How To Make

Snowballs, fight!!!

"Snowball Fight!" ITH Stuffie Tutorial

 A collection of finished, plush snowball stuffies with cute embroidered faces.

Materials and Preparation

Hoop a tear-away stabilizer with one piece of minky fabric. A bi-stretch fabric is recommended.

A piece of white minky fabric hooped with tear-away stabilizer.

Stitching Instructions

Step 1: Embroider the Front

Stitch the face and the first trimming outline.

The snowball's face and outline stitched onto the minky fabric.

When the front embroidery is complete, pause the machine before the last seam (the final outline) and lay the second piece of fabric on top.

A second piece of minky fabric placed over the embroidered front, right sides together.

Step 2: Final Seam and Finishing

Place the backing fabric with right sides together. Stitch the final outline seam. It is recommended to select an outline thread color that is close to your fabric color.

The final outline stitched through both layers of fabric.

Unhoop the project and cut out the shape. I used zig-zag scissors, but you can also use regular scissors and make clips into the seam allowance every ⅓ inch.

The snowball shape cut out from the excess fabric with zig-zag scissors.

Gently tear away the stabilizer.

Tearing away the excess stabilizer from the seam.

Now it is time to give the future snowball its round shape. You will need to cut out the stitched triangle at the bottom, following seam number 1.

Cutting out the triangular dart at the bottom of the snowball.

Turn the snowball right side out through the opening.

Turning the snowball right side out through the opening.

The snowball partially turned right side out.

The snowball fully turned right side out, ready for stuffing.

Fill it with padding—fill it tight!

Stuffing the snowball with polyester fiberfill.

Pin the opening closed.

The opening of the stuffed snowball pinned shut.

A close-up of the pinned opening.

Sew the opening closed by hand.

Hand-sewing the opening closed with a needle and thread.

The finished, plush snowball stuffie, ready for a snowball fight!