Craftster is my obsession. I can spend hours and hours (even days!) scouring the forums and still not be satisfied. This amazing panda sleep mask was made by forum member pandaz and she even was kind enough to post an awesome tutorial on how to make it! Larger images and complete text can be found here.

This little guy is apparently easy to make, at least for you crocheters out there. It’d be a bit more difficult for me, I’m sure! The pattern to make him is available for free on Lion Brand Yarn‘s website. Yay, I love free stuff!

With the release of the new move Kung Fu Panda, there has been a flood of panda products in the market. I love it. Granted, it’s mostly branded things, but some are quite cute. HP has a whole page of project ideas that include this papercraft panda mask. There are tons to chose from and most of them look fun!

While panda only in name, I think their logo is cute, so I’m gonna mention them. Panda Yarn apparently has a reputation for quality, so I have no qualms suggesting you buy their product – if only because of the name. You could always knit a panda project using panda yarn on panda knitting needles!

Do you remember making those friendship safety pin bead craft things in Brownies/Girl Scouts when you were little or is that just me? Well, if you remember and want to get nostalgic, or just teach your daughter/neice/random little girl how to make one, there is a pattern available on About.com.

Here’s an example of what the finished product is like…except of course yours will have an adorable panda!

Flag pin photo found here.

I’ve always wanted to learn to knit, and this may inspire me. The .pdf version of this pattern is available on Meowy‘s Etsy’s shop for $3.50. I like the subtlety of the pattern and can think of several uses for it, including a cute knit purse.

If you’d like to build your own panda fursuit, Nicodemus’ Fursuit Pages is probably the best source of information.

Here’s his panda fursuit, named Ian the Panda.

While the weather here today is gorgeous, it is still winter. If you’re crafty, you can make this adorable panda fleece hat pretty easily. Ryzellon did a great tutorial on Instructables.

You could easily adapt the instructions to make an awesome scarf, too!

I’ve always been intrigued with origami, and have even dabbled a bit. I’ve never been able to make anything more intricate that a star or box, but I absolutely loved that I could make something three dimensional from a flat piece of paper. In the midst of Christmas decorating I found a box of my old origami paper and it sparked my interest again. I searched for a panda pattern and found several different ones that I loved. Of course, I wanted to share them with you!

For the more visual learners, you can follow along with these two videos (1, 2). Unfortunately embedding is disabled for these videos so you’ll have to visit YouTube to see them. However, it’s well worth it; the end result is amazingly cute!

I’m more of an instruction reader and find it easier to follow along to written instructions, so the rest are all written instructions in .pdf format. I’ve linked to all the original sites below, but uploaded all the instructions for these patterns to the Perfect Pandas website so they’ll always be available here. Please realize that these lovely patterns are someone else’s hard work, and I take absolutely no credit in their creation.

For those of you (which includes me, too!) who find it easier to cut and paste and glue, the next post will cover very cute printable panda designs that you can just cut out and glue or staple together.

Now let’s get to folding!

If you’d like to start out with something simpler, this cute little panda face project is perfect. Download the instructions here.

More instructions and ideas after the cut!

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