Memory bear pattern?

[ShaunaTheSheep]

Can anyone recommend a straightforward memory bear pattern please?

I've looked online and found a few options but would love to hear success stories

I have a fair number that I'd like to make so looking for a smallish size and not too complicated. Thanks in advance.

I was going to post the one I use, but the Etsy seller is taking a break!

There are a few on Etsy. I have made a few bears from the pattern I used, and also scaled it down ok.

Some nice (and not so nice) free patterns here

hellosewing.com/free-teddy-bear-patterns/

Thanks both. There's a possible one on the free patterns link

I've messaged my cousin who made ones for all the family, the trick she said she as to ensure the fabric combination worked and to use fusable interfacing for materials which need more structure

Thank you, great tip. I have a fleece and quite thick cotton shirts so hoping that will work.

Just bear (no pun intended) in mind that fleece can be quite stretchy and cotton isn't so they might get distorted. Perhaps use the cotton shirts for the most part and use the fleece in parts like soles of feet and inners of ears where it wont matter too much if it stretches a bit? (If you think about the very traditional bear these are the bits that were made of velvet when the rest of the bear was fur as velvet is a bit more supple than fur). Alternatively make the bear from the cotton and make it a jacket from the fleece.

I was going to use a lightweight iron-on interfacing on the fleece to stabilise it. Do you think that will work?

Probably but I'd still give quite a bit of thought to where you use fleece and where you use cotton. So perhaps stabilised fleece for limbs and cotton for head and body as stretching is only likely to make limbs longer but could pull the body out of shape - and I wouldn't combine fleece and cotton on the same body part - so don't put a fleece centre panel on an otherwise cotton head etc etc.