How to Sew the Eyes & Nose on a Stuffed Animal

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now, I'll show you how to sew the eyes and the nose. You want to thread your needle with black embroidery floss with a good size knot. We're going to go in through a section here on the neck. Just kind of open up the seam up a little bit with your needle. You'll want to push the needle in through the neck because we're trying to hide the knot. Think about where you want to the eye to be. Come out of the stuffed animal with where you want the eye to be. Pull that through and then you're going to push the knot into the seam. You can use the needle to do that and give it a tuck. So now it's gone. You don't see the knot. Now the embroidery floss is coming out where you want the eye. We're just going to do a simple, very simple eye. You push the needle. You go about 1/4 inch again and you want to push the needle through and across the head and across the head and come out in about the same spot. That's not the same spot. You can judge in it's position to the ear. Try to get it to come out so that your eyes are fairly even and just pull your thread through. We're going to go back and forth a few times until we like what it looks like. Push the needle through like this. Poke it around until it looks the way you want. If you give it a little bit of a tug, you'll get an indent there and that'll give a nice look to the eye. When you have enough eye....that looks pretty good. Now we're going to take the black thread and go right to the nose because that's what we're going to do next. Come out somewhere in the nose section, give it a good pull. I'm just going to stitch all the way this nose section until we like the way it looks. You want to do a lot of stitches. Now let's knot over here. Just grab a little bit of thread because it is on the outside and not on the inside. Grab a little bit of thread. Make a loop. I got my finger stuck in a loop. One loop and then 2 loops. Trim that fairly close so you don't have any string hangin off. There's our nose. Next, I'll show you how to make the little tongue on the end like this one."