Agree with everyone about using old clothes. Do you have a store called C & H fabrics near you......they always have a remnants table whether its for dress fabric or curtain fabric.
Your right of course Dorset UK. I certainly can't justify the price of them. However its also about the experience of designing/building your bear. I was given mine by my family who live about 500 miles away. I'm not sure why they thought I would want one. They got together and managed not to kill one another whilst they decided on which bear. My mum and sisters selected the clothes it's wearing, a full Highland dress outfit as I live in Scotland . The children took in turns to stuff it. My brother recorded the message. They were debating a name when someone spotted a truck with the name William followed by our family name. That's the name on the "birth certificate". They all said they had a great time getting together making it. It's all the more special because they put so much thought into it. They always seek him out when they come to stay.
Oh my...DorsetUK and Lunaria...I only have one grandaughter and it's unlikely I will have any more grandchildren. So from me she gets everything I can give her and the first things she got from me was the bear (whose name is "Beau" ...Beau and I'm not kidding he really is called "Beau Bear" ) and a white gold necklace with a sapphire pendant, as the sapphire is her birthstone.
The beauty about grandchildren is....you can spoil them rotten and not having to think about the disciplining bit and I thoroughly enjoy that. No matter what I do, I'll never be in Ellie's 'bad book' that's for mum and dad to enter lol
Thank you Lunaria . My little grandaughter has recently found my old ballgowns (her paternal grandfather was a serving soldier for over 20 years) and she LOVED them and I helped her trying one on and she went: "Hmpf...too big" She's only two and half years old. My son couldn't believe it, as I always told him: "No hands, no touching, no ruffling my hair" when I said good night to him before we went to dinner night. He now suspects that my Ellie is allowed to wear my ballgowns just to run through the garden with bear feet...and I tell you what...he's spot on correct
Nothing wrong with spoiling grandchildren to some extent . I've four grandsons and I love them dearly. One incident shocked me rigid though some years ago now. I was babysitting the two now eldest. My opposite number came up the garden path and the boys rushed to the door and leapt on her with glad cries. Oh dear, she said, I haven't any sweeties. They went back to what they were doing before without another word.
Sounds to me as the boys have been conditioned to sweets. I don't do the sweety treatment. I haven't done on my only son and I certainly won't do that to my grandaughter. My grandaughter runs to me because she knows I bring a large book filled with fairytales and read from it to her and when she's at my house, I sit with her on my lap in armchair and read to her. Last time she visited me she was full of cold and I covered her in a blanket I had knitted for myself, but when mum and dad picked her up she didn't want to let go of it. But hey...I'm only 50 and if find the money I'll teach her skying in the Switzerland
It's true , I've been pulled up by both my daughter and son for letting Elle dress up in my wedding dress and loads of other things . I don't do sweeties as daughter is not in the best of health and must have healthy eating foods . So we leave the treats to mummy to give .Elle loves her fruit so her treats are when i buy craft items for her and her brother.the time spent with them means more than a bag of sweeties and they never want to go home .this tells me enough when there other grandma goes and takes in the big bag of sweets ( who always says well they did me no harm)the children give sweets to mummy and go back up stairs to play . Where as when we go I'm asked " what are we going to do grandma ? I go home jiggered ...... but happy !
Granma...my little grandaughter lives less than 10 minutes walking away from me. I see her less often than you may think. My son's and his family have to live their own life. I am there when I am needed. To read fairytales from of my very old fairytale books e.g.
I think it safe to say that being a grandmother when the son is the maker of the grandchild...it's different as to being the grandmother of a daughter's child and I can live with that
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Agree with everyone about using old clothes. Do you have a store called C & H fabrics near you......they always have a remnants table whether its for dress fabric or curtain fabric.
Happy sewing granma.......any pics
Your right of course Dorset UK. I certainly can't justify the price of them. However its also about the experience of designing/building your bear. I was given mine by my family who live about 500 miles away. I'm not sure why they thought I would want one. They got together and managed not to kill one another whilst they decided on which bear. My mum and sisters selected the clothes it's wearing, a full Highland dress outfit as I live in Scotland . The children took in turns to stuff it. My brother recorded the message. They were debating a name when someone spotted a truck with the name William followed by our family name. That's the name on the "birth certificate". They all said they had a great time getting together making it. It's all the more special because they put so much thought into it. They always seek him out when they come to stay.
Oh my...DorsetUK and Lunaria...I only have one grandaughter and it's unlikely I will have any more grandchildren. So from me she gets everything I can give her and the first things she got from me was the bear (whose name is "Beau"
...Beau
and I'm not kidding he really is called "Beau Bear" 
) and a white gold necklace with a sapphire pendant, as the sapphire is her birthstone.
The beauty about grandchildren is....you can spoil them rotten and not having to think about the disciplining bit
and I thoroughly enjoy that. No matter what I do, I'll never be in Ellie's 'bad book' 
that's for mum and dad to enter lol 
I'm like that with my niece. You spoil away willow that's what what grans are for.
Thank you Lunaria
. My little grandaughter has recently found my old ballgowns (her paternal grandfather was a serving soldier for over 20 years) and she LOVED them and I helped her trying one on and she went: "Hmpf...too big" She's only two and half years old. My son couldn't believe it, as I always told him: "No hands, no touching, no ruffling my hair" when I said good night to him before we went to dinner night. He now suspects that my Ellie is allowed to wear my ballgowns just to run through the garden with bear feet...and I tell you what...he's spot on correct
Nothing wrong with spoiling grandchildren to some extent . I've four grandsons and I love them dearly. One incident shocked me rigid though some years ago now. I was babysitting the two now eldest. My opposite number came up the garden path and the boys rushed to the door and leapt on her with glad cries. Oh dear, she said, I haven't any sweeties. They went back to what they were doing before without another word.
Sounds to me as the boys have been conditioned to sweets
. I don't do the sweety treatment. I haven't done on my only son and I certainly won't do that to my grandaughter. My grandaughter runs to me because she knows I bring a large book filled with fairytales and read from it to her and when she's at my house, I sit with her on my lap in armchair and read to her. Last time she visited me she was full of cold and I covered her in a blanket I had knitted for myself, but when mum and dad picked her up she didn't want to let go of it. But hey...I'm only 50
and if find the money I'll teach her skying in the Switzerland
It's true , I've been pulled up by both my daughter and son for letting Elle dress up in my wedding dress and loads of other things . I don't do sweeties as daughter is not in the best of health and must have healthy eating foods . So we leave the treats to mummy to give .Elle loves her fruit so her treats are when i buy craft items for her and her brother.the time spent with them means more than a bag of sweeties and they never want to go home .this tells me enough when there other grandma goes and takes in the big bag of sweets ( who always says well they did me no harm)the children give sweets to mummy and go back up stairs to play . Where as when we go I'm asked " what are we going to do grandma ? I go home jiggered ...... but happy !
Granma...my little grandaughter lives less than 10 minutes walking away from me. I see her less often than you may think. My son's and his family have to live their own life. I am there when I am needed. To read fairytales from of my very old fairytale books e.g.
I think it safe to say that being a grandmother when the son is the maker of the grandchild...it's different as to being the grandmother of a daughter's child and I can live with that