Sydney the Spider FREE Project

This week I'm excited to highlight our newest YouTube video, “Free Sew Along to make this cute spider pin cushion”. 

This video is the next in our series of simple sewing projects to help build up beginner sewing skills. It's designed to be easy enough to follow along, that with the video and this post, you shouldn't need a pattern. 

This Sydney the Spider Pin Cushion is the perfect project to celebrate October and Halloween. He can be stuffed with walnut shells to make a pin cushion or you can use Fiber-Fill to make a spooky cute stuffed spider! Be sure to use both this blog post and the video while constructing this project. I hope you have as much fun making him as much as I did!

For this project you will need the following: 

¼ yard for the Spider Body

¼ yard for the Spider Legs

3” square of Black for the Eyes

3” square of White for the Eyes

You will also need: 

3” square of Fusible Web

Walnut Shells for the body and Fiber-Fill or just Fiber Fill

(8) 12” Pipe Cleaners

Small dowel or chop stick

Optional: Turn it all Tool (Link to product on website)

Once you have all of your supplies together, use the templates to cut the legs and eyes and body segments as listed on the templates. 

The first step is to do a little bit of fusible applique to add the inner and outer eyes with a touch of machine applique for the mouth to create one body segment. 

The next step is to make the eight legs for your spider:

We will use the pipe cleaners to help form the legs after assembly. Each leg is stuffed with Fiber-Fill to fill them out. 

It really is quite easy to turn the legs right side out when using the Turn-it-all-Tool. It's not required for this pattern, but it's a very handy tool to have on hand.

Next up, it's time to build out the spider with all eight legs.

Once you have all the segments and legs sewn together, let's turn the whole thing right side out.

Now it's time to stuff your spider. Refer back to the YouTube video tutorial for my tips on how to stuff the pin cushion with Walnut Shells, and then add a little Fiber-Fill at the end to make it easier to sew closed. 

Once your spider is stuffed, we must stitch the opening closed. In the video, we'll walk through how to hand sew the spider closed using a Ladder Stitch.

And just like that, we're all finished! Say hello to your new little friend.

I hope you've enjoyed this month’s sewing project and have learned lots of new sewing skills! We would love to see your spiders come out so make sure to tag us in any photos you share with friends and family. And feel free to email us if there other simple projects you would like to see us make and share with you in future videos! Thanks for following along.