Plushie Procrastination

Have you ever had the inexplicable urge to make stuffed animals?

Well, I have. More specifically, I did yesterday and do today. I don't know how I manage to get from my email to instructions on how to make adorable plush critters, but there you have it.

I found a whole bunch of adorable plushies on Etsy, especially video-game-themed ones, like Pokemon and creatures/characters from Zelda games, and I also found a few instructions for various stuffed animals. Now I just want to make so many plushies, it's ridiculous.  

LOOK AT THIS KIKWI from Skyward Sword!!!! SO CUTE!!!!

And this adorable Korok plushie from Wind Waker!!! 

And this tadtone plushie from Skyward Sword!

I'm on a Zelda kick here, huh? Man, Etsy is a dangerous place.

This, on the other hand, is a tare panda pillow. A pillow that I want.

DO YOU SEE THIS MEW PLUSHIE??!!! I CAN'T TAKE THE CUTENESS!!!

Unfortunately, it's a bit expensive for such a small stuffed animal ($15 and it's only 5 inches tall)

so I found this tutorial for making a Mew plushie. 

The finished product of the tutorial looks like this:

Not QUITE as cute, but still pretty damn adorable. It looks like a sort of time-consuming project, though, so who knows if I'll ever get to it. Maybe this summer, once the semester has ended. Once it's too hot for stuffed animals. . . :(

I think I want to try making this plushie first:

It's a "Cube Monster", so it's basically just a stuffed cube with buttons for eyes, a yarn line for a mouth, and little ears. It seems like a good beginner project, and look at how cute the final product is!

Unfortunately, it would still require buying fabric and stuffing, either finding and using a sewing machine or sewing by hand, and actually setting out the time to do it. Which I don't really have right now, what with all of my papers and things. 

So instead I read through these tutorials and look at these adorable fuzzy things and imagine making them. But that doesn't really help me write any scholarly papers either, so. . .

Hmmm. . .

This one I want to make for one of my friends, who loves pandas. 

How could you not love pandas, if they look like this?

There's even a tutorial for it.

And, some more tutorials can be found here:

General:

How to Make Plush Toys

How to Make a 3D Plush Pattern from a 2D Drawing

Specific:
Monster Plushie
Mushroom Plushie
Bunny Plushie
Humanoid Plushies
Humanoid Plushies

And this can be used to print out a pattern the exact size you want it.

If only I could take a crack at this now.
Maybe you can do it for me?