For this month’s project, I wanted to do something kind of fall/Halloween themed so I could pretend it isn’t 100 degrees outside in September.
I thought it would be cute to make a little plushie of my favorite cryptid, Mothman!
I ended up making my own pattern for this project, since none of the teddy bear patterns I could find looked the way I wanted.

I used one pattern piece to be cut 4 times for the body; two for the front, and two for the back. I started by pinning and sewing the center fronts of the torso together, leaving the legs and arms al

Then, I placed the front and back pieces together, right sides together. I stitched around the entire mothman, minus about 3 inches at the top of the head which I used to turn him right-side out.

I decided to embroider him a little face using the Brother SKITCH PP1 embroidery machine. Using the Artspira app, I drew his face, then hooped the head and stitched out the design. I went through a couple different versions of the face as I decided how close together I wanted each feature, and how big they should be.

Once he had a face, I moved on to making his antennae. I cut two 4”x 7” strips to be his antennae, and made two tubes out of these strips. I stitched up the sides of the antennae, as well as the top, but left the bottom open for stuffing.

Once I turned them right-side out, I stuffed them with PolyFil, leaving about 1” at the bottom for tucking into the top of the head.

I pinned the antennae to the open top front seam of the head, with the ends of the antennae facing downward. I stitched the antennae down, then sewed up the top of the head seam with my hand sewing needle and thread.

For the wings, I cut two, with the inner flat end of the wing on the fold. I then sewed each wing up, leaving 1” near the base of each wing to turn it right-side out. Once right-side out, I hand whip-stitched the wings onto the back.