Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Oh Paula...how do you get the thread on your noses so perfect?  I try so hard...very slowly, one by one, and still they slip off the curves and leave little separations.  I put two layers on but still I have slips.  I was thinking about trying one layer in one direction and the other in the opposite?  Sorry to interrupt this thread but your noses look so perfect!

I was wondering about that lower jaw too...they don't look so stuffed!

Aw, she looks so shy and sweet!

What a little sweetheart!

How sweet they are....

Oh, he makes me sleepy just to look at him...he's so cute!

Good idea Karen...techniques are great.  Patterns, however, are available by the thousands and you can take a basic pattern from a book and make it into hundreds of different bears just by altering the pieces...the techniques, however, you must learn from someone!

Awwwwwwwww...one special little bear indeed I'll bet!

Your bear is beautiful but...it certainly doesn't look like a he but a beautiful she bear!

Oh that face...how adorable!

Sherroy, I made a pin cushion for my Granddaughter that I loved.  I want to make one for my self now...
I had a small antique milk glass egg cup, pretty porcelain cups work great too; I bought a "tomatoe" pin cushion that fit it perfectly.  I measured the circumfrance or the pin cushion and fouond a plate that size.  I used a beautiful piece of rose chincz and cut a circle the size of the plate out.  Cut the berry off the pin cushion and take off the "green" part or prepare another one.  Gather the edge of the circle of fabric and fit it around the cushion...stitch it tightly on.  I used the 1/8" ribbon to put around the cushion and stitch it tight at the top.  Push the string of the strawberry through the green part and glue it over the top where the ribbons are affixed.  After your cushion is complete, run a bead of glue around the cup and insert the cushion tightly.  I hope this makes sense...it's really easy once you realize what you are trying to do.

In the paint department they have foam sanding blocks...these work well for "aging" fabric.  You might have to keep it moving in the direction the fur "grows" to keep it from knotting!

Lots of work on such a tiny little bear...very nice!

Oh my goodness...when I clicked on the link I was expecting a fuzzy yellow duckling.  This is just too cute.  I really love it!

He is so cute and I love your curly fur!

A yard and a meter are easy for me...the metric system is very familiar but...I agree with those disc joints...very confusing!  sets, singles, bolts, cotter pins. washers...then there is the whole subject of whether or not to put felt inbetween them????   It could drive you nuts!  I don't want to ruin my expensive fur so I've started using the extremely strong snap on joints.  I have to hammer them on with a socket wrench over the stem but at least I understand the sizes and how they fit!

Ya know, I have always shared my patterns with anyone who wanted them...I suppose I will do the same with my bears.  I just do not want to charge for this.  I am a person who hates yard sales...if I have something I don't need and someone else wants it they are welcome to it.
Guess I'm strange.  I get very unhappy looking through e-bay for teddy bear supplies...hundreds of patterns!  A lot of them at exorbitant prices too...

Oh love his fur...beautiful...

WOW, he actually made this bear???? My husband could not sew on a button! (my boys can though!!! I made them learn to sew and cook a bit...)

Oh so cute...you should have turned on of them around so we could see his cute little tush!

Cute little valentine...

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Aw...she looks like candy cotton!

I love her...good job!

What a cute fluffy bunny....

I checked her just a moment ago and she was moving around quite  a bit.  She groomed herself and was laying on her back with her feet up for awhile.  Then she turned on her side and went to sleep.