Sew a marmot stuffed animal

What you need:

• Aquarium floss from the zoo store
• medium gray cotton or flannel fabric (eco-tested)
• black embroidery thread
• 1 embroidery scissors
• 1 needle with a larger needle eye
• 1 sewing machine
• Wrapping paper for the pattern
• 1 needle threader
• gray and black branded sewing thread
• Tailor's chalk
• 1 pen
• 1 ruler
• 1 fabric scissors

Things to know before sewing the marmot

• Aquarium floss from the pet store is considerably cheaper than magic floss or other filling floss that are available in craft stores. The aquarium cotton is just as washable as other polyfill.
• Since you probably want to sew the stuffed animal for a child, look out for a very good, tested one Eco-quality, so that the child is not harmed by bad smelling or contaminated cheap substances suffers.
• Refer to the instructions for your sewing machine so that it has the optimal settings while you are sewing.
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• In any case, work with a pattern so that the marmot stuffed animal turns out well and looks pretty.
• If you don't have a sewing machine, you can sew it by hand if necessary. To do this, however, you should use a style stitch so that you can wash the marmot stuffed animal and children can play with it without the seams opening.


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• Before you start drawing and sew get a picture of a groundhog to see it full-height.

How to sew the stuffed animal

Take the picture of the marmot, the ruler, the wrapping paper and the pen. First you will use it to draw the pattern.

1. Draw the body (head and torso) of the marmot in one piece. Think of a seam allowance of 2 cm.
2. Then draw the four elongated legs, tail and ears of the marmot.
3. Now cut out the individual parts of the marmot stuffed animal.
4. Pick up the fabric, pattern pieces, and pins. Use the pins, which should have colored heads to make them easier to find, on the fabric to pin the pattern pieces.
5. Trace the edges of the pattern with tailor's chalk.
6. One at a time, carefully cut out the fabric along the edges. Check beforehand that you have really left a 2 cm margin everywhere.
7. Remove the pins and pattern from the fabric.
8. Now use the pins to switch the hem around the individual parts. If you put the hem edge all the way in, you can save yourself the need to serge the edges.
9. Now take the basting thread (white thread) and a needle and scissors to hand. Use basting stitches to sew the edge at longer zigzag intervals. This will help you with your sewing. Then remove the pins.
10. Prepare your sewing machine according to the sewing machine instructions.
11. First sew around the hem of the marmot stuffed animal, then pin the parts with pins one after the other and sew the individual parts of the stuffed animal with a straight, narrow stitch together.
12. Finally, embroider the face of the marmot with the embroidery utensils.

Your marmot stuffed animal is ready!