Ned

Brrrr - it is horrible weather for taking photos outside!

I have finally finished the bear I've been working on.  This was the one I was thinking of making for my two tiny nieces - although I'm not really sure anymore.  He is quite brick-like - very square and solid - perhaps not the thing for a baby?

Ah well, I will try Ned at the Art & Craft Centre, and see if anyone likes him.

He has been a pain in the neck to make - mostly because of his flippy feet - but, as you can probably see from the picture below, I played about with the proportions quite a lot too...

Five practice bears!  No matter how many times I read about other people's working methods, and how they make repeated versions of something before getting it right, it always bugs me that I can't get it right second time around (everyone's allowed one mistake).  Note the middle bear in the picture above (with the ginormous red feet), where I thought, 'Aha!  This design works!  I will break out the expensive cotton fabric!'  Naturally it turned out to be the most ridiculous-looking of all my attempts.  If you're going to be ridiculous though, why not do it in gingham trousers with strawberries printed all over them?

Anyway, I just wanted to add one more cute cat picture.  My last two photos of Rory have featured him looking really peeved, and I just wanted to correct the impression...