Plush Making Tutorial - Sewing Angular Seams

Sewing squared or triangular seams can be very awkward. Many will use applique for pieces like this (which isn’t a bad solution by any means) but if you have other pieces that are sewn on the ‘normal’ way it can look inconsistent with the rest of your plush. I’ll demonstrate sewing together a squared piece here, but triangular pieces are similar.

Here are the two pieces we’re sewing together. They form the piece by the arm in the Furret plush above. Now to use some mathy terms! The hot pink piece will be the ‘concave’ piece and the light pink the ‘convex’ piece.

Start by placing one of the sides in the correct position. Usually I start with the easier piece to sew, if there is one - so I chose the bottom (shorter side) with these pieces. Pin in place.

If you’re getting used to this process marking your seam allowance will help show you where you need to stop sewing. You want to stop where the two seam allowances would meet - so, on the left side of the black line below.​

Turn the piece over and clip the concave piece diagonally to the end of the seam you just sewed. Don’t cut the thread. This will help you maneuver the concave piece into its next position.

Now turn the convex piece so that the other side meets, right sides together. Since you clipped the corner it should line up pretty nicely. You can see the light pink corner sticking out at the bottom a bit. This is perfectly normal. Now you want to pin this entire side together. I didn’t mark all of my seam here, but I’m going to sew to the bottom of that black line. It will come extremely close to where the other seam ended.

Here is the back of that piece after it was sewn. See how the stitches line up to form the square. Sorry for the blurry pic!

Press your seam to make it clean. I already went over this in another tutorial - but it’s extra important for angular seams!

All done!

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