I’d like to introduce to my little friend here, Frédéric. He took one foggy afternoon to whip up and has been lazily resting on my shoulders ever since. He is made from the finest of flannels and the coziest minky, and boy is he toasty. Want to make a Frédéric of your own?
The best thing about this pattern is that you can make a variety of different animal scarves with it: raccoon, wolf, or skunk perhaps? Round out the snout and ears to make it a bear or panda. The scarf length is also easily customizable to be longer or shorter.
Keep reading for the full DIY Fox Scarf tutorial and pattern…
DIY Fox Scarf with Free Pattern
Begin by downloading the Fox Scarf Pattern.
You can make the fox scarf body as long as you want, just use the pattern to shape the head and tail. Mine turned out to be 3 feet long from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. Cut out one body piece of the top fabric (flannel) and one body piece of the bottom fabric (minky). You can use any fabric you prefer.
Sew just the face together on the inside and flip right-side out. This helps with placing the nose and eyes. Hand stitch two black buttons for the eyes.
Cut out the ears, sew and turn right-side out.
Place them where the pattern ear line is and zig-zag stitch them down to the flannel fabric only.
Here they are popped up.
Use Black Embroidery Floss to hand stitch the nose only through the top flannel fabric.
Give him little whiskers too by threading embroidery thread through and knotting the end to keep it in place.
Cut out your arm and leg pattern pieces and sew them together, flip right-side-out.
Place the arms in the same place that the ear markings are at, but on the minky fabric. Pin down.
Just as you did with the ears, zig-zag stitch the arms down just to the minky.
Do the same for the legs.
Pin the arms and legs to each other. This is so they don’t get caught when you’re sewing the body pieces together.
Flip the fox inside out and sew around. Leave a small gap in the middle of the scarf open so you have somewhere to flip it through.
Once you’ve flipped the fox right-side-out, machine stitch the gap closed.
Voila! Your fox scarf is complete.
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I absolutely love this and will surely make it for my mother who is a fox lover, because she is one herself (that’s what her last name says!) Thank you!!!
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Title: “DIY Fox Scarf with Free Pattern” will not let me download the pattern. Can you help?
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Colleen Reply:
December 3rd, 2012 at 8:56 am
The pattern is located right after the jump where it says “Begin by downloading the Fox Scarf Pattern” (Click “Fox Scarf Pattern). Let me know if it’s not working.
Thanks!
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Gina Reply:
December 17th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
It will not let me see or download the pattern
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Denise Reply:
January 6th, 2013 at 5:57 am
do you have adobe on your computer?
oh, I cannot even express how much I love this. ADORABLE. Great idea. Thanks for sharing!!
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Love this! So adorable! Thanks for sharing!
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Adorable!! Love this little plaid foxy and seeing some pics of Prudent Colleen’s pretty face! MUAH!
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Colleen Reply:
December 3rd, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Thanks Jacinda!
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oh its so amazing!!!
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How adorable! It would be awesome to have a kid-sized version and then do it in a girly color…
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Colleen Reply:
December 3rd, 2012 at 4:39 pm
The pattern is completely customizable so you can make it for a kiddo no problem.
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So adorable! Perfect for winter!!
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You’ve just provided me with the perfect gift for one of my nieces. Thank you! It’s VERY foxy.
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Thank you– making one for my girl.
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Very cute! Thank you so much!
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Really nice! I linked the tutorial in my blog. Thanks for sharing.
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I LOVE this. I think I will try to make matching ones for my 2yo and myself. How fun.
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Now that is a fox scarf you could wear without any guilt about wearing fur! Thanks for the awesome pattern and tutorial!
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Oh how much do I love him! Thank you!
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PERFECT choice in fabrics on this one. I think I’ll be whipping one up for my lil’ sister for Christmas. Ssshh. Don’t tell!
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The only thing that would have been nice would be to have the fabric measurements easy to find at the top of the post. I knew i wanted to make this exact scarf but had to read through to find out how much fabric to buy.
Adorable project though and i cant wait to make it
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Just finished one of these, and I love it! I did add top stitching all the way around to hold the layers in place, but other than that, it was very easy to follow and so cute.
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I made one of these today! Took about 4 hours. Next one I will use actual Minky fabric. I picked a fake sheepskin that had too much body. Came out so cute, though! One question- I added a 1/2 in seam allowance. Should I have done that?
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Alexandra Reply:
December 10th, 2012 at 6:01 am
…….Oooooooh, and another thing; How much fabric do you think I’d need to get to make one???? Thanks!!!!! Xxxxx
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Colleen Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 12:02 am
Yes, adding a 1/2 inch seam allowance around is totally fine. I bought a yard of both fabrics because I wanted it to be just about one yard long. You can make it however long you’d like though.
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I totally love this TOTALLY!!!! A little problem I have with making it though: Where do you get orange tartan fabric like what you have used please???? Thanks!!!!!
Xxxxx
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Colleen Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 12:05 am
I picked up my fabric at a local fabric store, but Fabricworm always has adorable fabrics to choose from!
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LOVE this!! I’ve been wanting one of these for ages and never thought of making one myself (even though I make clothes – duh!). Thank you so much for sharing your pattern and tutorial. I can’t wait to have my own little foxy friend draped around my neck.
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Love this scarf !!! I’m not sure I can manage the sewing, but I’ll sure try. The choice of the fabric seems to matter a lot, and I love the one you chose. Sometimes, I think I will never grow up… Thanks for sharing this on Pinterest where I found it! I’m a follower now…
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You have provided the perfect Christmas gift for my baby sister who is both eclectic and vegan. Thank you!
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I WANT THIS!!! It’s so adorable! Awesome idea, thanks for sharing!!
~Ama
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This is so cute! I really want to make one now!
Time to go fabric shopping, I think.
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a girl and a glue gun did a shout out on this one! i can’t sew to save my life, but i think even if it turns out a little wonky it will still be super adoreable!! thanks for sharing it!
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As much as I’d love to, I’m not able to make this, so I was wondering if you would be willing to sell one! Please let me know, as he’s nothing short of amazing
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So cute, clear instructions; have made several-some with modifications. I am having a hard time stopping. Would it be a violation to sell this online? Btw I found it easier to NOT cut out the pattern pieces from the Minky, only the flannel; then stitch around the edges of the flannel to assemble and then trim the Minky. Thanks again!
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I am so excited to be trying this soon
I have been looking for orange tartan fabric everywhere with no luck, then the other day, I stumbled across some orange tartan scarves in a sale in Next 
So thrilled!!!! Now I just need some fleece. Yes, I’m going to use fleece instead of minky. Minky seems hard to get hold of too, but I’m thinking the fleece will be fine 
Thank you again for the pattern and tutorial 
Xxx
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Alexandra Reply:
January 3rd, 2013 at 5:54 pm
I did it!!!! I’m soooooooooooo pleased
Its come out awesome. I did quite a bit of handsewing on it rather than use the machine all the time. I am so excited to show it off tomorrow 
Xxx
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This is so clever! Thank you for sharing your talents.
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what if we filled his body up a bit with polyfil? or would that be overdoing it? lol i guess that would be more like a stuffed animal around your neck then..
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I adore this! Sharing it in a 5 for Friday roundup of DIY Scarves on my blog tomorrow, including one pic and a link back to this post. Thanks for sharing!!
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What a cute project! I love it so much that I decided to feature it in our roundup of fox crafts! Check it out here: http://www.favecraftsblog.com/fox-crafts/
Thanks and have a great day!
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That’s gorgeous – will have to have a go at making one once winter gets here (I’m in the southern hemisphere). What exactly is Minky fabric? Not something I’ve ever heard of before…
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Oh my god this is soooo adorable. my son is totally in love with foxes. I really need to try this.
Thx for this cute projekt!
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So brilliant!
Thanks from Germany – Sandra
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Where did you get the fabrics? I’d love to make a fowy one but I can’t find a nice (not garishly halloweeny!) orange fabric anywhere!
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*foxy!
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I saw this in a crafting magazine we sell in the shop I work. I can’t wait to make it, I love foxes soooo much and this will be super cute in the spring and summer during the evenings.
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I’d love to just buy one of these! do you sell them?! can I buy one?!
let me know! mattrice18 @ Hotmail.co.uk
Thanks!
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This is so sweet,I couldn’t resist and had to make one for my granddaughter. Thank you so much for sharing.
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