Sew Cute to Cuddle by Mariska Vos Bolman is an inspiring book full of sweet patterns for soft toys and animals to sew. There is a lovely range of toys including an owl, monkey, koala, hippo, and dragon. The designs are modern and fresh and really appeal to young children. The toys are graded in difficulty with most suitable for beginner sewers. The instructions are very detailed, with loads of diagrams and tips to guide you through the process. Even if you are a softie making beginner, you should be able to tackle the designs with confidence.
Sew Cute to Cuddle has a helpful tools and techniques section which covers soft toy making techniques such as stitching ans stuffing, as well as advice on selecting fabrics and tools to use. Full sized patterns are included in the book so you can trace the templates and get straight to work. The hard part is deciding which toy to make first!
By varying the fabrics, you can give the toys a lot of individual personality. I think my favourite is Missy the Koala – I do have a soft spot for Aussie animals! She is super cute in her pink dress with matching hair bow.
Sew Cute to Cuddle is available from Stitch Craft Create. They stock a large range of sewing books. The lovely people at F & W Media are giving one lucky reader the chance to win a copy of Sew Cute to Cuddle. To enter, simply leave a comment below telling us about who you would like to make a soft toy for. The competition is open worldwide until August 22nd, 2014. The winner will be randomly drawn and announced here on the blog on August 23.
For more chances to win your own copy of Sew Cute to Cuddle, check out the other stops on the blog tour.
Fri 1st – Mariska Vos-Bolman
Sat 2nd – Messy Jesse
Wed 6th – Boolah Baguette
Fri 8th – Ordinary Lovely
Mon 11th – Sewing Is for Girls
Fri 15th – A Spoonful of Sugar
Wed 20th – Emma Lamb
Fri 22nd – Kestrel Makes
Sat 23rd – Feeling Stitchy
Tue 26th – SCC
My Mr 5 had a run in with a stick blender on Monday – some finger surgery later – I am sure a new softie would put a smile on his face. Although I am planning on making my 2 nephews and neice a softie for Christmas whilst they are still little enough to enjoy them.
Sorry to hear about your son’s injury! Hope he is making a speedy recovery. I am sure a softie would put a smile on his face 🙂
I like the adorable little dragon and maybe I would just have to make him for myself!!
Would love to make the kitty cat for my boys
I love softies! I have only made pillows so far and really looking to learn how to make softies. This books looks very exciting and I like the organic clean look of the animals. Thank your offering this great giveaway.
I love the monkey! Hope to make one for my four month old daughter! She’ll ❤️❤️❤️ it!
That dragon is so cute! they all look lovely. I’d love to make some for the kids for Christmas.
I think my newest grand daughter Imogen would love a little girl doll
They are so cute! Would love to make them for the children at my Early Childhood Centre, they would get lots of love!
How cute are they? That monkey is just adorable! Kudos to Mariska for her new book! How exciting.
Esses bonecos estão realmente muito fofos e convidando para brincar.
Gostei demais. e gostaria muito de fazer esse macaquinho. o tecido realçou ainda mais esses desenhos tão bem feitos.
Parabéns!! E espero ganhar.
Obrigada!!
I would love to make my little grandsons a couple of softies- especially that cute owl.
Lovely ideas. Looks a great book.would be great to win.
My daughter would get one and then I’d make some for my sister-in-law… She and her family host foster children and I would love to make them for the kids!
I would love to especially make a monkey for my Godson who is turning 2.
He is such a cheeky fellow and his dad calls him his little monkey.
I also want to make some softies for my nieces and nephews for Christmas.
I’d have to make the owl for my daughter. They’re all darling!
I would make some softies for my grand kids and great niece! I plan to make Christmas Stockings for a local women’s shelter and these softies would be perfect in each! Thank you for the chance 🙂
I’d like to make a stuffie for each of my grandkids, even the teenagers.
I’d love to make softies for my two girls and two nephews.
There are seven women at work all expecting babies between September and November so I could easily make something for each one of them!!!!
I would love to sew these animals for my little girl. She deserves these cute animals, after her rough start in life. She is a preemie and have hydrocephalus, so she was ind the hospital for a long time. Now she is home and is such a happy baby. She is the biggest fighter I know, and she would love these cute animals!
love to make for nieces and nephews. thanks
ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com
HI, any of the Grandchildren would love these!
Thanks for a winning chance!
The book looks awesome! I would like to make a monkey soft toy for my brother 😛
Adorable! Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d love to make a teddy bear for my sons. It would also be a challenge for me as it would be my first one.
Thank you for this chance!
I would love to make a little girl doll for my granddaughter.
What a super easy book to make all these gorgeous animals. For a beginner like me, I have found the patterns easy to follow and easy to make and they look so good as well. Thank you
They are all so cute! I’m a sewing beginner but I’d love to try the monkey for my sister’s baby, due later in the year x
They are all very cute. I would make for my granddaughter, my nice who is 10 months old, and to give to 2 of my friends who just had babies.
What adorable softies! I would love to win a copy of this book. I love that little girl and the monkey, they are all precious! Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d love to make a monkey for my little monkey 🙂
That little monkey would be the perfect welcome gift for out tiny new neighbor.
Would it be wrong to say I’d love to make that little monkey for me? He is so cute! Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Oh my goodness! They are ALL absolutely adorable! I would make one of each! Two purple hippo would be first because my kids try to out do each other by owning the ‘cutest hippo ever’…this way they would be tied.
We could have our own zoo. This book looks amazing thank you. I think we would all get great enjoyment from this.
I would love to make that adorable monkey for my daughter who just broke up with her boyfriend. She is broken-hearted and this would cheer her up!
I would make these softies for my granddaughter . She could choose her favourite and then I would donate the rest to be sold at the church bazaar.
I have always wanted to make these kind of things . They are adorable. My grand daughter would love them
Adorable! I need this book!!! Those hippos are calling me, and of course I need to see that dragon…..
I’d love to make a back to school friend for my first grader, who really loves his softies!
I’d love to gift a softie to my DS. He always treasures handmade, and has all his sewn gifts on display in his shelf.
I would like to make these for Christmas presents.
I would love to make a softie for my granddaughter and my great nephews. It would be so much fun to make ALL of these cute softies, but giving them away will be pretty hard. cdahlgren at live dot com.
I’d love to make the little koala for a dear friend of mine, who after spending two years here in Australia had to return home to the UK. She’s missing us and Australia so much …. would love to send her a special little Aussie love xx
They are so adorable, I would love to make them for my grandchildren…;o} Thank you for the giveaway!!
All my nieces and nephews would love to get a monkey for Christmas! I could make it out of fabric matching a new pair of shorts or skirt for each of them 🙂
would love it to make for the cancer children in hospital
What gorgeous soft toys for children of all ages. I already want to make them. Thanks for the chance to win a copy of this book.
Never having children of my own, I did inherit 9 grandchildren from my husband’s kids. They are precious kids and looks like there is something special for each one!
I would love to make some for my cousins!
Since I am on my second trimester I would love to make some toys for my soon to be first child. Thanks
My banana loving daughter would love that monkey!!
Our sewing ministry haa been sewing, sewing, sewing for victims of homelessness, poverty and disaster – making totes, clothing and making sweet comfy toys for the little ones – These would be wonderful in the crisis care kits – if permissible – Thanks for the chance to win – We are trying to be low/NO cost – with the Glory to God.
Thanks for always giving to us so generously.
Love to make a monkey for my new grandson due next month ans of course a dolly for the new big sister
I would make one for my neighbour and good friend’s new grandson. She doesn’t sew and often has things made by me for him. I think he would love it.
I’ve been making things for my future Grandkids. My boys are in their 20″s so it will be awhile yet. I have a few things made but these would be sew cute!
I’m totally in love with the monkey….so cute!
Oh lovely – I love soft toys!!!
My niece is mad about Owls and says she has no more room for anymore in her collection but this little one in the book might be too cute to resist making it for her 🙂 x
I’d make some for my grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
I love sewing for my grandchildren, and especially love the koala softie, ideal for my eighth grandchild soon to arrive.
I would love to make some of these for all my God children – there are 5 of them so this would be great to make so many of these sweet softies for them all.
I would love to make a kitty cat for my baby granddaughter, Scarlett. She is just learning to talk and I she loves kittys!
Gina
What a lovely idea for a present! I would love being able to offer a different soft toy to each of my nieces and nephews (4 boys and 5 girls!!) for Christmas and also one to the future baby of one of my best friends who will be with us in a few months! It would be a wonderful soft “welcome to the world” present!
I’d love to make the monkey for my son! They are all soooooo cute!!! 🙂
This book looks amazing! The plush friends are sooo adorable! 🙂 I’d use the patterns to sew for the “Fluff Project”, where we collect stuffed toys for children in foster care. Approaching 1,000 stuffed friends donated so far!!! 🙂 Thanks so much for the chance!
I was looking for something special to sew for young children. WOW!! this is it! My daughter in law, married to our Navy son, is going to start a Reading Room. The reading room would be for moms to drop there young child for a short time while the go to dco. appt., errands to run whatever they needed. My daughter in law is wonderful with children. All the sew cute to cuddle characters would make wonderful hands on comfort toys for all the children.. I would love to own your book and SEW THEM ALL!
I would make at least two to start with – one for my son and one for my daughter!
I would love to make the little monkey for my God Daughter, Rylie!! She would absolutely love it!
I love the little monkey, I’m sure if I do it for my nephew will be very happy.
I love the little owl, I know my granddaughter will love, loves owls.
oh i would love to sew everyone of this adorable book ! i have many children around me to love them 😉
My 4 year old girl would love one of this.
Time to fess up — I’d make them all for myself! Some of these characters remind me of when I was a child and with no children in our lives to pass these cuties on to I would likely make a batch for me and a batch to give away to the children of friends. My fave is the Koala, she is super cute and Australia is a place I’d love to visit but likely won’t have the opportunity to do so.
I can feel my fingers twitching to make one of each, just for myself.
Hello! If I’d win that wonderful book, I’d make a nice soft toy for my two daughters: Aurora, who’s seven, and Emma, who’s one. They love crafts I make for them to play with. I always make new things with Aurora.
Your web site is fantastic! Especially because you make everything with your daughter!!!
Thanks for all your interesting posts and for this incredible opportunity. Love, Katia.
I would love to make the little owl for my first grandchild…due in February!
I’m a sucker for soft toys, so I should be honest and say that I’d make it for myself. And let my kids play with it.
For my little daughter :))
I’d pick my new baby niece or nephew due in Feb
I’d like to make the puppy for my little sister!
I would love to make them for my 5 grand children who are all under the age of three. They would all love them.
Thank you for the opportunity.
The little monkey is awesome!!
love the monkey my son would adore this
I’d love to make one of the wee dolls for my daughter Holly for her 4th birthday.
My best friend was adopted from a children’s home in South-Africa when she was three years old. She made a huge impact on my life and really opened my eyes to what children in adoption agencies had to go through. So today, I’ve often donate my own handmade toys to the children at local children’s homes and I’m sure these animals would make a lot of children smile!
I have just become and aunty for the first time and would love to make one of those owls for my gorgeous niece.
These toys are so pretty, so many I would love to make the dolls and others too for my Granddaughter.
Thanks for the chance.
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I’d make something for my friend who is expecting her first baby – the hard thing would be choosing which softie to make!
I think Id have to make the Koala for myself!
Thanks for the giveaway
I would make the puppy in the image for my son and the sweet Koala for my daughter. Then I would also be tempted to make some of them from felt and sell them in my Storybook Felts Etsy shop.