Materials to Make a Stuffed Animal

Series Summary

Everyone can agree: the worst part about the holiday season is going out to buy presents. The mall, department stores, electronic stores, and Toys R Us, although normal and sometimes enjoyable places of business during nine months of the year, often times become hell on earth between October and December. So, wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to deal with long lines and over-priced toys this holiday season? Thanks to the great experts at Expert Village, you don't have to. All you need is a sewing machine, some fabric, and a little creativity and you can make gifts for all the kids.

In this free video series, watch as seamstress Karen Weisman teaches how to make a stuffed animal. Learn the materials needed for stuffed animals, how to draw the pattern, how to cut out the fabric, how to pin the fabric together, how to sew the stuffed animal together, how to stuff the stuffed animal, and how to close up the stuffed animals stitches. Stuffed Animals are a great gift for your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and neighbors and a great way to practice different sewing techniques. Thanks to the experts at Expert Village, Making toys for your children is easy, so watch these videos and enjoy!

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make a simple stuffed animal. This is a great beginner's project. These doggies were actually made by children 7 years and 11 years old. It's a great project; it can be made completely by hand. It has only 3 simple pieces in the pattern and it's made with this nice fleecy fabric that you a lot in fabric stores and it doesn't have heavy fur so it's very easy to work with. It's very easy to sew for children. The other things we'll be using is a number eight in embroidery thread or a thread for doing crochet, 2 colors of embroidery floss. Black to do the nose and red to do the little tongue. You only need a little bit. Some needles that have a fairly big hole. Embroidery needles are good to accommodate the larger threads. Some pins are great for holding things in place. A needle threader is good to have, but it's not necessary and maybe some buttons if you want to do something like this. Make a little doggy tag or use buttons for the eyes. You can make it without the buttons by just embroidering the eyes. You should have a good sharp pair of scissors and it's nice to have a small pair of scissors for doing little trimming threads and small things. Then of course you need the stuffing. This is polyfiber fill, 100% polyester and you can find that in craft stores or fabric stores. I think that's everything. Now let's get started."