Orphans

Due to space restrictions, I will be putting some bears from my own collection up for adoption. I'll put their photos and details up here - so keep an eye on this space!

Back to the bears :-)

Finally - some time for the bears! I have 4 little guys (or girls - it's a bit early to tell!) sewn up ready to be stuffed & then comes the fun - faces and accessories!!! Then there are 4 more bears traced and ready to be cut-out... and lots more fabric to be made into wonderful little mini bears!!

My family of needle felted bunnines are FINALLY off  to Onabee on Wednesday, so tags & certificates need to be printed and filled out... and hopefully a few kits put together by then too (yeah, yeah - I know it's been on the cards for ages, but they'll be hitting the shelves Wednesday!!)

But for now it has been a long day, so I'm off to bed... Good night!!!

Cute critters to crochet!

I have a lot of crochet patterns... a LOT! But with mohair bears and needle felting, how do I fit in crochet as well??? I dunno, but I'll do my best!!! Here are some cuties I want to crochet...

Now... which cutie to start with???

This week I'm grateful for... coffee!

Coffee!!! Caffeine!!! I couldn't have survived the past two weeks without it - so here's a toast to coffee...

Pop on over to Maxabella Loves to see what others are grateful for this week...



Little felted bears & bunnies

It's FURiday again, and I've swapped the mohair for merino - catching up on a little needle felting. Quite a few people are asking for complete bunnies and kits for DIY needle felted bunnies at my local crafty store, Onabee, so I have a bunch of bunnies ready to go and a few kits to make up and deliver.

The next kit I'll be making is for a bear, but I'm still designing the exact bear... Here are a collection, in various states of completion, that I've played with along the way...

Back to the needle felting! After the bear design is finalised, I need to do a kit for a kitten!

The ears doth make the bear...

The position of the ears can make such a difference to the look of a bear!

3 Faces of Finley:

3 Faces of Sigit:

Bears in Berwick!

Today was the Melbourne Teddy Bear Fair in Berwick (pronounced, appropriately, Bear-wick) which was great fun!

I got to meet some good friends and fabulous artists in person, and just as importantly meet their bears in the fur! It was brilliant! I even made a few new friends :) I was very good and didn't adopt any bears (although a few were very tempting!) but I did buy a couple of patterns and some small pieces of upholstery velvet for my little bears...

They are fabulous colours - midnight blue, honey gold, maroon, dark green... some cute bears to come! And with a couple of free patterns in the showbag, my goodie bag was full of goodies!

Yay for a fun day & a huge thanks to Di for driving!!!

This week I'm grateful for... Bearmaking

My passion is bearmaking - as most of you know - but recently I simply haven't had the time to do any bearmaking, or any crafts at all for that matter, and in addition to it being my passion I find it a great source of stress relief. Tonight I have finally found a snippet of time in which to do some bearmaking.

I have finished of the basic prototype of a new design - a little 5" bear...

And I have finally had a chance to sew the ears on my fluffy bear with needle felted paws and nose. I then started scissor sculpting his face and paws, but it has become a little extreme...

So now I'm thinking he needs a little pair of overalls... We'll see when I'm finished "sculpting" lol!

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