Making teddy bears is a hobby that I discovered in the autumn of 2005 and since then I've been trying to learn everything about this creative craft. I have gotten so much positive feedback from people around the world and I'm so happy that people have opened their hearts and homes for my bears!
 
To make teddy bears is a rewarding hobby where you get to use your fantasies to create a whole new personality, because every new bear you make is unique, even if you use the same pattern or the same fabric.
It's great to see the result of the work you put in when the resulting teddy bear is produced, so it's always with a sting in your heart that you give away your bears for adoption.
 
How my bears get their names is a process that goes on during making. It's easy to have a sketch on paper or a picture in your head of what you want your bear to look like, but more often than not your bear turns out to be the opposite. So you never know before hand what personality your bear will get.
 
I was born as a "pottering person". For those who don't know what that is, well, a "pottering person"...
 
...would rather stay home on a friday night, trying to come up with ten new ways to use an old sweater.

...collects cans, plastic things, wooden bits, string, metal corks.... just incase they'll be needed in a future project.
 
...cuts a sheet in to pieces and makes a doggy bed, two pot-holders, a teddybear, a bag and uses the rest of the sheet to weave a carpet.

See more of Jennie's work at TeddyBears Sweden