Making a Teddy Bear

Saturdays, April 9 & 16 • 9am to 4pm • Course Cost $60.00
Materials Kit (Pay to instructor at first session) $45.00

You will be making this Teddy Bear with Margaret Potts of Works of Heart and the Simcoe County Teddy Bear Club, who specializes in romantic, one-of-a-kind bears, fully dressed in antique clothing, with all the trimmings.  This bear is totally jointed and we guarantee you’ll have fun with Margaret.

You will need to bring:
• Sewing machine – ball point or denim needle
• Sharp pointed scissors
• Needle nose pliers
• Happy Face
• Felt marker if you have one for marking the pattern
• Pins – long pins with ball tops are easier to use
• One bag of stuffing
• Regular Sewing Kit

Materials Kit
A kit with all the materials necessary will be available at the first session.  Cost is $45.

Instructor's Bio:
Margaret Potts has been a member of SCACA for over twenty years and was Craft Barn coordinator and worked on publicity for five years. Her love of crafts over the years led her on to make beautiful one-of-kind teddy bears
using mohair and collectible antique materials from England and other countries. Her bears have been sold to teddy bear collectors in England, the United States and the Bahamas.  Margaret has taught the art of making her own loveable teddy bear at different venues – the Simcoe County Museum, the Bala Art Group, Simcoe County Teddy Bear Club and Wasaga Beach craft group and now for the Simcoe County Arts and Crafts Association. Margaret’s bear was selected as a prize for the Simcoe County Arts and Crafts Quilt, Rug and Craft Fair. She is a member of the Simcoe County Teddy Bear Club.
SHOWS:   Christmas at the Museum (where she won Best of Show Award in 2009), Midhurst Arts and Crafts Home Tour, Simply Friends in Orangeville, The Hug-In Teddy Bear Show in Toronto and the Victorian Christmas in Penetanguishene.