I love these little socks that I pick up at our local street fair in Palm Desert. They are from Japan and I adore the Japanese writing on them! They come with ducks, pandas, pigs, rabbits and other animals and each one is just adorable.
Boo loves to mix and match the animals:
You can easily make a similar simplified version using some felt and thread. I started with these simple shapes for a pig:
First I stitched the light pink pig head to the dark pink background (will become the pig’s body):
Then I stitched the light colored snout piece into place with contrasting thread for the nostrils:
I used the same thread to add some contrast to the ears:
I added eyes using black thread:
Then I trimmed the large dark pink felt piece down into a smaller oval shape for the body……
………and cut an identical piece for the back:
I place the two oval pieces right sides together and began stitching them together at the outside. As I stitched towards the bottom I placed a small dark pink ovals halfway in to make a foot:
I stitched a few times around the foot to secure it in place:
Continuing to stitch along the bottom….until it was time to insert the other foot:
I stitched all the way around to the other side of the pig, leaving an opening at the top. I turned the pig right side out and inserted a small amount of stuffing:
Pinching the opening shut….here is what my little pig looked like at this point:
I carefully folded the front top edge over the back edge and stitched it shut:
I used some light pink DMC thread to add a little tail at the top:
Finally I stitched the pig to the back of a sock:
A finished animal “pom-pom” for your sock!
These would be great a great way to re-purpose your mismatching socks!
Love it Ashley! COOL ! I love it
Very cute. But……have you tried them in the washing machine yet?
They wash fine….we've had a bunch of them for about a year! But I wash everything on gentle….no dryer.
Ack! Too cute!!!
holy detail!!!! wow, they are amazingly cute. We have a lot of mismatched socks around our house.
Soooo cute!
super cute!!
oh amazing! my daughter had a pair of tinkerbell sox with pom-poms of her head and we have never been able to find anything like it again! thnx so much for sharing!
How much fun is that! And something my littlest guy would like too! Thanks for the inspirations!
Oh that is so cute!
How cute!! I think I might have to do this for some mis-matched socks that we have around our house…
SO cute!! We have the same socks at our house – my daughter, Savannah loves the little animals! Thanks for the tutorial – now I can make her some more when she grows out of the other ones!!
Lindsay
Too cute! I love this idea!
Ashley, is there nothing you can't do? Thank you so much for sharing this absolutely adorable tutorial with us!
very, very cute…great idea for mismatched socks too…
Those are SO adorable!! what a great idea!
i'm gonna make some panda ones….chimi is panda this and panda that…..looooooooooove siennas's shoes…….
Genius! I just love this! Fantastic idea for mismatched socks. so so so cute! Thank you for sharing!
Too darn cute!!
You creativeness is AWESOMENESS! Share just a lil…pa-pa-pa-please?!
That pig is the cutest thing I. Have. Ever. Seen.
I can't imagine sewing it though… I hate sewing tiny things!
These are so cute Ashley!
Those socks are adorable…but what I really love are those shoes! Wherever did you find them?
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You're killing me with the cuteness of those little pigs…ohhhh. You know I couldn't not add them to our "link luv roundup" today. http://bit.ly/cz2eus
Adorable!! I've linked this to my blog. Thanks for sharing!
adorable, i really need to buy some felt!
Adorable!! Great job on something so small, too!!
If you know, what kind of felt did you use? Was it the thin kind you can buy in smallish pieces at the craft store, or the thicker stuff (which I have only seen by the bolt or online)?
Thanks!!
I Love these! I think I need to make a few for christmas stockings! Very Cool.