Bearly Sane ®

As many of you may be aware, much of my time these days is spent promoting fellow artists through www.teddybearsandcritters.com so I don't have as much free time to spend on my own bears as I used to.

Among the assortment of things I organise for the girls is the Challenges which I also participate myself. Now that's all well and good, but just recently I felt I wasn't challenging myself as much as I was the girls. So at the beginning of the year I decided it was time for me to tackle something that has haunted me from the day I began making bears back in 1996...to make a bear smaller than seven inches!

I have long admired the skills of mini bear artists, envied the results they achieve and added many of them to my own personal hug. 

Now, after drafting several patterns and throwing most of them in the bin, I think I have finally designed one I am happy with. Over the next little while, in between preparing for the online Black and White Ball which is coming up in June, I am going to finish this little bear...by hook or by crook!