No Sew Monster Dolls

When I owned a boutique in the East Village of NYC we would take the scraps from the dresses and make matching accessories and quite often these crazy monster dolls.  Our customers liked having a kooky stuffed creature made with fabric that cost $400 a yard and was dressed like they were.  My dresses were on the expensive side which is why we kept the scraps.  The best part about making these little monsters is that there are no rules.  Go crazy with pattern, colors, buttons and ribbon.  You can either use a simple zigzag stitch OR make them no-sew like I did with the E-6000 sewing glues.   Remember to use up the scraps, go crazy with color and always Make Your Mark!

Maybe you can help me name them?

I really want my chair back!

Watch how they came to life here!

THINGS I USED

Scrap fabrics

E-6000 FabriFuse, Stitchless and Glue

Heavy cotton fabric

Allure in Gloss Black

Americana Multi-Surface Satin in black, gray and red

Faux fur, zippers, buttons and faux flowers

Iron and Poly-fil

 HERE'S HOW PART 1

1. & 2.  Draw your pattern, pin it on folded fabric and cut

3. Cut out two different sized eyes in a contrasting fabric

4. Cut several pieces of fabric for the body and pink around the edges

*To look like a funky shirt

5.  Trace around the eyes with a pencil

6.  Paint a shadow around the eyes with the multi surface in gray and red

7. Cut 4 matching 2" x 3" sized squares for feet

8. Cut two 4" x 10" pieces of fabric for the arms

*I used a striped fabric for this

9.  & 10. Add E-6000 Stitchless to the back of all the pieces and iron in place

11. & 12. Add more E-6000 Stitchless to the arm pieces leaving one end open for stuffing 

and then fold and iron

*Your making long tubes like socks

HERE'S HOW PART 2

13.  Pink the edges of the arms

14. & 15  Add more Stitchless around the squares and iron together for the arms making sure

to leave one side open

16.  Add E-6000 Fabrifuse around the edge of the bottom layer of the monster body leaving a 5" hole at the base (to allow stuffing) and then place the monster on top to dry

17.  Fabrifuse a heart on the body

18.  Use E-6000 Glue to add the button eyes

*Make them kooky!

19. 20. & 21.  Use the Allure to add a stitched mouth, stitches around the heart and funky eyelashes

22.  Stuff the arms and feet and use Fabrifuse to glue the openings closed using clothespins to keep them in place while they dry

23.  Stitch on the arms and feet with needle and thread and a button 

14.  Stuff the body with Poly-fil through the 5" opening and then stitch the hole closed

Planning their escape?

No Sew Flower Pillows

By now you all know how much I love color.  The more color there is in a project, the happier I am.   Originally when I was making these pillows I thought they might work in several shades of one color, but after I got going my 3rd-grade-self took over and I ended up using every color in the rainbow.  Ya know,  I couldn't be happier with the way they look!  I also figured out a way to put them together without one single stitch by hand OR on a sewing machine.......Yup, not one stitch.   The only thing that could make these better is if they were filled with Skittles.  Remember, have fun, use color 

and always Make Your Mark!

Flower power!

Ready to sit pretty

Learn how to make them here!

Stuff You'll Need

Several colors of polyester taffeta

Heavy cotton in bright colors

Pillow stuffing

Tea light

Office clips

E-6000 Stitchless, Fabrifuse and Glue

Iron

Pom pom trim

Here's how (part 1)

1. 2. & 3.   Iron a piece of 10" x 18" on top of another color of 18" x 18" fabric using E-6000 Stitchless

*This will give a color-blocked look to the pillow face

4. & 5.  Cut green taffeta fabrics in leaf shapes in descending sizes with the largest leaf being about 4" long

6. & 7.  Cut different colors of circles in descending sizes with the largest circle being about 5" diameter

8. & 9.  Using a tea light, carefully singe the edges of the leaves and circles so that they don't fray

*This will also give them texture

Part 2

10. 11. & 12.  Using small dots of E-6000 Glue, assemble the flowers and leaves and then glue them to the color-blocked pillow face

13.  Cut another 18" x 18" fabric square for the pillow back and glue the pillow front on top of it (around the edges with E-6000 Fabrifuse) leaving a 5" gap

14. & 15. Cut 18" pieces of pom pom fabric and glue them to the edges of the pillow with more E-6000 Fabrifuse and let everything dry overnight

16. 17. & 18.  Stuff the pillow and seal the 5" opening with more E-6000 Fabrifuse and then clamp closed with office clips while it dries

Hello color!