Anna Utrobina has been collecting teddy bears since 2014. On her YouTube channel, the craftswoman shares her knowledge and secrets with those who want to learn this art.
About Lead Channel
Teddy Bear Anna Utrobina “I have been creating teddy bears since 2014. I love this occupation and devote all my free time to it. My bears live in private collections in many cities of Russia,” Anna Utrobina writes about herself. “As soon as I saw teddy bears, I fell in love forever of them, now all my work is dedicated only to them. Every teddy bear contains all my skill and ability, as well as a piece of my soul and the warmth of my heart. " Anna comes up with bears and develops patterns for them herself. She shares knowledge with the audience of her channel, recording training videos and organizing joint sewing of teddy bears.
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What is this channel about
Anna Utrobina’s channel is dedicated to the basics of making teddy bears. About them - a little more.
Teddy bears are a special kind of toy that stands out even among the author’s products created by craftsmen manually. Often such bears are made in a single copy, and if repeated, then in a very small print run. Bears are sewn from special, often vintage materials, processing them in different ways to give the toy realism and uniqueness.They are also stuffed with special fillers (for example, sawdust) - such bears have weight and are pleasantly in their hands, unlike those filled with padding polyester. The paws and the bear’s head are secured with cotter pins, so he can stand, sit, turn his head, raise and lower the paws. A master can work on one instance for quite some time, thinking over and supplementing the smallest details of the bear’s “appearance”, endowing it with character and history. Teddy bears are often purchased not as toys, but as collectibles, especially since their price is sometimes one, or even several orders of magnitude higher than the cost of bears sewn at the factory.
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Creating such bears is a more complicated process than making a regular toy. A teddy master needs to be able to design his own patterns, select (and find) materials, packing, accessories, assemble a toy in a special way, and then process a finished bear, for example, specially aging it or coloring some details. All this, Anna Utrobina teaches the audience of her channel.
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Who will be interested in this channel
Anna's channel - for those who are interested in teddy bears, collect them, sew or intend to start creating. In various videos, Anna talks about where to buy and how to choose materials for bears, how to change a finished pattern or make her own, step by step explains and shows the different stages of work on making a bear.Those who wish can join the "joint sewing" of bears organized by Anna: all participants receive a selection of classic patterns and a video master class, can communicate with each other during the work, and based on the results, questions that arose during the creation are analyzed and the prize draw is drawn.
Teddy Bear Anna Utrobina
