Baby Blocks Tutorial

This soft toy of wobbly baby blocks, or Baby Rubik's Cube is fun to play with, but tricky to make.

I hope this will explain how, but I fear it might confuse!:

The cubes have a filling of rubber foam,
the kind of material used for a kitchen sponge. I had a ''board' of rubber foam and cut out the cubes, 4 cm on all sides.


  • You need 8 cubes of rubber foam, 4x4 cm.
  • You need 6 different fabrics (I used the prints seen below). Cut them into 4x4 cm squares and 4x8 cm rectangles.
  • Add 0,7 mm seam allowance on all sides.
  • You need plenty of pins, sturdy thread and a needle.
  • Optional, press interfacing on the back of the fabric.
  • Finger press the seam allowance


















Fabric #1 purple polka dot        Cut 4 squares and 2 rectangles












Fabric #2  hedgehogs and mushrooms       Cut 4 rectangles












Fabric #3  cats      Cut 4 squares and 2 rectangles












Fabric #4 flowers     Cut 4 squares and 2 rectangles












Fabric #5 berries    Cut 4 squares and 2 rectangles












Fabric #6 black and white stripes   Cut 4 rectangles












Place the rubber foam cubes in two rows, and pin the fabric onto them like this:
#1 in the middle, note the placement of the rectangles (which goes over two cubes) and squares.
#2 front and back of cubes
#5 sides of cubes








So begin with #1 (purple) on top
and #2( hedgehogs and mushrooms) on the long sides














and #4 (berries) on both short ends














Now stitch along the red lines.
Use a ladder stitch.
DON'T remove the pins. Keep them stuck into the cubes until you have completed the whole toy. I know, they are in the way, but be patient.

When you have completed that job,
fold the cubes so the purple fabric is facing
#2 (hedgehogs and mushrooms) is now seen on top. 

Pin #4 (flowers) on the long sides
 Stitch along the red lines with ladder stitch.

Next step, turn everything upside down



Now pin #3 (cats) like in the picture. Note the placement of rectangles and squares.
Stitch along the red lines.

When that is done, fold the cubes so #3 (cats) is facing


#4 (flowers) is now on top

Continue in the same way and stitch the outer edges.
When you are done, fold as if you were closing a book.

Here comes the trickiest part.
You can now see #4 (berries) gradually on top as #2 (hedgehogs and mushrooms) are facing.
 like this



When you can see all #4 (berries) on all the blocks you are home free!

Stitch along the red lines.

Turn everything upside down.


Finally pin #6 (stripes) to the top and stitch

This is tricky, but if you are patient and careful, you will have a nice toy!

4 comments:

Kat said...

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I'm honestly not sure if I can wrap my mind around how to do it but I will try once I get hold of some foam!

chitra said...

Very nice tutorial. it is very interesting to see the steps , for that i want to try this out.

FlashinScissors said...

Wow! Your tutorial looks great, Queenie!
You are very clever to work this through.
Hugs,
Barbara xx

JustGail said...

Thank you for this tutorial! I always wondered how these blocks worked, but never took the time to draw and figure it out!