Teddy bear pattern from fabric. How to sew a soft toy bear with your own hands

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Adorable teddy bears are no longer just a child's toy. Increasingly, they are sewn to decorate the interior or just for the soul. Cute bears made of faux fur, velvet, suede or fabric bring us back to childhood and give us unique emotions. It is especially pleasant that you can sew such a bear yourself, even if you have never held a needle and thread in your hands. And after sewing a couple of simple toys, be sure to try to take a more complicated pattern and you will surely get a unique bear.

Selection of materials

Sewing a teddy bear from fabric is much easier than from faux fur, since fur or other similar pile fabric (suede, velor) has a pile direction that must be taken into account when cutting.

Besides, these loose fabrics are just harder to work with. Therefore, we recommend that beginners try to sew a bear from ordinary thick cotton. Another great material is felt. It is also ideal for beginners assewing a bear out of felt is the easiest way. In other cases, take a fabric that imitates fur, which does not fray too much on the cut and does not stretch so that the toy does not deform when assembling parts. Consider recycling and scrapping things you don't need, like making a teddy bear out of jeans or an old sweater. Take the amount of fabric based on the size of the future product. For beginners, we recommend an average toy size of 20-25 centimeters - it will be easier to work with details and the amount of work will not be too large. Miniature toys are the most difficult to sew, so we advise you not to start with them.

Next, prepare the stuffing material. You can use a synthetic winterizer or holofiber for this, or even scraps of fabric, or you can fill the bear with granulate, sawdust, or even cotton wool. Such materials are often found in specialized shops for creativity.

In addition to fabric and padding, you will need threads, needles (even if you plan to use a sewing machine, all parts are sewn together by hand).

Details of the future bear

Next, think about how you will make a muzzle for the bear. The easiest way is to buy ready-made plastic nose and eyes and glue them on or draw on the eyes, nose and mouth with fabric markers. You can embroider a nose with threads, but for the most beautiful interior bears, you should look for hand-sewn glass eyes in needlework stores. Also for such bears, as well as for real Teddy bears, special articulated mounts will be required that allowhead and paws move.

And the last - decorative elements. You can do without them, but the bear will be much prettier if you add it with simple clothes or a ribbon around his neck.

The easiest fabric teddy bear

Even a child can handle this job, so you can safely sew a toy with your children. The fabric bear pattern can be hand-drawn by you, and you can draw as you like - a bear cub with long paws or a rounded plump bear with a big head or ears.

Fold the fabric in half with the design inside, place the pattern on top and circle with chalk or a fabric marker. Cut out two pieces at once and sew them on a typewriter or by hand, leaving a small opening for turning and stuffing. Turn the fabric inside out, stuff it well, not forgetting about the ears and paws, sew the hole with your hands. The bear is almost ready, it remains to draw a muzzle for him and decorate as fantasy tells.

Sock bear

A pair of woolen or knitted socks, naturally new, will make a very cute bear. A pattern is not needed, and the entire master class fits in one picture - cut out a head with ears from one end of the sock, a torso with lower paws from the other, cut out the upper paws from scraps, and an oval for the muzzle from the other sock. Next, you should sew a cut on the head between the ears, sew in the paws and fill the torso and head, connect them together and shape the muzzle. Funny bear is ready.

Tilda Bear

Another version of the popular toy is the Tilda-style bear. These are minimalistic textile toys whose body proportions are elongated and long. It is best to sew such a bear from bright cotton with a small original print.

So, the pattern of the bear from the fabric should be transferred to the fabric, folded in half. Next, cut out the pieces with a seam allowance. Sew each part of the toy, leaving a hole, and turn it right side out. Use a pencil or wooden stick to turn out the narrow parts of the paws. Stuff all the details and sew the holes with a blind stitch.

To connect the paws and the body, you can use buttons, then the paws can be moved. Gently sew the ears to the head and the head to the body. It is better to embroider the muzzle with threads - Tild's eyes are traditionally made using the French knot technique, and the nose and mouth can be embroidered with small stitches according to a pre-made pattern.

Teddy Bear

The pattern of this bear is perhaps the most difficult, as it requires a fabric that imitates fur and special paw attachments. So, in this case, the pattern is not transferred to the material folded in half, but two drawings of the details of the torso, head, ears and paws are made. Moreover, one detail of the pattern is located next to the other, but mirrored. This is necessary so that the pile of the fabric of the finished toy is directed in one direction. Cut out the details only with very sharp scissors so as not to damage the pile. ATdetails of the legs and torso, where they will be fastened together, make punctures for future hinges.

Also often, Teddy's feet, hands and the inside of the ear are made of a different material, such as leather, so they are cut out separately.

Then we do everything as usual - the bear pattern from the fabric must be cut, stitched, turned inside out and stuffed. It's time to insert the fasteners. These are cardboard discs with a hole in which a bolt, nut and 2 washers are inserted. A disk with a bolt is inserted into the paw through an unsewn hole, the fabric is sewn around the bolt that comes out. A disk is also placed in the body at the attachment point of this paw and its hole must be aligned with the hole previously made in the fabric. Next, attach the paw to the body so that the bolt from the paw enters the hole in the body and fasten the structure from the inside with a nut. Do the same with all the paws and head, and you can sew up all the remaining holes and form the muzzle.

To do this, with a needle with a thread and a knot tied at its end, pull the muzzle from the inside in the area of the eyes (to add volume to the eye sockets) and mouth (to form a smile of the bear). You can bring the thread out behind the ears. The drawstring allows you to create exactly the expression you want to give your toy.

Mishka Me to you

This charming bear is familiar to everyone from cute and touching postcards. These bears are distinguished by a gray-blue color, so choose a fabric that is close in color. They also have a specialmuzzle - it consists of two parts of a contrasting color and a blue nose. These details and the special fabric pattern of the bear make Me to you recognizable.

Please note that this bear must have feet made of suede or finely piled fabric. They are sewn in a circle after basting the part of the lower paw and only then stuffed.

Also featured is a large decorative patch made from the same companion material. A blue nose can be bought ready-made from plastic and glued to the muzzle. Otherwise, this toy is sewn in the same way as the Teddy bear, they may have the same pattern, but it can be assembled without hinges, but simply by sewing the parts together.

Polar bear

The pattern of this bear differs from the previous ones in that the polar bear will not sit, but stand on four legs.

In principle, the whole sewing process repeats the ones described earlier, the only caveat is to stuff the paws well and tightly so that your polar bear does not fall on its side, but stands well and firmly.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated about how to sew a bear out of fabric, no, the main thing is patience and accuracy, and you will succeed.