WOYWW....

 It's bears, bears and yet more bears this week  [and that's far from all I've done this week!!]....

I shared one bear with you last week and when the lady came to collect her bear she brought more clothes to make these two for her two daughters.

When the same lady came to collect the two bears in the pic above she came with clothes to make this little bear for one of her friends who had lost her husband.

I had to remake the tie to make a small version to fit the little bear....I love a challenge.  I usually use the thin end of the tie for the bears but this would have meant the  little boats/islands would have been upside down.

My next challenge came from a customer from Doncaster.  She had lost her husband and she wanted 7 Memory bears making for her grandchildren from Grandad's favourite t shirts....a specific two for each bear so I had to not only stabilise each panel with interfacing but I had to make sure each bear had two front/back panels and the correct one had to be on the left or right too.

Here's the results....I was pleased to see I'd got them all right and it was so lovely to see them all finished and looking so different.....they are now winging their way to their new homes in Doncaster.

Since then I have started making more School Memory bears....this one was special because it was for a returning customer who I had made one 4 years ago for an older sibling when they left Primary school.

Finally [for now] here's two more little school bears but this time they are made as gifts for two teachers who are retiring.....I thought this was a lovely idea.

So, I'm sorry there's a lot to share today but I like to keep my blog up to date.  If you leave me a little message I will do my best to pop over to yours to see what you've been up to this week.

Hugs,

Annie x