Five Easy Hand Stitches for Making Quality Dolls, Puppets, and Plushies

Need some help with hand stitching the finishing touches on your cloth character? Let me show you the FIVE stitches I turn to when making characters out of cloth. The video below has these chapters:

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Video Chapters

• 00:00 Needle & Thread Choices and Prep
• 02:42 Running Stitch
• 05:51 Tack Stitch
• 06:46 Whip Stitch
• 08:14 Ladder Stitch
• 11:26 Surface Knot
• 13:07 TIP: Thread Conditioner
• 14:21 Recap

Free Stitch Diagram

My patterns and in-the-hoop designs include a diagram of these hand stitches (shown above.)

But if you don’t have any of my patterns, you can get the full page PDF diagram below.

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