Materials:
Small amounts of soft fabric (fleece, minky, or fuzzy fabric is good).
Ribbon scraps (satin, grosgrain,organza, or taffeta. Preferably a mixture of colors and textures)
Polyfill
Jingle bells (optional)
I save ribbons used on gift box decorations for this kind of stuff. Most of the ribbons here were leftover from my baby shower!
First, cut six squares from the fabric. I did two of each color so that no two colored touched on the cube. I made my squares 9"x9" because the squirt loves to glomp onto big plushies, but a more reasonable size is probably 7"x7".
Cut the ribbons to approximately 24 - 4" strips. Fold the ribbons and press (careful- use a low iron setting, and watch out for melting!). Then pin, facing inward on the right side of the fabric, along the edges. For two squares(of the same color), cover 4 sides. For 2 squares, cover 2 opposite sides. Leave the remaining two without any ribbons. You can place the ribbons randomly, or in a pattern. Stitch over top of the ribbons, securing them.
Once all the ribbons are secure, take the two taggless squares and the two squares with only two tag sides, and sew them together at on the tag sides, right sides together. Alternate colors to make a strip:
Then sew the two ends together to make the body of the cube shape. Now take your two fully-tagged squares and clip little squares into the corners. This is so that the corners of the cube with turn correctly.
Now sew the top and bottom to the body of the cube, right sides (
Stuff with polyfil and j
Sew closed and ta-da! Ribbon cube!
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