Ladder Stitch

How to hand finish an open seam on a pillow or stuffed toy.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• sew
• stitch
• handstitch
• Stitch Lab
• Leslie Bonnell

[IZrocks1000]

I totally saw this in my Home Ec class this morning.

Everybody just cracked up at 1:02.

[StitchLabSewing]

@IZrocks1000 haha! we had to do a few takes ourselves to keep from cracking up :) i am SEW excited your home ec class watched my video! i'm also excited to know they still teach home ec! where is your school?

[nall29]

whats the difference between this stitch and the baseball stitch or the "henson stitch"

[StitchLabSewing]

@nall29 Looks like the baseball stitch leaves a visible stitching on the outside which makes kind of a herringbone pattern of stitches. The Henson stitch (named for Jim Henson puppet making) seems to be a more dense stitch which is super strong and used on fleecy or furry fabrics to hide the seam so the puppets look smoother on camera.

hope that helps!

[drhikarisan]

You have proven far more helpful with this one video than numerous sites claiming to teach an invisible stitch. This was my third time attempting to create a pillow and I was finally successful. Thank you

[familylaux]

First time that I have been able to do this properly thanks to your wonderful video! Thank you so much for being so thorough and showing how to sew up those openings.

[meluvchris418]

thank you so much!!!!

[Superstarseven]

Anything new since 2009?

[CharonEX]

Thank you so much for making this video! It was so easy to follow 8D I've started learning how to make plushies and this is going to be such a great help for closing up after filling them with stuffing.

[luvkiwi2100]

thank you!!!!! for posting this video.

this helps alot

[jbetenbender]

Awesome! Thanks for the video; now I can mend my clothes.

[SofiDiane]

Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to start my first sewing project. It looks like fun. (=