My Emma bear finished

Well late last night I finally finished my bear made from the free pattern by Emma of Emma's Bears and she has turned out lovely. I used a thick pale blue acrylic fur and wool felt for the pads and inner ears. I needle felted flowers on her foot pads and embroidered around them to define. She has quite a lot of glass beads inside her for weight - I like my bears to be heavy! She has glass eyes and a dark grey embroidered nose (Im not too good at embroidering noses). I have named this bear Emma after her designer. Hope you like her!
She is my 26th bear I have made since 2008 when I started my bear making adventure. Most of my bears I have either made for myself or to give as gifts and a few I have sold at our African Violet Society show - 2010 show is Oct 16 and 17 at the Auditorium Brisbane Botanic Gardens - Mt Coot-tha Brisbane.

Free pattern by Emma's Bears

free pattern by Emma's Bears

Im trying out a free pattern by Emma of Emma's Bears - the bear is called Gracie and its a nice easy one to make, so try it out. Im making mine from a thick pale blue acrylic fur and she is turning out rather good. Photos as soon as Im finished and that shouldnt be long! Ive done the head and body, done some flowers on the foot pads and just have to sew up the arms and legs and join it all together and stuff it (LOL). I hand sew all my bears so they take a little while to do and I ran out of the strong thread I use for hand sewing (C Lon nylon thread) and had to order some more. It was just as easy to order from the UK than drive down to the Gold Coast to the bear/bead shop I usually get it from. Anyway photos soon!

This is Gracie by Emma so you can see what the original looks like

My Bumble Bear finally finished!

Well I finally finished my Bumble Bear a week ago and wanted to show you the photos. He turned out really nice after all - wasn't sure I liked him till I trimmed his nose and then he started to look cute. I changed the original pattern so that the muzzle was 2 colour instead of one. I changed the body so that it had stripes. Im happy to say the changes worked and he wasn't misshapen like I thought he might be.Hope you like him!

Im still working on my bumble bear - here are a few photos - the pattern Im using is nothing like the way this bear will turn out, the body is now striped, cut and sewn together with 2 different fabrics as is the muzzle. I love the little clips I use for holding pieces together when I sew them & all my bears are hand sewn. More photos to come.

A new bear?

Ok all these bear makers are inspiring me - I designed a bumble bear months ago and cut it out but never got around to making it. Why I am I sitting on the computer when I could be making a bear? So I am off to the craft room (rumpus room shared with my son's Xbox) and will take photos of the process - will only post them 1. if I can work out how to here & 2. if it works out the way I want it to.
This is my first designed bear made from bits of other patterns and Im really not sure if it will go together properly.
Oh well here goes...