Purling Antonia

Saturday, May 21, 2016

And even more Bears from the Long Pause

Bear 449 - Annemarie (she was left out of the last post)

and ... Bear 454 - Slinky (whom I crocheted)

... And now the ten Ellen Bears 450 to 460 - minus Slinky - to honor Ellen Cosby or, as she was known on Ravelry "Ellsby2"

More Bears from the Long Pause

Bear 427 - Julian

Bear 428 - Malcolm

Bear 429 - Suu

Bear 430 - Maya

Bear 431 - Rolihlahla

Bear 432 - Rastaman

Bear 433 - Bunt

Bear 434 - Angela

Bear 435 - Angela

Bear 436 - Harry

Bear 437 - Ginger

Bear 438 - Brad

Bear 439 - Cookie

Bear 444 - Cutter

Bear 443 Do

Bear 440 - Hermann

Bear 441 - Johanna

Bear 442 - Orhan

Bear 446 - Maria

Bear 447 - Ebenezer

Bear 448 - Tabitha

Bear 445 - Emily

Long Pause and Plenty of Bears

It has been quite some time since I posted last. I have knitted many bears and other things which have not been recorded here.
So, for now, I just want to catch up with photos, before I write again.
Bear 412 was the last one I showed; he was the last of a group of bears I gave Syrian names to honor little Alan Kurdi who drowned at the edge of the Mediterranean.

The next group, #413 to #421, I named "Body and Soul Mates."
Bears 422 to 436 are grouped into "Life isn't just Black and White."
Some after this were called "Ginger Bread," followed by bears with literary names, and ten bears named Ellen honoring a Ravelry friend, Ellen Cosby, who passed away. The rest is named after people in the Andrews family. My sister-in-law, Pat Andrews, is sponsoring all my bears from now on and I wanted her to explore the family tree for a while.

My goal for this year is to have Bear 500 ready by Christmas.

And here they are, the bears made since October 2015, the bears that saw the decline of my health, my use of a cane, and my dogged insistence that life is still good and bears bring joy to me and the children who will befriend them.

Bear 413 - Corey

Bear 414 - Cami

Bear 415 - Cindy

Bear 416 - Colette

Bear 417 - Clayton

Bear 418 - Carol

Bear 419 - Cleo

Bear 420 - Candy

Bear 421 - Clara

Bear 422 - Martin

Bear 423 - Jürgen

Bear 424 - Malala

Bear 425 - Desmond

Bear 426 - Weiwei

To be continued .....

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

The Baby Bears

These bears were knitted after I saw the image of Aylan Kurdi, a little boy from Syria, who lost his little life because of the ugly in the world, and this does not leave my mind or my heart.