Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
Creating Our Pattern
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: Creating Our Pattern
Overview
“Now that we have decided on our pattern, we need to make it out of fabric. We will choose what colour fabrics based on our previous decisions with the paper. We will place each piece on the material and outline it for better control. I will show you that the fabric piece should be a bit bigger because it will be shown and we will cut the shapes accordingly. ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: Creating Our Pattern, which is part of the Domestika online course: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners. Design and sew your own playful textile characters using paper, thread, and your imagination.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating Our Pattern In this lesson we're gonna learn how to create our pattern. We already have our character from the previous lesson and we're gonna use the shapes that we cut out of paper to cut them out of fabric. We want colors that match the colors of our paper. I think I'm gonna use this red for this red and place it here. I'm gonna use this blue. It matches. And for the lighter shade of blue, this. I'm gonna place the eyes and the nose away because I don't need it right now. And I want to select for the hands a yellow. I can do with this yellow, or I can use this yellow. It doesn't...”
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Course summary for: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Character Design, Toy Design
Maria Mandea
A course by Maria Mandea
Maria Mandea specializes in researching and designing how play happens in our daily lives. She is the founder of Micul HAOS (“little chaos” in her native Romania), a brand focusing on creating playful objects and characters that help develop a culture where play can happen for everyone.
Maria is also the co-founder of Super Serios, a design studio that develops urban games and playful art installations across a range of different mediums, including toys, human-scale board games, and stop-motion animation. You can find out more about Maria’s projects on Instagram and her websites.
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