Putting weight in toys
What do you use to weight your crochet toys? Which one is most cost effective please?Glass?
Plastic?
Other? Please explain.....
Thank you so very much for sharing :)
xx
Plastic Pellets. I use rice wrapped in sandwich bags then a fabric bag. I use rice or beans I use polyester pearl and plastic pearl. Many years ago I made one of the lifelike baby dolls. Instructions were to weight the doll with balloons filled with water. Big mistake! Many years later I have a very flat baby.Water was able to escape balloons and evaporate. LOL I use rice or beans especially if there is a risk of the stuffing being released (although it may be a really slim chance) because it wont hurt kids or animals if it is eaten.Little kids and pets tend to put everything in their mouths.At leas with rice or beans they are digestible, where glass or plastic is not.If the item isnt to be used by kids or pets then I say whatever works. scraps of fabric cut up into tiny pieces I was told not to use real rice to stuff toys as it can produce bugs, especially in warm climate countries.
It happened to a lady who got a cat amigurumi stuffed with rice - I have seen the pictures and it was too disgusting for words.
I use plastic pellets or very small lake pebbles which I collect myself --- These are my preference when I crochet doorstoppers. For amigurumi dolls, I only use fiberfill and the occasional plastic base for the feet which I cut out from yogurt tubs.
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