Bears and other creatures continued... Criss crossing

Although we had pretty much given up on Needle Felting there was some room for cross over with other crafts. Enter Crochet

So my f.m.i.l was crocheting, and guess what? I wanted to learn too!

I had tried knitting before and well if you like slopey scarves I was your girl but this time I was determined  
to learn to crochet and knit properly and all at the same time. It was quite a while ago so I can't remember if the chicken or egg came first but the story ends well I can now do both! Yay!

Gwen had moved on to hand made teddy bears. Believe it or not, there is quite a market for these little and some times huge fellas.  After a few lessons from Gwen, at the local bingo hall between calls and a little help from  Stitch 'n Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker I was comfortably crocheting. Yay again! So Gwen gave me my first crochet teddy bear project.

It was a pretty challenging task, and I wish I had taken pictures of all the mistakes before they where unravelled and restarted.

This here is is my first ever crocheted bear. Unfortunately I never seemed to get round to putting him together, and I can see from the picture here his body is upside down too oops.

Although it was hard, I did enjoy making this little guy and so I made a few more...

    

 Each of these bears was made from the same pattern, but just with a different size crochet hook and yarn to get the different sized bears. 

So I was never going to be an amazing handmade teddy bear maker. I refer you to the Hugglets website for for examples of amazing handmade teddy bears.  Gwen on the other hand did make some amazing crocheted bears with beautiful felt detailed faces and paws. I'll try and get hold of some pictures