Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
Hand Sewing
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: Hand Sewing
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn to sew by hand one part of the character’s body. We will use a basic stitch for this and do it on the whole outline of our piece. Then we will turn it inside out, fill it, and close it. If you know how to hand sew you can skip this lesson and go directly to the next one where I will explain how to do it by using a sewing machine. ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: Hand Sewing, 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
“Hand Sewing In this lesson we'll learn how to do some sewing by hand. For this we'll need a sewing needle with some thread. some filling, some tweezers, the scissors, and a part of the body we created together earlier on. I'm gonna use one of the hands for this. First of all I'm gonna take my needle and make sure that it has thread. At the end of my thread I'm gonna need a knot. I'm gonna start sewing. I'm gonna start with the details, just somewhere where there's a straighter line, so like here. I'm gonna do one, like this, and then I'm gonna go behind it for like two millimeters, so somet...”
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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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