Designing and Making Your Own Soft Toy
Creating the Pattern
A course by EFI Little things , Toy Maker
Joined July 2021
About the video: Creating the Pattern
Overview
“Once you have prepared the sketch and fabrics for your toy, the next step is to turn them into patterns representing each separate part. This task will require tracing paper. In this lesson, I will guide you through the process of creating the paper pattern for your toy step by step. These patterns will be used to cut out all details so that the fabric is ready to be sewn. I will prepare my mouse patterns as a reference. If you like, you can try to sew this too as a practice exercise. Or even modify it slightly to make another animal. ”
In this video lesson EFI Little things addresses the topic: Creating the Pattern, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing and Making Your Own Soft Toy. Learn how to design and make your own soft toy from scratch by creating a pattern, cutting then stitching it, and adding the final touches.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we'll take our sketch and create a pattern. In the previous lesson, we created a quick sketch of our mouse It looks like a whole mouse now. And our toy will look like this. But you know that in order to make a toy, to sew any toy, we will need to have All these details separately will need to have how to tell we will need to have flex detail, Ears detail. So this is what we are going to do now. to create pattern for each separate part. For this we are going to use any kind of tracing paper. which you can purchase at any sewing shops. The good thing about tracing paper, you c...”
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Course summary for: Designing and Making Your Own Soft Toy
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Character Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing, Toy Design
EFI Little things
A course by EFI Little things
Elena Ilyasova is a toy maker and pattern designer based in Oxford, England. Raised in a family of creatives, she learned to sew, knit, and crochet from a young age, making her first soft toy when she was just seven, and hasn’t stopped since. Her career took off when she started sharing the stuffed toys she had made for her own children on social media, which quickly led to a stream of orders and the creation of her brand Efi Little Things.
Through her brand, she makes soft toy patterns for companies and individuals. Her designs are inspired by the woodland creatures that populated traditional tales. The aim of her work is to support both small businesses and craft lovers in keeping this tradition alive while promoting sustainable, handmade items over mass-produced toys. When she’s not creating her own designs, she shares her knowledge with others through online classes and tutorials.
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