Spellbinders | Felt Fox

Hello there, today I have another plushie to share with you, If you haven't seen the others that I made, you can see the reindeer here and the pumpkin here. Today I am using the Forest Fox, however, I decided to make him into more of an arctic fox and use greys instead of red/browns. 

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I started off by die cutting the main body of the Spellbinders Forest Fox Etched Dies from light grey felt from my stash. I then cut the white pieces using the white felt in the Spellbinders Merino Wool Felt Holiday Collection. The black I used for his eyes is also from the same felt collection. The grey for his nose, as well as the pink for his cheeks, are both from the Spellbinders Merino Wool Felt Neutrals Collection. 

I followed the video tutorial by Nichol Spohr to stitch the fox using DMC Floss (3 strands). Instead of stitching the nose and cheeks, I decided to glue them using hot glue. I did this for the eyes too, being careful to only add glue to the bottom part, so that I could add the white highlight stitch to the top. 

I used polyester filling to add some plumpness to the fox (in his head, tail and body only) but you can use a variety of filling materials. The stitching is fairly easy to do, although a little time consuming. The hardest parts are attaching the tail into he body and then the head onto the body. I usually use a blunt needle when stitching, but for these parts, I did use a sharp one so that I could get through all the layers. 

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Isn't he just absolutely adorable? I think he may be my favourite so far! I do still have one that I want to make though and will hopefully share that here soon! Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have a wonderful day!