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My daughter Loves Jack & Sally from the movie… She collects the character items… I decided to make her the pair as bears a couple Christmas Holidays ago… I started with a basic teddy bear pattern from Simplicity.
I chose this pattern because it had a dress, jacket and overalls that I could alter to suit my design…
I then chose my fabrics, using a soft plush fleece for the bear bodies… red felt for her hair, black & white fleece for eyes, and a variation of a pinstripe for the tux...
I cut out the bears…White fleece for him, light blue fleece for her...
I did the “stitches” on Sally embroidering them by hand, on the arms, legs, chest, and face, and on Jack’s face… then added the eyes… His were buttons, hers were felt..
Then, attached the heads, legs, and arms to the bodies…
For Sally, I added a heart shaped button to her lip line… I added the red felt as her hair…
After the bears themselves were completed, I started on their clothes…
For Sally, I pieced together in scrap piecing fashion enough pieces to be large enough to cut our her dress… added the yoke and straps...
I left the hem unfinished, closed the dress with hooks & eyes...
I then moved on to the tux…
the pattern was for a pair of shorts overalls…
I measured the bear’s inseam and added 6 inches to the legs…
For the jacket, I added length and points to the tail of the tux…
The original was not lined, but it really needed a lining, so I used the cut pieces to cut out a lining… After sewing, I was pleased with the sharp points and side split…
Since there was no bat bow tie, I hand sketched one, then cut it out…
From there, I embroidered the eyes, stitched it, turned it, and top stitched it… I added a neck band to hold it in place with a hook & eye…
Putting it all together…
Disney makes packets of buttons, so I bought one and added Zero the Ghost Dog to Jack’s lapel...
Then, I decided to make a Zero for her Jan 1st birthday… Again, I sketched out the head and ears… Cut it from the white plush fleece... I then used black fleece for the eyes and mouth and hand stitched them on…
I used wire wrapped with batting to make posing the ears posable…
I cut a slit in the best place, and stitched the head to the fabric body...Added a neck ribbon collar, and I took 2 pumpkin shank buttons, cut off the shanks, then glued them together...I used the thin air space to loop the thread thru, and stitched the “pumpkin” to his nose…
I wrapped them, and she got the bears for Christmas, and Zero for her birthday…
She loved them… Took me 3 months to make them, and the hand stitching was difficult on my hands at times… But it was worth it...