Amigurumi Design: Create Crochet Characters
Forming the Face 1
A course by Elisa Ems-Domenig , Amigurumi Designer
Joined November 2021
About the video: Forming the Face 1
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to design the face of the tiger. This is an exciting step, because the figure gets its unique character. First the eyes are modeled and then the snout and nose are sewn on.”
In this video lesson Elisa Ems-Domenig addresses the topic: Forming the Face 1, 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
“The shaping of the face In the last lesson we finished the rest of the body parts and now we dedicate ourselves to the facial design. This is a particularly exciting lesson because we are now going to breathe character traits into the tiger. We'll start modeling the eyes. That means, with a simple trick, I'll show you how to draw your eyes inward so that it looks cuter in the overall picture. We take the finished filled head and cut a long thread from the color of the body. Then I take my thick, long, very sharp needle, thread the thread insert the needle on the outside of the eye, about in...”
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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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