Domo Kun

So Ludwig is a big fan of Domo and quite a while back he bought materials so that I could make him a domo doll (instead of buying the $60 one he saw in a store).

I took pictures of each step along the way, so if you want to make one, you can follow my pseudo tutorial.

First, you need to cut out shapes from your fluffy brown fabric and white, red and black (Go Pack!) felt.
I used a template made out of paper to guide my cutting.
Cut out the body shape x2 for the front and back.

Once you have cut these out, you need to figure out how wide you want your doll to be. Then cut out fabric in that width. This fabric should go all way around the body. Just think about how you would make it 3-D. Then do that ;D


Then cut out the arms. Use the shape you see here (with the fabric folded under). You don't want your arm pieces to be separate (I made this mistake the first time). If you don't understand what I mean, you will see it in an upcoming picture. Make sure to cut out two of these arm pieces.

Cut out two black circles for the eyes. And cut out your red mouth square as well as two rows of 4 white teeth. Then tack your teeth onto the red mouth piece.

Make sure to leave room above and below your teeth on the red. This is because you are going to cut a square hole in your front body piece. You will then sew the mouth piece to the inside of that hole with brown thread (this way you can't see the stitches- looks much better.

Sew the eyes on with black thread and the mouthpiece with brown thread. Then sew your teeth down with white thread.

See how the mouth is inside the body? Looks so much better!

At this point you can switch to the arms. You will want to round off the square bottom of the arm pieces (shown on the left of the picture). Then you will want to fold the arms over, line them up, pin them and sew them up! Leave the top open so you can stuff it with fluff!

When you stuff it, leave the triangle part (where you didn't sew) free of fluff. This will help when you are attempting to sew them to the sides of the body.


Now you are going to whip stitch that really long width piece all the way around the body. Make sure that you pin it to the body piece so that you don't get off track.

That is just one side whipstitched. Just keep going all the way around the body.

Then you need to whipstitch the back body piece to the width pieces. Make sure to leave a space so you can stuff your doll! I left the space at the crotch open so that I could stuff the body and legs easily.

(At this point I stopped taking pictures... sorry)

Stuff him! Make sure he is firm! Then whip stitch the arms onto the body, pin them! And make sure they are even once you have sewed one of them on!

Then Enjoy your doll!

Ludwig wasn't feeling well when he got home, so he used his doll as a pillow.