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Shelli SHELLI MAKES
Chico, California
Posts: 9,939
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Shelli Retired Help Advisor, Banner Sponsor

Announcing... FREE PATTERNS you can download, print, and create -- just for you, our readers, courtesy of Intercal and Teddy Talk!

Look beneath the MARKETPLACE heading on the Index page to find this great new feature, which we've cleverly entitled FREE PATTERNS.

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Within the FREE PATTERNS area you'll find two separate threads:

1.)  A FREE PATTERN you can download at home. 

2.)  A PATTERN CLASSROOM, where you can ask any question(s) you might have regarding the construction, fabric choice, and finishing of bears you make using this pattern.

Huge thanks to awesome human being, multi-award-winning bear artist, and Teddy Talk Advisor, Sue Ann Holcomb of PAST TIME BEARS, for generously granting permission to use her darling pattern for "GOLDIE" as our premiere offering.

For this and any future pattern, please be sure to read all accompanying instructions, including any copyright information and terms of use, carefully, before embarking on your project.

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Awesome, right?  But that's not even the BEST part!  We've got even MORE goodies in store for you...

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Included in the pattern instructions you'll find MOHAIR RECOMMENDATIONS from Sue Ann herself, including both quality and color suggestions, and photos of those to boot!, making it ever-so-easy for you to get "inside the artist's head," creatively.

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PLUS... still more, can you believe it? ...

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You have the brand-new option to CREATE-YOUR-OWN-KIT of mohair and supplies (eyes, joint hardware, disks, thread, ALL OF IT!) for "GOLDIE" from any of the five recommended mohairs.  Just click on the CREATE-YOUR-OWN-KIT link under the mohair of your choice and you'll be taken to a page on Intercal's website where you can order what you need, as you need it, customized to YOUR fondest wishes and creative vision for your work!

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Can't stop there, though.  Just gotta add one last dimension to this great new feature...

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When you're finished creating your bear from Sue Ann's "GOLDIE" pattern, please post photos in the CHALLENGE GALLERY set up specifically to showcase your efforts.  We're hoping to have a gallery of pieces, all done up in different mohairs, created by different artists, to show just how important the INDIVIDUAL behind teddy's construction actually is, to the final look and outcome.

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We here at TEDDY TALK surely hope you'll have fun with this terrific new feature.  The FREE PATTERNS / CREATE-YOUR-OWN-KIT features are not one-shot perks but will be an ongoing offering here at TEDDY TALK, for the use and enjoyment of our readers.

Thanks for making TEDDY TALK such a great place to be!

MerBear MerBear Originals
Brockville, Ontario
Posts: 1,540

How incredibly generous of Sue Ann. Thanks.

Marion

tuppies teddies Tuppies Teddies
Lindenow, Central Gippsland
Posts: 1,969

What a great idea and heaps of thanks Sus Ann for allowing this to happen,

I am sure lots will go for this challenge..

Daphne Back Road Bears
Laconia, NH USA
Posts: 6,568

:clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:
How wonderfully exciting for Teddy Talkers!!!
:dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:
Wow!!!!!
Thank you all!!!

Tracy ThimbleBeary Originals
Iowa
Posts: 2,049
Website

bear_thumb  bear_thumb  bear_thumb  bear_thumb  bear_thumb  bear_thumb  bear_thumb
Totally awesome!!! 

WOW!!!

Dilu Posts: 8,574

It'll be a little bit like having one of SueAnn's bears.....

bear_wub  bear_wub  bear_wub

Acipenser Bine-Teddies
Stockholm
Posts: 862

Wow. This place keeps boggling the mind.  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:

Marion Acid Attic Bears
Versailles
Posts: 2,284

Sue Ann, you are an angel !  bear_wub
That's so marvelously kind !  :hug:

What a fantastic new feature !  :clap:

Chowlea Bears Chowlea Bears
Posts: 602

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has organised this.

Very much appreciated..................... :hug:

pma2003 Seamore Collectibles
CT
Posts: 451

What a Fabulous Idea.
Thank you.

JeannieB JeannieB Bears
Greensboro NC
Posts: 1,183

Wow! Awesome idea. I've just started sewing bears....and have been busy practicing with the 15 1/2'' Past Time Bears pattern. I can't wait to make my own Goldie!
  bear_flower  Big bear hugs to Sue Ann, thank you for sharing this with us :hug: !
       JeannieB bear_original

Kathleen Pa
Posts: 626

Totally cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Sue Ann :hug:

Kathleen

Marie_ Kiprie Bears
Yokohama, Japan
Posts: 2,735

This is too fabulous !!!  bear_wub  bear_flower 
Thanks so much Sue-Ann for allowing us to
use your adorable " GOLDIE" pattern.  :hug:

I like to say thank you to our Shelli and Interecal !!!!!
Teddy Talk are truly a dream place.  bear_innocent

hugs
Marie

Gail Bear With Me Enterprises
Posts: 1,319
Website

Wonderful innovative idea. Thanks Sue Ann for being so generous and to TT and Shelli for your work on this new venture
Hugs
Gail :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Carolyn Green Draffin Bears
Auckland New Zealand
Posts: 5,354
Website

How very kind SueAnn - thank you.
Your Bears are so adorable.

Hugs
Carolyn
bear_flower

Jare Hares & Bears Jare Hares & Bears
Polo, IL
Posts: 983

WOW...
See this is why I love TT!!!!
Sue Ann thank you for sharing your pattern.  :hug:
I am sure that a big Thanks is due to Quy. Thanks to Shelli for letting us know about this new feature.
And Thanks to Intercal for not only giving us TT but offering us custom kits.
:dance:  :dance:  :hug:  :hug:  :dance:  :dance:
This is Great!

Irene Irenours-bears
France
Posts: 508

Wonderfull idea for sure for all of us,particularly for the bigginners. When i started making bears, i had difficulties  to find where to buy mohairs and the kind of mohairs  :hug: wich will suit my projects. With this new future, it's much more easier.

All Bear All Bear by Paula
Kent
Posts: 5,162
Website

What a lovely idea!  Well done Sue Ann for offering up the beautiful Goldie pattern and to TT for setting this super challenge up!  :clap:

doodlebears Doodlebears
UK
Posts: 7,414

doodlebears Celebration Ambassador

Thanks for doing this Sue Ann.  bear_thumb  I have downloaded the pattern and I hope to be able to find time to make the bear soon, although I'm busy making bears for the Alexandra Palace show next month...I will try and make her up as she is so pretty and would make a lovely gift for my daughter.

Hugs Jane.  bear_flower  bear_flower

Jellybelly Bears Jellybelly Bears
Australia
Posts: 4,066

wow, thanks everyone, thats amazing!  Thankyou so much sue ann  :hug:  :hug:

Eileen Baird'sBears
Toronto
Posts: 3,873

bear_original  :dance: What a great new feature!! :dance:

:hug: Thanks Sue Ann and Shelli and Quy and Intercal :hug:

I'm going to make a PastTime Bear all for myself bear_wub

rufnut Rufnut Teddy's
Victoria Australia
Posts: 2,725

Great idea, well done  :clap:

Sandi.S. Posts: 1,277

What a really great idea! Thanks goes out to everyone involved for the awesome new feature!

minkbears Vintage Mink Bears by Kathy Myers
Lakewood CA
Posts: 1,387
Website

What a wonderful and generous idea  :clap:  :clap:  :clap: 
~Kathy

SueAnn Past Time Bears
Double Oak, Texas
Posts: 21,912

SueAnn Help Advisor, Banner Sponsor

It's my pleasure to offer the Goldie pattern for this challenge.  Quy and Kjeld have been tremendously important in getting this new feature up and going and Shelli is tops in knowing how to announce that it's available.  I hope all of you who have printed the pattern will enjoy constructing the bear.  I'm really looking forward to seeing your version of Goldie!   :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:

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