Make a farmer

1. Download and print the templates. Trace the pattern pieces onto the reverse of the fabric and cut out, leaving a 5mm seam allowance. Cut a face, hands and feet from plain fabric. Snip body and arm pieces from patterned fabric. Sew the hands to the bottom of the arms and legs. Stitch the arms right sides together in pairs, leaving a 3cm gap in the top back of each one. Turn out.

2. Sew the feet to the bottom of each leg and pair up the body pieces right sides together. Place the arms on each side of the body, matching the raw edges and sew all round, leaving a 4cm gap in the side for turning. Do not turn out. Sew the two head pieces together, turn right sides out and insert inside the body, matching up the neck edges. Attach the head to the body with a back-stitch. Turn the body right sides out. Stuff the head and body, fold in the raw edges of the gap, then oversew closed. Stuff the arms and close the hole.

3. Sketch features onto the face with a soft pencil. Use two strands of embroidery thread to sew a mouth using a whipped back-stitch. Sew the eyes with a satin stitch edged with a whipped back-stitch. Make the hair by crocheting a chain of 34, turn and work dc into each stitch. Make five chain picots into the front loop of each dc, turn and work four chain picots into the back loop of each dc. Pin and hand-stitch the hair around the back of the head so the ends represent sideburns. Cut a right angle triangle of patterned fabric with straight sides of 13cm. Zig zag stitch along the sides. Turn in and topstitch, then tie around the neck.

Stitch a hat

Download and print the templates. Cut two brims and two crowns f