This week I’m going to talk about the stuffing that we put inside our teddy bears.
Author: Laura Lynn
Rice as a Tool for Teddy Bear Making
In this week’s free video I will show you how rice can help you with your bear making. And NO, I do NOT mean that you should put rice in your bears!
Quite often when you are doing handwork, your hands, they get sore. One way to help alleviate the soreness and stiffness of your hands is to take a bowl of rice. Put it in the microwave. I usually put that much rice in my microwave for about a minute.
Now the rice is nice and warm. Just stick your hand right down in the rice. It will feel really good.
You don’t want to make the rice too hot because you don’t want to burn your hand. For me I found this much rice in my microwave gets to the right temperature in about a minute. Give your hands this treatment and you’ll be ready to sew again!
When you are done with the rice, save it to use it again. What I do is I pour it into a gallon size plastic bag and I do mark it “For Hands”, so I don’t use it to make dinner.
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3 of My Favorite Bear Making Tools
Hi it’s Laura Lynn from TeddyBearAcademy.net where you can take teddy bear making classes from the comfort of your own home. In this week’s free video I will show you three of my favorite teddy bear making tools.
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Finding Time to Make Teddy Bears
I don’t know about you, but I used to have a hard time finding time to make teddy bears. Back in 2000 I was 
working a full time job, taking care of a home and my family including 2 dogs! I loved making teddy bears, but just couldn’t find the time to do it.
Then I started trying to figure out how to work bear making into my busy life.
I had a craft tray from somewhere that worked very well as a place to hold my bear making things on my lap. (There are some craft trays on Amazon here.) Sometimes I needed extra light, and found these book lights by UltraBright worked very well! They are LED and very bright. I needed the freedom of no cords and these work on 3 AA batteries.
I started working on bears while relaxing with my family in the evenings. I put my supplies, tools and tray in a tote bag and would bring it to work so I could work on bears at lunch. If I had a doctor’s appointment, or if I had to take my daughter somewhere for extracurricular activities, I’d work on bears while I waiting. Soon, I was finishing bears!
I hope this helps you with finding time to work on your bear making. Stay tuned for more helpful hints!