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Cuddly Unicorn Sewing Pattern | Toy Week Variation by Kaz Marr
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Easy-to-make rainbow unicorn plushie with downloadable instructions and templates – exclusive to members this “Toy Week”!
This project and its templates were updated on 29/10/2025 at 09:46 (GMT)
This month’s main project on the Half Yard™ Sewing Club came in the form of the Little Donkey toy. For “Toy Week” I’m delighted that member Kaz Marr has contributed her own variation: a colourful and cuddly unicorn!
Kaz has used a pastel multi-coloured furry fabric for the unicorn’s body, some bright embroidered flowers for embellishment and a fun rainbow yarn for the mane and tail. Kaz’ version also uses large black and blue safety eyes, for a more animated look. Some lashes have also been embroidered uses black embroidery thread.
Note: the instructions below are from the Little Donkey project.
Difficulty level
This project has been ranked as easy. If you’re a beginner, this is an ideal gift to make for Christmas. Switch out the main body fabric if you so wish to a fleece fabric, or how about something with glitter?
By the end of this project, you’ll have:
- Made a cute plushie unicorn.
- Gained confidence sewing with a fur fabric.
- Practised sewing with perfect tension.
Before you start:
- To make the unicorn, you’ll take a different approach at steps 5 and 6. Instead of sewing on the contrast eye patch, and felt for the eye details, you’ll insert your safety eyes.
- At this stage you’d also hand embroider your eyelashes.
- When you get to step 11, make sure to add your horn as well as the mane, to make this toy a “unicorn.”
Finished size: 16in (40.5cm) high
Note: use a ¼in (5mm) seam allowance
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You will need:
Equipment
- Sewing machine with a standard needle
- Dressmaking shears
- Pins or fabric clips – fabric clips work well with thick fleece fabrics and won’t get lost in the pile
- 9 x 2in (23 x 5cm) strip of copy paper
- Erasable fabric marker pen
- Wet fabric glue such as Gutermann HT2
- Fabric glue stick or glue pen
Materials
- 44 x 19½in (112 x 50cm) of fluffy fleece for the body
- 5 x 5in (12.5 x 12.5cm) of fluffy fleece fabric for the horn
- 25 x 14in (63.5.5 x 35.5cm) of contrast fleece for the nose, hooves, eye patches and inner ears: Kaz used pink fleece
- Black embroidery thread for the eyelashes and a suitable embroidery needle
- Two large safety eyes in the colour of your choice
- Toy filler
- Yarn for the mane and tail
- The templates
- Optional: small fabric bow for the tail
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Project steps:
Step 1
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