Meet the infamous Mutant Wobster Bear!

The story of the Mutant Wobster Bear is this: when I was first starting to sew a couple of years ago, I decided to make some stuffed animals. Of course, I wanted to start off by making a bear. However, I didn’t understand how darts worked, because I had never sewn anything that used them before. So I literally followed the pattern and this pink guy was the result. Because I didn’t know that darts were handled differently to achieve a rounded shape, this poor little guy ended up with a pointy stomach and back, and claw-like feet. Thus, he looked like a mutant bear/lobster hybrid.

I was going to take it apart and re-sew it properly, but my youngest daughter (who was 3) saw it and instantly fell in love with it so I let him survive. Because she couldn’t pronounce ‘L’ sounds, he became the ‘Mutant Wobster Bear’ and she carried him around like mad for about a year and a half.

He’s currently working as an intern for me at the office to provide demonstrations on what happens when you just follow instructions and don’t understand the context of them!

In the last few weeks, Mutant Wobster Bear has had some gene-spliced offspring and so will be the spokesmutant for a new shop I am going to open in the next few weeks called ‘Kaiju Creations.’ More on this in a later post!