If you said "Sage and Onion, " I agree but that's not they type of stuffing we are talking about here. I'm thinking about what we use to stuff our makes, those cute little Amigurimi keyrings and toys we spend so much time on.
There is a lot of fibre, and other things we can use to make our makes 3D, from specialist suffing fibre to scraps of yarn and fabric, even dried peas and rice. Lets look at why we might choose to use some of these...
This soft toy filling is what I use in my classes, it's hypo-alergenic, clean and soft and can be washed. you can buy it using the button above (just a link, no affiliate marketing here)
It is great of amigurumi and you can change how squshy your finished item is by stuffing it more or less, you can stuff it pretty hard if your stitches are tight. If you want a soft squishy toy, this is your stuffing.
If you make a lot you will have a lot off bits left over. I keep my yarn scraps in a jar, likewise my fabric, fibre and felt offcuts. These scraps can be used to suff your makes, they aren't quite so sqishy, and if you have wool fibre in there probably shouldn't go in the washig machine, but are, essentially, free (which is always nice)
Adding weight
If you want your toy to sit solid, or you have a pin cushion that needs a heavy base, then you will need to stuff a litle differntly.
This cute little cupcake actually has a disk of card in teh bottom (to stop the pins from going all the way through) and the brown part is filled wih rice (literally what I could lay my hands on in the kitchen at the time) the white top is filled with polly filling (see above) which makes it easy to get the pins in and out but the weightof the rice at the bottom makes it nice and sturdy to work with.
In conclusion...
You can stuff your makes with whatever fibre of weighting materials you have to hand as long as it gives you the result you want and you remember whether it can go in teh wahsing machine.
Happy making, let me know what you have been stuffing recently in the comments (pics too please 😃)
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