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Ilah
I have starting making some stuffed bears of my own pattern. I enjoy making the bears and coming up with pattern variations, but I am having a difficult time with attaching the arms and legs (and ears). I am starting get frustrated. It is seems like more work than it sould be, plus often the limbs do not attach at the right angle. For example, I attach an arm and find that it is pointing behind the bear.
Maybe I am overlooking something obvious, but how exactly do you attach the arms and legs. I have tried using a yarn needle to sew arms on with the end of the yarn I made the arm from. This works pretty good with some yarns, but doesn't seem to work good when I use more textured yarn. (The needle seems to go through the middle of the yarn and get stuck.) I have tried "stiching" by using a crochet hook to weave the yarn in and out, which seems to work only marginally well. It takes both my hands to do this, and I find that after I am finished the limb sometimes shifts from where I wanted it.
I am thinking of maybe sewing on the limbs with thread (maybe a thick thread like crochet thread). I think it might be easier, but I am wondering if it would be strong enough to stay on if little kids pulled on the arms of legs. Also I am concerned that a normal thread would not be strong enough, but a thicker thread might show and detract for the look of the bear.
Ilah
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