Do you know that making your own puppet is actually pretty easy, even if you're a beginner. The hardest part is probably working with faux fur as it tends to get everywhere. I mean there's hair all over my apartment. During this tutorial, hair kept getting stuck to my tongue, it found its way up my nose and I generally had tufts of it stuck to my face. I definitely recommend doing a cleaning of your machine after working with fur and you can check out our Sewing Machine Maintenance tutorial on that.

The most important thing in creating a sloth puppet is paying attention to the direction of the fur when you're laying out your pattern pieces. Grainline is always important, but it's especially important here. I always run my hand over the fur before placing my pattern down so I know which direction the fur naturally lays and then lay my pieces accordingly. If you do that right, then that's half the battle.

But this is truly the trickiest part and if you take this step by step, you'll have a sloth puppet in no time. You can download a free pattern for this one. Look how cute he looks! You know you want one.