BearyAnn Crafts

I have started so many projects this week and laid them down, I don’t know where they are. I have had some focus problems this week. Yep, that describes me this week. I added a ClosetMaid cubby shelving unit to my craft room hoping to continue in its progress. I did get a couple of [...]

It’s been a busy week. I committed to spend last weekend making a couple of small bears for someone and also to test a teddy bear pattern for a designer. Here is a look at the finished projects. Panda and Teddy are approximately 6 inches tall. This “Gift Bear” holds a gift card in the [...]

I have a number of items I have made over the past few months.  I am posting some of these in my Etsy shop. If you’d like to offer up a handmade gift to someone your list, browse through my store.  If you like what you see but want to customize an item, click on [...]

We did it!  As of midnight, August 31 there are 26 followers of my Facebook page.  As promised in a post earlier this month, I have a teddy bear that I knitted to give to one lucky follower. Donna Cambre, congratulations.  Please contact me via email (  bearyann at gmail dot com – use the [...]

I want to organize my craft area.  Currently it is spread throughout the house.  I have so many works in process that I don’t know what I have on the hooks and needles any more. So I started to go through all the various boxes, totes, shopping bags and drawers. Here are a few of [...]

I posted a story in September 2007 about how I knitted from my favorite teddy bear.  Her name is "Aunt Purl". She has had some wonderful adventures. Check back on earlier posts (enter PURL in the searchbox above). Recently I was asked about her pattern.  I posted a link to the pattern but it has [...]

I had this idea in January. "If I start Christmas projects now I will be ready and won’t have to rush through gifts next Christmas". Thanksgiving has come and gone, December is a couple days away, and here I am, rushing to make Christmas gifts. Last year I made towel toppers and dishcloths for several [...]

I have been trying to use up some of my stash. I don’t have large amounts of similar yarns, but I have too much to just throw out. And when the house has yarn strewn  throughout, like an overgrown garden vine, my husband gives me that look of questioning my sanity when I say need [...]

I was asked to try to make a bear look like Betty Boop. I didn’t quite get the Betty Boop look but I did come up with a “flapper girl’” look. (That’s what my husband calls her) With a knitted low cut dress and and crocheted garter belt, she got started. I made up a [...]

I have been recovering from surgery the past several weeks. So to keep my mind and hands busy I have been knitting bears. Two bears are currently looking for new homes and are posted on an online handmade webstore called “Etsy”.       These bears may be seen on my etsy page.