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EDIT: I also make custom plushies! Please check out the rest of my gallery!

I hope this tutorial can come in handy for you all! Feel free to post questions and I will answer them by and by.

I believe you all can make wonderful plushies! <3

EDIT: Here are a few tips and tricks I have picked up from Redditors:

Eight_Quarter_Bit: "for those members without a lot of confidence in free-hand sketching eyes, I bet you could probably cheat and find a vector of MLP eyes, drop it into a document editor to set its dimensions on a page, and print it out as the pattern to go by. This would also make it easy to make sure both the left and right eye were identical but mirrored."

ghostway: "A couple suggestions/personal preferences:

- Instead of a generic felt-tip pen, there's a blue embroidery marker pen you can buy just about anywhere that has embroidery supplies. Doesn't stain, and even if it did, it washes right out with water. (There's a white pencil that does the same thing, but it's rubbish.)

- That said, I cheat horribly and use the reversed printout backing method for doing the outlines. But everything I do is just framed fabric, not plushes, so I don't know if that'd cause problems.

- When I do the outlines, I understitch and overstitch. That is, first I do the outline with one or two strands, and then I satin stitch over it to fill in the solid color, and then I go back and re-stitch the border around there (at four+ strands) with a straight stitch, or my new favourite, a modified split stitch. It's possibly overkill, but I don't want to run the risk of leaving a gap between the satin-stitched areas and the outline.

- For really tiny round areas, like the smallest white highlight on the eye, I prefer a french knot, pressed flat.

- Also, a note to anyone out there doing this for the first time: when filling in with the satin stitch, do the entire width of the area with each stitch; don't try to do it in a series of little centimeter-long stitches. I made that mistake on my first piece, possibly because I was transitioning from cross-stitch, and the result was really shoddy looking and just generally not good."
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*AquaSeashells91 May 7, 2013
:wow: HOLY HOOVES! This is epic!! Thank you! I need this!!
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*Sir-Herp-of-Derp May 4, 2013  Student General Artist
I've been trying to figure out how to embroider on a normal sewing machine, and that's... not been going so well. Frustrated tears have been figuratively shed.

I've been scared of trying embroidery in general, but since I'm more comfortable hand-sewing, I think I'll be okay.
Thanks for the tut! I'll have to look up some of the stitches that ghostway suggested, too. :D
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~Kwintikal Apr 28, 2013  New member Professional Artisan Crafter
Is there a reason that mine looks so bad? It just..looks bad. I haven't started filling it in yet or anything.
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~Kwintikal Apr 28, 2013  New member Professional Artisan Crafter
also, how do you get your eyelashes so pointy? Mine are like..dull. They're super rounded and they don't look good..is it possibly because I used three threads for the outline / backstitch? I'm sorry for all the posts ;-;
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~Kwintikal Apr 27, 2013  New member Professional Artisan Crafter
Also, when do you flip it over to the side without the head outline? After you do the basic outlining, or what?
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*caashley Apr 28, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
The nature of embroidering makes it so that you are kind of flipping it around constantly. Essentially, any time you need to see the line reference again (that you drew), then you flip it over and have a look. Generally when you have done all of the outlining, then you shouldn't need to look at the back again.
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~Kwintikal Apr 26, 2013  New member Professional Artisan Crafter
Can you tell me what size needle would be good for this? I was thinking maybe an eight? I use fleece, btw.
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*caashley Apr 28, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
I am not entirely sure with fleece. I assume the same size that I use, which is pretty thick. I am not sure what number though!
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~onelilmermaid Mar 18, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you very much!
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~MysticalWish Feb 8, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
you know you did the drawing on the otherside of the minky? and you needed to knot the thread on the other side? which way does the thread go in? the furry side or the flat side?
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