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tara Tara Bears
Lancaster, England
Posts: 11

I meant to add this to my last post (sorry  bear_cry ) but this is my favourite tip! When I'm doing seams for joints, instead of leaving a gap I sew all the way around the foot / arm etc and then carefully make an incision (with a sharp blade) where the joint will be and turn the foot / arm etc out using this hole. You can then insert the joint and sew around it, making a hardly noticable seam because it'll be attached to the body!

It's not my tip originally, I'm not sure where I read it though so I hope you don't mind that I shared?

bear_innocent

momanimallover Taber, Alberta
Posts: 1,795

great tip!! I'll have to try that!! bear_thumb Thanks for sharing bear_original

Carolynn Teenytinyteddybears
Posts: 444

Hi, read a tip like that in one of the very old posts and it makes sense to me.  Sounds like a really neat way to do it.

Another one that I have tried. Cant find it again to give credit to the person who wrote it, but works like a dream for me. Leave the top of the arm/leg open instead of the side. Really makes for a nice leg. You can stictch around the washer then. A couple of people at the time asked about how hard it was to stitch on a curve, ok I make Minis but use the "easing" method like you do when fitting a sleeve. Gather round the curve and pull it in just enough to make it curve. Thank you who ever posted this so long ago. It really does work.

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