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About Patti Dover

and her

wonderful

Custom Teddy Bears

 

 
I'd like to take just a moment to share with you the history behind these bears and the reason for their being.    
 

Think back to that fateful day in September of 2001 when we witnessed terrorists flying airplanes through the World Trade towers.  I can remember thinking that it couldn't possibly be real.

Then at the same time knowing that it was and that life as we knew it would never be the same. For days I sat, with the rest of the country, glued to my television set. What would all of this mean?

 

I just wanted to gather my family in around me and lock the doors and pull the drapes to the outside and insecure world. Experts came on and started saying that it wasn't healthy to watch the TV around the clock and to force ourselves to take time away.

Well, in the "time away" my
bears were born.

 

  
 

 I started thinking about simpler times. Summers playing in the ditch that ran beside our old brick house. My grandmothers attic. What kind of treasures would I find if I rummaged through that old dusty steamer trunk in the corner. I read a book once about the pioneers and how money was very scarce if not completely nonexistent.

The girls in the book were preparing for a cotillion and they
desperately wanted new dresses to wear. Their ever resourceful mother used the canvas off their covered wagon and her skill with a needle and thread to make them. What a clever idea. Canvas and embroidery thread. Canvas is obviously a little stiff to sew on however, one of my favorite fabrics to use has always been the very versatile muslin. I love to tea dye it and stain it with Kool-Aid and every color of thread looks good on it. I have also been drawn to the idea of crazy quilts. But, a quilt is a pretty big commitment...

Hence the birth of my "antique", crazy quilt, muslin teddy bears!

     Take a tour of my site and let it take you back to your grandma's attic and enjoy the treasures you can find awaiting you there. It is all still a work in progress and I hope you will enjoy your tour as much as I have enjoyed preparing it for you!

 Love, Patti

 

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