It’s Baking Cats and Dogs
Have fun with felt and craft a few of these adorable gingerbread animal ornaments. We’ve created a step-by-step photo tutorial to make your crafting even simpler. For help sewing French knots, watch our helpful video tutorial below. Make a few of these cuties for your own tree or craft some to be given as gifts!
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Tools
- Scissors or Cutting Machine
- Detail scissors (recommended)
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Stuffing Tool
- Embroidery Needle
Materials
- Lia Griffith’s Wool Blend Felt – Doe Brown, Bark Brown, White, Blush, Strawberry, Mint
- Embroidery Floss – Light Tan (437), Ultra Dark Coffee Brown (938), White, Baby Pink (818), Very Dark Coral Red (817)
- Poly-Fill
- 1/4″ Gold Bells
Steps
- Gather the tools and materials listed above.
- Cut your felt according to the pattern.
- Whip stitch the icing onto the heads and the tail of the cat (see embroidery guide for reference). Mirror this for the back sides.
- Next, whip stitch on the eyes and blush cheeks.
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10 Comments
Merry Christmas to all of you!!!! Thank you for your beautiful designs. I truly enjoy felt toys. I hope you guys come up with winter birds, especially a Cardinal. People from my region love them!!!! Mery Merry Christmas once again and a Happpy New Year!!!!!
Thank you, Jackeline! We do have a chickadee coming in February! We also have a pom-pom and felted cardinal in the meantime.
the bow in the SVG file for the cat is missing, so may I have the dimensions of the two pink triangles? if you’d like I can share a picture of what I am getting when I upload the file to my Cricut Maker.
That is very strange because I am seeing it when I open the SVG. Can you email a screenshot to hello@liagriffith.com and ask Emily to pass it onto me as per my request (this is Lia typing) ;-).
In mine, I only have the long piece of the bow, and the two cheeks. However, in did make these in the past using my ScanNCut and the whole file was fine. What Cricut do you have?
Hi Jackeline. I just spent a bit of time trying to troubleshoot since my SVG looked fine but Cricut did not. I ended up resaving and uploading the SVG. It should work now.
Hi, I am having issues with this file. There is something wrong with the SVG file. I have a Cricut Maker and I was unable to pring the cat because it comes out very tiny and it is missing the bow.
Hi Jackeline. Sometimes with software updates and changes, Cricut software will import the SVG files in a different size than the original. You can resize them right there to the size you like. This is unfortunate that it is an issue, and since we have no control over Design Space all we can offer is a workaround. I just checked the SVG file and saw that the bow pieces are all there in the pink color.
So cute! I love the idea.
Thank you! 🙂