You people do realize what a terrible evil bunch you are, don't you? There I was, taking a quick little peek on what you can see without signing in, as one does on occasion and
I got suckered in and I noticed this thread. This was a day or two after it started. Well. I found books, many, on bears at resellers and two on miniature bears are due to arrive- today!
whee. Lovely place, Thriftbooks, free shipping with a $15 order so I needed (haha) to add a book on watercolor painting.
Hmm. You lot don't know that my mom was a "professional" bear maker back in the day and did restoration on very old bears. I might have one bear she made, they sold fast. I know I have hardware, noses, glass eyes, joints etc for bigger bears but heaven knows where. The fur fabric alas all went shortly after she did.
As a little tip, my late friend Celia was an extraordinary cloth doll maker, including lots of very small dolls. She taught me a nice trick I'll share. If any of you do really small bears or dolls from regular fabrics or very low pile, like ultra suede, you can machine sew any mirrored parts by transferring half the pattern pieces to part of the fabric, placing two layers faced together and sewing them BEFORE you cut them out. A single hole needle plate is helpful if you are really close to any fabric edges, otherwise a regular zigzag plate is fine. Only hand sew what you have to hand sew unless you really like doing it.
I'm not sure how much I'll accomplish but I do have books to look at.