Beary Colourful BOM: Making Music Black and White Bear

It’s the day for the last bear of the Beary Colourful BOM and we are going out with much fanfare. Make way for the Black and White (Panda) Bear of Making Music!

The first of December and time to be looking forward to all the festivities of Christmas and New Year. Time for parades and lights and decorations and special foods and music. And what better way to express joy in black and white than with music?!

Don’t let this month’s colours fool you – Black and White Bear is in the mood for celebration! He is going to party long and loud, and everyone’s invited! Brass band big, that’s his ideal…. his birthplace (Adelaide, SA) has one of the biggest Christmas pageants in the world and he is all set to be next year’s opening act! Please welcome the very formal yet joyous Black and White Bear of Making Music to the Beary Colourful family. He’s expecting much applause! 

The twelfth and last bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt BOM series is hoping you have found much joy in this pattern series. Add this  bear to your collection to kickstart your Christmas/holiday season. And then go check out the rest of the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge posts for other ideas of how to celebrate black and white colours and enter for December’s Monthly Color Challenge prize. 

The Black and White Bear of Making Music

The Black and White Bear is hoping you’ll catch a big dose of holiday spirit in the next few weeks. Whether Christmas comes for you as a bright patch in winter or as a lazy scorching summer shut down, Making Music Panda thinks that music is the one thing that will likely be found everywhere. Different tastes, different cultures, different traditions, different climates….. December is many different things to all of us. But whether we play it or listen to it, traditional or modern, music is a big feature of this time of year.

Black and White Ted has a little music score on his tummy because he thinks music is just a kind of colour spectrum that we can’t see with our eyes. It can convey mood and many other things besides, just as colour can. And like colour, we each have our musical preferences too.

If the treble clef appliqué is too tricky to cut out/appliqué, consider embroidering it on instead. Or leave it off and add more notes…… at Clever Chameleon I always encourage you to make my designs your own…. so make up your own little tune for Panda’s belly.

Download the Black and White 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 Panda 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). 15″ x 12″ will be required for the Black and White bear. 
  • Black fabric scraps for the main sections of the bear and the music score. The whole bear requires the equivalent of 8″ x 12″ of black and white fabric. But he is built from pieces, so you can use multiple smaller scraps if you need.
  • White/light colour fabric scraps for the head, muzzle and tummy,  5″ x 12″. Or 10″ x 12″ 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 and trumpet.
  • 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 Making Music Black and White Bear

Step 1

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

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

Step 2

Add the feet, outer tummy ring, and white face.

Step 3

Add the inner tummy panel and the black eye patches.

Step 4

Add the muzzle, the music notes and treble clef and the whites of the panda’s eyes.

Step 5

Add the mouth, nose, irises, and the trumpet.

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, the trumpet outlines, music note stems and the staff lines.

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

Information about the rest of 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

So that is everyone. 12 months, 12 bears! Can you believe it? I can’t! This is the first time I have attempted a project like this, and I would love to thank everyone who has come along for the ride and encouraged me so much. Whether you have been connecting all year or just found the BOM in the nick of time, I have loved hearing from you. And a big big thank you to Jen Shaffer of Patterns by Jen for her vision and organisation that has made this all possible, and all the other bloggers who have contributed to the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge.

Link up for your chance to win

Don’t forget that your Black and White Bear is eligible for entry into the December 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 black and white quilter is a fat quarter bundle of Bella Solids from the Fat Quarter Shop called Fog Modern.  All link ups also receive an entry into the grand prize draw of quilting services by Jen of Dizzy Quilter.

And remember, the Black and White Bear is just one option for December in the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge. Four other bloggers are also here to help you with ideas for the December Black and White 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 (year!).

And to hear from you in the meantime! Please be sure to share your quilts as you finish them up. I will endeavour to do one or two settings suggestions for the bear blocks in the future, but in reality it won’t be until the new year. So, if you’d like to finish your Beary Colourful quilt your own way before then, be my guest. 

Teres has already finished her quilt…. 9 bears into a baby quilt. The remaining three bears will be pillows. Aren’t her bears terrific?! Thanks for sharing, Teres.

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