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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Sta.sh
Sorry to bother...it just really caught my eye.
carpet needles are good for hard to reach places. yeah.
[link] look at this page. i use the second type in this list (efterstygn) of stitching for my basic sowing. this is how most seams look. the lower option in the picture going with it (täta efterstygn). Further down the list is "Gles langettsöm". i use this to toughen it where the margins turned out a little thin, or where some touchening is required because i would have to pull that piece a lot later.
sorry about this being in swedish, i just have no idea what a lot of these things are called in english :/
another piece of advice is getting a very basic book on sewing plush toys. It gives you all the basic pieces of patterns that you could need, and are very easy to learn from. I usually draw brand new patterns on paper i pulled out of my printer with the basics in mind. I also have a tendency to stare at toys in toy shops, if there's a specific design about it that i like. The plus about hand sewing is that you don't have to be exact with your original pattern, since you can make up for some of it being giving it less margins in some areas than others, thereby, for example, making a paw curve more than you originally drew, or making a tail smaller by giving it more margins.
the only problem is, that my patterns usually require modification in retrospect, which makes most pieces of pattern that i make absolutely useless to everyone else.
if you want to ask more, then do :3
Matthew
If only the stores sold plushies this awesome ;___;