Knitting Realistic Stuffed Animals: Make a Puppy from Yarn
Yarn and Stitches 1
A course by Claire Garland , Knitting Pattern Designer
About the video: Yarn and Stitches 1
Overview
“The choices of yarn are vast and a little daunting. Here I hope to reduce that list a little by sharing with you what I use. Later on in the course, I will show you how to choose shades of yarn to suit your chosen puppy with regard to colour and texture. After going through all the materials, I will start creating a swatch square to show you the stitches you will need to know. ”
In this video lesson Claire Garland addresses the topic: Yarn and Stitches 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Knitting Realistic Stuffed Animals: Make a Puppy from Yarn. Explore creative knitting techniques to bring to life authentic-looking animal creatures and customize them using different patterns and shapes.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson I'm going to show you the yarn I use and I'm also going to show you the stitches to know to knit the patterns. So these are basically all the yarn that I have used for knitting the puppies. I've been a bit more experimental. Normally I only use a mohair and a four ply. I knit both together at the same time. So, but this time I've been trying different types of yarn. So These ones here are sort of more textural yarn, fur yarn, which is really difficult to knit with. But if you just use a little bit, it sort of gives you the impression of like a nice furry dog, like a schnauzer...”
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Course summary for: Knitting Realistic Stuffed Animals: Make a Puppy from Yarn
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DIY, Fiber Arts, Knitting, Textile Design
Claire Garland
A course by Claire Garland
Claire Garland is a knitting pattern designer with over 20 years of experience. She’s been making things her whole life, experimenting with embroidery, crochet, illustration, tapestry, and more, but knitting has always been her preferred medium. Her knitting career began with the creation of dolls, which she created along with their clothes, accessories, and patterns. Claire later went on to create realistic knitted animals using self-taught shaping techniques.
She sells her creations via Etsy and is passionate about photography, capturing them in real-life situations, and sharing them with over 120K followers on Instagram. She has also written and published several books, including Magical Woodland Knits.
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