Summary: Practice pinning a stuffed dog together and sewing the first stitch in this instructional arts and crafts video taught by an expert seamstress.
Karen Weisman graduated from Boston University with a degree in Hotel and Food Management. Since then, she has helped a national grocery store chain develop and launch a gourmet food...read more
"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. We finished sewing on our ears and our spots, and now we're going to sew the doggy head sections together. First, let's remove our pins because we don't need them anymore because we sewed everything in place. We'll put the 2 doggy head sections together with the wrong sides together so the right sides our out. You can pin them. We're going to sew from here all the way around to here. We're going to pinning it. We'll stop at this mark here. At this mark, which is where we fold it to make our leg section. There's our fold for our leg section. There's our leg section. Let's pin right there so we'll know when to stop. Right here and we'll put one pin in there. Then making sure you match up both your pieces. This is where our pin will go right here. I'll put a pin in there. Now, let's start our sewing. You want to start with your needle on the inside fabric so that that will hide our knot. Now the knot is on the inside and you won't see it. You can close this up, close up the head, and put a pin to hold in place. You can put as many pins as you want. If you need a lot to hold that doggy together in place while you're sewing, you can put in as many pins as you want. I'll pin up the back. It's sometimes nice to put a pin in the tail. If you're working with kids, you want to just remind that pins our sharp and they have to be careful. Usually they don't poke themselves too much. "
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