How to stuff amigurumi

in this video I’m gonna show you how to stuff Omega roomy so stuffing is really important because it determines the ultimate shape of your amigurumi and you don’t want to stuff it so tightly that it’s stretches too much because then you’ll create holes in the yarn and then you’ll be able to see the white stuffing through the yarn but also you don’t want to stuff it too lightly because then your omega roomies gonna look all sad and lumpy so when you’re stuffing well step one is if you are putting a safety eyes in it put those safety eyes in first because otherwise it’s gonna be quite difficult to navigate around all the stuffing to put your safety eyes in and lock them into place and I’m gonna show you two different ways to stuff the first way I’m gonna show you is my personal preferred way which is to work in layers so you can use any stuffing this one is a brand called polyfill which happens to be one of the most popular ones it’s a polyester fill and it’s a your personal preference I think polyfill says that what’s great about them is that it creates a smooth or look at the end so what you need to do is create little thin layers and then you’re basically just gonna stack all these layers on top of each other inside the piece as opposed to you what you may want to do which is just stuff a giant piece in here if you do it that way you know as you can see just even this raw clump of polyfill it’s got all these divots in it and it has its own shape and that’s gonna get reflected on the outside of your amigurumi so you don’t want that and you want to control it so that’s why you’re gonna try to work in thin layers instead so you just put it in here rip off a little piece create a thin layer put it in and then keep on working another common way to do this is to take not as been a piece stick it in create a little hole in the middle and that’s where you would subsequently add more stuffing so you’d be growing your piece from the inside out this way hoping that this outer piece maintains stuffing I personally find the other way easier because I like to stuff my piece as I go and if I work in layers like this then I’ve got flexibility to modify the shape as I go versus that second way I showed you where you basically have to have almost all of it done so that you can create a well shaped outer layer and then stuff the inner layer here’s an example of an Omega rumi that has two little stuffing so if you press on it you can see it just deflates and it gets deformed really easily if you look inside it’s because I didn’t put enough stuffing in there so now let me show you what it looks like if I were to put too much stuffing in here at some point it is going to feel kind of tough to keep on stuffing stuffing in there and I definitely at that point and I mean the lighting is not super clear but see how I stuffed it to the point that all my yarn is now really taut and really stretched out so now you can see all these holes and her example here you can see right through it and see the stuffing inside so this is too much stuffing and yes it’s nice and round and retains its shape if I poke it but the trade-off is now that you can actually see the stuffing inside of it so we want to take some out to make it more ideal and in the end of the day it’s a lot of guessing check and going by feel feel of the yarn that you’re working with and the feel of the shape that you’re working with to create a shape that you actually like so this is a bit healthier amount of stuffing right if I were to squish this it retains its shape it’s got a pretty nice round shape overall and the stitches still look fairly tight