Publish: 2026
Page Count: 97 pages
Language: Japanese
Cotton Doll Face Patterns You Can Design From Scratch
推しぬい「お顔」「髪型」デザインBOOK
These cotton doll face patterns begin exactly where most plushie books stop — at a finished doll body with no face on it yet. Supervised by Japanese nui designer ぴよぴっこ (Piyopikko), the book walks you through turning a favourite character into a stitched face and a sewn hairstyle, decision by decision: eye shape, mouth, blush, ears, hair volume and colour. Warm, generously photographed and packed with worked examples, it reads like a design class in book form.
A Face and Hair Design System, Not Just Another Plushie Sewing Pattern
Most plushie books hand you one doll to copy. This one hands you a method. Every face is broken into its parts, sorted by style family — cute, cool, sleepy, mischievous — so you can mix and match until the doll actually looks like the character in your head. Five full case studies show the whole journey from reference art to finished nui.
- Face part libraries: eyes, brows, mouths, blush and highlights, shown in dozens of variations
- Five worked animal × motif designs — dog × cookie, rabbit × strawberry, cat × star, fox × flame, tanuki × clover
8 Face Design Walkthroughs and 8 Doll Hairstyle Patterns Inside
- 🎀 Doll eye embroidery designs — highlights, gradients, star and heart pupils, appliqué and stitched versions
- 🐱 Animal ear and tail plushie patterns — cat, fox, rabbit and tanuki ears, plus paw pad details
- 👓 Doll makeup and glasses embroidery — eyelashes, freckles, scars, burns and character markings
- 💇 Doll hairstyle patterns — twintails, two-block cuts, plump short hair, two-tone and multi-colour hair
- ✂️ Plushie hair sewing techniques — raw-edge, bagged seam, reverse stitching and 3D embroidery fringes
A full appendix of embroidery charts and printable hair templates closes the book, so every technique has a pattern piece waiting behind it.
Endless Ways to Remix These Cotton Doll Face Patterns
Because the book teaches parts rather than finished dolls, one purchase keeps giving. Swap a sleepy eye for a wide one, recolour a fringe, add fox ears to a human-styled doll, or scale a hair template up for a larger body. Makers who sell or gift handmade cotton dolls can build a whole cast of characters from the same foundations without ever repeating a face.
- Recolour hair and eyes to match any original character or idol
- Combine ears, tails and paw pads for kemonomimi variations
Does It Teach Plushie Face Embroidery for Beginners?
Yes — the opening chapter assumes nothing. It covers choosing body proportions, picking fabrics and threads, planning a doll’s posing and specification sheet, and sketching a design before a single stitch goes in. Beginner-friendly doll face embroidery is taught with clear step photos, while experienced makers get the harder material: three-dimensional embroidery, layered multi-colour hair and pattern drafting for original hairstyles. Japanese text throughout, but the photography and diagrams carry the instructions.
Why the Printable PDF Doll Pattern Book Works Better
Download it in minutes with no international shipping wait, print only the hair templates and embroidery charts you actually need, and zoom right into the stitch close-ups on a tablet while you sew. Print at home on A4 as many times as you like.
Available as an instant digital download — no shipping needed. Please note this is an eBook, not a physical book.
There is a particular moment in doll making when the last stitch of an eye goes in and the face suddenly looks back at you. That moment is what this book is built around. Working through these cotton doll face patterns teaches you to see a character as a set of stitchable shapes — a curve of fringe, a glint of highlight, the tilt of an ear — and the doll hairstyle patterns give that face its personality. Whether you are making one beloved nui or a whole shelf of them, it is a book you will keep reaching for.
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