hi I'm Wendy from shiny happy worldcom and today I'm going to teach you the stitch that I used to embroider eyes when I draw I tend to do eyes that just have like little dot eyes not tiny tiny little dots but they look kind of like little ovals and I wasn't exactly happy with the stitch options that were out there there were straight stitches or French knots and they just weren't exactly the look that I was trying to get with the drawings so I came up with a stitch that I really like to use for eyes and I'm going to show that to you today so I've got a couple of eyes marked on this fabric and I'm going to use a dark brown thread this is 3371 which is my favorite dark brown thread it's a really dark brown but not quite as harsh as a black thread would be so you come up I usually start at the bottom of the eye and I go most of the way up the length of that of how tall I want the eye to be and I just do a straight stitch and then I split that stitch so I'm going to do basically one split stitch on here and go down and now this is where I want the eye to end so I've got a split stitch there and that just gives me a little bulk underneath my eye I come back down to the bottom of the eye you have to fiddle around because this is where your knot is too and you want to really come up exactly where you came up that first time come up again and then go down in that top stitch so I'm going to do a straight stitch over my split stitch and it gives me a nice smooth eye but it's got a little more lift underneath it because the split stitch underneath it kind of poof's it up some normally I would not behind that anytime you're doing a stuffed animal if you carry the thread over to the next I like I'm going to do right now you will see that line as soon as you stuff it but just for convenience sake for this demo I'm just going to carry it under and you can see if you had stuffing behind that it would show right through there so I'm going to do the same thing I did before I do a split stitch about two-thirds of the length that I want the finished eye to be do a little straight stitch then I come up and split it finish where I want the top of the eye to be and now I'm going to do a straight stitch over the top of that entire thing so I come up at the bottom the same hole that I came through before and I go down in the top through the same hole that I went down in before so I'm just doing one straight stitch over top of that split stitch so that's the super top secret way that I embroider eyes come back next week and I'm going to show you another outline stitch I'm Wendy from shiny happy WorldCom see you next time