Hi everyone, I'm Mrs. Courts.

I'm very pleased to join you for today's lesson on joining fabric to make puppets.

This is part of the Templates in Textiles, Hand Puppets unit.

Our lesson outcome for today is I can join fabric together with a simple running stitch.

In today's lesson, we have four new keywords.

I'll say them first and you repeat them after me.

Are you ready? Brilliant, fray, fray.

Fray means to unravel or become worn at the edges.

Seam, seam, brilliant.

A seam is a row of stitches that join two pieces of fabric together.

And template, template.

Brilliant, a template is a shape or pattern used to help cut something to the right size.

And our final keywords, mark out, mark out.

Excellent, marking out means to put marks on something to show how it needs to go together.

Well done, everyone, great work.

In our lesson today of joining fabric to make puppets, we have two learning cycles, two parts to our lesson.

Our first part is sewing skills.

By this lesson, you should have cut out your two pieces of felt and used your templates, you should have marked out where you'll sew, and your felt pieces should be clipped together so you are ready to start sewing.

As you can see in the picture, the felt is held together by the fabric clips or pegs, and there's holes marked to show marking out about where you'll be sewing.

To sew your hand puppet together, you'll need a needle and some thread as you can see in the picture, a needle and thread.

Some needles are made of plastic and others metal.

And depending on the material of the felt you're using, you may need to use a metal needle.

Threads come in lots of different colours and in different thicknesses, and each needle has an eye, an eye that the thread will go through.

We're ready for our first check for understanding.

And it's a true or false question.

To sew, you need an eye and a thread.

Is that true or false? Pause the video now and have little think.

Welcome back, so true or false, to sew, you need an eye and a thread is false.

Well done, why is it false? Excellent, to sew, you need a needle and thread.

The part of the needle that the thread goes through is called the eye, the eye of the needle.

Well done, everyone.

Here is the eye of the needle and you can see that thread goes through it.

So to sew, we pass the thread through the eye of the needle, and this is called threading a needle.

To thread a needle, first of all, cut a piece of thread to the right length and then fold the thread in half.

Can you see the loop on the thread? Put the loop end through the eye of the needle and then pull a small amount of the thread through.

So majority of it is the other side still.

We are ready for our next check for understanding.

Hope you are listening really carefully.

Can you label the following picture correctly? You've got the words eye, needle and threads.

Pause the video now and have a little think.

Welcome back, have you labelled the picture correctly? Well, this is the needle and therefore this is the eye, the eye of the needle, and this is the thread.

Well done, everyone.

Next, to make sure the needle and thread do not come apart, you can make a little loop and push the needle through.

Pull the end of the thread and this will make a small knot by the eye of the needle.

This will hold the thread joint to the needle and this will help you with your sewing.

We are ready for our first task now, Task A.

And I'd like you to follow these steps to thread a needle.

You might choose to work with a partner.

They could help you to pull the thread through the eye of the needle.

Pause the video now and join me when you've completed Task A.

Welcome back, did you manage to complete Task A? Have you followed each of the steps through and have you tied your thread to your needle? Is it secure, is it staying in place? Well done, everyone.

Alex threaded his needle.

He said, "I threaded my needle, but I couldn't tie a knot." Laura said, "Alex, you forgot to double the thread to start with." Oh no, poor Alex.

Alex said, "Thank you, Laura, now it works." Oh, that's great news, Alex.

I'm so pleased you managed to follow the steps to threading your needle.

Did you remember to double the thread to start with? Well done.

We are ready for our next learning cycle now, next part of our lesson, and this is sewing hand puppets.

Alex is making a rabbit hand puppet, and this is his design.

And this is Alex's felt cut out and clipped together, ready to start sewing.

Alex became a little worried though because he realised he forgot to cut around the ears for his rabbits.

As you can see on his picture, he has ears.

On the actual piece of felt that he's clipped together, there's no ears.

Once Alex has sewn the main parts of his puppet, the details such as ears, nose, and eyes, for example, can be added later on.

There are many different stitches that you can do, and this stitch is called a running stitch.

It will create a seam, a joining of fabrics.

A running stitch runs in one direction and it goes in and out, in and out of the fabric all the way across of it in the same direction.

As you can see from our illustration, the running stitch goes in one direction.

To sew the felt together to make our puppet, we need to start our sewing in a corner at one side.

So we choose our starting point.

On Alex's, this is where Alex is going to start sewing from and he's gonna sew up and around the template, moving the clips as he goes, and he will stop sewing there.

He will not sew along the bottom of his hand puppet.

And the reason is we've got to leave that open so Alex can use it as a puppet by putting his hand inside it.

To sew by hand, you'll need these resources, a sewing needle, thread, fabric clips or pegs and your felt, which you've already marked out and cut to shape.

You'll also need a pair of scissors.

Laura said, "To sew, you need to be sat on your chair with your work on the table in front of you.

If using metal needles, be really, really careful of your fingers and always keep the needle away from faces too." Plastic needles can be equally as dangerous, so be careful with those please too.

So to begin stitching, you need to secure the thread.

That means you need to find your starting point on your puppet and hold it in one hand and then hold your needle and thread in the other.

You need to push the needle through from the back to the front and then pull it all the way through, but leave a little bit of the thread on one side.

Then push the needle back through to the other side, close to the first hole to make small stitch.

And then to secure the thread, repeat the same stitch using the same holes.

It's important you use the same holes and that will secure the thread.

If you continue to pass the needle and thread through the fabric and return it from one side to the other, you then make a stitch, stitches.

Moving along in small, little spaces each time makes a running stitch.

Remember, a running stitch goes one direction.

You need to gradually work around the outside of your puppet.

We call this run a run of stitches.

So to continue sewing, continue to thread the needle in and out of the fabric.

Sewing the fabric together, you create a seam and that's where two pieces of fabric are joined together.

By sewing carefully, you'll have embroidered your work, so stitches are on show.

Therefore, we pass the needle in and out of the fabric, travelling around the outside of the puppet.

We are now ready for first part of Task B.

And I want you to start to run a stitches by making sure your needle is threaded, then secure the thread in place at the first stitch and then sew a couple, only a couple of stitches.

Join me when you've completed Task B.

Welcome back, so by now, you should have threaded your needle, secured the first thread in place and sewn a couple of stitches.

Now as you carry on around your puppet, when you get to the end, you'll need to finish stitching.

Sometimes if you run out of thread, you may have to do this midway round the puppet, and that's absolutely fine, but this is how you do it.

So to finish stitching, you need to secure the thread again, that means it won't come undone.

So to end a run of stitches and secure the thread, you need to repeat the last stitch in the same spot in the same way you did the beginning one.

You go in and out on the same space.

As you sew, as I said, you may run out the thread and if it happens, do not worry, just stop and then secure your thread and start sewing again.

You'll be able to see the joins on the back of the felt, but you will not be able to see the joins on the front of the felt.

Once your hand puppet is finished, we need to decide if we want to have the stitches on the hand puppet on show, do we want to see them? So here's the stitches on show and here's the stitches not on show.

Now there's no right or wrong, it's your choice as the designer, would you like your stitches to be on show or not? Depending on the fabric we use, by turning the hand puppet inside out, it might also stop the edges of the fabric from fraying, that means coming apart, one of our keywords, fraying.

So if the stitches are on show, the back of the hand puppet will have the knotted ends of the embroidery thread on show.

However, on the front, sometimes seeing the stitches does actually add to the design.

To hide the stitches, however, the puppet can be turned inside out.

You need to be very careful in doing this, take your time and go slowly, and this is the front of the puppet and the back of the puppet, and you'll see there's no stitches on show.

However, they both look the same, the front or the back will now look the same.

Well, it's time for you to make your decision.

Lucas said, "I'm going to have my stitches on show." And Alex said, "No, no, no, I'm going to hide my stitches and turn my puppet inside out." What did you decide? Brilliant, we're ready for an next check for standing now.

And by turning your hand puppet inside out, what do you hide? Is it A, the template line, B, the outside line, or C, the stitches? Pause the video now and have a little think.

welcome back, so by turning your hand puppet inside out, what do you hide? You hide the stitches, well done.

We are ready for and last task now, Task B, and I want you to join the two pieces of felt for your puppet using this running stitch.

Now, you'll have secured the thread already, so I want you to carry on around your puppet, finishing off your running stitch.

And when you get to the end, I want you to put the last stitch in place, secure the thread, and then decide, do you want to turn your puppet inside out or not? Do you want to hide the stitches? Pause the video now and complete the end of Task B.

Welcome back, I hope you had lots of fun sewing.

Did you remember to secure the last stitch and the first? Brilliant, and did you turn your hand puppet inside out or not? Super.

Well, Alex decided that he wanted to hide his stitches and he turned the puppet inside out.

He carefully turned the puppet inside out, but found it quite tricky and might have needed a friend to help him.

Well, well done, Alex, great work, and well done to all of you too.

We've reached the end of our lesson for today of joining fabric to make puppets, and I wonder if you can show me a thumbs up if you feel you've met these learning points.

Are you listening carefully? Super, so fabrics are joined together using a running stitch, well done.

Fixing the start and end of the stitch holds the thread in place, brilliant.

Our running stitch creates a seam to join the templates together, excellent.

And finally, turning the puppet inside out allows the stitches to be on the inside, well done.

Well done, everybody, for your hard work and I'll see you soon, bye.