How to make your own Onigiri Friend Plushie Demo!

Materials you will need:

1. White fleece fabric (make sure it’s not semi-see-through. You could also use white felt if you wanted to.)
2. A small bit of fabric for your umeboshi (most fabric stores have a strap bin where you can buy small leftover pieces of fabric for much cheaper prices.)
3. Felt-  black, blue and red (this depends on the colors you’ll need for its face and the Nori hat, so you can use different colors if you want.)
4. White thread and other threads matching your felt/ umeboshi fabric choices
5. Sewing scissors
6. Stuffing
7. Hot glue gun (you could also use fabric glue, but that sometimes shows through and discolors certain types of fabric and even felt occasionally)
8. Strap of cardboard that’s clean (for the umeboshi cardboard support circle)

Here’s the pattern: Onigiri Friend Pattern (requires Adobe Acrobat)

Here’s the list for the order in which you'll be constructing the plushie:

• Cut out all the pieces following the pattern
• Glue on the Nori hat pieces to the front and back Onigiri fleece body pieces
• Cut out the pieces of felt face pieces and sew them on to front of the Onigiri face
• Construct the umeboshi
• Attach the umeboshi to the back of the Onigiri's body piece
• Sew together the gusset with the front (face) triangle body while aligning the Nori hat gusset piece (leaving an opening to stuff)
• Sew the other side of the gusset to the back triangle body piece in the same way as the previous time (leaving an opening to stuff).
• Turn the plushie inside-out.
• Stuff the plushie.
• Sew stuffing opening close.
• Hug!
  

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