Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

yes!!!!!!!!!   a batting sandwich!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Will try it toooday!!!!  Hobby Lobby, here I come.

What a brilliant idea!
Thanks again!

Hi,
Thanks for the reply...No I haven't tried trimming the mohair...but I will.
I've read about that.

If that doesn't work, I'll try the felt trick.  I'm dying to get to a show so I can handle some bears.  It's difficult being in an area that doesn't have much to offer in the bear arena!!!

Hi,

I'm really new to bearmaking, and I've never held a bear made by someone else so I'm not sure how they're supposed to "feel".

I use fibreboard discs with locknuts.  I stuff reasonably firmly.  I'm sure I'm using the correct size disc for my bear size, but all my bears have a "hard" feel at the joints.  Is this normal?  If not, will gluing foam to the discs before the actual stuffing goes in help at all?  What about using much smaller discs.
Any suggestions?

Hi,
I'm extremely new to bear making.  I've made a couple with synthetic fur and used plastic safety joints, but now I've started using mohair and fibreboard disc
joints (with locknuts). 

What bothers me is that I can feel the discs through the mohair.  Is this normal?
I've never held a bear made by anybody else so I don't know what they're supposed to feel like.  I use as large a disc as I can fit into the opening (per the advice I've read here and elsewhere), and I stuff reasonably firmly, but I don't like that "hard feel" at the joints.  I've thought about gluing foam to the discs before the real stuffing goes in, or maybe even trying some kind of homemade foam or rubber disc, or maybe using much smaller hardboard discs that will be softened when the stuffing goes in, but everything I've read indicates that I'm using the right sized disc for my bear size.  Any suggestions?

Maybe I'm worrying over nothing.  Maybe they're supposed to "feel" that way.