Felt Leopard Stuffie
Meet Freckles, our new felt leopard stuffie! Thanks to our designer Krista, our collection of felt animal stuffies has been growing steadily. Between our felt lion and lioness, felt sea otter, and felt zebra, we have enough felt animal patterns for you to make an entire zoo.
This is a great intermediate craft project for those of you who are ready to take your hand-sewing skills to the next level. If you’re looking for something a bit simpler, check out our felt elephant. Or, if you’re a beginner, our felt fox is a good project to start with.
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Become a MemberSpotted: Another Cute Animal Stuffie
Krista always makes the cutest felt animal stuffies! Today we’re showing you step by step how to make this felt leopard stuffie, which includes drawing the spots on with black and brown paint pens. You can use our photo tutorial as a guide, or play around with the size and shape of your spots to make it your own.
Along with showing you how to draw the spots onto your felt leopard stuffie, we will show you how to sew your felt pieces together and stitch the details onto your leopard’s face. If you have any questions while crafting, just comment below and we will help you out!
Crafting Tip: New to crafting felt animal stuffies and want to learn more? Take our mini course, 8 Easy Steps to Create Any Felt Stuffie.
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How to Make a Felt Leopard Stuffie
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the leopard pattern on the right hand side at the top of this post.
- Cut out felt pieces according to the pattern using scissors or a Cricut Maker.
- To make the leopard spots, we recommend that you practice first on a scrap piece of felt. Draw irregular spots onto the felt body pieces using a brown paint pen. Carefully press out the excess ink onto a scrap piece of paper. Let dry completely — the ink has a tendency to bleed if you don’t wait for each layer to dry.
- Draw on blob-shaped borders around the spots with a black paint pen to make leopard spot rosettes.
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Tools
- Cricut Maker (optional)
- Detail Scissors (recommended)
- Craft Scissors
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Embroidery Needle
- Straight Pins
- Stuffing Tool
Materials
- Lia Griffith’s Wool Blend Felt — Camel, White, Black, Hazelnut, and Rose Quartz
- Embroidery Floss — DMC Tan (436), Light Brown(434), Black (310), Snow White (B5200), and Very Light Shell Pink (224)
- Black & Brown Paint Pens — Uni Posca Paint Markers
- Pipe Cleaner
- Craft Eyes – 6mm
- Lia Griffith Stuffie Puff
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Hi! I have a question for you. I’m hustling this month to make dolls for an orphanage in India, I came across your site! I was wondering if you’d be willing to donate your patterns of some animals to help? I will not be selling them. These will specifically ONLY be for this orphanage. I have 40 girl dolls ready to go, and I’m making 40 animals for the boys. I usually make my own patterns but need to make these quicker. Yours are beautiful!!!!! I’ve already made dolls for two other orphanages ❤️ one in Mexico and one in Uganda.
Hi Austyn, this is lovely! Could you please email us this request over at hello@liagriffith.com so we can help you out. 🙂
awww cute i want one
such an adorable giraffe you have very good taste and talent
Gosh … this little guy is just adorable. Thank you for the clear cut instructions and beautiful pictures!