Unfortunately I cannot help you with patterns. Maybe sometime I’ll make tutorials, but that’s a different process than creating figures. But I do encourage you to figure out how to make your own peg dolls, and I can tell you what I do:
I suggest that first you chose a wood base. The ones with straight, slanted sides (rather than curved or vertical) I found easier to cover with felt clothes. The kind of covers I make are pretty tight so they must be tailored precisely for the given wood base. The thickness of the felt matters too, thicker felt needs slightly bigger patterns.
I usually make an approximation first from paper, trying to fit it and modifying several times. Then I make a simple pilot felt version (without any embroidery, just to see if the pattern works), sew it and try it on. It’s useful to use the same kind of felt that you’re planning to use for the final version, to check the thickness too. Sometimes the pattern needs just slight modifications, but sometimes I have to make another pilot version. I do this with every new size or kind of wood base and modify it for every new kind of figure I make.
As for the embroidery, it’s usually freehand, I have no patterns. Sometimes I use disappearing ink to put dots where a repeating pattern should go, or draw a circle to fill – then follow my instincts. If I don’t like what I see, I undo it and try again.
So it is a lot of work, but it looks like this exactly because I put a lot of effort in it. I’m sure you can develop your own figures if you are determined. My first figures – just a few years ago – looked like a child in kindergarten made them – And I’m not joking, look at the pictures here to see how the days of the week gnomes developed in 4 years.
