My first knitted cardigan for baby Alex.

My first knitted cardigan for our baby grandson. I have knitted cardigans and hats for bears but I haven’t knitted baby clothes since our youngest was a baby 13 years ago. It took me four months to complete, fitting time in between making the bears and school holidays. My grand daughter said “grandma it has lots of holes in it” I said that is the pattern!

Our first grandson

Our first grandson

A new bear

Tizzy is a 21"(53½cm) one-of-kind Clown style bear made from hand dyed mohair in pink and blue, Tizzy has an old bear appearance, with loose joints, filled with super polyester fibre and pellets to give extra weight, matching ultrasuedet pads, black glass eyes, and a multi coloured perle cotton embroidered nose and fully jointed. Tizzy is completely hand sewn and wears a ruff and has a bell on his hat.

Here are my new “Old style bears”

Here are my new “Old style bears” they are made to look like the old fashioned bears we used to have and love as children. I don’t like to make them look too tatty and worn, some are double dyed and have loose cotter pin joints. Most of the bears are made from sparse mohair or old looking mohair.

Sam is my favourite bear.

Whitby

After we had visited Goathland, we went on to Whitby.

It was a lovely day although it was cold and windy.

The famous Whitby Abbey is on the top of the hill.
We had to wait a while to cross the bridge to go to the old part of Whitby because a boat with a big mast wanted to go through.

Heartbeat

We recently had a trip to Whitby, on the way we stopped off at Goathland where the 60's hit tv program "Heartbeat" was recorded.

Above is the garage and below the Famous Aidensfield arms.

New Bears Available at "Hugglets Winter Bearfest"

Scarlet Sunset
16"(41cm) one-of-kind bear made from hand dyed long pile mohair in rainbow colours (peach, lemon & pink), filled with super polyester fibre and steel shot & pellets to give extra weight, with matching fuchsia ultra suede pads, black glass eyes, with a coral coloured embroidered nose. Fully jointed. Scarlet Sunset is completely hand sewn.

Evangeline
12"(31cm) one-of-kind bear made from hand dyed long pile silky alpaca in rainbow colours, filled with super polyester fibre and steel shot to give extra weight, with contrasting turquoise ultra suede pads, black glass eyes, with a pale pink coloured embroidered nose. Fully jointed. Evangeline is completely hand sewn.

Marcella Marriott
14"(36½cm) one-of-kind bear made from hand dyed mohair in rainbow colours, filled with super polyester fibre and pellets to give extra weight, with matching Fuchsia 100% wool felt pads, black glass eyes, with a multi coloured embroidered nose. Fully jointed. Marcella Marriott is completely hand sewn.

All these bears and more are on my preview page on the web site www.kmbears.com

Hugglets bear guide

The Hugglets guide is out now I have a small number available

The snow in January

This was the January snow in my garden
The ice was really bad, the road was like an ice skating rink



the canal was frozen almost completely, this was the only bit where the ducks could swim.

it was nice to walk along, but really cold.

the canal is on the left, completely frozen