Apr 18, 2010

Elephant

Small stuffed elephant of felt. 6 centimetres.
Stuffed elephant

Back

This is all hand-sewn.
Cut the parts without seam allowance.
Felt pieces

Darts are sewn from inside.
Sew darts

Other seams are sewed outside.
Sew the head

Sew the soles.
Sew

You may put a wire wrapped with cotton batting in the nose.
Stuffing

Tail and tusk.
Sew tail and tusk

Stitch beads as eyes. Attach the tusks.
Sew the wrinkles of nose.
Eyes and tusk
Then attach ears.

Pattern.
Elephant pattern

If you are not a novice, add seam allowances and sew from inside.
It may look better and be strong.

31 comments:

Gabriele von Conga-Baeren said...

Thank you very much for this great tutorial.
(Sorry,I only speak and write a little english)

Many greatings

Gabriele
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Anonymous said...

This is another great tutorial Runo,Thank you! I will make this for my grandson! I will embroider the eyes and not use wire, but I think he will enjoy it.

Anonymous said...

Wow, these are so creative! Thank you!

Kimara said...

I love elephants. What a wonderful tutorial! I'll be linking on Facebook. Thanks!

shaper said...

wow! so amazing!!

Anonymous said...

Thank you Runo for this perfect pachyderm. My friends daughter gave all of her birthday money to save a pygmy elephant, I think she deserves her own little elephant, don't you?

Chani said...

Thanks to your template for a 2 inch elephant I made a 56 inch long and 36 inch high stuffed elephant with moving legs to ride around on Halloween. It took me 10 months,its the best thing I've ever done and I would never have been able to do it without you. You can see it here-(http://www.facebook.com/people/Chani-Hubbell/1575155703).Again, thank you so, so much.

lycie's craft said...

thanks for sharing pattern n tutorial.

Lydia said...

thanks for sharing pattern n tutorial.

Justin Kang said...

Making for a special person.
This is awesome! Almost done with my elephant. Just need to invert it and stuff in cotton and sew it back!

Thank you very much for this!
Grace of God unto you.

Anonymous said...

I love this and your leopard. Could you put a pattern up the lop ears of the lop bunny. I don't understand when you say bigger. Wider or longer? Thanks. :)

Anonymous said...

I am definitely making thisl. I will add seam allowance, enlarge it and use safety eyes. :D

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much! This helped me do my school project and I got a great mark!

Unknown said...

It is really cute. I also like how it looks like a real elephant. I've actually riden an elephant before. I'm going to make this.

Unknown said...

I've actually riden an elephant before. I like how this elephant looks cute and realistic.

putskih said...

Hi. I just want to say that this pattern is really good. You're a really good pattern drafter.

Anonymous said...

Sweet! ;)

Nick said...

Thank you so much for sharing! I'm going to use this plan and 25-50 pounds (11 kilograms - 23 kilograms) of polyester filler to make an over sized stuffed elephant (perhaps the size of a baby elephant?) It may sound crazy, and a lot of work, but it will certainly please my significant other. I can't wait to get started!

Anonymous said...

I made this out of felted sweater. Such sweet elephant! Thank you for sharing the pattern and tutorial.

Katzies

Anonymous said...

On the top part of the tail, what are the dotted lines for? Are they fold lines or sewing lines?
Thanks!

Anonymous said...

They are fold lines.

laurettalynne said...

Roll Tide

Anonymous said...

Thank you, I increased the size of your pattern and used it for the Wooly Mammoth my son has been wanting. It was so much nicer than having to make my own pattern.

Anonymous said...

awesome!(:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for your patterns. I've been using many of them for crib mobiles for expecting co-workers in my office. God bless! MLW

Unknown said...

Thank you. i do it 😉

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Unknown said...

I love this pattern and am making it for my friend's baby. Thank you for sharing! Question - how and when did you sew the wrinkles in the nose?

Runo said...

I sewed the nose wrinkles after stuffing. Wrinkles are simple big three stitches. Pull the thread strongly, thread looks like wrinkle.

Stworek said...

awsome! i love your pattern! <3