Emma’s Bears – Lyric Teddy Bear Pattern

One Pattern, three different bears

Amazing Craft are delighted to bring you the fabulous Emma’s Bears Lyric teddy bear pattern.  This pattern has a very contemporary feel to it and has variations to enable you to make three different and delighful teddy bears.  All three bears stand an impressive 40cm (16″) tall and you can choose from the standard, full bear pattern, the cheek insert pattern or the panda version.  The bears are all fully jointed and can be made using either mohair, cotter pin joints, glass eyes or faux fur, safety joints & safety eyes.  This pattern is particularly suited to those who have made jointed teddy bears or toys before.

The pattern is also great for making a memory teddy bear out of sentimental fabrics (old baby dress, a favourite blanket etc).  Most fabrics can be used but, if you wish your bear to remain true to the pattern, a fabric with very little stretch (cotton, tweed etc) will work best.

Lyric Teddy Bear Pattern is supplied with full sized patterns, Emma’s Bears instructions plus two pages of additional helpful tips from Amazing Craft.  Amazing Craft also have toy making videos which may help when making these delightful bears.

Stitches used:-

.       Back stitch, Ladder stitch & Running stitch

 

Skills needed:- 

To complete this project, the maker will:

.       need to have some experience of making a jointed toy beforehand

.       need to be able to hand sew or be able to use a sewing machine.

 

Materials you will need to make the ‘Full’ Lyric bear:-

.       a 1/4m piece of fur fabric (a fat quarter).

.       a 20 x 15cm paw pad material (wool felt or fur fabric trimmed back both look good)

.       Cotton or polyester sewing thread to match your fabric

.       One pair of 12mm glass eyes or plastic safety eyes

.       Five 44mm cotter pin joints or 45mm plastic safety joints (one set)

.       2m of extra strong thread (used for inserting glass eyes and the head joint)

.       2m of thick thread for the nose (we used DMC Black Cotton Perle Size 5)

.       approx 250g polyfibre stuffing (depending on how firmly you stuff your bear)

.       Steel weighting or plastic pellets if you wish to weight your bear

 

Materials you will need to make the ‘Cheek Insert’ Lyric bear:-

.       a 1/4m piece of darker fur fabric (a fat quarter) and 1/8m piece of lighter fur fabric

.       a 20 x 15cm paw pad material (wool felt or fur fabric trimmed back both look good)

.       Cotton or polyester sewing thread to match your fabric

.       Five 44mm cotter pin joints or 45mm plastic safety joints (one set)

.       One pair of 16mm glass eyes or plastic safety eyes

.       2m of extra strong thread (used for inserting glass eyes and the head joint)

.       2m of thick thread for the nose (we used DMC Black Cotton Perle Size 5)

.       a 20 x 15cm piece of paw pad material (faux suede)

.       approx 250g polyfibre stuffing (depending on how firmly you stuff your bear)

.       Steel weighting or plastic pellets if you wish to weight your bear

 

Materials you will need to make the ‘Panda’ version bear:-

.      a 1/4m piece of darker fur fabric (a fat quarter) and 1/8m piece of lighter fur fabric

.      a 20 x 15cm paw pad material (wool felt or fur fabric trimmed back both look good)

.      Cotton or polyester sewing thread to match your fabric

.      Five 44mm cotter pin joints or 45mm plastic safety joints (one set)

.      One pair of 14mm glass eyes or plastic safety eyes

.      2m of extra strong thread (used for inserting glass eyes and the head joint)

.      2m of thick thread for the nose (we used DMC Black Cotton Perle Size 5)

.       a 20 x 15cm piece of paw pad material (faux suede)

.       approx 250g polyfibre stuffing (depending on how firmly you stuff your bear)

.       Steel weighting or plastic pellets if you wish to weight your bear

 

Equipment you will need to make your bears:-

.         A sewing needle (and a sewing machine if you don’t want to hand sew them)

.         A 12cm doll needle (to insert eyes & stitch nose & mouth)

.         Fabric scissors with a fine tip

.         Paper scissors

.         Tailor’s chalk, an air erasable fabric pen or a pencil

.         A stuffing tool, haemostats or a chopstick!

.         Long nosed or needle nosed pliers (if you are using cotter pin joints)