Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Tips On Making Bears Made From Loved Ones Clothing

By Jennie Sandoval


Making bears made from loved ones clothing is a creative activity. It is not complicated as you may think. You may use the old clothes these which are no longer used so that you make your own bear. It does not matter the amount of knowledge you have on crafting or sewing.

Some of the things which you may need are straight pins, red embroidery thread, pieces of old clothes scissor and a needle.First you should select which pattern you are going to use in making your bear. If you want to make an easier one, then this means that there should be not much patterns involved. Settle on one pattern so that you do not get confused in this whole process.

To see if the detergent you are using can damage the bear, you should try spot cleaning the bear. Scrub it; if there is no effect place that animal of yours on zippered pillowcase. This bag should have plenty space in it . This will make the animal easily move around the bag. Supposing that the bear is a large one be sure that it can not be washed in a washing machine.

After outing the toy in the zippered pillowcase, place it on the washing machine. After that you should add some portion of the laundry detergent to that machine. Pour cold water into the machine. Now you can set it to have a gentle cycle. After the time you set for it is over, you are now free to take out the pillow case. Next you should pace it on a dryer.

On the dryer you should set it to the lowest temperature. This setting will help you have the bear dry in the shortest time possible. The dryer will squeeze out the water and make it dry partially. When the time for it in the dryer is over you can now remove it.After this cycle is complete you may now unzip the bag. Check if the stuffed animal has any stain which did not come out. If still this bear looks damp you are free to take it to another cycle so that it is dried.

There are so the people who cannot afford the machine and they do the washing of the animal the normal way. This normal way means scrubbing the animal with a brush and soap. After scrubbing all the parts of that animal. Rinse it until the it removes clean water when wrung.

Another option you can also is hand stitching the hole. The stitches which can be used here are overlapping hand stitch or whip stitch. Some other stitches which can be used when you are hand sewing are the decorative buttonhole stitch and the back stitch. They will give a good finish to your item.

On the eyes of the bear, you could choose to use buttons as the eyes. On its nose you may use embroidery threads to sew the shape of a swollen nose and mouth on the animal. Markers or pens can be used in drawing features like eyes mouth and nose of bears made from loved ones clothing .




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