I fried most of my Eeyores' (yes multiple plushes) hair using a dryer. I mourned their hair every time I forgot not to use a dryer. I got to a point of resignation and just left them with afros. But then, I did the same to a hoodie. Now, I have a whole bunch to wire brush.
I have a teddy named Fred, who is over 20 years old (Might be even older considering his origins are unknown) He has no label, as its been torn off. He was my older brother's teddy at first. Fred was one of those school bears that you could take home over the weekends. Well, he never got returned to that school- 😂 not a chance And now in the modern day, i have Fred. Alongside all my other plushies.. But i see Fred as the most important. He's the oldest, he has the most experience 😅 like an elderly man. (Btw Fred's original name was Barnaby, before he got renamed)
It’s hard to tell in the video, but does your pet brush have those little plastic bits on the ends on the bristles or are they bare? I have a plush bunny whose fur is rather clumped now and I would like to brush him out, but I want to make sure I find a brush that works without damaging him.
This is such an inspiring craft!! I’m so sorry that the editing process was a hassle, your content has really helped invigorate me to wash some plushes & rethink some wicker baskets hiding away :]c
Thank you! My grandma got me a little stuffed dog when i was 4 that i named manchita (something like stain) because i thought the little patches on him were stains. Hes old now, since i am 16 and he got really skinny, lost a lot of stuffing, i am hoping to restuff him and return him to his old young looking self loll
My son had the same bear. He called him Polar Bear, after the bears on his duvet cover. He loved that bear. When my son was 14, I did the same as you, replaced the stuffing, gave him a good wash, and hung him over a railing in the sun to dry. Good as new. : ) My son was very pleased.
The seam should hold unless you apply a lot of bidirectional force to it. You start and stop the Henson stitch beyond where the hole is, so there's plenty of overlap to prevent that from happening.
Thank you, I have a daughter with asd and she is hyper fixated on her bear. I ordered her a new one just in case but her bear has been through it so I'm trying to make him like new so the back up works
Hello Crafty Motato, thank you for putting this together it is super helpful and has given me the courage to finally wash my bear i have cuddled to sleep for 20 years! My only concern is the wire brush, do I risk pulling out his fur? If so, any tips for how to avoid this?
That is a possibility depending on how worn the fur is. I'd test a small bit in your fingers, pull with the same amount of force you'd use with the wire brush. If it is too fragile, you can gently comb the fibers with a soft toothbrush, though this of course will take much longer
I’m planning on restoring my stuffed puppy from my childhood- who I creatively named Puppy- and I can tell his paws have pellets in them. Before I do some surgery on my favorite guy would you say that most stuffies with pellets have them in bags?
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.
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
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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..