Sunday, February 28, 2010

//Operation Operating Your Soft Toy

This useless tutorial attempts to make your bear/soft toy softer.

Here's what you need :
  • A soft toy (Be it a bear, dog, rabbit etc. as long as you think that its too full)
  • Needle
  • Thread
  • Scissors
  • Plastic bag / Box
Here's what you don't need :
  • Experience in sewing

Okay so......few years back I bought and built a bear(MOJO JOJO) in build a bear and it was stuffed with too much cotton so I decided to perform a cheat one operation on it to take out its extra cotton to make it softer. (Actually I did once before but then it was still very full so this is my second attempt in doing it. Therefore I came up with an "idea" to make a "tutorial" hahaha.)

Let's get started.

Step 1 : Pick a soft toy


Step 2 : Take off its clothes if it have any on. (If your soft toy's clothes cannot be taken off then its too bad la. Or maybe you can try operating its head? Hahaha)


Step 3 : Turn the bear to the back.....(Never ever operate your bear on its stomach because then, if your operation goes wrong your bear is going to have a very ugly belly which you don't want that to happen. Unless if you do, then its ok. Or you have like the best skill in sewing that it won't leave a mark on your bear)


Step 4 : Find a spot to perform the operation on. (Have you notice my previous stitch? haha)


Step 5 : Use the scissors to cut your bear open. The length is up to you but it'd be easier to cut until you can fit your whole palm/hand in it. So that it'd be easier for you to take out its cotton in its hands/legs/head




Step 6 : Start taking out the cotton...


Step 7 : Put the cotton you took out in a plastic bag / a box so that the cotton won't scatter around


Step 8 : After taking out the cotton,  hug your bear to see if its your desired softness. Then, find a thread that its colour is similar to your bear's colour


Step 9 : Sew it...




Step 10 : After sewing, "pinch" the bear's fur so that it won't be pressed by the stitches and so that your bear will not look like it had an "operation"


Step 11 : Ta-dah! Now you can has a new(softer) bear!


Step 12 : Put its clothes back on and its done!


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Pictures in the process :

This is the heart that everyone has to put in their bear in build a bear :)


And this is the additional heart beat thing


These are the cotton I took out from my bear hahaha. My bear was fat!



Ok that's all for this useless tutorial I hope you're gonna have fun if you're ever gonna operate on your bear! hehehe

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