Beary Colourful BOM: Taking Time Out Teal Bear

Today we meet the most chilled out bear of the Beary Colourful family. Please welcome the blue-green Teal Bear of Taking Time Out!

Teal Bear is ready for a holiday. Or a weekend of leisure. Or even just a few hours of unbooked time. He loves taking time out of his busy schedule to smell the roses or shoot the breeze. Today he is in the mood to head down the beach without any particular plan….. build a sand castle, collect some shells, have a paddle, or maybe just get some sand between his toes. Uncomplicated time with a few friends or family, or even  some relaxed alone time.

Please welcome the very refreshing Novem-Bear of Taking Time Out to the Beary Colourful family. His blue-green colours are of the revitalising and invigorating powers of water and recreation. Beaches, lakes, rivers – they all have a powerful attraction for people needing some time away from it all.

The eleventh bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt BOM series is adamant that you need to take a breather occasionally. Add this relaxed bear to your collection as an encouragement to find some restoration time. And then go check out the rest of the 2018 Color Challenge posts for other ideas of how to celebrate blue-green colours and enter for November’s Monthly Color Challenge prize. And scroll right to the end of the post to find out about two little prizes to be won right here on Clever Chameleon.

 

The Teal Bear of Taking Time Out

The Teal Bear is representative of all the calm spaces we carve out, or should carve out, in our hectic lives. Breaks don’t have to be long or expensive to be effective… a pleasant walk or reading a good book can make all the difference  to our state of mind. For me, nature is generally the best restorer, and I look forward to breaks spent in quiet natural spaces.

Teal Ted has a sandcastle on his tummy to celebrate time spent in rest and recreation. Creativity with no consideration of perfection or permanence. Sandcastles are very “in the now”. We know they won’t last until tomorrow and must be enjoyed as they are at the time that they are made. This motif has a few small pieces, but they can be ignored if you want a simpler project. It is not compulsory to add decoration or windows to your sandcastle! Or if you’d rather, swap the sandcastle out entirely for a beach themed fabric on the tummy panel. After all, quilting is supposed to be relaxing.

On the other hand,  if you’re feeling like a challenge, design your own sandcastle. If you can fit in the space provided, Teal Ted could have an entire sand citadel on his front!

Download the Teal Bear pdf pattern

Sorry this free pattern download has expired…. it will be available for purchase in due course. Perhaps you would like to join the free 2019 Love with a Twist BOM here instead!

What you will need to make the Teal Bear block

• • Fabric for the background of the block. Each bear block will require a base fabric square of at least 13.5″ by 17″ to allow leeway for trimming. 
  • Thin batting for the trapunto layer if you wish to do the trapunto step. I use a polyester batting of 1/8th inch loft. You will need approximately 11″ x 15″.
  • Fusible paper-backed fabric adhesive (for example vliesofix). This bear needs more than most: 15″ x 12″ will be required for the Teal bear. 
  • Teal fabric scraps for the main sections of the bear. The whole bear requires the equivalent of 9″ x 12″ of teal fabric. But he is built from pieces, so you can use multiple smaller scraps if you need.
  • White/light colour fabric scraps for the muzzle and tummy,  5″ x 8″. Or 10″ x 8″ if shadowing bothers you and you’d like to make the white components double layered (see the Red Bear post for a more detailed discussion of the shadowing problem). 
  • Various coloured small fabric scraps for eyes, nose, mouth, inner ears, bucket, spade and sandcastle.
  • Machine embroidery or sewing threads to match your appliqué fabrics.
  • General tools: sewing machine, iron etc, teflon ironing sheet or baking (parchment)  paper, small sharp scissors, pencil, chalk/washout fabric marker, quilting pins, black permanent acid-free marker.
  • Optional but helpful: curved blade embroidery snips 

(Note: these last two are affiliate links. I am proud to show you the tools that I use. If you purchase through an affiliate link it will not cost you any extra but I may earn a small commission for the referral).

How to make the Taking Time Out Teal Bear

Step 1

Start by laying a piece of parchment (baking) paper over the supplied appliqué layout template.

Tack down the legs, right arm and outer ears onto the parchment paper with a hot iron.

Step 2

Add the feet, outer tummy, spade and inner ears. You can position the spade, waving in the air like my son would do in excitement. Or you can rotate it to be facing downwards, the way it should be used!

Step 3

Add the inner tummy panel, the hand, the main part of the bucket and the head.

Step 4

Add the muzzle, the inner top part of the bucket, and the top tier of the sand castle.

Step 5

Add the mouth, nose, whites of the eyes, and the main section of the sandcastle.

Step 6

Finish off all the details…. the irises, the flag, the doors and windows of the sandcastle and the bucket handle. If these details are too small for your chosen method of appliqué, embroider them in instead. In particular, the bucket handle is not suitable for turned appliqué but can be done with fused appliqué (pictured, embroidered on or embellished with ribbon or yarn).

That’s it. Give your appliqué a good press and carefully transfer it to your background fabric

Secure the edges of your appliqué using your favourite method. Don’t forget to stitch in the facial details and the stick for the flag.

The free bears have expired, but the information is still available for those who followed along in 2018.

Information about all the bear patterns can be found at these links:
January – Red Bear of New Beginnings
February – Blue Bear of High Hopes
March – Yellow Bear of Being Active Outside
April – Orange Bear of Positive Attitude
May – Green Bear of Always Learning
June – Purple Bear of A Little Bit Silly
July – Yellow-Green Bear of Always Growing
August – Yellow-Orange Bear of Loving Friends
September – Red-Violet Bear of Healthy Choices 
October – Blue-Violet Bear of Special Treats
November – Green-Blue Bear of Taking Time Out
December – Black and White Bear of Making Music

This is our quilt plan so far… actually, we have only one bear to go! The last “colour” in the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge is “black and white”:. No prizes for guessing the species identity of a black and white bear…. but what will he be doing?!

Link up for your chance to win

Don’t forget that your Teal Bear is eligible for entry into the November Color Challenge link up at the end of the month. The link up happens at Patterns by Jen in the last week of each month. This month the prize for one lucky teal quilter is a fat quarter pack from the Haiku 2 collection  from Monaluna organic fabrics.  All link ups also receive an entry into the grand prize draw of quilting services by Jen of Dizzy Quilter.

Comment for another chance to win

On top of the monthly prize for the blue-green link up at Patterns by Jen, I am offering my own little giveaway. For reasons previously confessed, I have two sets of spare bear parts that I don’t need. One set in the dark teal feather batik and another set in the lighter blue-teal hand dyed fabric. The only catch is that these pieces are reversed relative to the pattern I have released. There is no reason why this matters, a left handed bear is still as much a bear as a right handed bear. I will throw in the other required pieces and a reversed layout template to make your life easy in putting together a reversed bear.

All you need do to be in the running to win a set of teal bear parts is comment and tell me what you like to do to take time out. The two comments that make me feel most refreshed will be offered the pre-cut bears. Backing fabric and other notions required are not included. Entries valid worldwide unless prohibited in your jurisdiction. Entries close Wednesday 7th November 2018.

And remember, the Teal Bear is just one option for November in the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge. Four other bloggers are also here to help you with ideas for the November Teal Challenge. They are:

Jen Shaffer at Patterns by Jen
Jen Strauser at Dizzy Quilter
Sherry Shish at Powered by Quilting
Nancy Scott at Masterpiece Quilting

Hope to see you at the link up at Patterns by Jen at the end of the month.

And to hear from you in the meantime!

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