Hi everyone,
I'm currently making a spotty dog suit but I've noticed a problem with my spots. I've been cutting them, tracing them onto the fur and then cutting out the shape, leaving a border to sew them in. The problem I have is that every spot I sew pulls in the fabric around it so that it's puckering up. It's not so much of a problem on fur since the puckers (is that a word?) are quite small but when I do it with fleece it's really obvious.
What am I doing wrong here? I've tried changing the size of the border I leave with seemingly no effect, are my stitches too tight? I struggle to hand-sew loosely.
Does anyone have any better ways of sewing spots into fur?
Any help would be appreciated- sorry if this is a stupid question, it seems a really simple thing to fix but I'm getting infuriated!
I'm currently making a spotty dog suit but I've noticed a problem with my spots. I've been cutting them, tracing them onto the fur and then cutting out the shape, leaving a border to sew them in. The problem I have is that every spot I sew pulls in the fabric around it so that it's puckering up. It's not so much of a problem on fur since the puckers (is that a word?) are quite small but when I do it with fleece it's really obvious.
What am I doing wrong here? I've tried changing the size of the border I leave with seemingly no effect, are my stitches too tight? I struggle to hand-sew loosely.
Does anyone have any better ways of sewing spots into fur?
Any help would be appreciated- sorry if this is a stupid question, it seems a really simple thing to fix but I'm getting infuriated!