Teddy Bear Studio

Create Your Own Handcrafted Heirlooms

$14.95

Publication Date: 21st April 2011

Beginners and experienced crafters alike will treasure this expert guide to making one-of-a-kind teddy bears. These full-size basic patterns include adorable costumes for the bears and are easy to customize. Step-by-step instructions and more than 150 diagrams explain everything from choosing the right fabric to adding the final touches. Sixteen color and 11 black-and-white photographs perfectly illustrate the possibilities for creating plush companions.
The founder of the magazine Teddy Bear Review, Ted Menten has written 19 books on the subject and conducts teddy bear-making ... Read More
Format: Paperback

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Beginners and experienced crafters alike will treasure this expert guide to making one-of-a-kind teddy bears. These full-size basic patterns include adorable costumes for the bears and are easy to customize. Step-by-step instructions and more than 150 diagrams explain everything from choosing the right fabric to adding the final touches. Sixteen color and 11 black-and-white photographs perfectly illustrate the possibilities for creating plush companions.
The founder of the magazine Teddy Bear Review, Ted Menten has written 19 books on the subject and conducts teddy bear-making ... Read More
Description
Beginners and experienced crafters alike will treasure this expert guide to making one-of-a-kind teddy bears. These full-size basic patterns include adorable costumes for the bears and are easy to customize. Step-by-step instructions and more than 150 diagrams explain everything from choosing the right fabric to adding the final touches. Sixteen color and 11 black-and-white photographs perfectly illustrate the possibilities for creating plush companions.
The founder of the magazine Teddy Bear Review, Ted Menten has written 19 books on the subject and conducts teddy bear-making classes around the world. This guide features his well-tested techniques, which include tips on how to add distinctive facial expressions and other individual, expressive traits that transform ordinary crafts projects into truly personal keepsakes and gifts.

Reprint of the Running Press, Philadelphia, 2002 edition.
Details
  • Price: $14.95
  • Pages: 96
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Imprint: Dover Publications
  • Series: Dover Crafts: Dolls & Toys
  • Publication Date: 21st April 2011
  • Trim Size: 8.37 x 11 in
  • Illustration Note: 4c
  • ISBN: 9780486481166
  • Format: Paperback
  • Age: 12-99
  • BISACs:
    CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Stuffed Animals
Author Bio
The author of more than 60 Dover titles, Ted Menten specializes in illustrating children's books. He is particularly adept at capturing the charm of teddy bears — founder of the magazine Teddy Bear Review, he has written 19 books on the subject and conducts teddy bear–making classes around the world.
Table of Contents
A Teddy Tale
Introduction
Failing on the Road to Success
How-to, Not-to, and How-you-might
The Magical Toolbox
Imagining and Imaging
Say Hello to Adam and Eve
Selecting the Basic Pattern
Creating a Family of Teddy Bears
Redesigning the Head Patterns
Two-color and Two-piece Profiles
Changing the Pattern Profile
Two-tone Two-part Body
Redesigning the Arm Pattern
Creating a Neck
Creating Girls and Boys
The Columbus Principle
Tricks with Joints
Lend an Ear
A Simple Four-piece Head Pattern
Understanding Fur
Working with Mohair
Nuts and Bolts
A Stitch in Time
Sewing in the Ears
Sewing Paw Pads and Foot Pads
The Magic Flap
The Ladder Stitch
Stuff It!
Let's Face It
Perfect Noses Every Time
Creating a Mouth
The Eyes Have It
Small, Medium, and Large
Final Touches
When a Bow is not Enough
The Well-dressed Teddy Bear
Gallery
Patterns
Teddy Bear Photographs
Beginners and experienced crafters alike will treasure this expert guide to making one-of-a-kind teddy bears. These full-size basic patterns include adorable costumes for the bears and are easy to customize. Step-by-step instructions and more than 150 diagrams explain everything from choosing the right fabric to adding the final touches. Sixteen color and 11 black-and-white photographs perfectly illustrate the possibilities for creating plush companions.
The founder of the magazine Teddy Bear Review, Ted Menten has written 19 books on the subject and conducts teddy bear-making classes around the world. This guide features his well-tested techniques, which include tips on how to add distinctive facial expressions and other individual, expressive traits that transform ordinary crafts projects into truly personal keepsakes and gifts.

Reprint of the Running Press, Philadelphia, 2002 edition.
  • Price: $14.95
  • Pages: 96
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Imprint: Dover Publications
  • Series: Dover Crafts: Dolls & Toys
  • Publication Date: 21st April 2011
  • Trim Size: 8.37 x 11 in
  • Illustrations Note: 4c
  • ISBN: 9780486481166
  • Format: Paperback
  • Age: 12-99
  • BISACs:
    CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Stuffed Animals
The author of more than 60 Dover titles, Ted Menten specializes in illustrating children's books. He is particularly adept at capturing the charm of teddy bears — founder of the magazine Teddy Bear Review, he has written 19 books on the subject and conducts teddy bear–making classes around the world.
A Teddy Tale
Introduction
Failing on the Road to Success
How-to, Not-to, and How-you-might
The Magical Toolbox
Imagining and Imaging
Say Hello to Adam and Eve
Selecting the Basic Pattern
Creating a Family of Teddy Bears
Redesigning the Head Patterns
Two-color and Two-piece Profiles
Changing the Pattern Profile
Two-tone Two-part Body
Redesigning the Arm Pattern
Creating a Neck
Creating Girls and Boys
The Columbus Principle
Tricks with Joints
Lend an Ear
A Simple Four-piece Head Pattern
Understanding Fur
Working with Mohair
Nuts and Bolts
A Stitch in Time
Sewing in the Ears
Sewing Paw Pads and Foot Pads
The Magic Flap
The Ladder Stitch
Stuff It!
Let's Face It
Perfect Noses Every Time
Creating a Mouth
The Eyes Have It
Small, Medium, and Large
Final Touches
When a Bow is not Enough
The Well-dressed Teddy Bear
Gallery
Patterns
Teddy Bear Photographs