Make your own super-cute pal with this pattern - complete with tiny suitcase! The pattern is designed using King Cole yarn, including a lovely fluffy yarn which makes for super-soft and cuddly fur. So, how do you knit a teddy bear anyway? Well, most teddy bears are knit flat – some in pieces and some all in one piece. The work relies on increases and decreases to shape the body and limbs. That way, the final piece will be nice and 3-dimensional once it’s all sewn up. There are also a few teddy bear knitting patterns that are knit in the round – some using double pointed needles and some using the magic loop method. The best thing about all of these teddy bear knitting patterns is how wonderfully unique each design is. There are short bears and tall bears, skinny bears and fat bears, some bears with little clothes, other bears with little accessories, and many more variations besides those. Each adorable teddy bear friend has their own personality and they are anxious to meet their new best friends! I'm not very good with this sort of thing, the most I usually do is make my own clothes and make soft toy luma's (The stars in Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii ).

CHANNEL FOUR – POB’S PROGRAMME. Children’s programme produced by Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions. Designed and demonstrated craft items on 52 programmes. There are two videos (POB AND FRIENDS and POB’S PLAYTIME) which include some of these. To accompany this series, three magazines (POB’S PLAYTIME, POB’S PAPER and POB’S NEWS) gave instructions for the craft makes in comic strip form illustrated by Malcolm Bird.Make this super-cute card using the EXCLUSIVE Paddington range from our friends at CraftStash and your free card template from Lou Collins.

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