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Step 3Sew a circuit
Draw a bear body pattern on a piece of paper. Make it about 3/4 inches larger than you want the finished bear because it will get smaller when you sew it together and stuff it. Draw some arm and leg patterns on the paper as well. Cut out your fabric pieces using your patterns. Cut out a piece on muslin fabric in the same shape as the body.
Design a face and use the fusable web to attach it to the front of the bear. Using a wide stitch, outline the face and make a cute smiley face.
Some nice tips - draw your face design on paper first using a pencil, then rub it on to your fabric and darken with a marking pen. After sewing the design use a permanent marker to fill in any gaps or mistakes.
Place your remote control circuit board on top of the piece of muslin in a strategic position - I placed mine in the bear's left armpit. On the muslin, mark where the buttons will go. Tie a piece of conductive thread to an eye fastener on the circuit board and then sew it across the muslin to the button location. I doubled the thread so that two threads went to one place so if one thread broke, the other could still make the button function.
Leave the threads trailing out the back of the fabric. Repeat for each side of each button and the hold switch. The hold switch should have one thread going to each side of the bear's body, to be connected in the arms. Leave plenty of extra thread.
Using the fusable web, attach the muslin to the back of the front piece of the bear. The fusable web makes the fabric stiffer, so attach only a few points on the muslin to the front piece to hold them together and keep the threads from crossing.
After the muslin circuit has been attached to the front, mark on the front where the buttons should be placed. At each button location place two rectangles of conductive tape, one for each connecting side of the circuit. They should be about 1/6 inch apart. Then stitch each conductive thread over its piece of tape so the thread touches the conductive part of the tape. Leave the threads for the "on"/hold button hanging loose.
Be careful not to cross the "on"/hold button threads too long. This will drain the battery.
Design a face and use the fusable web to attach it to the front of the bear. Using a wide stitch, outline the face and make a cute smiley face.
Some nice tips - draw your face design on paper first using a pencil, then rub it on to your fabric and darken with a marking pen. After sewing the design use a permanent marker to fill in any gaps or mistakes.
Place your remote control circuit board on top of the piece of muslin in a strategic position - I placed mine in the bear's left armpit. On the muslin, mark where the buttons will go. Tie a piece of conductive thread to an eye fastener on the circuit board and then sew it across the muslin to the button location. I doubled the thread so that two threads went to one place so if one thread broke, the other could still make the button function.
Leave the threads trailing out the back of the fabric. Repeat for each side of each button and the hold switch. The hold switch should have one thread going to each side of the bear's body, to be connected in the arms. Leave plenty of extra thread.
Using the fusable web, attach the muslin to the back of the front piece of the bear. The fusable web makes the fabric stiffer, so attach only a few points on the muslin to the front piece to hold them together and keep the threads from crossing.
After the muslin circuit has been attached to the front, mark on the front where the buttons should be placed. At each button location place two rectangles of conductive tape, one for each connecting side of the circuit. They should be about 1/6 inch apart. Then stitch each conductive thread over its piece of tape so the thread touches the conductive part of the tape. Leave the threads for the "on"/hold button hanging loose.
Be careful not to cross the "on"/hold button threads too long. This will drain the battery.
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