ALLEN: is a bear named after my husband. I designed this bear in a DESIGN YOUR OWN BEAR class given by Ted Menton in May 1998 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
ANNA: I wanted an old looking bear so I made Anna in a DESIGN YOUR OWN BEAR class given by Martha De Raimo Burch in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in the year 1999.
BOOMBY: This is Boomby. He is the first teddy bear that I made. He was born in the year 1997 while I was living in Melbourne, Australia. His pattern was designed by Marlene De Lorenzo.
ALICE: is my version of Marlene De Lorenzo pattern. Alice is now living in Portland, Oregon.
BRUNO: is a large bear and is from a pattern by Marlene De Lorenzo. I made him in December 2000.
GEDALYA: is named after one of my grandsons. His mohair was originally white but I learned to paint him during an on-line class given by Christine Charles. It was Christine's pattern also.
GINGERSNAP: I made this bear in a class called OPEN MOUTH PANDA given by Linda Mead of Spare Bear Parts in Phoenix, Arizona in March 2000.
MUFFIN AND MIKKA: are from an on-line class given by Christine Charles.
DEVI THE TWO TONED BEAR:
I made this small bear using two different colors of mohair. She is named after my granddaughter, Devi.
ALMOST TWINS: The panda on the left is my own design and is needle felted with unspun Romney wool and the panda on the right is from a pattern called Magnolia by Barbara Irwin Shynkaryk.
Although “Leo the Lion” is not a bear, he is made from mohair so I decided to put him in my Teddy Bear section. On June 24, 2006 I took this class that was given by Jennifer Laing.
This is a side view of “Leo the Lion”
I took another wonderful class with Jennifer Laing on December 2-3, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. We were able to make two open mouth bears in this class – a panda and a polar bear. The panda was made from alpaca and the polar bear was made from mohair. These are my bears.
