All Present and Correct!

All stuffed and rearing to go!

Fun Bear Three

Three more bears in the world, just waiting to be stuffed.

Pastures New

This little fella is off to a new home to be friends with a little boy named Rex,

 (the other half thought it was meant for him!). 

I'm Nowt Without My Snout!

I was quite happy with my latest long legged bear design but thought that maybe a snout might give it more of a 'bear' look. It took a few attempts, but I think I'm nearly there now....have a lovely weekend!!!

Green Scene

Here's one of my latest bears named Mr Ted after the original(knitted) Mr Ted owned by my daughter. His jumper colour reminds me of the scout jumpers my mum used to knit for my brother...

Hello There!

Yup, I'm a little bit lopsided, but hey - nobody's perfect!

Behind The Scenes

Here's an inside view of some of my bears before I turn them inside out. The safety eyes and noses that I use come with either metal or plastic washers, making these bears look a little like crazy denim robots!

Bear With Me - Again!

I dragged out the old knitting machine to work on a jumper for this bear. I used a handy little tool that helps me to create the raglan sleeve. I'm nearly there with the finished version. Will keep you posted. I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Bear With Me

I've been working on a new bear design, these are my first attempts.

Work In Progress

Floral Tribute

When I was last in Birmingham I went to my favourite Brummy fabric emporium the Fancy Silk Store and bought this cheerful needlecord, the sales assistant tried to convince me that it was 'Jamaican Style' (nice try!), but I think it is from the 1960's as it was way down under the biggest stack of corduroy you've ever seen!

And So It Begins!

Here is Ben, all snuggled up with a line up of his Grandmother's bears. I have two photos now of my sewn friends in their new homes, so I'm collecting them under the label 'Rogues Gallery'

Hood - y - you do!

I'm quite happy with this all in one 'bearinahoodie' pattern now, I'll put the old knitting machine back in its box for a while, making bear wear is less problematic worked in fabric!

Sayonara

We said goodbye to the lovely Kei last week, she's now back in Japan with her family after a long stay in the UK. I knew that she didn't have a lot of packing space so I gave her one of my miniature bears to tuck into a tiny space.

How Many More Days?

My Latest Offerings

I've now finished the button embellished denim snowflake baubles I started last week, together with some santa baby bears including my poor one legged sample bear ( I was a bit rough when turning her the right side out though....shame! They'll be for sale on Saturday at the Mangle Christmas   Sale together with some of my other creations including bears, draught excluder sausage dogs and foxes.

Am I Too Early?

It's the 1st of December, not long now before we put our Christmas stockings out for Santa!

Hello Hoodsie

Here's one of my hooded bears, looking a tiny bit shy though!

Into The Hoods

I only had one day in the studio this week, I had a go at making a snorkel style hoodie as you can see from these samples. I also popped into one of our local haberdashers called Beyond Fabrics, it wasn't until I got back to the studio that I noticed how my threads had been cleverly packaged using a carefully folded page of a magazine, top marks to Beyond Fabrics, check them out here.

Hoodwinked

As promised, here are the hoodie-bear samples that I have been working on......