Working on Christmas Bears

I'm still going on these cute little bears although I am getting other things done at the same time. I finished a LCR cable knit Christmas sweater that I started several days ago.  I only have six more blocks to go to finish up my granny square lapghan and I'm going to be making some ear warmers, hats and scarves on my Innovations machine soon. I'm running out of brown fleck yarn so I need to get some more of that.

The Christmas bears I'm working on now look a little different from the original pastel bears because I'm always trying to improve and make changes to them. I have used knitted sweater pieces for some of the neck scarves. They are beautiful fibers that come from pre-made sweaters.

What? Yes, and if I can't unravel them to re-use the yarn then I cut them up in scarf pieces for my bears. Some of these knits are made with beautiful yarn that I can't find in the stores any more. I like sparkly, sequined and fuzzy textured yarn. 

I have also come up with some instructions for adding pants to the bears although I like them just fine without pants. To add pants to a bear - on the body section knit 12 rounds in pants color, 46 rounds in bear color and the last 12 rounds in pants color instead of 70 rounds in one color. Mark the 35th round for the middle. And on the legs knit 9 rounds in pants color and 4 rounds in bear color for each leg.