More Bears

Bear production is going well! Here is another medium length faux fur bear.

   This one is very keen on headstands as when he rights himself, he growls!!! There's a double-growler method where you use two taped together with one upside-down so that the bear can speak without having to be tipped both ways. It would have to be quite a big bear to contain two growlers.

With his sparkly-eyed brother.

Little 9 inch jumbo-cord brown bear, his pelt was upcycled from a pair of trousers. I made him in the Summer but have only just got around to photographing him properly. The combination of the dreary Winter light and feeling that i need to take better indoor pictures of the bears had me spending a whole week experimenting with light and props. My mini-artist's mannequin seems to suit the bears' portraits.

This little grey fleece bear needs more photographs. He looks very well with the foxgloves back in June.

I think these are sweet pictures and i'll try and take them again with improved lighting.

 This is the 4th of the August Five. He's 19 inches tall and weighs 1lb and 12oz. I like his pelt, it's very cheap fun-fur stuff from the local market but clumpy like a sheep. I do wonder if i should be making customer-specific bears: plastic safety eyes as well as noses for children and save the glass eyes for extra-special bears which adults might like. At the moment i'm using a mixture of bottom and mid-range furs with glass eyes but plastic noses. It only occurred to me recently that the danger of glass eyes for children may not be that they could loosen and get swallowed so much as might get bitten and shatter in the child's mouth.
  Perhaps it would be best to save all the posh and potentially dangerous materials for adult customers. But then they might not get to be cuddled!

This tiny knitted bear will definitely be cuddled. I sent him to one of my oldest friends this week. She has just begun a long course of chemotherapy and Boris (as he has been named) is small enough (4 inches when standing) to sit quietly and supportively in Kelly's pocket.

Lastly, the two other tiny knit-bears seen previously in bits. The cream chap on the left is 5 inches tall and the little brown bear is 3 1/2 inches. Size 12 needles (2.75 or 2 US) - had to put my glasses on!