Spotted a Chinese article “貓咪收集App萌爆羊毛氈公仔登場！” featuring hand-made dolls of the cats from Neko Atsume! So I did a little digging and found the source of these adorable little wool felt dolls:

https://www.instagram.com/yuyoyuyo/

Now my hands itch to make my own little cats…. *must resist*