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YoYo Plush Dog Sewing Pattern

January 28, 2016 by Craft Passion 22 Comments

Sewing, Baby, Crafts, Intermediate, Kid, Stuffed Animals

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Love this adorable and innocent-looking YoYo Plush Dog that can make many cute postures. My kids can sit down and play with the YoYo Plush Dog the whole day, it keeps them entertained for hours by trying out all kinds of funny posture for it to achieve. We would laugh and giggle seeing it being twisted here and there, giving us the gasping look with the stick-out tongue. I have captured some of its postures to show you but it can do more than that, just that sometimes photos can’t say the cuteness.

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YoYo Plush Dog has turned itself into a Yoga master, see how well it can balance itself with the handstand…. or should I said nose stand? There aren’t any other external support to hold it this way. Yoga seems easy on him… I am envy!!!

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This YoYo Plush Dog comes with a body and legs made out by oval-shaped yoyos. The yoyos allowed it to flex easily and the friction between the fabrics helps to maintain the posture. 3 sizes of oval-shaped yoyos were used on this plush dog, totaling 61 pcs of them. The pattern of oval-shaped yoyo is included in the pattern page too.

YoYo Plush Dog Sewing Pattern

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The size of YoYo Plush Dog is 11″ x 10″ when laying down flat. It is the right size for kids to hug and play with. if you are making it for baby and toddler, please replace the button eyes with felt so that the stuffed animal is choking hazard free.

The shoes are partly stuffed with plastic pellets to give some weight to make certain posture possible. You may use short grain rice just in case you can’t find the pellets.

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“Sit, YoYo, Sit!!! Good Dog!”

YoYo Plush Dog is relaxing at home with his “Superdog” sleep-on-stomach style. With all of its four legs stretched out and heads level on the ground, it looks like it is flying through the air. YoYo Plush Dog is a super high-energy dog and gets motivated easily. It can spring up and get moving as soon as you need it to play you.

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Just can’t resist his big nose and the sticking out tongue, reminded of my late pet dog who has a brown nose and always love to sniff here and there with its big brown nose.

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Happy Sewing!

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YoYo Plush Dog Sewing Pattern

YoYo Plush Dog Sewing Pattern

Yield: 11" Stuffed Dog
Active Time: 6 hours
Total Time: 6 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate /Advance Level
Estimated Cost: $2 - $5

YoYo Plush Dog is a super high-energy dog and gets motivated easily. It is playful and gets moving as soon as you need it to play you.

Just can’t resist his big nose and the sticking-out tongue, reminded of my late pet dog who has a brown nose and always love to sniff here and there with its big brown nose.

Enjoy sewing them!

Download and print separately: SEWING PATTERN

Materials

  • Fabric (scraps, various colors and prints): To make the oval-shaped yoyo as the body of the plush dog
  • Fabric (thick cotton, latte color): To make the head and tail of the plush dog
  • Fabric (cotton, dark brown): To make the shoes of the plush dog, fat quarters
  • Button eye 9mm, black, 2; or equivalent button
  • Felt: Pink, 2″ x 2″
  • Embroidery floss, black
  • String or cotton twine or yarn: As shoes lace and string to assembly the yoyo body
  • Batting, cotton
  • Polyester stuffing material
  • Plastic beads/stuffing pellets
  • Sewing threads (matching colors)
  • YoYo Plush Dog Pattern Template
  • Cards, for the template printing

Tools

  • Sewing machine or, you can hand-sew without a machine
  • Long sewing needle (about 2″) and pins
  • Tapestry needle, fine with big eye
  • Water Erasable Fabric Marker
  • Pen
  • Scissors
  • Blunt point tweezers or an awl
  • Printer

Instructions

HOW TO SEW YOYO PLUSH DOG

  1. Preparation:
    Get ready all the materials and tools as stated in the list above. I am using the fat quarters bundle for this YoYo Plush Dog pattern but scraps will be good as long as you like the colors and combination.
    Print and cut out the templates. The oval Yoyo template has inner and outer circle lines, the outer circle is for fabric while the inner circle is for batting.sew yoyo dog
  2. Make Oval Yoyos:
    Trace the oval yoyo templates on the fabric stashes and cut out the following amount of pieces.
    Small Yoyo – 41 pcs.
    Medium Yoyo – 6 pcs.
    Large Yoyo – 14 pcs.
    Trace and cut the same amount of batting for the oval yoyo with the inner line.sew yoyo dog

    1. Place the batting at the center of the fabric, make a few stitches to secure it in place. Fold the edge of the fabric oval yoyo and sew running stitches along.
    2. Pull the thread to gather the edge, forming an oval yoyo.
    3. This is the flat side of the oval yoyo
    4. Repeat the same for all the oval yoyos.
    Set the oval yoyos aside.sew yoyo dog
  3. Cut Dog Templates & Fabrics:
    Trace and cut out the plush dog pattern from fabrics. I used normal fabric for the inner ears instead of the thick cotton.sew yoyo dog

    Trace and cut out the shoe pattern from the fabrics of the plush dog. Cut 4 sets of them altogether.sew yoyo dog
  4. Sew Dog's Head:
    1. Place the nose fabric piece on the snout, pin. Turn the raw edge and slip stitch the nose fabric along the marking line. Leaving an opening at the snout seam allowance.
    2. Stuff the nose with polyester stuffing.
    3. Fold and sew up along the seam line under the nose.
    4. Turn and press the nose out.sew yoyo dog

    Sew the 2 crease lines on the snout above the nose.sew yoyo dog

    Sew the ear-pieces together, clip curve on the seam allowance, turn the earpiece right side out.sew yoyo dog

    Align the markings, pin, and sew to assemble the headpieces and the earpieces of the plush dog. Clip curve on the seam allowance.sew yoyo dog

    Sew the head-piece and snout piece together. The top headpiece is ready to be sewn up with the bottom headpiece to complete the head of the plush dog. Clip curve on the seam allowance.sew yoyo dog

    Gather and sew the tongue of the plush dog.sew yoyo dog

    1. Tag the tongue at the seam allowance below the nose as shown in the picture. Sew button eyes and brows on the top headpiece.
    2. With the right side together, align, pin, sew the top and bottom head pieces together. Leave an opening at the back of the head (c – c’ marking). Clip curve on the seam allowance. Turn the head-piece right side out.
    3. This is how it looks like from the bottom.
    4. Stuff the head firmly with polyester stuffing material.sew yoyo dog

    Sew to close the stuffing opening. Make a few stitches to and fro the tongue section, pull to set in the mouth of the plush dog.
    Set aside.sew yoyo dog
  5. Sew Dog's Tail:
    Sew and stuffed the tail of the YoYo Plush Dog. Remember to clip curve on seam allowance before turning the tail right side out and stuff.
    Set aside.sew yoyo dog
  6. Sew Shoes:
    Sew the shoe pieces together.
    1. This is 1 set of shoe piece
    2. Sew to join the long strip.
    3 & 4. Align the marking between the long strip and shoe piece. Snip to cut the seam allowance of the long piece on the corner marking, pin and sew around.
    5 & 6. Repeat the same to the other shoe piece, but this time you need to leave an opening at the top of the shoes. Clip curve on the seam allowance.sew yoyo dog

    Turn the shoe right side out from the opening.
    Stuff with plastic beads/stuffing pellets, followed by polyester stuffing material.
    Sew to close the opening.sew yoyo dog

    Sew a shoelace on the shoe with cotton twine and tie a bow. The threading of the string to make the shoelace is the same way you would lace your shoe.sew yoyo dog
  7. Assemble:
    Assemble the foot of the YoYo Plush Dog.
    1. Gather 10 small yoyos and a shoe.
    2 & 3. Insert needle a little off-center of the yoyo, one by one until you have done all 10. Leave the string tail at least 4″ for tying.
    4. Run through the needle at the top part of the shoes as shown.
    5 & 6. Insert the needle back to the 10 small yoyos, a little away from the first stitch and center. Pull real hard to compact the yoyos together. Tie a dead knot.sew yoyo dog

    This is how the foot of the YoYo Plush Dog looks like.
    Repeat the same to the rest of the feet.sew yoyo dog

    Assemble the body of the YoYo Plush Dog, the same way as the foot assembly.
    Starting from the tail side of the plush dog – sew a little off-center of 1 small yoyo, followed by 1 medium yoyo, then 14 large yoyos, and end with 5 medium yoyos (the neck side).
    Leave the string tail about 5″ long.sew yoyo dog

    Sew the head of the plush dog, position as shown in the picture.
    Thread the string back to the tail through all the yoyos, again, a little off-center too.sew yoyo dog

    Pull the string really hard to compact all the yoyos together.
    Tie a dead knot.
    Hide string ends into the body.sew yoyo dog

    Tie the legs of the plush dog to the body at #6 yoyos and #16 yoyos from the neck.sew yoyo dog

    Finally, sew and tie the tail at the center of #16 yoyos from the neck.
    Hide all string ends into the body of the plush dog.sew yoyo dog

Look, YoYo Plush Dog can do some yoga postures and he has got the balancing quite well.

“Sit, YoYo, Sit!!! Good Dog!”

Notes

Seam Allowance: Please refer to the pattern template.

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Comments

  1. Barbara -

    January 25, 2020 at 11:50 am

    Working on this adorable puppy. I am confused on how to close up the feet. I have the shoe with the strip down the front but mine was not long enough to close it up. What can I do?

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 28, 2020 at 9:30 am

      The strip should be sufficient to go around the shoes’ sides provided you are using longer length at the curve edge. Perhaps you can cut a longer length of the strip, sew the sides to it before joining up the strip ends together. Trim off excess ends if needed.

      Reply
  2. becky brawner -

    December 16, 2019 at 3:01 pm

    some of the pattern pieces call for 1 piece to be reverse facing. What does that mean?

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      December 22, 2019 at 4:21 pm

      It means to flip the pattern over to get the mirror image of the piece.

      Reply
  3. Linda -

    December 8, 2019 at 6:50 am

    I love the pattern but instructions are not detailed enough.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      December 15, 2019 at 9:26 pm

      May I know which part is not covering enough information for you to understand?

      Reply
  4. Lao-tse -

    March 6, 2018 at 4:48 pm

    Heel leuke site.
    Dank je dat je het wil delen!

    Translation (by Google):
    Very nice site. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  5. José -

    June 30, 2017 at 6:44 am

    Thanks for this lovely yoyo-doggy! I made it for my grandchild that will arrive next month. I used safety-eyes with pins and large plastic rings at the back. There’s a hole in the pins through wich you can connect both eyes with thick cotton thread. This way they can’t be pulled out. Therefore no choking hazard.

    Reply
  6. SillyWalking -

    February 9, 2017 at 7:43 am

    Fun pattern. Recently purchased quilting scraps at an estate auction and this was perfect. I made 3 dogs! Plus put a cat head on a 4th. That was 244 yo-yos! Turned out great.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 9, 2017 at 9:18 am

      wow, that’s amazing. Hope that we have the opportunity to see them 🙂

      Reply
  7. Karen Miller -

    July 22, 2016 at 2:22 am

    This is too cute! My niece’s birthday is coming up and I love to make things for her and she always loves them! This is a perfect idea for her. Thanks for sharing 😀

    Reply
  8. Julia -

    April 14, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    Love this dog <3

    Reply
  9. shob -

    February 8, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    thanks jo i downloaded the pattern..will sew the yoga dog for my 3 yr old daughter

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 12, 2016 at 5:07 pm

      That’s Great. I am sure your daughter is going to love it very much 🙂 Happy sewing!

      Reply
  10. shob -

    February 7, 2016 at 12:20 pm

    The link to download the pattern is not working . It throws back to -“Page not available”

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 7, 2016 at 7:03 pm

      Thank you shob. I have fixed it and the link is working now.

      Reply
  11. Thelma -

    February 2, 2016 at 8:19 am

    The link for . YoYo Plush Dog Pattern Template doesn’t work as it tells me the page is unavailable

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 3, 2016 at 1:52 pm

      Hi Thelma, the pattern is working fine. I am using Chrome and firefox to download, the pdf document is able to download and open without problem. May I know which browser are you using? I will need this info to feedback to my technical guy to take a look on this problem.
      Thanks.

      Reply
  12. Athina -

    January 30, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    Adorable!!! Thank you for sharing 🙂

    Reply
  13. Tania Peters -

    January 30, 2016 at 11:46 am

    Hi,
    Would you please be able to send me the pattern for this one. Thanks, Tania

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 30, 2016 at 9:31 pm

      Hi Tania,
      The pattern is at page 2 of this post. You can get the full details and instructions by clicking the page 2 below the page 1 post.

      Reply
  14. Verna Buchanan -

    January 30, 2016 at 12:08 am

    Thank you, Joanne for sharing your creations. This yo-yo dog is so cute. I know I will enjoy making him.

    Reply

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