Make a soft toy EVE from the film WALL-E

Step 7 Sew the fingers and the button hole

Firstly, neatly sew the arm closed (with white thread) and then sew the fingers and the button hole. Most modern sewing machines have a button hole function. If not then a button hole is just two strips of satin stitch about 1mm apart with a wider bit of satin stitch at each end. If you can't make a button hole using the sewing machine, paint a strip of Elmers glue or PVA where you want the button hole to be on both sides of the material, put cling film or carrier bag plastic round the arm over the glue and clamp it down until it is dry, then slit carefully with a craft knife. The glue should stop the material fraying. when dry, cut a button hole in the middle of the glued strip.

If you are using the button hole function of your sewing machine for the first time, you'll find that most machines have very simple instructions on how to make a button hole somewhere on them. Once you have sewn the hole edging all the way round, you have to actually make the hole. This is easily made using a sharp craft knife or scalpel. Take care to only slit the fabric and not cut through the stitching round the hole at the sides of hole or at the ends.

To sew the fingers, just sew with the sewing machine in straight lines over the finger lines that you drew earlier. Sew straight through the stuffing and the interlining so that you get a slightly quilted effect.

Repeat for other arm.

Comments

[lala154]

you could just sew a line around it