Beyond Bears: How to Draw, Design and Sew Your Own Stuffed Animals

by Jennifer Carson

Beyond Bears is the accumulation of knowledge from a 7-year journey of drawing, designing, producing magazine articles and sewing patterns of my own stuffed animals and creatures and now I'm showing you how to do it! Beyond Bears contains 76 pages of need to know information, illustrations, tips and great suppliers. Plus many full color photographs to inspire you. The book includes a CD with 6 never before published sewing designs to practice your new skills on. Patterns are full size. No need to enlarge! Just print the pages for the animal you want to make and you are on your way. The CD contains 6 soft animal patterns that are not available anywhere else, Grandall Gryphon, Russ's Tiger, Sandula the Elephant, Sunshine Dragon, Pearl the Piglet and Charley Chriacus.

82 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Jennifer Carson lives in Michigan with her husband, four sons and many four legged friends. She grew up on a steady diet of Muppet movies, and renaissance faires and would occasionally be caught reading under the blankets with a flashlight. Besides telling tales, Jennifer likes to create fantasy creatures and characters and publishes her own sewing patterns. Her artwork and patterns can be seen online at thedragoncharmer.com.

Jennifer’s work has been featured in national magazines like Cloth, Paper, Scissors, Faerie Magazine, Soft Dolls and Animals, and Dolls United. In the spring of 2008, Jennifer was featured on the ABC affiliate, WMUR tv show, New Hampshire Chronicle. Her sewing patterns have recently been translated in Dutch and in April 2009, she received the NE-SCBWI Ruth Landers Glass Scholarship for her writing.