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Wonderful Book
A bear of My Own is an excellent guide to the craft of bearmaking.The language is easy to understand for the less experienced.Rotraud Illisch's guide for pattern design is excellent and easy to understand.The whole bear is taken into prospective from design to placement.This is awonderful book for bear designers. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. General    4. Hobbies/Crafts    5. Soft toy making    6. Stuffed Animals    7. Teddy bears    8. Toymaking - General    9. Bears    10. Soft toys   

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Stuffed Animals    5. Soft toys   

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Not what I expected
While the book cover and illustrations are charming and well done, thisbook is not at all what I expected.The non-quilt projects are very basic. The quilts are very plain including several nine-patch quilts.Also, thequilts shown in the pictures are not of the highest quality (non-straightpiecing and quilting).I do not recommend this book at all.

Cute book with simple ideas
My mother bought me this book as a gift and it inspired me to try making one of the "little quilts" that was featured.The instructions on the quilts and the bunny accessories are very easy to follow, even for asewer with limited talents.However, don't be mislead by the title of thebook. You will NOT find any Bunnies by the Bay patterns inside. The onlypatterns you will see are for accessories like a lace bag, felt bird, etc.,along with the quilt patterns.This would be a good "gift book",but if you're looking for patterns, shop elsewhere. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Miniature quilts    5. Patchwork    6. Patterns    7. Quilting    8. Quilts & Quilting    9. Stuffed Animals   

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Great Book!
This book is very well set out with lots of beautiful photos. Easy to use patterns and instructions. A great book for beginners right through to more advanced sewers who want something to make in a hurry. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cloth dolls    2. Crafts & Hobbies    3. Crafts / Hobbies    4. Doll clothes    5. Dollmaking    6. Hobbies/Crafts    7. Patterns    8. Sewing    9. Soft toys   

Subjects:  1. Crafts / Hobbies    2. Soft toy making    3. Stuffed Animals    4. Soft toys   

Editorial Review

Fully clothed, individually named, and photographed in delightfulsettings, Anita Louise Crane's teddy bears have a sweet, country appeal. InRead more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Stuffed Animals    5. Toymaking - General    6. BG-HISTORY - BG-ANCIENT/ARCHAEOLO    7. Crafts & Hobbies / Stuffed Animals    8. Soft toys   

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Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Soft toy making    5. Stuffed Animals    6. Teddy bears    7. Soft toys   

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A Strongly Recommended Book Buy
This is a very important book for anyone who wants to learn to make and sell thier bears. It shows you how to easily follow the patterns and make high quality sellable bears. You must need to know how to sew to pursuemaking this craft. If you can sew and know how to follow the patterns, thenyou can make teddy bears. The book goes into precise detail with a photofor each step. It was written by a family team who are making the bears forthier business. I am very inspired by this book, it was exactly what Ineeded. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques/Collectibles    3. Crafts / Hobbies    4. Marketing    5. Selling    6. Soft toy making    7. Stuffed Animals    8. Teddy Bears    9. Toymaking    10. Toymaking - General    11. Dictionaries   

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Unusual critters!
This book contains the "typical" cuddlies that many toy books have (teddy bear, puppy dog), but also some great unusual critters (including a buzzard, a funny-not-scary monster, an alligator, and a fish)that other books tend to overlook. The instructions are prettystraightforward and the two critters I've made (the "partyanimal" cat and the monster) have turned out well and without glitchesin the pattern. I want to make the buzzard, too, just have to get to thefabric shop to get a couple yards of black fleece. SOFT TOYS TO SEW
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Great reference guide for the new and advanced sewer.
This book is filled with an avalanche of information before you even get to patterns and instructions.Sheila has covered any questions you may have regarding the type of fabric to use and how to work with it, thedifferences in the filling materials and the finishing touches of eyes andnoses.There are color photos of all the finished products and theinstructions are easy to follow with color coded cutting and sewingdetails.This is a great buy for the information in these pages. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Sewing    5. Soft toy making    6. Stuffed Animals   

Editorial Review

Few beloved childhood items have the impressive pedigree of the teddybear. In Read more

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Provides a fine set of master teddy bear patterns
Making Teddy Bears provides a fine set of master teddy bear patterns ranging form a very easy beginning single pattern piece all the way to a traditional jointed bear with movable arms, legs and head. These patterns are the foundation for sixteen projects which will delight crafts workers looking to make teddies. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Stuffed Animals    5. Crafts & Hobbies / Stuffed Animals    6. LITERATURE - LIT CLASSICS TRD PB    7. Needlework & fabric crafts    8. Soft toys   

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Soft toy making    5. Stuffed Animals    6. Toymaking    7. Toymaking - General    8. Soft toys   

Editorial Review

From the jungle to the outback, the farm to the forest, the tundra to the deep blue sea, here are dozens of adorable creatures (plus some little people) to knit for your own little ones. And you needn't be an expert knitter; each pattern is rated easy, straightforward, or challenging, so you can pick the ones that fit your skill level. Some knitted toy designs wind up looking like alien experiments gone wrong, but these critters are completely cute without being cutesy. In addition to the charming but expected (a piglet, elephant, monkey, cat, chicken, panda, bear, and the like) there are plenty of delightful surprises (a platypus, warthog, zebra, rhinoceros--even a wombat). Read more

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not sure what u need to know or to write
i think the book is great and have made toys from the bookworld of knitted toys they are great toys to knit

The Best and Most Fun Knitting Book
This book contains adorable patterns that are easy to follow.It is very well written and has greta pictures.The fish pattern is thecutest, but there also are numerous outback animals and undersea animals included.If you can do the basics of knitting, you will love it!

Great for advanced beginners.
Finally, a book of toy knitting patterns for the advanced beginner!Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Knitting    5. Needlework - Knitting    6. Patterns    7. Soft toy making    8. Stuffed Animals    9. Stuffed animals (Toys)    10. Toymaking    11. Soft toys   

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Simple yet Fun
This book contains several patterns for dinosaurs, including an arrow-headed beast and a prehistoric fish.The book assumes you have a basic knowledge of sewings, IE, right-side-together, seem allowances and so forth, and in fact, some experiance is favourable.The book dives right away into patterns and instructions.Some patterns are delightfully simple, like the brachiasaur, while others, like the triceratops, can be hard to follow.It's a fun book that will help show you how to piece together a dinosaur, and has plenty of potential for expanding.The only catch is it's niche; it can be too hard for beginers, and experianced critter crafters will think the designs simplistict.For the latter, this book can be used as a springboard for your own ideas and patterns. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Dinosaurs    4. Hobbies/Crafts    5. Sewing    6. Soft toy making    7. Stuffed Animals    8. Toymaking - General    9. Crafts & Hobbies / Toymaking    10. Soft toys   

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Pretty Good
I thought that this book was helpful to the research that I was doing.It had a lot of helpful hints on how to contruct hand puppets (although it did go into other types of puppetry)I also liked the fact that on Amazon is was so inexpensive. I would recomend this book to anyone who wanted tolearn how to start their ouppet collection, or to any beggining puppeteers. this is a good book for younger children because it is easy to understand. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hand puppets    4. Hobbies/Crafts    5. Juvenile literature    6. Puppet making    7. Puppet plays    8. Puppets & Puppetry    9. Crafts & Hobbies / General    10. Soft toys   

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Incomplete Book !
I found the instructions for some of the non-standard patterns are hard to follow and leave out very important information.Also, a number of the patterns areincomplete.The pattern layouts made it very very difficult to photocopy. The book requires us to enlarge the patterns, and they are too large to begin with, making it hard to do, unless you pay for special printing services.They should include the complete and full size patterns !!

The Book of Teddy Bear Making by Gillian Morgan
The most informative teddy bear making book I have every read.There is one flaw however, George Thomas (bear) is missing his tummy in the pattern section on page 184. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Applique    2. Appliquâe    3. Children's quilts    4. Crafts & Hobbies    5. Crafts / Hobbies    6. Hobbies/Crafts    7. Patchwork    8. Patterns    9. Quilt Making    10. Quilts & Quilting    11. Sewing    12. Soft toy making    13. Stuffed Animals    14. Toymaking - General