Hi. I'm Karen for Expert Village. Okay, now I'll show you how to put the horses head on
our stick. The horses head goes onto the stick in a very similar way as we did the safety
padding. You want to take a needle and thread it with heavy duty thread. Not a regular thread.
You want a nice heavy duty carpet thread or upholstery thread. And put a good sized knot
on it and we're going to just sew in and out in the edge of the fabric, about a little
more than a quarter inch from the edge of the fabric. And just sew in and out, probably
like half inch stitches. Or a little smaller than half inch stitches. Like this. In and
out all the way around. And this will be to gather the bottom edge of the horse. Being
careful not to get that mane tangled up in your threads. And go all the way around. Okay,
now you want to leave the needle attached to the thread. And we'll just let this hang
as we put our stick inside. Now the stick needs to be pushed up inside the head of the
horse so that the bottom edge of the horses head comes to our groove that we've cut here.
Now, I got a little bit too much stuffing in there. So what's helpful is if you pull
out a little bit and dig a hole in the center of the stuffing that you have in there until
it goes about as far as you want it to go. So just put your hands in the stuffing and
wiggle around until you're digging like a little bit of a hole in the middle. It's hard
to see but you can feel it. I've got my hand all the way up to here and I put my fingers
in and I made like a little bit of a hole. And now I can put my stick with the safety
knob up there. And just kind of wiggle it up there and pull down real hard to secure
the head like that. Now, you should pull it down to the groove and then you can put some
more stuffing in all around the stick. Being careful not to stuff your needle and thread
in there also. So just take a little more stuffing and stuff all the way as firm as
you want it. All the way around the stick. You want to pad nicely all the way around
the stick. You don't want the stick up close to the edge anywhere around. So you want to
make sure that the stuffing goes in. And be careful not to stuff your mane inside. Just
push that out of the way. And stuff the stuffing all the way around the stick. You want the
stuffing rather firm by the neck. It can be firmer here than here. If you'd like to make
the nose a little bit softer that's fine. But around the neck area you should stuff
it rather firm.