31+ Easy Softies to Sew for Beginners

Sew a Softie Month has come to an end, but that means there’s a new lot of softie tutorials out there for you to check out! Yay! These tutorials are perfect for beginnings sewers, children or adults. Many of them involve hand sewing, but there’s no reason who you can’t adapt them to do with a sewing machine.

Below I have put together a round up of all the bloggers who participated in Sew a Softie Month with links to their tutorials. Many will have templates to download as well.

You can find my tutorial right down at the 17th July 😀.

July 1 – Trixi from Coloured Buttons shows you haw to make there cute Mini Softies in a Jar (printable template included) softies in a jar coloured buttons

July 2 – Tina from Miss Daisy Patterns has created a little Fairy Doll Pattern (the instructions and template are no longer free, though)

July 3 – Mignon Prider Design has created this great tutorial for making a plushie family using your own images. You can also check out my tutorial for printing straight onto fabric or using heat transfer paper to make these.

July 4 – Maggy from Red Ted Art shows you how to make a strawberry softie!

July 5 – Abbie from While She Naps got her children involved to create tutorials for the event. Her daughter, Stella, made a smiley face emoji tutorial and her other daughter, Roxanne, made a tutorial for a felt Cthulhu.

July 6 – Mollie from Wild Olive has created a tutorial for an embroidered alpaca softie. (free template to download)

July 7 – Elisa Allen from Make Film Play shows you how to make this gorgeous dachshund softie. (free template to download)

July 8 – Laura from Colourful Minds shows you how to make woolly jumper creatures

July 9 – Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine designer, Jo Carter, shows you how to make some big eared bunnies.

July 10 -Amie, author of the Sewing School book, has a helper showing you how to make a pineapple softie (free template to download)

July 10 – Nic Hahn from Mini Matisse shows you how to make groovy little owl softies.

July 11 – Damjana from AppleGreen Cottage shows you how to make some star softies! (free template to download)

July 12 – MaryAnne from Mama Smiles shows you how to design and sew softies based on children’s designs.

July 14 – Joanna from the Blue Barn shows you how to make tea towel softies.

July 15 – Penny from Mother Natured shows you how to sew a leaf softie.

July 16 – Simply Sewing magazine has a tutorial in issue 8 for these Sea life softie keyrings. You can download the templates for free though.

July 16 – Bustle & Sew have this tutorial for a pin cushion mouse. (tutorial and template free to download)

July 17 – Sarah White from Our Daily Craft Kid-Directed Softie Projects

July 17 – Here’s my tutorial where I show you how to make emoji pillows. (free templates to download)

July 18 – Cintia from My Poppet makes these super cute little pocket pals! pocket-pals_12

July 19 – Liezel from Happiness @ nr4 shows you how to sew children led softies

July 20 – Part 1: Deborah Fisher from Fish Museum and Circus has a tutorial for making a giant pencil softie! I love these!

July 21 – Natalie Kramer from Schaeresteipapier shows you how to make a can of sardine softies!

July 24 – The Scorer Family over at Make it Your Own show you how to make Softies Back Pack Tags.

July 25 – Kate Grono from The Craft Train shows you how to make this cute drawstring bag. felt drawstring bag

July 27 – Colleen Bell from The Embroiderist show you how to sew Harry the Hippo. (free template to download)

July 27 – Part 2: Deborah Fisher from Fish Museum and Circus show you how to sew a giant quilt (to go with that giant pencil)

July 28 – Ula from Lulu & Celeste show you how to sew a Mia bunny.

July 29 – Kasia from The Crafty Mummy Blog show you how to make a carrot softie. Perfect for Mia bunny!

July 30 – Chanelle Avenue shows you how to make a cloud cushion on her YouTube channel.

July 30 – Hannah shows you how to make a kitten softies on her YouTube channel.

July 31 – Liezel from Happiness @ nr4 shows you how to make these foxie softies.

July 31 Nell Regan from Rhythms of Play shows you how to make a pocket pet mouse How-to-sew-a-pocket-pet-mouse-softie-pin4

Sew a Softie Month has been loads of fun once again. A big thanks to Trixi for organising the Month long event! I hope you have seen something here that you would like to sew or sew with a child!

Be sure to join the Sew a Softie Facebook group so you can get involved next year!

Until next time,

Domenica