Baby Care Bear Costume

Step 4: Add Lining

Now to add a lining so the stuffing will stay in the head and the baby won't get scratched by all of the open seams.

My head lining was a fail, so I need to offer better advice.
It seems obvious to me now that you need to but a hood shape into it.  At the moment of execution, though, I was baffled.  Consequently, there wasn't enough room for baby's head and we had to make an emergency field operation.

Cut a hood shape out of some fleece (or knit, something soft), and seam along the center back.

To line the body, I turned the bear inside out and pinned fabric all along it.  I cut off the excess and created one large dart along the heiney area.

To finish, use a smallish whipstitch.  You could get this under your machine, but I thought it might be more hassle than it was worth.

I also sewed a circle of felt behind the belly. 

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[StoryAddict]

And now she's just bleeding...way to make it more morbid :)