Felt Frog Sewing Pattern

For those who love frogs and crafts, you’ve arrived at your next favorite place! My printable PDF Felt Frog Sewing Pattern includes a detailed step by step tutorial with photo illustrations. This tutorial will walk you through all of the steps to create your own adorable felt frogs with whimsical accessories! This perfect introduction to plush making will teach you to make your own mushroom frog, flower bud and lily pad wearing frogs.

This sewing pattern bundle includes digital PDF file pattern and SVG files to upload to your personal cutting machine (hand cutting is fine too!)

No sewing machine required! This pattern is designed to be hand sewn! All you will need is a needle and thread.

Recommended Tools and Supplies:

• wool felt
• needle and thread
• doll eyes, beads, or embroidery thread
• toy stuffing
• small sharp scissors

Make Your Own Felt Stuffed Animals!

These frogs are both fun and easy to make; a perfect spring themed felt sewing project for a rainy day or to give away to friends! Who wouldn’t fall in love with a palm sized mushroom frog? Especially here, at the home of the Emotional Support Frog sewing challenge.

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How To Sew Your Own Felt Frog

Begin by cutting all of your felt pieces as directed by the sewing pattern.

Knot your thread and send the needle from the inside of the frog body to the outside, about 3/4 of the way toward the back of the frog (figure #2). Match together the Bottom of Body piece with one side of the Main Body, pinning at the legs and back. Begin stitching together at the edges starting from from where you knotted your thread moving downward towards the legs.

Continue stitching all along the underside of the frog, past each leg and moving towards the front of the body and past face, until you reach where you started. Send the needle to the inside of the frog and knot in place.

Once again, knot your thread at the inside of the frog about 3/4 toward the back of the frog and send the thread to the outside of the body. Match the opposite side of the body and pin in place. Begin stitching the edges together in the same manner as before, moving downward toward the back and across each leg. Continue sewing until just past the eyes at the top of the head. Leave your thread in place to dangle while we work on the next part.

Next we will optionally insert wire into the legs. This creates extra stability and mild pose-ability within your felt soft sculpture pieces. My go to for adding wire to my felt creatures is to use pipe cleaners. First cut a piece of chenille wire (pipe cleaner) to a size just an bit longer than the length across both legs. I usually hold the wire up to the piece I am working on to judge the length.
Fold the wire inward at each end to make the wire just the right size to insert into the inside of the frog, and into the legs. Fold the wire upward at each side exactly where the legs would bend.

Fold wire to fit into both the front and the back sets of legs. Insert the wire into the inside of the frog’s body, pushing down into the legs.
Now to stuff the frog! Start by balling up very small bits of toy stuffing (a little smaller than pea sized) and pushing it down into the legs. I like to use a toothpick or lollipop stick to push the stuffing into smaller spaces such as legs.
Fill the legs entirely before moving on to stuffing the body.

Another optional step is to add a small mouth! I like to make semi grumpy, pouty mouths to these frogs as they are modeled after the Desert Rain frog which are particularly grumpy looking little frogs.
To add a mouth, thread your needle with embroidery thread and knot the end. Send your needle out at the front of the frogs face where you’d like to position a mouth. Send the needle back in about an 1/8 – 1/4 inch away. Trim the end of the thread but keep it tucked inside of the body. Sew the last opening shut.