Hello! I hope you see this despite the video being posted a year ago. I’m planning to do this for my teddy bear but I’m curious how much stuffing did you use for yours? My teddy bear is about 18-20 inches long and has a wide head and midsection. Would 24.7 ounces be enough do you think? Thank you, loved your video and Edison is a cutie! ❤
@CraftyMotato10 күн бұрын
Hi! Probably? It really depends on how firm you want your stuffed friend to be. Using more fluff and packing it in tightly will make them stiffer and less squishy, as opposed to using less fluff.
@wilmergaming124525 күн бұрын
1:42 💀
@pinklickpony7162Ай бұрын
It looks much more *authentically historically adequate when there are imperfections and repairs. Your repair is really, really good btw.😊
@CraftyMotato26 күн бұрын
Well said! Thank you. ♥️
@xDemonFanBoyАй бұрын
The teddy bear is just too cute
@idrathergotohell5215Ай бұрын
Oh my gosh!! Thats so cute and cool!! Sorry that several aspects were a pain, but it came out so good!
@CraftyMotatoАй бұрын
Thank you! 😊
@idrathergotohell5215Ай бұрын
Those fabrics are soooooo cute!!!!
@user-Peashooter-PVZАй бұрын
I found a beanie baby unicorn at a goodwill but it came with a hole in it! It was not dirty though! It was weird because usually you don't find only one of those problems! Its been sewed and I named it cotton 😊😊😊 this was about almost more than one year ago
@user-Peashooter-PVZАй бұрын
I thought I could share this to ask you if you ever found a plushie with just one single problem or have you never seen that?
@CraftyMotatoАй бұрын
Sure! Sometimes plushies just develop a hole from where the seam is weakest, or sometimes they get a small stain and just need a spot cleaning.
@MrBostjanVidmar2 ай бұрын
hello, excellently done! I also want to make this myself, but I'm a beginner. The only video with liner I found is your video. I would like to have liner too, but it's not quite clear to me what to sew together so that it can turn around in the end. I would still be able to sew it from one layer.
@CraftyMotatoАй бұрын
Thank you! So I sewed all the seams of the lining to the matching seams of the main fabric with the sides I ultimately wanted to face out on the inside. I left the back seam of the lining unsewn, then I used that open seam to flip everything rightside out once I'd snipped all the curves and nipped all the corners. Then I hand sewed the back seam up.
@JesseDicker492 ай бұрын
Loved the video but had concerns about the eyes and nose coming off since they seemed glued on. How did you keep the eyes and nose intact?
@CraftyMotatoАй бұрын
Oh, they're not glued on. The eyes and nose are sort of like plastic screws that puncture through the fabric, and then there's a small plastic 'bolt' at the back that can't be undone. So they're perfectly safe to handwash.
@antisocialxconstruct2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video, a whole year later! I recently acquired a really beautiful but grungy white plush cat from the 90s and have been trying my best to find good guidance on how to restore her as gently as possible, but was basically only finding tips on how to machine wash or spot-clean children's toys. This was exactly the kind of visual reference I needed :)
@CraftyMotatoАй бұрын
Wonderful! Good luck with your restoration!
@mama022782 ай бұрын
I like the way u treated your plush.....i am also a plush collector and have many plushies ...i love them all and hope to preserve them forever....thanks for the tips....looking forward for more similar videos of plush animals being restored in a loving way....
@maryjackson11942 ай бұрын
To guarantee your seam is invisible, instead of going directly across when stitching, take your stitch one thread back from the direction you are stitching. In other words, if you are stitching right to left, enter the fabric one thread to the right of straight across. Tension on this seam will tend to pull the sides closer, instead of allowing the seam to open up, which will happen if your stitches enter the fabric even one thread ahead of straight across.
@CraftyMotato2 ай бұрын
Very good to know!
@maryjackson11942 ай бұрын
Our Edison is called Earring. For several years, Earring has been known as our cat's "girlfriend." We even had the vet verify that the cat was fixed. I started looking at videos to find the best way to clean Earring, never expecting to see the same model of Gund bear. Earring won't look at good as Edison; he has some bald patches -- but he will be clean. Earring wasn't made in NJ, though -- he was made in China for the NJ company.
@CraftyMotato2 ай бұрын
Lol poor Earring. At least she's loved?
@CocatGaming2 ай бұрын
I have a question. What if you have a small stuffed animal like a Tsum Tsum? Will you be able to take the stuffing out of them in order to clean them?
@CraftyMotato2 ай бұрын
Absolutely!
@CocatGaming2 ай бұрын
@@CraftyMotato okay! Thanks!
@nicoleduren47252 ай бұрын
Love ❤
@BlackKishan3 ай бұрын
I'm so scared I will ruin the fur with those wire brushes. I know it's often used and recommended, but something about it makes me uneasy. Like, will the wire pull out chunks of fur, will it rip apart the seams... I love my childhood leopard but he does need some love to get better. The stuffing is alright and bathing him shouldn't be a problem.
@CraftyMotato2 ай бұрын
The thing with the wire brush is that you don't pull very hard, just enough to lightly lift the fur away from itself. You can also use a stiff-haired brush as well, if you don't want to use the wire one. I'm sure you will do your leopard proud!
@donnabrown43493 ай бұрын
This video is so informative. Edison is one happy bear! This would work well for stuffed animals from a thrift shop or eBay since you never know where its prior home was.
@CraftyMotato3 ай бұрын
Absolutely!
@lydiaflatt98593 ай бұрын
I recently redid a teddy bear that was 54 years old. It was not so bad!
@knetge3 ай бұрын
I want to do this with a lot of my old stuffed animals. but I don't want to take the stuffing out. think the washing method would still work ?'
@CraftyMotato3 ай бұрын
So the problem with not taking the stuffing out is that the stuffing is very hard to get fully dry if you get it all wet. If you don't want to do a full wash including the stuffing, I'd recommend just surface cleaning your stuffed friend.
@knetge3 ай бұрын
@@CraftyMotato I tried the baking soda method and that didn't seem to work. so I was thinking of cleaning them in the sink and then letting them sit and dry I pulled them out of my basement. so they all have a musty mill do smell in them. problem is I have a lot of stuffed friends that need this cleaning. some of them I want to keep. others I would like to donate and give good homes..
@adri.progression4 ай бұрын
Thank you!! I'll be restoring my best friend Curious George 🐵🤍🤎
@mrittikawahid76524 ай бұрын
Edison is one handsome boy 😍
@CraftyMotato4 ай бұрын
Thank you! He is very much loved
@ilnessuno4 ай бұрын
I find this video relaxing. My Teddy was my only friend i have ever had.
@romanknight71995 ай бұрын
Very much appreciate the mini tutorial on the Henson stitch! This will help me a lot
@CraftyMotato5 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@timlee17945 ай бұрын
This brought a smile to my face ☺
@CraftyMotato5 ай бұрын
Yay! That makes *me* smile
@mariajosevargas75015 ай бұрын
Idk why but I already knew how to stitch and I made my own toys out of old socks.
@CraftyMotato5 ай бұрын
Nice! Socks can make great plushies!
@TrueKingHollow6 ай бұрын
I wish there were more of these types of videos on the internet. Honestly I thought that was so adorable and sweet! 😃🤍
@CraftyMotato5 ай бұрын
Aw, I appreciate that! Might have another one here in a bit
@rebeccabranom62586 ай бұрын
Did you find the other teddy bear? 🧸
@CraftyMotato6 ай бұрын
I think it's at my dad's house somewhere 🤔
@rebeccabranom62586 ай бұрын
@@CraftyMotato If you find it can you make a video on it please? 🤗
@ashuranrhapsody99096 ай бұрын
You kept at it and it looks so cute! Good work~
@CraftyMotato6 ай бұрын
Thank you! I appreciate it!
@QMulative6 ай бұрын
Riveting! I learned that lesson early on in my crafting ventures, specifically with programming. I've got nowhere near enough confidence to build a big thing and then see how it looks at the end. I have to make sure every individual piece of it is working perfect, then assemble two pieces, and make sure they still work, then assemble two more, &c.
@CraftyMotato6 ай бұрын
Lol yeah, I certainly won't be making that mistake again! I'll make other, different mistakes! But that's part of life and how you learn, so I'm choosing to take it as a Learning Experience (tm).
@victorienne1116 ай бұрын
So sorry it was so frustrating! The purse looks great.
@CraftyMotato6 ай бұрын
Thank you!!
@caramel_duh58497 ай бұрын
Im so scared to rip the seams i dont want to ruin my stuffed bunny i know how to sew by hand but im not the best and im scared its not gonna look good when i do it
@caramel_duh58497 ай бұрын
Also im to scared to let him in the hands of another person 😅
@CraftyMotato6 ай бұрын
Those are all valid fears. I'd recommend practicing on some cheap plushies first
@minibpree7 ай бұрын
Lovely video and a bonus lovely Edison ❤ I was searching around how to restore and restuffed stuffed animals because I wanted to do that to my 2 favourite plushies. But because my sewing skills are not quite well so I'm scared to do it. How do you know where to "open" them up?
@CraftyMotato7 ай бұрын
You may need to part the fur a bit to find a seam. If there is a center back seam of your plushie, that's usually a good place as it's centrally located. If not, there may be a center front seam, or if the head is large, between the neck and middle can work, too. Hope this helps!
@MKMK0227 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, going to hopefully try this soon :)
@damienwarlock7 ай бұрын
taking out your bears fluff took out his soul. every dream, every cuddle, all of that was in that fluff, not just his body. why did you cut it out and destroy it? you could have washed all the original parts. you didn't. you made a frankenbear. that is unforgivable. it's not the same bear anymore. i would never call on you to restore a bear, ever.
@CraftyMotato7 ай бұрын
The fluff was likely full of mold and was unsafe to keep. I did keep a small bit of the original fluff and put it inside a small heart inside him. I just didn't film that.
@damienwarlock7 ай бұрын
@@CraftyMotato well if you're gonna lie, lie big i guess. i don't believe that at all. it would have been one of the most important parts of the vid.
@HeadNtheClouds8 ай бұрын
Ooohhhh, poor Edison! 😬
@scottcharney10918 ай бұрын
This put a smile on my face. You probably know this, but you didn't mention that Edison is a Snuffles! Snuffles is Gund's signature bear. Whenever any pal of mine has a kid, I give them a Snuffles. Mine lives with my nephews now, but I see him (big brown Snuffy) periodically.
@CraftyMotato8 ай бұрын
I didn't know they had a special name! Thanks for sharing. They're really good for cuddles so I can see why they're a signature item!
@scottcharney10918 ай бұрын
@@CraftyMotatoYou're more than welcome!
@QMulative8 ай бұрын
Looks great!
@CraftyMotato8 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@2bornot2b998 ай бұрын
I had no idea there were teddy bear hospitals, I have a childhood panda from panda express that I named Carsone pronounced {car-s- own} idk where I got the name but I did some research just now and I found out hes a 2009 gen, cant believe its been 14 years. His eyes and nose are chipped and his mouth is barely hanging on and he looks very skinny compared to his new brothers online, im gonna get him to see a doctor asap
@CraftyMotato8 ай бұрын
Yay! Hope Carsone gets all better soon!
@lulu244258 ай бұрын
How can I fixed a stuffed animal with bald patches of fur?
@CraftyMotato8 ай бұрын
Probably the easiest way would be to make a patch and cover over the thinned area.
@ice_scramble8 ай бұрын
he looks so silly deflated
@CraftyMotato8 ай бұрын
He does indeed!
@changveronicas8 ай бұрын
he looks just like my teddy bear!! i have the bigger version, and he’s named gunther (after the GUND company!) i knew edison looked familiar 😊 these bears are so cute!!! thank you for the video!!
@CraftyMotato8 ай бұрын
Aw, yay! I hope you and Gunther have many more years of cuddles together!
@scottcharney10918 ай бұрын
That's a clever name. Mine is just Snuffles (what the company calls them), but I've always called him Snuffy.
@artsy1966 ай бұрын
i love gund bears so much i have the brown and white 1983 tender teddies (i think thats what theyre called)
@SatanenPerkele9 ай бұрын
Sadly my stuffed childhood rainbow dinosaur is beyond repair (the fabric on it is tearing) 😢
@CraftyMotato9 ай бұрын
No one is beyond repair! You can patch or stitch them up and then make them a cute sweater to cover the stitches! I've even seen friends with their original fabric completely recovered or replaced.
@belledobson20079 ай бұрын
Oh that fabric is devine ❤
@charlenetorres12029 ай бұрын
Love the Peter Rabbit fabric! The quality is so evident! It is a shame a print like it is unavailable today. I am so weary of Disney. Contrasting fabrics make all the difference in this creation.
@CraftyMotato9 ай бұрын
Thank you!! I love looking for fun prints at antique malls. I have a number of other fun bedsheets and curtains I need to make things out of.
@nizbiz13969 ай бұрын
Could I use a blow dryer?
@CraftyMotato9 ай бұрын
It would depend on the type of faux fur and the temperature, but I wouldn't advise it.
@nizbiz13969 ай бұрын
@@CraftyMotato I ended up just being patient for the air dry, and he came out really nice. Thank you so much for making this video!
@ScarfBenderKorra9 ай бұрын
My favorite stuffed animal hasn’t been cleaned in a long time. This video was great, I have been really nervous to do it myself and I was considering sending it to a stuffed animal hospital but you are giving me confidence.
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Amazing job ❤️
1st
Hello! I hope you see this despite the video being posted a year ago. I’m planning to do this for my teddy bear but I’m curious how much stuffing did you use for yours? My teddy bear is about 18-20 inches long and has a wide head and midsection. Would 24.7 ounces be enough do you think? Thank you, loved your video and Edison is a cutie! ❤
Hi! Probably? It really depends on how firm you want your stuffed friend to be. Using more fluff and packing it in tightly will make them stiffer and less squishy, as opposed to using less fluff.
1:42 💀
It looks much more *authentically historically adequate when there are imperfections and repairs. Your repair is really, really good btw.😊
Well said! Thank you. ♥️
The teddy bear is just too cute
Oh my gosh!! Thats so cute and cool!! Sorry that several aspects were a pain, but it came out so good!
Thank you! 😊
Those fabrics are soooooo cute!!!!
I found a beanie baby unicorn at a goodwill but it came with a hole in it! It was not dirty though! It was weird because usually you don't find only one of those problems! Its been sewed and I named it cotton 😊😊😊 this was about almost more than one year ago
I thought I could share this to ask you if you ever found a plushie with just one single problem or have you never seen that?
Sure! Sometimes plushies just develop a hole from where the seam is weakest, or sometimes they get a small stain and just need a spot cleaning.
hello, excellently done! I also want to make this myself, but I'm a beginner. The only video with liner I found is your video. I would like to have liner too, but it's not quite clear to me what to sew together so that it can turn around in the end. I would still be able to sew it from one layer.
Thank you! So I sewed all the seams of the lining to the matching seams of the main fabric with the sides I ultimately wanted to face out on the inside. I left the back seam of the lining unsewn, then I used that open seam to flip everything rightside out once I'd snipped all the curves and nipped all the corners. Then I hand sewed the back seam up.
Loved the video but had concerns about the eyes and nose coming off since they seemed glued on. How did you keep the eyes and nose intact?
Oh, they're not glued on. The eyes and nose are sort of like plastic screws that puncture through the fabric, and then there's a small plastic 'bolt' at the back that can't be undone. So they're perfectly safe to handwash.
Thank you for this video, a whole year later! I recently acquired a really beautiful but grungy white plush cat from the 90s and have been trying my best to find good guidance on how to restore her as gently as possible, but was basically only finding tips on how to machine wash or spot-clean children's toys. This was exactly the kind of visual reference I needed :)
Wonderful! Good luck with your restoration!
I like the way u treated your plush.....i am also a plush collector and have many plushies ...i love them all and hope to preserve them forever....thanks for the tips....looking forward for more similar videos of plush animals being restored in a loving way....
To guarantee your seam is invisible, instead of going directly across when stitching, take your stitch one thread back from the direction you are stitching. In other words, if you are stitching right to left, enter the fabric one thread to the right of straight across. Tension on this seam will tend to pull the sides closer, instead of allowing the seam to open up, which will happen if your stitches enter the fabric even one thread ahead of straight across.
Very good to know!
Our Edison is called Earring. For several years, Earring has been known as our cat's "girlfriend." We even had the vet verify that the cat was fixed. I started looking at videos to find the best way to clean Earring, never expecting to see the same model of Gund bear. Earring won't look at good as Edison; he has some bald patches -- but he will be clean. Earring wasn't made in NJ, though -- he was made in China for the NJ company.
Lol poor Earring. At least she's loved?
I have a question. What if you have a small stuffed animal like a Tsum Tsum? Will you be able to take the stuffing out of them in order to clean them?
Absolutely!
@@CraftyMotato okay! Thanks!
Love ❤
I'm so scared I will ruin the fur with those wire brushes. I know it's often used and recommended, but something about it makes me uneasy. Like, will the wire pull out chunks of fur, will it rip apart the seams... I love my childhood leopard but he does need some love to get better. The stuffing is alright and bathing him shouldn't be a problem.
The thing with the wire brush is that you don't pull very hard, just enough to lightly lift the fur away from itself. You can also use a stiff-haired brush as well, if you don't want to use the wire one. I'm sure you will do your leopard proud!
This video is so informative. Edison is one happy bear! This would work well for stuffed animals from a thrift shop or eBay since you never know where its prior home was.
Absolutely!
I recently redid a teddy bear that was 54 years old. It was not so bad!
I want to do this with a lot of my old stuffed animals. but I don't want to take the stuffing out. think the washing method would still work ?'
So the problem with not taking the stuffing out is that the stuffing is very hard to get fully dry if you get it all wet. If you don't want to do a full wash including the stuffing, I'd recommend just surface cleaning your stuffed friend.
@@CraftyMotato I tried the baking soda method and that didn't seem to work. so I was thinking of cleaning them in the sink and then letting them sit and dry I pulled them out of my basement. so they all have a musty mill do smell in them. problem is I have a lot of stuffed friends that need this cleaning. some of them I want to keep. others I would like to donate and give good homes..
Thank you!! I'll be restoring my best friend Curious George 🐵🤍🤎
Edison is one handsome boy 😍
Thank you! He is very much loved
I find this video relaxing. My Teddy was my only friend i have ever had.
Very much appreciate the mini tutorial on the Henson stitch! This will help me a lot
Glad it was helpful!
This brought a smile to my face ☺
Yay! That makes *me* smile
Idk why but I already knew how to stitch and I made my own toys out of old socks.
Nice! Socks can make great plushies!
I wish there were more of these types of videos on the internet. Honestly I thought that was so adorable and sweet! 😃🤍
Aw, I appreciate that! Might have another one here in a bit
Did you find the other teddy bear? 🧸
I think it's at my dad's house somewhere 🤔
@@CraftyMotato If you find it can you make a video on it please? 🤗
You kept at it and it looks so cute! Good work~
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Riveting! I learned that lesson early on in my crafting ventures, specifically with programming. I've got nowhere near enough confidence to build a big thing and then see how it looks at the end. I have to make sure every individual piece of it is working perfect, then assemble two pieces, and make sure they still work, then assemble two more, &c.
Lol yeah, I certainly won't be making that mistake again! I'll make other, different mistakes! But that's part of life and how you learn, so I'm choosing to take it as a Learning Experience (tm).
So sorry it was so frustrating! The purse looks great.
Thank you!!
Im so scared to rip the seams i dont want to ruin my stuffed bunny i know how to sew by hand but im not the best and im scared its not gonna look good when i do it
Also im to scared to let him in the hands of another person 😅
Those are all valid fears. I'd recommend practicing on some cheap plushies first
Lovely video and a bonus lovely Edison ❤ I was searching around how to restore and restuffed stuffed animals because I wanted to do that to my 2 favourite plushies. But because my sewing skills are not quite well so I'm scared to do it. How do you know where to "open" them up?
You may need to part the fur a bit to find a seam. If there is a center back seam of your plushie, that's usually a good place as it's centrally located. If not, there may be a center front seam, or if the head is large, between the neck and middle can work, too. Hope this helps!
Thank you so much, going to hopefully try this soon :)
taking out your bears fluff took out his soul. every dream, every cuddle, all of that was in that fluff, not just his body. why did you cut it out and destroy it? you could have washed all the original parts. you didn't. you made a frankenbear. that is unforgivable. it's not the same bear anymore. i would never call on you to restore a bear, ever.
The fluff was likely full of mold and was unsafe to keep. I did keep a small bit of the original fluff and put it inside a small heart inside him. I just didn't film that.
@@CraftyMotato well if you're gonna lie, lie big i guess. i don't believe that at all. it would have been one of the most important parts of the vid.
Ooohhhh, poor Edison! 😬
This put a smile on my face. You probably know this, but you didn't mention that Edison is a Snuffles! Snuffles is Gund's signature bear. Whenever any pal of mine has a kid, I give them a Snuffles. Mine lives with my nephews now, but I see him (big brown Snuffy) periodically.
I didn't know they had a special name! Thanks for sharing. They're really good for cuddles so I can see why they're a signature item!
@@CraftyMotatoYou're more than welcome!
Looks great!
Thanks!
I had no idea there were teddy bear hospitals, I have a childhood panda from panda express that I named Carsone pronounced {car-s- own} idk where I got the name but I did some research just now and I found out hes a 2009 gen, cant believe its been 14 years. His eyes and nose are chipped and his mouth is barely hanging on and he looks very skinny compared to his new brothers online, im gonna get him to see a doctor asap
Yay! Hope Carsone gets all better soon!
How can I fixed a stuffed animal with bald patches of fur?
Probably the easiest way would be to make a patch and cover over the thinned area.
he looks so silly deflated
He does indeed!
he looks just like my teddy bear!! i have the bigger version, and he’s named gunther (after the GUND company!) i knew edison looked familiar 😊 these bears are so cute!!! thank you for the video!!
Aw, yay! I hope you and Gunther have many more years of cuddles together!
That's a clever name. Mine is just Snuffles (what the company calls them), but I've always called him Snuffy.
i love gund bears so much i have the brown and white 1983 tender teddies (i think thats what theyre called)
Sadly my stuffed childhood rainbow dinosaur is beyond repair (the fabric on it is tearing) 😢
No one is beyond repair! You can patch or stitch them up and then make them a cute sweater to cover the stitches! I've even seen friends with their original fabric completely recovered or replaced.
Oh that fabric is devine ❤
Love the Peter Rabbit fabric! The quality is so evident! It is a shame a print like it is unavailable today. I am so weary of Disney. Contrasting fabrics make all the difference in this creation.
Thank you!! I love looking for fun prints at antique malls. I have a number of other fun bedsheets and curtains I need to make things out of.
Could I use a blow dryer?
It would depend on the type of faux fur and the temperature, but I wouldn't advise it.
@@CraftyMotato I ended up just being patient for the air dry, and he came out really nice. Thank you so much for making this video!
My favorite stuffed animal hasn’t been cleaned in a long time. This video was great, I have been really nervous to do it myself and I was considering sending it to a stuffed animal hospital but you are giving me confidence.
Just take your time with it!
Oh my god you skinned him
Had to be done.