Hey everyone! It’s a new year and I’ve got a new pattern poll up ready for voting on your favorites! But as those votes come in I wanted to share a pattern for the one on the leaderboard as 2024 came to a close — a praying mantis!
It’s always fun to tackle a bug design since that usually means drafting shapes I haven’t made before. And this one is no exception! These plush mantises have their distinctive triangular heads, thin bent legs, chubby abdomens, uniquely-shaped arms, and tiny antennae.
You have your choice to make a regular mantis or an orchid mantis which has beautiful petal-shaped legs in addition to the pink color scheme. It does have a good bit of extra hand sewing, so it’s rated a 5/10 in difficulty for attaching all the little pieces.
As always, the pattern comes with applique templates to make the eyes. These will work if you’re sewing the details by regular machine or by hand. If you have an embroidery machine, you’ll find the embroidery files available for download here or with the buttons below. I hope you all like it!
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