Love to Sew: Teddy Bears by Monika Schleich

Love to Sew: Teddy Bears by Monika Schleich

17 soft, cuddly and adorable teddy bear companions to make and treasure. Renowned teddy bear creator and enthusiast, Monika Schleich, shares her expert techniques for sewing these huggable bears. Choose from vintage style teddy bears, polar bears, baby bears, pandas and plenty more soft-paw companions! - Includes an illustrated basic techniques guide to teach you all you will need to know about sewing, mending and shaping your bears - Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions for every project - Teddy-bear pattern templates accompanying every design

September 2014

Teddies to use as ornaments, teddies for presents, teddies to collect..there are sixteen lovable bears in here to make to suit all tastes.

I am not normally a teddy fan but the bears in here have a look of traditional collectables that is hard to resist. Too many modern versions have flat squashed faces and over-large heads but these look more like the real thing. They have proper cotter pin joints and sculptured heads; a pleasure to make for a keen toy maker. If you are a beginner at this sort of thing this is not the best place to start, but anybody with a bit of toy making know-how (or at least sewing knowledge) ought to be able to have a go. There is a list of materials and what they are all for, as well as what equipment you need plus a pocket at the back that holds the patterns. The projects start immediately with the basic bear; this has photographed stages with captions, plus an unusual and very handy guide to what pattern pieces you need showing their shapes. I applaud the list of materials which says exactly how much you require even down to the weight of the stuffing. The bears after this are variations on the basic idea with a difficulty rating, height and a page sized photo of the finished item. Make bears of various sizes and colors, a panda, a paw shaped key ring, baby bears, pairs of bears and my favorite a polar bear. There are a few photographs of stages too if you have to do something different, and in all I was impressed. Heirloom bears can be the trickiest of soft toys to get right and I have seen other books that really made a meal of the subject, but the brief instructions here told you exactly what you needed to know without a lot of unnecessary preamble. A real practical primer in fact, which is what you want a book like this to be.

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* Myshelf.com *

October 2014

Here are 17 soft, cuddly and adorable teddy bears to make and treasure. A basic techniques guide shows us all we need to know about sewing, mending and shapiong bears and are easy to follow, step-by-step instructions for each project plus pattern templates for every design.

* Machine Knitting Monthly *

Monika Schleich has turned her love for Teddy-Bears from a hobby into a lucrative career. She sells her own home-made collectable bears for "adoption" as well as supporting community college courses and writing for the prestigious German journal Teddy & Co. where she has twice been awarded 1st place for Best Teddy-Bear designer. This is her first book with Search Press.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781782210580
ISBN 10	178221058X
Title	Love to Sew: Teddy Bears
Author	Monika Schleich
Series	Love To Sew
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Search Press Ltd
Year published	2014-08-11
Number of pages	64
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.