Dr. Severin, Teddy Bear Surgeon

I am in the habit of rescuing doomed stuffed animals when I can. I hate the thought of them sitting in a dump, or neglected on the side of the road.

Meet "Yellow." I found him sitting next to someone's trash barrel, so I scooped him up, took him home, washed him and gave him the love he needed. There was, however, one small detail, for which he may have been thrown out. That was his left eye; it had a tendency to fall out, or get lost inside his head.

This little sweety needed some 'surgery' to fix him up.

I came up with a quick fix for this problem. I took a small scrap of fabric and cut a small slit in the middle of it. Then I sewed around the edge of the slit, without tying off. The color of the fabric and thread doesn't matter, as it is going to end up inside of the bear's head.

Next I put the eye inside of the whole in the fabric, carefully aligning the fabric with the gap between the black and white parts of the eye (seen above). I pulled the string tight, making sure it was in that gap. Now I tied the string.

If I had some extra eyes, I think I would make flowers using this method!

The trickiest part to me was putting the eye back into the socket just right and sewing it up. Find a matching color thread for this part, and make sure that the fabric you sewed the eye to is in a good place to be sewn to his face.

It's not perfect, but at least I don't have to worry about losing an eye! I think he even looks a bit happier now. For a cute, patchy look, you could sew the fabric to the outside of his head.