March already!?! Seriously?! Well, the good news is, it is time for the Beary Colourful Yellow Bear!

I am loving seeing all the bears appearing from in the Monthly Color Challenge link ups at Patterns by Jen. There are going to be some very happy teddy bear-loving quilt recipients out there in time! 🙂

The third bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt is the Yellow Bear of Being Active Outdoors. This bear is cheerful and energetic and is just itching to get out and have some fun. Grab this pattern and your yellow fabric scraps. Let’s add  a really lively bear to your Beary Colourful collection.

The Yellow Bear of Being Active Outside

March’s Yellow Teddy is a character. One of those likeable people who never sits still and makes you tired just watching them! He loves participating in activities and games. And if it is something new, that’s all the better! 

Yellow Bear knows that it is important to get out of doors regularly. Not just for fitness, but for good mental health too. It is not good to be shut up indoors all the time (even if you’re quilting!) and everyone needs their regular dose of vitamin D. Sometimes Yellow Bear chooses his activities for fitness, sometimes for social interaction, sometimes for the mental challenge, and sometimes purely for personal pleasure. Gentle or vigorous, 10 minutes or 10 hours, Yellow Bear loves his outdoors time.

Yellow Ted has a sunflower on his belly because sunflowers are bold and cheerful and do best outside just like him. And they know how important it is to get some natural sunlight. Afterall, they spend all day tracking the sun. 

But if you are making your bear quilt for someone who is really sporty, there is also the option to put a basketball on his tum. The ball is also your simple appliqué option for the month. If you don’t want to stitch the lines on the ball, draw them on with a fabric marker!

Download the Yellow 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!

The Yellow Bear pattern pieces are totally different to the two previous bears. Even parts that look the same have been resized to make this bear fit on the correct size quilt block. Therefore, the pattern pieces are not interchangeable in anyway with the blue or red bear. Please remember to keep all your bear patterns separate from one another!

What you will need to make the Yellow 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 12″ x 15″.
• Fusible paper-backed fabric adhesive (for example vliesofix). 15″ x 22″ will be ample for the yellow bear.  Make sure you trace the skipping rope first and place the smaller pieces around it for the best fit.
• Yellow fabric scraps for the main sections of the bear. The whole bear requires the equivalent of 10″ x 15″ of yellow fabric. But he is built from pieces, so you can use multiple smaller scraps if you wish. 
• 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, foot pad, inner ears, skipping rope and tummy motif appliqué shapes. 
• 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 

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How to make the Yellow Bear of Being Active Outdoors

The construction method and fusing order for the Yellow Bear is similar to the Red Bear. The general instructions can be found here in “How to Appliqué the Red Bear”. If you are interested in detailed instructions on how to construct the yellow bear, you can find them in the next post here.

The 2018 Monthly Color Challenge is going strong

Don’t forget that your Yellow Bear is eligible for entry into the March 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 there will be three lucky winners in the Yellow prize draw who will each win a 6-month subscription to Make Modern Magazine.

The Yellow Bear is also just one option in the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge. Five other bloggers are also here to help you with ideas for the March Yellow Challenge. They are:

Jen Shaffer at Patterns by Jen
Jen Strauser at the Dizzy Quilter
Sherry Shish at Powered by Quilting
Jen Rosin at A Dream and A Stitch
Nancy Scott at Masterpiece Quilting

I hope you will join in the yellow challenge with my bear pattern, or another project from our Color Challenge hop, or even your very own creation. I know yellow is generally not as popular as last month’s blue….. but it is called a Challenge, after all! Don’t be yellow, step up and show us what you’ve got this month!

Enjoy the yellow Color Challenge Blog Hop. I know I will!

P.S. Have you liked Clever Chameleon on Facebook? That is where you will get your first glimpses of the April’s Orange Bear and everything else I am working in between.

P.P.S. Sharing the Yellow Bear of Being Active Outside on all my favourite linkys as they open. Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Crazy Mom Quilts. Busy Hands Quilts, What a Hoot Quilts (TGIFF), Cooking Up Quilts, Love Laugh Quilt, Quilting Room with Mel, Freemotion by the River. Quilt Fabrication, Inquiring Quilter, Sew Fresh Quilts, My Quilt Infatuation.

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