How to whip stitch the gap between your Wooble’s legs

all right at this point you have two legs to your bear and the last thing that you need to do is so this gap up so remember that long yarn tail that we left when we attach the second leg we are going to use that now to whip stitch this seam closed so the red the tapestry needle and then if we did things correctly and place the legs in the correct positions there should be an equal number of unmarked stitches on each side of the body so in this particular case there should be eight so here we have one two three four five six seven eight and let’s just confirm that the other side also has eight unworked stitches so one two three four five six seven eight great and the reason why that’s important is because of those are the stitches that you want to line up when your whip stitching this together so as you can see when you when you attach the leg sometimes it really pulls on the stitch which makes this big gap over here but don’t worry we can use the whip stitch to close that so that was one of the work stitches so I’m gonna find the equivalent on this side of the bear and I’m just gonna put the needle through both equivalent sides of the bear and pull real tight and you’re probably gonna have to use your to help keep the bear closed while you do this whip stitch because it’s quite a lot of tension right now and you don’t have a full seam created yet so we’re just gonna keep repeating that process of putting the needle through the one side of the body of the bear that’s closest to you and out the corresponding stitch on the other side of the bear the side that is further away from you whoops and I’m just pulling that real tight this stitch is what is called the whip stitch so again let’s move on to the next one work stitch and keep on repeating this until you have whip stitched the entire seam clothes [Music] so again you’ll see there’s quite a big gap over here because where the legs joined to the body it really pulled on those stitches so I’m gonna whip stitch those stitches as well look at that it makes the gap much less noticeable and also by the way if you wanted to keep on stuffing your beer that was your last chance to do it so as your whip stitching as the bear becomes tighter and tighter you might realize you actually wanted to put some more stuffing in there and in the way that you end this well I like to just go through the last stitch one more time to make it extra secure and then now we’re going to hide the yarn tail as you normally would which is by sticking the needle into where it came from and out some other point of the body so that the yarn tail gets tangled up in the stuffing inside and I would recommend doing that a few times so that thing or in tail gets super tangled on the inside