Sensory Cube Embroidery Project

Gather the materials and read through the instructions before beginning. Have a copy of the color sequence on hand to refer to. Cut your fabric into 4 ½” squares.

Load the stars and moon design, hoop your stabilizer and fabric and start the stitch out. For the first 2 appliqué stars, the tackdown stitch does stitch a part of the moon outline so you can either cut the felt very close to those stitch lines or unpick the few stitches to allow you to cut the felt away. 

Now load your next hoop for the puppy face embroidery on the fleece. I used some adhesive spray to hold the fleece on the stabilizer to ensure a smooth stitch out.

Next, hoop tearaway stabilizer and plain red fabric for the caterpillar and stitch out this design. For the FSL leaf, wind a bobbin with the same embroidery thread color as you will see both sides of the leaf. Hoop water soluble stabilizer and stitch out the FSL leaf. Once complete, loosely cut around the leaf design and follow manufacturer’s instructions for how to dissolve the stabilizer. Allow the leaf to dry.

Once the leaf is dry, position it over the caterpillar and hand stitch in place through the hole in the leaf only. This will make it a peek-a-boo caterpillar

Now with the white satin, cut 2 puppy shaped ears. I freely drew 2 ears, 3 ½” long, 2” wide at the widest point at the top and 1” wide at the bottom. Cut 4 of these. Lay them down right sides facing and stitch around using a ¼” seam, leave the bottom open to turn them right side out. 

Pinch the base of the ears to form a small fold and pin them to each corner of the fleece with the puppy face. Tack in place. 

Thread beads onto the leatherette strapping pieces and lay them on the yellow spot fabric. Position the straps on the fabric and tack down in place. 

With the assorted ribbon, cut it various lengths. Mine varied from 2 - 3 ½” long. fold them in half and position all around the edge of another patterned piece of fabric. Tack them down in place. 

Now to construct the cube, lay all your pieces down to decide on your order. Lay 2 pieces together, right sides facing and stitch with a ¼” seam. Sew 4 pieces in a row, then sew the first and last square together to form a loop. These form the sides of the cube. Then place 1 square on top and stitch in place. Then sew the bottom piece on, ensuring you leave an opening to turn it through and fill it. 

Turn the cube right side out and fill with your choice of filling. Fill it enough that it is puffy but not too much that it forms a ball. 

The sensory cube is now complete! The different textures and designs will keep a little on entertained time and time again.