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plush sloth

This year is all about finishing things. I write that because I am so terrible at starting projects but not finishing them. For Christmas my mum bought me the cutest little sewing kit to make a sloth. I adore sloths, they are my favourite animal. Unfortunately it took me a while to start stitching this little kit.

sloth sewing kit

The DIY embroidered doll kit from kiriki embroidery was to make a little sloth. There were a few different animals to choose from but I couldn’t resist the little sloth. I was surprised how small the box was but it contained a printed fabric panel, 5 colours of embroidery thread and stuffing.

The only thing not included was an embroidery hoop but I had plenty of these. I placed the fabric panel in the embroidery hoop, and snipped a piece of each thread and placed them on the guide, and started stitching.

stitching a sloth kit
The pattern was easy to follow although I had to look up how to do a chain stitch as I’d forgotten.

plush sloth craft kitI followed the pattern and added all the details before putting the panels together and stitching around my sloth. It only took a few evenings to finish off. I like the fact he is sitting up hugging his knees.

plush sloth

He’s only a few inches tall but he’s super cute and sits next to the felt sloth I stitched earlier this year, along with the papercut sloth I made.

3 Comments

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    Bryanna skye
    August 6, 2018 at 4:36 pm

    oh my goodness this is SO cute – I keep saying I want to start practicing sewing again and this would be such a fun project

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    Yeah Lifestyle
    August 6, 2018 at 10:26 pm

    OMG, this is the cutest sloth I have ever seen and it looks really easy to do as well. I am not that good at sewing but tempted to try this.

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    Wendy
    August 7, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    This is great. We totally hear you on starting projects, getting distracted and moving on to something else!

    Thanks for sharing.
    Wendy,

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