Sewnoma

Thanks Miriam! I found a Google image of it, they're cute but that's not quite the type of bear I have in mind - that looks a lot like the type of stuffie I make when I make my own "patterns" (using the term very loosely), and I want something that looks more like the bears she has in her collection. I want a "snouty-face" bear, if that makes sense....?

I picked up a Simplicity pattern on my way home from work yesterday. I cut the pieces out this morning...it doesn't look too hard. It looks like the same one that IrishgalfromNJ posted - different picture but same bunny, dog, bear set of critters. (It's downstairs and I'm too lazy to go get it to compare the numbers.) I'll make one in muslin and see how I like it, it's face might still be too rounded off for what I want to make. I am getting a feeling that the type of face I want is not found on beginner patterns, but maybe I can cobble something together. And I wish the ears sat in differently too. I might need to give up the "easy pattern" idea if I want to make what I have in my head.

Store-bought patterns confuse me, for some reason, and I read the entire pattern and I generally think I'm pretty smart so it annoys the crap out of me that I am still lost. I don't speak the language and the way they describe things and the things they leave out don't make sense to me - I get all turned around. Even this simple one has some details that are a little perplexing but I figure they're not critical - or I'll find that out when I make my muslin bear! Oh well, no time like the present to learn something new, right? LOL