Felt Craft: Assembling the Body of a Felt Lady Bug

Video Transcript

"Okay, now we're going to start to glue the body of our ladybug. Again, you have both the top and the bottom, and if you're edges are a little bit rough, you don't have to worry about that too much because the wings are going to be covering the sides. Again, we also had our 4 dots that you cut out of your black. You want to set those to the side. Now we're going to start to glue our body together. So, you're going to take your glue gun, or again you want to use a fabric glue or epoxy glue. Along the lining in a U shape you want to go and make a small line of glue up this side and again continuing making a U shape, a small line of glue on the other side. You want to remember to leave the top open so that when you go to close it, we're going to have the U shape and the head of our lady bug is going to remain open. We're going to use that later to fill your bean bag. So you want to press your edges together, and you want to let that cool for about 10 seconds. You're going to have little lines of excess glue if you use a glue gun or epoxy glue, and you just want to pull those right off. The great thing about felt is it's like hair, so we'll just pull off those extra ends. Then just make sure when you pull it back apart that you have a nice opening there, big enough to slide a spoon into for filling. Now we have the body of our ladybug, nice and put together. "