Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

I like this style Sam -very cute     

Lovely bear Sam.    

Love this one Carol -lovely face and colouring!    

Wei is my second little red panda -he has a porcelain face with set in dolls eyes,a little tongue and teeth.He is made from three German mohairs -White for his ear insides,orange for his body and a brown/black tipped mohair for his limbs.He is weighted with encased sand -cotter pin jointed,and wears a porcelain name tag around his neck! She is 11" tall.

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Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

Nice one Rachel!!!!

Thanks everyone -I so enjoy reading your comments.xx

Love his little outfit -lovely bear1    

I have hand dyed and aged the felted mohair to make Ginger -He has antique boot eyes and a sparse embroidered nose-pure silk aged outfit with rusty bells  -I had to make two of him as a friend whipped the first away before he was almost finished -This is his twin and is on bearpile now.
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Wonderful work!!!      

Oh! what a beautiful beautiful pair -love the way you age them.xx Jo          

What a pretty little sweetie-very cute!!! xxxxJo

I love her little dress -really suits her. :hug:

Hi Anna -yes I roughly stitched needlefelted balls and shapes directly onto the mohair and worked on from there.
Thanks everyone else for the nice comments.

Bootifull!!!!!

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I have been trying a new craft for me which is needlefelting -Apart from having holes in my fingers and lots of broken needles I have really enjoyed making my little elf who I have named Elvin!

His body is mohair and I have needlefelted his face from a flat piece of mohair and added bits of the wool to form his cheeky face shape -It took about 3 days of sore fingers to get his face shape and to get his features very hard .Then I had each paw pad to do!!! I have made and decorated his coat and hat in felt with some detailed machine embroidery.He has rusty bells and beautiful transparent wings.
I am reluctant to sell him but can't keep them all so have put him up for adoption on bearpile.

What a sweet baby -I adore pandas-beautiful !!!!          

Lovely colour combinations and as usual a beautiful nose! xxxxx

I love this bear -face and claws are wonderful!

Love this one -the face is very appealing to me.Lovely  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:

She is wonderful Isa -love the colour and ageing. Jo xx    

This is little hot chilli Pepper who has a cheeky smiley porcelain face with set in dolls eyes.
I have hand dyed the fur to a blood red colour - really gorgeous colour!I have also matched his needle sculpted cashmere paws to this lovely colour!
Chilli has a hand made felt chilli shaped hat that is removable and he wears a porcelain name tag around his neck.
hope he warms you up !!!!!
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Thanks everyone -I am making a pink one now for valentine's day!!

Glad you are SOOO pleased Rachel -see you again in the future.

My first bunny of the season -she has a porcelain face with set in big blue dolls eyes.her body is mohair in a very delicate shade of blue and her paws and ear insides have a pattern of tiny Forget-Me -Not's