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Whimsical ITH Butterfly Plushie Embroidery Project

By Sew Chic on May 08, 2026

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Beginner

TIME REQUIRED

01:30

Description

Stitch this whimsical ITH butterfly plushie with your embroidery machine! Featuring curly antennae, colorful wings, and sweet embroidered details, it's perfect for gifts, nursery décor, or soft toy collections. Includes digital files and guide.

Project Preview Video

Preface:

© Broderie Dzhiboux. All rights reserved.
This project is officially licensed to ITH Boutique. All images, digitizing rights, step-by-step instructions, and project visuals are the exclusive property of Broderie Dzhiboux. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Step 1:

ANTENNAS

Seam 1: this seam is done on your tearable nonwoven stabilizer

Step 2:

Put your felt on top of your frame, hide all the seam well

Step 3:

Put your felt on the back of your frame, hide all the seam

Step 4:

Seam 2: this seam will join your 2 felt pens together

Step 5:

Cut excess felt on top of your work

Step 6:

Cut the excess on the underside of your work

Step 7:

Make a spool of wire the color of your Minky for the wings

Step 8:

Put your Minky fabric on top and bottom of your work

Step 9:

Seam 3: this seam will join your 2 Minky together

Step 10:

Cut excess fabric on top of your work

Step 11:

Cut excess fabric on the underside of your work

Step 12:

Seam 4: satin stitches

Step 13:

Put your different colored Minky on the bottom antennas, on the front and back of your frame. Cover the seams well

Step 14:

Sewing 5: this seam will join your 2 pieces of Minky together

Step 15:

Cut excess fabric on top of your work

Step 16:

Seam 6: satin stitches.

Step 17:

THE BACK OF THE HEAD

Seam 1: this seam is done on your non-woven stabilizer to tear to show you the location of your fabric

Step 18:

Put your Minky on the seam

Step 19:

Seam 2: buttonhole
Remove from your stabilizer and set aside.

Step 20:

I keep the same stailisator for the front of the head

Step 21:

I add a small piece of stabilizer at the opening

Step 22:

THE FRONT OF THE HEAD

Seam 1: This seam is done on your stabilizer to tell you the location of your fabric.

Step 23:

Put your fabric and water-soluble stabilizer on the seam

Step 24:

Seam 2: this seam will hold your fabric and stabilizer in place

Step 25:

Seam 3: this seam tells you the location of your fabric

Step 26:

Put your little Minky piece on the seam

Step 27:

seam 4: this seam will hold your fabric in place

Step 28:

Cut excess fabric all around

Step 29:

Sewing 5-6-7-8-9-10: embroidery stitches

Step 30:

Put your Mylar on the cheeks (optional)

Step 31:

Seam 11: embroidery stitches in the cheeks

Step 32:

Seam 12: this stitch tells you the location for the antennae of the head

Step 33:

Put antennas in the indicated place, hold well in place

Step 34:

Seam 13: this seam will hold your antennas in place

Step 35:

Make sure that the antennae are in the center of the head so as not to sew them with the next seam

Step 36:

Take your piece from the back head and position it in exactly the same place as your fabric for the front of the head

Step 37:

Seam 14: this seam will join the front with the back of the head

Step 38:

Get out of the frame, cut the excess and put in the place

Step 39:

WINGS

Seam 1: this seam is done on your stabilizer to indicate the location of your fabric

Step 40:

Put your fabric to hide the entire seam

Step 41:

Seam 2: this seam will hold your fabric in place

Step 42:

Seam 3: this seam tells you the location of your fabric (here I am pink)

Step 43:

Put on your Minky and your water-soluble stabilizer, taking care to hide all the seam

Step 44:

Seam 4: this seam will hold your fabric and stabilizer in place

Step 45:

Cut excess fabric all around

Step 46:

Seam 5: this seam tells you the location of your fabric (here it's pink)

Step 47:

Put your fabric and water-soluble stabilizer

Step 48:

Seam 6: this seam will hold your fabric and stabilizer in place

Step 49:

Cut excess fabric all around

Step 50:

Sewing 7-8-9: embroidery stitches

Step 51:

Put your fabric on the remaining part

Step 52:

Seam 10: this seam will hold your fabric in place

Step 53:

Cut excess fabric all around

Step 54:

Seam 11: satin stitches

Step 55:

Seam 12: this seam tells you the location of the small part of your wing

Step 56:

Put your little one in place and maintain well

Step 57:

Sewing 13: sewing your small part in place

Step 58:

Put your Minky piece, place against place, to cover your entire wing

Step 59:

Seam 14: this seam will join the back with the front of your wing

Step 60:

Print the pattern for the Heatnhond

Step 61:

The Heatnbond is a thermo-adhesive on both sides, I stick it on my wings so that they stand straight

Step 62:

THE ARMS

Cut your 2 pieces and put place against place. Sewing with a sewing machine

Step 63:

Seam 1: this seam is done on your stabilizer, it tells you the location for your fabric

Step 64:

Put the joint of your fabric on the line that crosses the 2 arms, let the fabric protrude towards the top of your

Step 65:

Put your water-soluble support

Step 66:

Seam 2: this seam will hold your fabric and stabilizer in place

Step 67:

Seam 3: fancy stitches

Step 68:

Fold the part that is in the top of your frame on the sewn part. Take care to make the junctions of the seams coincide (hand and arms)

Step 69:

Here I put adhesive tape so that my embroiderer's foot does not get caught in the seam

Step 70:

Seam 4: this seam will join the front with the back of your arms.
Get out of the frame, cut off excess fabric and set aside

Step 71:

THE BODY

Seam 1: this seam is done on your stabilizer to indicate the location of your fabric

Step 72:

Put your fabric and water-soluble stabilizer on the seam

Step 73:

Seam 2: this seam will hold your fabric and stabilizer in place
Stitching 3-4-5-6-7: embroidery stitches

Step 74:

Seam 8: this seam tells you the location of your arm

Step 75:

Put your arm well hiding the seam. Be careful to put the little butterfly on your arm place to

Step 76:

Seam 9: this seam will hold your arm in place

Step 77:

Seam 10: seam to tell you the location of the 2nd arm

Step 78:

Keep it in place

Step 79:

Seam 11: this seam will hold your arm in place

Step 80:

Place your arms so that it is inside the seams

Step 81:

Put your 2nd piece of Minky, place against place

Step 82:

Seam 12: this seam will join your front with the back of your body

Step 83:

ASSEMBLY

Put your heat n bond on your wings

Step 84:

Put the stuffing in the arms, body and head, sew the openings with an invisible seam and waxed thread (upholstery thread)

Step 85:

Insert the body into the buttonhole, your body will be inserted into the head. Hold in place

Step 86:

Diagram of an invisible seam

Step 87:

Make your invisible seam all around the head by passing at the top of the buttonhole so that you can no longer see the buttonhole once finished. Pass at least 3 times

Step 88:

Here you have to stitch much lower than the buttonhole to have a straight head. If you follow the buttonhole your head will go backwards

Step 89:

You should have this once your head is in place.

Step 90:

On the back, with an eraser pencil, make your lines to tell you the location of each wing

Step 91:

Hold in place

Step 92:

Make an invisible seam by taking only the fabric from the back of your wing

Step 93:

Once the back is finished, put your wing so as to see the place and make the invisible seam by penalizing the front of the fabric only you can do 2 times