DIY Guinea Pig Crafts For You & Your Cavy

Hello, fellow piggy lovers! We have a special post today featuring some of our favourite DIY projects that are guinea pig themed. Below each project will be a link to the original source.☺

Pictured above is a Gleeful Guinea Pig Plush you can stitch and you can find the embroidery pattern for the guinea pig in Stitch Love: Sweet Creatures Big & Small.  Here we'll show you how to make a felt lettuce leaf.

Note: Before you start this project, be sure to download the Gleeful Guinea Pig Lettuce Leaf.

Step-By-Step Directions

1. Cut out two leaf shapes from green felt for each lettuce leaf you make
2. Embroider the veins onto one of the leaves with back-stitch and three strands of green embroidery floss. Then, carefully tear away the tracing paper.
3. Hold the two leaf shapes together and stitch around the edge with running stitch and three strands of green embroidery floss. Hide the knot between the layers.
4. You have now created a lettuce leaf for your guinea pig! 

Via Pinterest

  What guinea pig wouldn't want their very own homemade pigloo? These pigloos are simple to make and provide a nice little home for your piggy. After you construct the house you can decorate it however way you like. Pictured below the pigloo DIY is a fleece pouch tutorial that shows you how to custom-make a cozy bag for your piggies to enjoy. 

Guinea Pig Hay Bag

Hi, today we are going to show you how to make your own hay bags. They help to keep your cage less messy and keep less hay from falling out.

Things you will need:

- Fabric (we used fleece and some other fabric)

- Thread

- Sewing Machine (Optional: you can also sew it by hand if you'd like)

- Scissors

- Paper (If you want to make a template)

- Ruler

- Pins

- Binder clips (any type of clip would work)

Steps

1. If you want to make a template get a piece of paper that is 10" by 10" or put two pieces of paper together to make a piece that is 10" by 10".

2. Now you can pin the template on a piece of folded fabric. Then cut it out.

3. You should now have two pieces of 10" by 10" fabric.
Get one of the pieces. Now your going to cut the openings for them to eat from. We made our openings 2" all around. (You can make a pattern for the openings as well.) We made a pattern for each opening and placed it 2" in on all sides. Then pin, trace it, and cut it out.

4.  Now take your other piece of fabric and put it on top of the other piece facing inwards because you are are going to sew it inside out. Now you can either use a sewing machine or sew it by hand, sew the two sides and the bottom and leave the top open. Lastly, fold it right side out.

5. You now can attach it to your cage with some sort of clip. We decided to use binder clips.

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial and learned how to make a hay bag for your guinea pig. Stay tuned for our next tutorial/how-to post!