This is Horace, my kite flying companion. Note his little box kite, it's kite bag, and the wooden kite line reel in his hand. Horace's kite really flies, and it's a hoot to put him in the middle of a field all alone and watch people notice the bear flying a kite! Horace is a 23" mohair bear.

I made this little guy for a lady in Tasmania whose husband was retiring from the RAF. He took jump school and made his qualifying jump before I sent him out.

Two mohair bears I made this summer. The first was traded for a Singer industrial sewing machine, the second is mine.

Close-up of the bear to the left.