Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

This bear is really beautiful! I expecially like the way you did his face, with the fur slightly going into his eyes like unkept hair. To me he loos like a young boy waiting to be hugged!     

He has very sweet and pensive eyes, and I love the bend of his arms! Very endearing!

Thank you Susana!  

   
How sweet!

Jo,
he is so sweet and endearing!  

Hello everybody,
thank you so much for the kind comments, I really appreciate them so much, and they make me proud .
 

Hello everybody,
I have just finished my newly designed raccoon.
I've read somewhere that raccoons eat virtually anything, and also scavenge the garbage bins in search of food...but I bet they will always choose homemade cookies...given the choice!

I hope you like him!

Your husband did a very good job! I like you website! Brava!

You did a wonderful job! :clap:
She is really a lovely bear!

I also hate hand cream that is too greasy. I have found a couple of brands of hand cream that gets well absorbed and even if they are not as 'strong' as other brands, I just use them very often. I also can't work using a thimble, but I hate having dry hands...even when I clean around the house I'm always putting cream on my hands in between chores. It helps. I can't say I have soft hands, but they are not as damaged as they would be otherwise!

Congratulations! 

This wolf pup is really sooo cute!

I just came back from my Easter holidays. What a nice surprise to see yet another of your beautiful creations! Joanne, you are so good!
Your new little bear is wonderful!    

What a sweet and lovable bear!

I always do the head first. I want to have a sense of the bear face before I commit to cut and make the rest of the body because I need to see his-her face and then I can think of the exact shape of body and limbs. Sometimes I find myself with two or three different shapes of body+limbs turning around in my head and I can decide what to do only when I have a better idea of the head 'in the fur' and not only in my mind.
With the head, after it's sewn I play around with the ears, positioning eyes and my selfmade positioning noses (I have made different shapes and sizes of felt shapes) to have the sense of what I want to do. Then I shave what I need to shave of the nose area and needlefelt. Then go the eyes, nose, ears, shading.

Then I make the body, the limbs (arms or legs it doesn't matter what comes first). Then I attach the head. Then I stuff and finish the legs, the arms and try their position on a partially stuffed body. Then I empty the body, attach legs, then arms, then stuff and sew the body.

Well, this at least is what I do at the moment...

Wow, you are really sooooo good. It's really beautiful! :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Leanne, Julie, Lisa, Thelma, Peter...I really appreciate your compliments. Thanks!    

Ladies, thank you so much for your compliments!         

She's very cute!

Right before the Easter Holidays break...here is my polar bear Polaris.
I hope you like him...and I wish you happy Easter!

Wow, he is really amazing!         

Leanne, I actually discovered just now that there really is also a little green riding hood. When I made the outfit I thought that it was a bit like little RED riding hood, only in green. Well, every day we learn something!

Thank you for your compliments!  

Peter is a handsome bear, he looks aged but you haven't overdone it, he really looks well loved and huggable. 

Thank you Pink!!! :hug:  :hug:  :hug:

What a cute little face! He makes me smile!