Amigurumi Design: Create Crochet Characters
Basics: The Stitches
A course by Elisa Ems-Domenig , Amigurumi Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Basics: The Stitches
Overview
“Now I'll show you the most important basics of almost all crochet work: The magic ring (almost every amigurumi starts with it) and the 3 main types of stitches: chain stitch, single crochet and slip stitch. ”
In this video lesson Elisa Ems-Domenig addresses the topic: Basics: The Stitches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Amigurumi Design: Create Crochet Characters. Discover how to make cute animal characters with just one thread and create designs that reflect your personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“Basics - the stitches In the last lesson I told you all about the materials, that we will need. In this lesson we will now start with the practical exercises and I'll show you the first basics. The best thing to do now is to take a ball of yarn and a matching crochet hook and we start with the basics. We start with the air stitch. The chain stitch is the simplest type of crochet stitch. It consists only of a loop, made in the previous stitch. We take our wool. We take the thread of the wool, wrap it around your index finger and again. Then we loosen the loop on the index finger a little and...”
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Course summary for: Amigurumi Design: Create Crochet Characters
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Amigurumi, Art Toys, Arts & Crafts, Creating with Kids, Crochet, Fiber Arts
Elisa Ems-Domenig
A course by Elisa Ems-Domenig
Elisa Ems-Domenig is an Austrian amigurumi designer. With her brand, Lulu loves the moon, she sells crochet patterns and knitted figures, especially of animals. She lives at the foot of the Alps, surrounded by nature, and this is reflected in her style: her designs are captivatingly simple, with natural tones. For her, the figures are not just toys, but are transformed into living characters through her creative process.
Her amigurumi patterns have been published in crochet magazines and books all over the world. After one of her Instagram posts featuring her Bunny Pumpkin figure went viral in a short space of time, new collaborations with brands such as Wollplatz and Germany's best-known specialist magazine, Verena, began to emerge.
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