Tutorial and Pattern: Rainbow Sunshine Plushie (and a little fair[l]y [ugly] tale about patents)

I want to begin this tutorial with a little story. One day there was a little organic cotton rainbow be-ribboned plushie that was sketched and then stitched with love in a very messy upstairs room in a home somewhere in Minneapolis. It was a happy little plushie, made all the more so by the creation of its 3 identical siblings who sat on a sunny windowsill with the little plushie, keeping it company. Three of these four happy little plushies were placed in an Etsy shop, where they could be adopted by a good family, where they might be mooshed and drooled on and thrown over the sides of a crib and loved by a baby new to this world, much like the little plushies. They sat in that little shop, anxiously awaiting their new family for not much more than a week, when suddenly a nasty, ugly, bullying corporate lawyer informed them they could not be placed for adoption because apparently they were infringing upon some stupid, damn patent or other. So, the dejected little plushies were quietly and discreetly removed from the shop and now sit forlorn upon their windowsill, wondering if they will ever have a home--and all because some big corporate toy company seems to think you can patent the use of ribbon--even if your happy little rainbow plushies bare little resemblance to their designs or the description of their design in their patent.

But then, the plushie creator decided, I'll be damned if the corporate-toy-making-man can bully this little artist and stop the world from enjoying these little plushies and try to control the creative use of ribbon. Just like all the other sewing notions and art supplies in the world, ribbons deserve to be given free-expression too. Ribbons have feelings too!

And so, the plushie creator decided she would simply make a little free and downloadable tutorial on how to make the happy little be-ribboned plushies for your own self, so the little plushies can continue to exist in the world, and proliferate, and be free from the repression of the corporate man. And then people began downloading the pattern, and making their own little happy be-ribboned plushies, and were filled with joy and were freed from repression and lived happily ever after. The end.
Unfortunately, that little story is pretty much all true. Even the part about me being here to offer all of you a little tutorial and downloadable template on how you can make your very own Rainbow Sunshine Plushie. And I really hope you will--if nothing else than as a sign of resistance to the corporate toy-making man who thinks they need to control teeny-weeny little artists like me who probably would not have sold more than 4 of these in a year's time. And who think they get to rule the world of artistic expression because they have the money to buy a patent (and why in the hell can you patent the use of ribbon anyway? Who's ever heard of that nonsense?) and they have bullying corporate lawyers who know people like me cannot afford to fight them. Excuse me, but F them. I never did react well to attempts to control me (just ask my manager at work, or my parents, for that matter).
So, please make these to your heart's content and give them away to every baby you know and every person who might need a little snuggly rainbow happiness in their life. Fight the man and retain your personal right to use ribbon as you so choose:

DOWNLOAD RAINBOW PLUSHIE TUTORIAL

Happy plushie-making, creative friends in la resistance against the corporate-toy-making-man.