I made some plush eggs as gifts for some of my friends this past Christmas and completely forgot to post about it, but here’s the post now!
I will go over my personal plush process below the cut, but I wonder if you can guess who these pokemon are before you reach the end of the post?
First, I bought some minky-like polyester fabric, along with some RIT dye-more synthetic dyes to get specific colors I might not have found at my local store. I cut egg shells and some rough blocks for the patterned bits and dyed a lot of it.
Once things were dyed, I began to cut out the pattern parts: spots, stripes, rings, etc. I used basic paper for special stencils and free-handed the designs, traced them on the back or wrong side of the fabric with a pen. Then, very carefully, I cut just barely outside the lines with some sharp scissors.
Once this was done, I began to pin the parts to the shells where I wanted them and then top-stitched them onto the shells, about 1/8th-1/4th of an inch or as close as I comfortably felt like getting to the edge of each piece without risking my machine eating the whole thing (it tried to twice because I was rushing).
I sewed the shells together, snipped up to the seams on each side of the shell up to but not on the seams, so as to keep the eggs round as possible, then flipped them inside out. Here they are all folded neat and nice together.
Finally, I stuffed them until they were nice and firm with polyfil, and hand sewed them shut with my best attempts at an invisible stitch. Then I had a handful of pokemon eggs ready to be loved and cared for by some new trainers!
When I wrapped them up, I made some tags with card stock and ribbon and wrote some dex entries and care tips for them!
When the actual time came, they were all so thrilled, and that in turn made my heart soar. I have made many crafts but this project really pushed me out of my comfort zone and I had quite a lot of fun making them. I hope that this project inspires you to go and make your own pokemon inspired crafts!
If you made it this far bc you’re interested in these, I have made some other pokemon egg plushies before, a Basic 2km GO styled egg, a Cleffa egg and Pichu and Skorupi eggs.
And if you were stumped by any of the pokemon eggs, from left to right starting from the top row in picture one, they are Eevee, Alolan Vulpix, Gothita, Corphish, Pumpkaboo, Paldean Wooper and Caterpie. If you managed to guess them all correctly then congrats! The only prize for that is satisfaction on your knowledge of pokemon :)
I do plan on making some more in the future, namely another Alolan Vulpix and Eevee egg for me, because those two were my favorites of the batch, but also a Happiny and a Togepi egg like from the anime. What were your favorite eggs that I made and what would you like to see in the future? Lemme know in the comments!
