Amigurumi Design: Create Crochet Characters
Basics: Important Crochet Steps and Color Changes
A course by Elisa Ems-Domenig , Amigurumi Designer
Joined November 2021
About the video: Basics: Important Crochet Steps and Color Changes
Overview
“After you have learned the first important basics, I will now show you other important crochet steps that you will need for your amigurumi. You will learn how to increase and decrease stitches, how to finish a crochet work with a slip stitch. And I also show you how to do a color change.”
In this video lesson Elisa Ems-Domenig addresses the topic: Basics: Important Crochet Steps and Color Changes, 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 important crochet steps and color changes In the last lesson I showed you how to crochet the chain stitch, single crochet and magic ring. In this lesson I will show you more basics based on this. We use the magic ring that we crocheted earlier, and I'll show you how to build on that you can crochet further increases, so that your amigurumi gains in size and shape. We take our crochet piece again, the needle in our right hand again, with the left hand we wrap the thread around the back of the hand again, twice around the index finger, hold the Magic Ring with your thumb and middle fin...”
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Course summary for: Amigurumi Design: Create Crochet Characters
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Category
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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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