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I love creating things. My craft background is in upholstery and needlework and I was a prolific, but average, artist at one stage. Texture and colour have always fascinated me, so it seems natural that these inspirations and skills all combine into creating collector bears in various tone and cloth variations. Each one takes about two days to make as I do not use a sewing machine and every stitch is done by hand.


Sunday 11 March 2012

Getting experimental...

This black mohair is the blackest black I have ever seen. It barely even reflects the flash from the camera, so the pictures don't do it justice. I finished this bear only a couple of hours ago. I've used all the traditional usual materials (wood-wool, cotter pin joints, pellets, glass eyes), but the paw pad material is some leftover from another needlecraft project and I also used it as the top panel of the head. The lighter bronze coloured nose and claws really lift the colour, which it needed. It was VERY scary looking as all black!
And from the side...

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