Well, without further ado, here's Jonathan:
He is my very first Recycled Sweater (100% wool) Button Bear. He stands about 13" tall, which is a good height for a bear, I think, and a size I'm quite comfortable with. This was, incidentally, my first attempt at sewing a bear with a head gusset. I think he turned out quite well.
I had initially downloaded this pattern (pdf file, so slow-loading on dial-up) for him, but after thinking about it, decided it would be easier just to draw my own, since I plan on selling these, and I don't like using other people's patterns to sell.
All in all, he took about three hours to complete. I'm not counting the hour and a half it took me to find the beads for his eyes, nose, and joints, because if I had been smart, I would have gotten them out earlier.
And I might make another one today. It's still early, after all, and half my list is already crossed off. (And I should make some stuff for the craft show. One container of stuff isn't all that much, in truth.)
It will be hard to part with him. :)
Note: He does have a couple of mistakes. His head's on crooked, but I tried to make it look like I meant it that way. I cut the hole for one of his legs on the wrong side, but you can't really tell unless you look closely.
He is machine sewn except for his head. I started out machine sewing his head, but I couldn't figure out how to do it properly. Oh, and my sewing machine needle finally broke. After that denim pillow for Mabel, I was expecting it to break. I'm sure sewing through double thicknesses of a thick sweater didn't help, either.
So I'm thinking about marketing these so people could mail me their motheaten/worn-out/shrunken sweaters and I could make bears out of them. How does that sound?
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