Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
Plugging All the Pieces Together
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: Plugging All the Pieces Together
Overview
“Now that we have all the pieces done we can start plugging them. We will sew by hand the head, the hands, and the pocket of our character. I will show you how to add buttons and make the hands move and also how to sew on a different material for the pocket, “felt”. ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: Plugging All the Pieces Together , 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
“Plugging All the Pieces Together In this lesson we'll put everything together. We have our pieces that we made earlier, our pocket that we also made, and some buttons. First I'm going to attach the head to the body. I'm going to do this sewing by hand. I have my needle here with some thread. It's white thread because it matches the head. You can use the color that you think matches your fabric. I'm going to start sewing. For this I start with the head, I take my thread to the end, and then I find my position on the body, and I just start carefully sewing it there. I do this by putting the n...”
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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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