This Bear Has a Twin

I thought it would be fun to take his picture against a background that matched him near-perfectly. This is why no one let me near a camera for years. At least I knew enough to take another picture with a better background...



This is the twin of the Baby Shower Bear, who will be living in Georgia. I originally knit this one to have a baby shower gift in reserve, but this bear apparently wants to go to school in Kansas, so he is off to sister K (who will be long done her unit on Teddy Bears by the time he arrives, but assures me that no one will mind).

Yarn: Dr. Jones leftovers
Pattern: out of a book I own, but interestingly online here as well

Meet Dr. Jones...

This is "Professor Rusty" from Beautiful Bears, Saprotex Design Studio, in "Aran Fleck" Red Heart, one skein (which I stole from my mom's sweater leftovers) plus one arm's worth of a second skein. The vest is Chocolate Simply Soft, the tie is some oddment, and the watch, the lovely watch, I bought online from Dolls and Lace at Ruby Lane.

He is a birthday/Christmas present for my Sean Connery loving sister, who was very patient with how long it took me. Not to knit him, that went fast, or to stuff and sew him up. No, it was learning to make movable joints, and that darned vest, which still isn't right (look closely - no buttons, and it curls like - well, like stockinette in acrylic). But she'd been waiting long enough, so he was delivered Christmas eve.