Ronnie

Ronnie, navy blue mohair, 18" from head to toe.  £140.  Now available in my Etsy shop here.

Padmore

Wow - it's been over a week since I posted anything.  What can I say?  I think I've done more days than usual at the Art & Craft Centre recently, and my sister has been here - so lots of shopping and very little work.  And, of course, I have been working on the first of the big bears.  Padmore is about 23 inches from head to toe.

He is rather a strange looking thing!  He has a needle-felted face.  Again, I had the problem of not being able to match the colour of the wool roving to the mohair.  So, I started by just giving him eyelids - but it looked like a pair of little white goggles, so I decided to do the whole muzzle.  Then I decided that while I was at it, I might as well have a go at making jowls...  Now the entire thing looks like a rather spooky, Phantom-of-the-Opera-style mask.  But he is interesting - I'll give him that!

Damien

My little blue bear!  I am not quite as keen on him as I am with some of the others that came out of last week - primarily because he was made from a remnant, and there wasn't quite enough blue mohair left for his ears.  As a result he ended up with these bald, grey ones, which I'm finding it hard to get used to.

He does have a very sweet, round face though.