How to Repair a Fabric Airplane

Check all of the fabric airplane seams. Periodic inspection of stuffed fabric toys and quick mending can often eliminate extensive repairs. Identify any rips, tears or seam pops that need to be mended.

Thread a needle with thread and hand sew any seam pops or rips. Tie a secure knot at the end of the thread and insert the needle into the rip or seam opening. Bring the needle up through the fabric until the knot stops under the fabric, inside of the fabric airplane.

Hold the two sides of the ripped fabric around the hole or seam pop closed with one hand by pinching the fabric together. Sew the opening closed with your other hand by using a whipstitch. The needle and thread will come out and over the edges of the fabric and back into the fabric, or whipping over the tops of the two pinched together fabric edges.

Inspect all buttons, eyes and attachments such as propellers, etc. Glue, with the glue gun and glue sticks, or sew by hand any loose pieces that need to be repaired. If this airplane toy is for a child under the age of 3, it is best to remove the loose pieces rather than repair them to avoid a choking hazard.

Replace stuffing in any area of the fabric airplane that has become "loved" flat or floppy. Pop a seam with a seam ripper by inserting the hook of the ripper under a stitch, sliding the internal cutting edge of the seam ripper until it makes contact with a stitch and cuts the thread. Create a three-inch opening. Use your fingers to push the new stuffing through the hole until the airplane toy is no longer flat or floppy. Sew the three-inch opening closed using a whipstitch and needle and thread.