#The ivisible stitch professional#

Once your knot is hidden, you can clip your thread and the excess thread will get kinda sucked back into the pillow.

Give the thread a gentle tug to pop your finishing knot into the seam, hiding it. … and come out of the pillow in some random spot. When you get to the end of your opening, continue sewing just past your machine stitches, pull the thread through and tie a knot. Once pulled tight, the stitch disappears and you have a nice, invisible stitch. This is a little “thread map” for you so you can kinda get an idea of what the thread should be doing. It helps me to say “down the road and across the street” on each stitch, especially if I’m having a drink while sewing. Just continue doing that until you get to the end of the pillow opening, pulling the thread taught every couple of stitches. Then, hop over to the other side of the opening, insert your needle and run it down the fold of the fabric about 1/8 of an inch. To start the actual stitch, insert your needle pretty close to where your thread is coming out of the pillow and run your needle in the fold of the fabric and come out about 1/8 inch down. Next, pin your pillow closed all the way across. This secures the thread and also hides your knot. Next, run your needle from the inside of the pillow up through your machine stitches. Also, if the name of the stitch didn’t tip you off… it’s invisible.įirst things first thread your needle and tie the two ends together in a knot.

The invisible ladder stitch is, by far, one of the easiest stitches and makes sewing up softies and pillows a breeze. Instead of doing a normal single crochet decrease, where you insert into the next two entire stitches, for the invisible decrease we are going to hook the front loop only of the next stitch, then the next stitch (without yarning over) and finishing it off as a normal single crochet stitch.Sewing something by hand may seem like a daunting task, but it’s super easy. Add some stuffing, however, and all bets are off! Momma don’t play. If used on a flat project (a washcloth or scarf etc) it will pucker and just not look right. I do not recommend using this method of decreasing for anything other than amigurumi crochet. The invisible decrease is quite simple once you get the hang of it, and when you’re finished not only will others have a hard time finding those decrease stitches – even an experienced crocheter will have a hard time finding them as well. If you are brand new to amigurumi, I highly encourage you to try my duck, bunny and/or my frog bookmark patterns – the pig, monkey, crab, dragon, cat, dog, penguin, flamingo and more will be joining the collection as quickly as I can create the patterns and crochet them.

#The ivisible stitch professional#

When crocheting amigurumi, making your items appear more professional really is as simple as #1) counting your stitches #2) NOT joining at the end of each round and #3) using the invisible decrease. 😉 But I do love crocheting amigurumi stuffed animals, especially my new collection of bookmarks that I can’t seem to stop adding to. If you’re not sure you’re saying that right that’s okay! I’m not sure I’m saying it right either.

Amigurumi – say it with me now! Ami-gu-ru-mi.