Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
Going Faster with Our Sewing Machine
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: Going Faster with Our Sewing Machine
Overview
“In this lesson, we will sew on the other hand using a sewing machine. If you don’t have one, just skip this part and sew the rest by hand. Any household sewing machine will do as we don’t need any fancy stitches. We will follow the outline we drew before and make a hole so that we can turn it inside out. Then we will finish it by closing the hole by hand. ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: Going Faster with Our Sewing Machine, 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
“Going Faster with Our Sewing Machine In this lesson I'll show you how to use the sewing machine and go faster. Now I'm gonna show you how to do a basic setup for your sewing machine. You probably have a different sewing machine than the one I'm showing you on, but I'm going to do a basic stitch, so any machine should be able to do this. First, I'm gonna set up the threads. We have the big thread and the small one. Now I'm gonna show you where the big thread goes. I put the thread on the thread holder. Here we have the guides for the thread. The first one around the second one, this is also ...”
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Course summary for: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
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Category
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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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