How to Sew Spots on a Stuffed Animal

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now I'm going to sew on the spots. Again, thread your needle and knot it with a nice fat knot. You want to come from the back again and just pick any part of the circle to start with...it doesn't matter...and come out about an 1/8 to a 1/4 inch from the edge. We're going to make stitches that go from the inside here to the outside of the circle and again. From the back, pull it through and then go from the front to the back right on the edge. From the back to the front, and then from the front to the back. You want to make sure that you don't pull the thread to tight. Keep it a little bit loose so that if you pull too tight you're going to get a crunched up doggy. If that happens, you can just pull those threads. Take the needle and just gently loosen the threads again. It's nice to have a just a loose sewing of this. This is called appliqué. Pull it out just gently. You don't want to pull those threads too tight. Continue going in and out all the way around the doggy. Like on the ear, you want to be careful if you're doing this with children that they don't all of a sudden go around and end sewing up the dog like this. If that happens, you'll have to cut it and rethread their needle and just start again. My thread is starting to get short and it's about 5 inches long now. I still have quite a ways to go. I'm not going to be tempted to continue sewing and end up with too short a piece to knot, so I'm going to knot it right now. So you bring the thread to the back and you do an end knot here, and then you'll just start with another piece of thread. There's my end knot. I have a needle all ready to go with a knot and then we'll continue. Now we've gone all the way around our spot. This is what it looks like in the back. We've knotted it a few times and started, which is fine. And we'll do an end knot. There's our second loop. And cut that off. Then we'll continue on and we'll sew on our other spots."