Sewing: How to make a plushie carrot

We're all about food on Crafty Crafty today, so if you'd like to try you hand at making your own feast of creativity, here's a really well-illustrated pattern I found on Etsy Labs for making these cute carrot plushies...

Here's what you'll need: colored felt and fabric, needle, thread (matching body design), scissors, buttons, stuffing, and a sewing machine (optional if you are an efficient hand-sewer):

Follow the jump for step-by-step instructions

Step 1: Cut out desired shapes of both leaves and body of carrot while leaving a little room (making it fatter) on the edges to allow for sewing. You can either draw your desired shape on the fabric and cut it out or cut it free form

Step 2: Run leaves through sewing machine to add desired embellishment detailing with stitching:

Step 3: Make sure the "wrong sides" (the side you don't want showing) of the carrot are facing outwards on both sides and sandwich the leaves between them. You will want to invert the leaves on the inside of the carrot facing down with the base of them sticking out a little past the edges of the carrot fabric sides

Step 4: Pin your fabric in place securely and begin to slowly run it through the machine on the edges of the carrot fabric. (I prefer to start on the side of the carrot and work my way around the top where the leaves are)

Step 5: Stop sewing when you reach around the side of the carrot that you began with leaving an opening in the same side

Step 6: Turn carrot completely inside out and begin to slowly stuff it with your polyfiller or desired stuffing material

Step 7: After stuffing the carrot to your desired fill, sew up the opening in the carrot by hand with needle and a thread matching the body of the carrot. You will want to sew the sides as close to the seam as possible, trying to conceal the stitching

Step 8: Tie a knot in the thread when you have finished stitching the opening tight and trim all loose threads, and any stuffing that may be on the seam