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stitch of the day - baseball stitch

by Chloe on January 25th, 2008

I’ve had some reader requests to explain how to make the “baseball stitch” used in the heart softies tutorial.  It’s an easy & fast stitch for making a flat, almost invisible closure.  It’s great for 3D projects like stuffed animals.

For the sake of clarity, I’m going to be using left & right to designate which side of the fabric I’m working on.  Here’s a step-by-step how-to:

Thread your needle and knot the end.  Bring the needle up from the wrong side of the left piece of fabric.

Now take the needle and bring it over the left side and push it through the right piece of fabric, from underneath.

Bring the thread up over the right piece of fabric.

Once again, the needle goes over top of the right piece of fabric and underneath the left side of fabric.  Keep on repeating the process of go over one piece of fabric and underneath the other half of the fabric.

Here’s what the finished stitch looks like:

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