Purple Akimi Village Plushie

Here is a purple akimi from the Akimi Village video game. He still needs his clothes.

Felt Poop Plushie

This is a rather simple felt plushie in the comical shape of poop that I made for my dog complete with a squeaker from one of his older ruined toys. This poo plushie is so cute I just may have to make one for myself!

Akimi Village Felt Plushie

Here is a cute akimi creature from the PlayStation 3 video game Akimi Village. He is about 6 inches tall, made completely out of felt with a hand stitched mouth and stuffed with polyfill.

Basic Instructions to Make Your Own Akimi Village Felt Character:

Besides a needle you will need:
One sheet of felt in light blue for the akimi's body
Scrap pieces of felt for any clothing, plus white scraps for the eyes
Black thread and any other complementary thread colors
Polyfill stuffing

The Outline:

Start by drawing a simple outline of your akimi. Cut out the pieces, pin them to your felt, and cut out the felt pieces. This is the basic non-working akimi, there are many other variations in the game you could choose to base your akimi on, however they all have the same basic body.

Make sure you cut out two pieces for the body, two head pieces, two small eyes, two small light blue eyelids, four arm pieces and four feet pieces.

Note this was a rough outline. I made the feet a tiny bit bigger and decided to go with the simplified arm on the left. I also used three separate straight pieces for the hair rather than a single, connected piece like in the picture.

Arms, Feet and Face:

Now that you have all your pieces cut out, start by sewing the arms and feet together. Leave a small opening at the base to fill with stuffing.

Stitch the mouth on the face. Stitch a small pupil on both eyes and sew the eyes and eyelids to the face right above the mouth (the akimis have pretty big foreheads!) Sew the face pieces together leaving the bottom part open to fill with stuffing. Start at the bottom right of the face and at the top insert the hair pieces and sew them right in with the face to attach the hair.

Clothes:

You have a lot of options for the clothes. I simply used an orange piece of outfit for the main clothes, sewed a brown piece of felt onto it for the hem (I didn't have black felt), and sewed the yellow belt on last. You could use glue, such as hot glue, but it may make your felt stiff, so I hand-sewed everything. Plus, I like the stitched look. Then sew that whole piece onto the front of your akimi. (This is how I did it, looking back I probably would of made a separate outfit and dressed him in it afterwards.)

The other way is to sew a full outfit front and back. Sew on the details of the clothes as outlined above. You'll need arm holes on the sides, and a big enough head piece if you plan on pulling the clothes over your akimi. Alternatively you could sew the outfit together leaving one side open and pulling the outfit on sideways, then sewing the open side shut. You probably won't be able to ever get the outfit off, but the akimis all change their base colors anyways when they change jobs (and outfits!)

The Akimi's Body:

There are two ways to do the body. The first (and easier) way is to simply sew the pieces together adding the arms, feet and head as you get around to them the same way you attached the hair to the face. Leave a small part open to fill with stuffing then sew it shut. You can see one sewn in this way in my Purple Akimi Village Plushie post.

The other way is to cut a plus sign shaped piece and one rectangle body piece (as in the outline picture). The plus sign piece should be the same size as the rectangle but have about half inch long flaps on the sides. Cut small squares on all four outside corners to form the "flaps" or edges of the plus sign. Sew all the outside corners of the piece together (see the picture below, although I had already added the arms and feet in this picture).

Once that is all sewn attach the arms, feet and head. This is the hardest part. Use a pin needle to attach each piece and sew as much as you can, remove the needle when you need to, and keep sewing until secure. Once all are attached sew on the back body piece attaching three sides. Stuff with polyfill then sew the remaining side and then you have a one-of-a-kind akimi!