Toy Elephant Sewing Pattern

Free Felt Toy Elephant Sewing Pattern

Approximate height: 7 1/2″

Materials required:

• Pattern
• Felt: 30″ x 10″ Dark Grey
• Felt: 8″ x 5″ Red
• Felt: 2″ x 2″ White
• Stranded cotton: 1 skein each, Dark Grey and White
• Pair Brown Glass Eyes
• 16 Gauges Wire for legs and trunk 40″
• Gold Braid 18″
• Filling
• Pinking shears

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Preparation

Place all the pattern pieces (except he Tusks and Harness Cloth) onto the grey felt and cut the shapes carefully. Cut 4 ear, 2 main body, 2 underbody, 4 sole, 1 under-trunk gusset, 1 back gusset and 1 tail.

Cut 4 tusks in white felt. From red felt, cut out harness cloth 8″ x 3 1/2″, cut understrap 6″ x 1″ with pinking shears.

Cut wire into three pieces, 10″, 15″, 15″ and prepare the two longest pieces for legs (see General Instructions) bind the end of the 10″ piece for the trunk.

How to make the felt toy Elephant – Sewing instructions

All seams are glove stitched on the right side unless otherwise stated.

Using two strands of dark grey cotton, join underbody pieces together from C to E on the wrong side.

Join the back gusset to one of the body pieces from D over the head along the back matching D and B. Join the second body piece to back gusset in the same manner.

Join under-trunk gusset to underbody from A across E to A on the wrong side. Join trunk from D around F, insert point of under-trunk gusset F, and join from F to A on each side. Continue to A, joining underbody to main body down each front leg.

Join back of each front leg from O to G, and sew in the front soles.

Join end of back gusset to underbody from B across to C to B on the wrong side.

Push a little stuffing down to the end of the trunk and two front legs. Join one end of the 10″ wire to the centre arch of the front wire legs. Push the wire down the trunk and legs, pack the stuffing around the wires.

Join the seams and soles on each back leg, wire and stuff. Join main body and underbody seam from O to N, complete the stuffing and stitch the remaining seam from O to N.

Join each pair of ears together from L around to M. Sew the ears on each side of the head in the position marked on the pattern.

Sew in the eyes (see General Instructions). Join each pair of tusks with white cotton, stuff firmly, close the opening and stitch into position as in pattern.

Fold the tail lengthways adding a few strands of dark grey cotton inside and to hang about 1″ from the felt. Stitch down the tail, and with the seam to the back stitch into position matching X to X.

Sew gold braid around harness cloth, about 1/2″ from the outer edge.

Join the 1″ strip of red felt for understrap to lower edge of cloth. Place the cloth on the Elephant’s back and pass the other end of the strip under the body. Join to corresponding side (see photograph).

Trumpet!!