Knitting Realistic Stuffed Animals: Make a Puppy from Yarn

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

“Yarn and Stitches In this lesson, I'll show you the yarn I use and I'll also show you the stitches to know to knit the patterns. These are basically all the yarn that I've 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. This time, I've been trying different types of yarn. These here are more textural yarn. Fur yarn, which is difficult to knit with, but if you use a little bit, it gives you the impression of a nice furry dog, like a schnauzer or something. A bouclé yarn or a more of a textu...”

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Course summary for: Knitting Realistic Stuffed Animals: Make a Puppy from Yarn

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (246)
• 9006 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (4h 57m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  DIY, Fiber Arts, Knitting, Textile Design