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Easy, cheap and cute! (detailed tutorial)
I'm pretty sure that this is the first ,,Cheburashka" plushie/keyring/bag charm tutorial in internet.
It's also my first project ^w^

The birthday of my friend was coming and i wanted to make her a cute DIY ,,Cheburashka", because she just adores him!
I was looking for a ,,Cheburashka" tutorial on the internet, but I just couldn't find ANY! >.<
So i challenged myself and made a cheburashka keyring ^^
In the process I made lots of photos, so that I could post it as a project here.
Hope you'll like it!!

Posted by Anastasia K. • Published 29th July 2011 • See Anastasia K.'s 2 projects »

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CazSteele favorited Plushie/Keyring "Cheburashka" 17 Jul 20:28

Step 1
Draw a sketch on paper of a ,,Cheburashka".
Step 2
Cut out the body-and-head part as shown in the picture.

Set aside the sketch. You will need it later.
Step 3
Cut out the chest, so that you would have 3 parts of cheburashka: the head, the chest and the outer part of the body as shown in the picture.
Step 4
Take some brown felt. Fold it in half.
Place the outer part of the body on the brown felt and define it as shown in the picture.
Attention!! Don't draw the chest part here.
Cut this piece out.

You should have 2 identical pieces (because you folded the felt in half).
Step 5
On one of the pieces draw the chest part and cut it out.
Step 6
Now you should have 3 brown felt pieces: one full-body piece, one outer-body piece and one chest piece.
Step 7
Cut such a piece of light-brown felt and put in on top of the full-body piece as shown in the picture.
Step 8
Put the outer-body piece on top as shown in the picture. It should fit perfectly.
Make sure that the light-brown felt piece is not too big or too small. It should also stick out a bit, because later it will be holding the head.

Set aside.
Step 9
Take your head sketch and define it on brown felt. Cut out.

Repeat this step (or fold it in half from the beginning and do it only one time).
Step 10
You should have two head pieces.
Step 11
Take your head sketch and cut out the inner part of the head sketch.
Step 12
On one of the head parts define the inner head sketch as shown in the picture. Cut it out.
Step 13
It should look like this.
Step 14
Cut out a piece of light-brown felt. This piece should be round and it should't be bigger as the head piece.
Step 15
Take the body parts, that you've set aside.
Remember the longer ligh-brown felt piece that sticked out?
Put the full-head piece underneath. Then, on top of the light-brown piece that is sticking out, put a light brown round piece. Then put an outer head piece.
It should look like this.

Set aside.
Step 16
Now it's time to take out your old sketch!!
Cut out an ear.
One ear is enough, if you want to make them identical.
Step 17
Take some brown felt, fold it in half.
Define the ear, but make the end of the ear a bit longer, because you are going to stick in the ends in the head.
Cut it out.

Repeat this step twice.
Step 18
You should now have 4 pieces.
Step 19
Put the inner light-brown head piece and the outer brown head piece aside (look at he top of this picture).
Then put one ear piece on the left and another ear piece on the right, so that the extra sticking out sections would be on the full-head piece.
Step 20
Put the light-brown head piece and the outer brown head piece again.

It should now look like this.

It's time to make legs and arms!!
Step 21
Cut out small legs out of brown felt (you can use the legs that you drew in your sketch as an assistance).
Don't forget to make them a bit longer on the top.
Step 22
Stick them in.
Step 23
Cut out and arm from your sketch.
Take some brown felt, fold it in two.
Define the arm, but make it a bit longer.

Cut out.
You should have two elongated arms.
Step 24
It should look like this now.
Step 25
Let's start filling in the ear with cotton.

Take a needle and some brown thread.
Stitch 2/3 of the ear edges (i used a blanket stitch for it), then fill it in with cotton, stitch the last edge. Don't cut off the thread.
Step 26
Stitch the inner ear outline with a simple stitch.

Do the same with another ear.
Step 27
Take some white felt and cut out 2 small circles for eyes.
Glue them to the light-brown head piece.
Take a black marker/pen and draw the eyes.
Step 28
Draw the nose too.
Take a red pen and draw a mouth :)
Step 29
Glue the outer head piece...
Step 30
...to the light-brown head piece.
Step 31
The head should look like this.
Don't glue it yet.
Step 32
Take the full-body part and glue hands to it as shown in the picture.
Step 33
Take the outer-body part.
Step 34
Glue as shown in the picture.
Don't glue it all, just the parts near the chest-cutout.
Step 35
Put the elongated light-brown piece on it as shown, so that it would stick to the glue.
Step 36
You should now have 2 parts of body:
full-body parts with glued hands on it
and
outer-body part with light-brown piece.
Step 37
Put the parts together.
Step 38
Take a needle and some brown thread.
Start sewing the edges of the body (blanket stitsch preffered).
Attention!!! Look at the step 39!
Step 39
When you approach the part, where the legs should be, stick them in (stick in only the elongated part).
Step 40
Proceed sewing as shown in the picture (sew in the legs too).
After you sew in the legs...
Step 41
...start stuffing cotton.
Step 42
Proceed sewing with the cotton inside.
Don't make your ,,Cheburashka" too fat :)
Step 43
Don't cut off the thread.
Take the full-head part with ears and put the elongated light-brown body part on it as shown in the picture.

You can also set the ears aside.
Step 44
Put the face on top and start sewing in.
As you sew, sew in the ears.
Attention!!! Look at the step 45!
Step 45
Don't forget to stuf in a bit of cotton as you sew.
,,Cheburashka" shouldn't look as he's starving :)
Step 46
Now the plushie ,,Cheburashka" should look like this from the front...
Step 47
...and like this from the back.
Step 48
You can also make a keyring from this plushie.
Just buy the keyring-part at a supermarket...
Step 49
...and sew it on!
Step 50
Here you go- a ,,Cheburashka" keyring!! It can also be used as a bag charm or any other thing. Just let your imagination flow~

I hope this tutorial was helpful ^^