The ONLY Time I Used Doll Joints For Arms/Legs

 

 

You would not believe how hard it is to use large doll joints on a large teddy bear.  The arms and legs have to be stuffed really firm or the whole thing flops really badly on the body.  I did this bear up with one for the neck and one on each of the arms and legs. It was one of the only commercial patterns I'd bought. I make all my own patterns usually.

 

Well, he did sell, I only made one since it took almost a full yard of fake fur, 7 pounds of stuffing and I had to price it fairly high (fake fur that long was $20 a yard at the time, it's almost double that now). 

 

Everything else I make now has fixed legs on, no articulation.  Well, maybe wired wings on some of the dragons, but really not anything else.