Description

This Hobby Horse DIY kit is a great starting point for sewing your own realistic stick horses. It includes four unique fabric panels – Dapple Grey, black-spotted leopard, Pinto brown/beige, and Pinto dark brown – each with a printed horse coat design. With them, you can sew four different Hobby Horses that look realistic without extra fabric paint. The kit also comes with felt, blaze fabric for markings, and a high quality printed sewing pattern with illustrated instructions.

Components of the Hobby Horse diy kit

Hobby Horse fabric: This bundle includes four super soft panels – Dapple Grey, black spotted, Pinto brown/beige, and Pinto dark brown. Each 39.5×29.5″ (100×75 cm) fabric piece features realistic horse coat designs, from natural dapples to spotted and pinto patterns. By placing your pattern pieces carefully, you can achieve lifelike shading and markings without using fabric paint. With these four panels, you can sew four different hobby horses in striking coat variations.

Fabric for the Hobby Horse blaze: You can appliqué different types of blazes to your Hobby Horse, such as a flake, star, long blaze etc.. For this, you will receive a 10 x 3.5 inch (9 x 25 cm) piece of our SuperSoft SHORTY in white. By the way: you don’t need an embroidery machine to make appliqués, your normal sewing machine is sufficient! How to appliqué with a sewing machine is explained in great detail in all our sewing instructions and you can also find videos about it on our Youtube channel.

Felt for eyes and nostrils: The two included black felt pieces have a size of 3 x 3 inch (7.5 x 7.5 cm) each and you can use it to appliqué the eyes and nostrils of your Hobby Horse. The good thing about using felt for appliqués is that you can use a simple straight stitch with your sewing machine because the edges won’t fray. Alternatively, the pattern includes embroidery designs to use with an embroidery machine AND cutting files to use with a cutting machine like a Cricut!

Sewing pattern: The stick horse kit comes with a printed Hobby Horse template for our pattern HOPE (also featured in our Hobby Horse book). Our sturdy paper patterns are printed in color and include booklet-style illustrated instructions. The Hobby Horse template also covers accessories such as ear bonnets, a stable blanket, and basic halter instructions. We have a full video tutorial for sewing the stick horse version of HOPE on our Youtube channel:

Additionally needed to sew the Hobby Horse (NOT INCLUDED)

• 1 ball of yarn for each of the horses
• White hand embroidery floss for the eye twinkles, approx. 8″ (20 cm), alternatively white fabric paint or a white acrylic marker
• Double-sided iron-on adhesive webbing (e.g. Heat’n Bond), approx. 8×3″ (20×8 cm)
• Toy filling, approx. 1.1 lbs (500 g) per horse
• Stick with a maximum diameter of 1.2″ (3 cm) and a minimum length of 24″ (60 cm ) per horse
• Wool, cord or rope to wrap around the fabric at the stick opening, approx. 20″ (50 cm) per horse

Would you prefer to a Hobby Horse DIY kit complete with yarn and halter materials? We have other Hobby Horse material bundles available. And we also offer single kits for making bridles and halter with leads!