can hardly wait to see.
Thank you! I am loving how adorable these stuffies are turning out! Krista has quite the talent for it 🙂 We have many more to come! And lots of felted animals (with roving felt) too 🙂
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