Bear Toy / PDF Pattern and Sewing Tutorial

Polina Teddy

Not as simple as it looks! I am a reasonably experienced seamstress, but still found this quite fiddly, particularly fitting the head without it being too gathered. Next time I might enlarge the pattern a bit. Also I cannot upload the finished picture as a JPEG to show you!

Bear Toy / PDF Pattern and Sewing Tutorial

Cute bear, instructions not intuitive

I’ve been sewing for years and I had to recut and redo multiple steps for this bear. Some pieces are meant to be cut along the line and others stitched. I remade the head twice and could never get the pieces to line up properly. I also had a hard time printing it to scale as the pattern extends beyond typical print borders. Printed it at 90% and it still cut off the edges of some pieces. The pattern could use more instructions and markings to make the whole process easier. If following the PDF instructions step by step you should be okay. It’s such a cute bear but I wouldn’t make it again based on the challenges I encountered.