Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
Assembling
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: Assembling
Overview
“Now we need to make the body of the character. For this, we will assemble the top and the bottom together and fill it in. Because we don’t want it to show where it was closed we will add a label. This can be with your name or nickname, brand whatever. Like we did with the face, we will use fabric markers to make it. ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: Assembling , 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
“Assembling In this lesson I'll show you how to assemble your toy. First we'll have to sew the body. We're gonna pin the red part to the blue one, and do this sewing first. For this I want to get both of them, and start pinning. I can also do this without pinning but I think for beginners it's best to do this. This is a curved line, so it will be easier for me when I'm sewing. Make sure you have the front part of your fabric on both parts and you place this inside so that you can sew on the back. Again, I'm gonna pin it. Now that I have both parts pinned, I can do the sewing. I'll need to ch...”
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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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