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Post by petdesigns on Jan 6, 2009 14:08:03 GMT 1
Does anybody here have a pattern for making a teddy bear with 'how to' I could possibly have?
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jan 16, 2009 14:05:59 GMT 1
There is a very simple one that I designed when in school, Jutta, and that hardly needs to be sent out, as it is so easy. 1. Take a square piece of fur fabric of any size and place it in front of you with the pile of the fabric running from top to bottom. 2. Measure the width of the fabric and divide the measurement by three - e.g. if it is 9" wide, 1/3 will be 3" - then cut a 1/3 strip of the fabric off at one side. This should leave you with one piece 9" x 6", which will form the head, body and legs of the teddy, and one strip 9" x 3", which will form the two arms and the ears. 3. Take the larger piece and fold it in half lengthways, with right sides of the fabric facing each other, and with the pile facing you, cut up the fold for 1/3 of its length. This is to form the legs. Using a needle and thread, join the remaining 2/3 length edges together to form a tube, then join the narrower parts together to form the two legs and gather the foot ends firmly together. 4. Gather the larger body/head part of the tube about halfway up your seam to define the bear's neck position, then turn the right side of the fabric to the outside and stuff the legs through the gap in the top of the head using kapok or some other suitable stuffing, then stuff the body and head. 5. Gather around the tube at the top of its head and stitch firmly to close that. 6. Taking the narrower strip of fabric, divide this into thirds and use two of these to make into the sausage-like arms, gather one end of each, stuff, gather the other end, then stitch firmly into position on the body section. 7. Cut the remaining small square of fabric in half and form each half into an ear and attach to the head in the correct position. 8. Using felt, beads, buttons or embroidery yarn, glue or stitch on features such as eyes, nose and mouth. 9. Add a bow of ribbon around the bears neck and any clothes, if desired. Hope you can follow this? It's not the fanciest of bears, but if for a pet toy or very young child - even for the latter to make themselves - it's a very simple, rustic bear. I created the pattern in my first year at secondary school as part of the course work, and made loads in all sizes from about 3" high bears to 2' ones. Rag dolls, clowns, gollys and other animal creatures too using the same basic pattern/proportions. By stitching across the tops of the legs at the hips and again at knee and elbow positions, you can make those bend, so the toys can assume sitting positions, too.
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linni
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Post by linni on Jan 16, 2009 22:28:24 GMT 1
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Post by petdesigns on Jan 17, 2009 11:47:52 GMT 1
Thank you so much, Al and Linni Am just printing them all, my friend - for whom I asked - will be very glad! (And so will Happy Landings as she is giving me 2 dog baskets for them in return for teddy patterns!) If she shows me any teddies she might make I'll try to make photos and put them up! (I'm trying to convince her to donate some of her arts and crafts to auction off here as she makes rather nice pearl necklaces etc, too!)
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