Could anything be cuddlier than a teddy bear? Now, making a special, personal teddy bear—with its own wardrobe—couldn’t be simpler. Just follow these basic instructions, and the advice on easily available materials. Includes detailed patterns and full color photos that show you the fabulous completed bears. “With patterns for making a stunning wardrobe of, er, grizzly fashions.”—Publishers Weekly.
Provides step-by-step instructions for making stuffed bears as well as clothes and assessories for the bears, and offers tips on sewing techniques and creating patterns.
Presents easy-to-follow patterns, step-by-step instructions, and sizing and customization guidelines for twenty-five entertaining projects for knitters to create stylish fashions for every child's stuffed animals and dolls, ranging from casual picnic attire, to clothing for dress-up occasions, to bedtime pajamas and bathrobe.
This book will show you how to make your own special family of bears. Twenty-five step-by-step projects explain how to make traditional and contemporary teddy bears, with detailed information on materials, techniques and costumes.
In the pages of Bear with Hope you will discover how something as simple as the soil, a scent, a sound, or a touch, can transform your thoughts and present a meaningful, harmonious effect in your soul. You'll gain insight on how to gently, yet positively, restore and re-center your mind away from the negative thoughts that often accompany grief. The author encourages us to not dwell on the why of something but to work towards the how. Throughout the pages of Bear with Hope you will explore ways to boost your emotional happiness, as well as enhance your spiritual, psychological and physiological well-being. The author shares encouraging stories of others who have experienced pain and loss, and of how they guided themselves to a triumphant place of overcoming the heartache. Having hope and experiencing joy is not passively attained, but an active state of being cultivated with perseverance and commitment. Bear with Hope offers purposeful suggestions and creative ideas for finding hope, healing your heart, and experiencing joy--even in the tough times.
This useful and clever handbook contains all the tips you need! The secrets of making teddy bears -- sewing the paws, attaching the ears and arms and more -- are yours with this book! A genuine teddy bear pattern is included so you can get started to day. Perfect companion book to American Teddy Bear Artists Pattern Book (see above).
It's easy to make a traditional teddy bear, with basic sewing skills and this encyclopedia at your side. There's information on tools and equipment, how to work from a pattern, or how to design your own. Follow detailed instructions on fabric layout, marking, and cutting; and stitch it up, piece by piece.