Wishing you all a very Happy New Year. Let 2017 be a peaceful & creative year.
Posting pics of my last two bears for 2016.

Bosley 8" viscose bear

Lou Lou-Belle

This will probably be my last post before Christmas, so just to tell you there are some bears over on Bearpile that have 10% reductions & one at 25% off.
Posting pics of my latest two.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas & a happy New Year, let's hope 2017 brings continued good health & maybe a little peace in the world.

Beasley 8" viscose bear

Spitfire 5.5" viscose bear

This cute little ellie....all 4.5" of him, is Edward. Made from viscose, his whole body is filled with steel pellets, the rest of him is heavyweight poly filled. He can be found on my website or Bearpile.

Introducing Robbie, a little 6.75" bunny, made from hand dyed Italian viscose. Can be found on my website & Bearpile.

Good morning from a cold & frosty UK. Well so much for not making any more bears until the New Year!!! Here are two more bears & an ellie. They can all be found on my website or Bearpile.  Enjoy.

Beau 12" felted mohair

William 8.5" viscose

Elvis 8.5" viscose

Posting a photo of Puzzle an 8.5" panda bear. Don't often do these but just had the urge to make one!!! He is made from Shulte viscose. Can be found on my website or Bearpile.
Also had another good couple of days, with regards to adoptions. My two little ellies are going off to a home where a lovely lady adopted one of my bears, at the very successful Weald & Downland Museum, a couple of weeks ago.

Posting another new bear for you this morning.....I had promised myself no more new bears until next year, but I can't help myself, they are just so addictive!!! There are also two more in the making & I'm not making myself any more promises!!!! Perkins can be found on my website or Bearpile

Perkins 8.5" viscose

Posting 3 new bears, Nicholas 15" mohair, Sophia 8.5" mohair, & Rudi a sweet little 4" bear made from viscose. All 3 are on my website & Bearpile

Nicholas

Sophia

Rudi

 Introducing Tito, a 10" bear made from plush. He can be found on my web site & Bearpile

Wow! what a weekend I have just had. Did a two day Christmas craft show at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. This museum, for my overseas visitors, is all about "old". Most of the buildings date back a century or more. They are shipped in from various parts of the South of England & rebuilt on the museum's site & alot of them host various craft stands for this particular weekend. I was situated in Crawley Hall in the market square. This room usually hosts weddings, children's courses & similar. It is a lovely room, small & compact, but carpeted & heated. It does get a little cramped when the visitors emerge on you but all part of the fun.
The show was actually 2 weeks later this year & I have to say I was a little worried as so much else was on as well. Needn't have worried, had a great weekend, 13 bears & 3 bunnies found their forever homes, along with my rapidly depleting stock of painted bits & pieces.
Now I have to come down from my high & start concentrating on our Christmas!!!!

Well I'm still plodding on with my stocking presents, keyrings & brooches, but to give myself a break I made this sweet little ellie. Lizzie is just 4.5" tall, her head & legs are heavyweight polyfilled & her body is full of steel granules, giving her a nice weight. She can be found on my website lanesendbears.com or Bearpile

Did a two day Christmas craft fair at the weekend, where I had three bears adopted. Also a couple of pieces of my painted stuff. While there, I was sitting sewing tiny 2.5" bears to make into keyrings for Handmade Happiness in Petersfield, Hampshire, two of which were snapped up by customers, who came back once they were finished. Now I have to start some more for the shop!!!
Have another craft show Saturday, all busy, busy, busy for the run up to Christmas.

Posting a picture of Olivia, a cute little 5" bear made from Shulte mohair. She's wearing a hand knitted coat & matching hat. She may be my last bear for a bit as I'm going to be making some bear related stocking presents. I have two big Christmas shows coming up, one this weekend & another at the end of the month. I can't believe how quickly it's crept up on us!!!!

Another post because Jenny from Jenny-handmadehappiness.blogspot.com emailed me a photo of the latest 3 bears I had sent her earlier in the week. I had stupidly forgotten to take one myself, before packing them up to send!!!! It look's like they are sitting in front of someone's beautiful patchwork.

One new photo for you this cold & frosty morning. Pepe a sweet little 6" bear made from viscose

Another little 6.5" portly bear. This is Sasha, made from vintage velvet....yes from my mum's attic!!! He can be found on my website or Bearpile.

This morning I am posting a pic of a little, very portly 6.5" bear made from vintage velvet plush. I would go as far as to say it is probably antique!! I found it in my late mother's attic when we were clearing the house after she sadly passed away last year.
Found several pieces of velvet of different colours, some large pieces, some not so large. I think somewhere on this blog there is a photo of Diesel who was made from a lovely, but very small piece of blue velvet. I really wish there had been more of that colour, because apart from blue being my favourite colour I just loved how a bear looked made from that velvet.
Anyway back to Ruby, she can be found on my website or Bearpile.

This morning I am posting photos of one of my favourite bear patterns. This is Kip made from hand dyed viscose & is about 8.5".
The next photo is of Benny, a new pattern, a very portly little bear that comes out at around 6".
Lastly is Reggie a 7.25" bunny. I am really pleased with how he turned out. These three can be found on my website or Bearpile

Kip

Benny

Reggie

The first photo this morning, are of two bears I have made for jenny-handmadehappiness.blogspot.com These are a bit different to her usual ones but I did not have enough mohair to do those ones. If you make bears or anything that requires a pattern you will know with a lot of jigging about you can get the same length of bear onto the fabric but not necessarily from the same pattern.....not sure that makes sense but I know what I mean!!!
The next two photos are my usual bear 8.5" both made from viscose. I really love this type of bear, they are, I think, more traditional.

Jimminy 5" mohair & John 6" mohair

Deano 8.5" hand dyed dark navy viscose

Felix 8.5" German viscose