A Seahorse Plush Tutorial by liaspace.

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A Seahorse plush tutorial by Lia of www.liaspace.com

What you will need:
Body: 2 x (11.5”x16.5”) of material
Fin: 2 x (5”x6”) of material and
1 x (5”x6”) of batting/wadding/stabilizer
Eyes: White and Black felt/jersey fabric
Filling: Polyester doll filling

1. Cut out all of your pattern pieces on the solid line,

which already include 0.375” seam allowance
(except for felt eyes), then trace the patterns onto
folded fabrics, with right sides together. After you
trace the outline which include the seam
allowance, trace the dashed lines on the pattern
pieces into one side of the wrong side of the
fabric, including all the marks for openings using
tracing carbon/paper 2. Notice how I didn’t cut out the tail to detail, since
we will just be cutting the tail later on. After you
cut and trace everything, sew the fin together,
with the 1st two layers of right sides fabrics
together and the 3rd layer is the batting

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3. Clip the curved edges and trim the sharp edges to 6. The black rounds are sewn after the white ones
make it neater when you turn the fin inside out. are sewn, using the eye stitch diagram on the
pattern

4. “Quilt” the little fin however pattern you want :).

I started from the outer line on the left side and 7. Now, sandwich the fin between the 2 right sides
go all around and started making spikes. of the body fabrics together and start sewing
from the top of the fin, at the bottom of the
filling opening.

5. Then, cut the 2 eyes and stitch them on the right

sides of the body. I glued them first using fabric 8. Once you’ve sewn all around, cut the tail to its
glue then started the blanket stitch all around the shape and reduce the bulk and clip the edges and
white rounds. rounds.

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9. This is the most difficult part...the part where if you mention my blog on your thank you tag to
you are turning the whole thing inside out. It’s your customer.
difficult because the tail part is so small and
long! I was able to do it because I used a loop
turner I bought from Japan by Cotton Boll,
which by the way is a marvelous thing! That’s
why, I’ve made a second version of the pattern,
with a shorter and fatter tail :). Even after using
the loop turner, I ripped a bit of the edge of the
tail which was easily sewn back in.

10.The last part of this is to fill all the polyester

fills you could into the seahorse and stitch close
the opening while adding little by little of the
filling until you fully stitched the back of the
seahorse. For the tail, since I couldn’t go that
far, I used this thick plastic thread which I
installed with the help of none other than my
beautiful loop turner :). But I think you can
easily do this by inserting it first to the tail
before you inserted the filling.

11.Have fun stitching! Please please please share

me your seahorse creation :). I would so looove
to see it :). You may use this pattern for your
personal use. Should you want to sell your
finished product of the seahorse, I’d appreciate it