Polar Bear Quilt
Finished community quilt, shared by QuiltNTime, 31 October 2026
by QuiltNTime
Polar Bear Quilt by QuiltNTime is a finished quilt in the Quiltler community: 41" × 41", 9 blocks, 328 pieces and 5 fabrics on a straight grid, shared 31 October 2026.
At a glance
- Finished size
- 41" × 41"
- Blocks
- 9 blocks
- Pieces
- 328
- Fabrics
- 5
Watch it being made
How it's made
Round ears, a cream snout and a little black nose, all from squares.
Under all that white fur, a polar bear's skin is black, and each hair is see-through.
Two tiny cream corners round the bottom of a black nose. Sew cream squares either side.
Add cream below the nose, then round all four corners with white.
Two black squares make the eyes, set wide in a white strip.
Sew white squares either side of the snout, then stack the white top, the eyes, the snout and the chin.
Blue corners round the face, smaller on top where the ears go, bigger at the chin.
Blue corners round the top of a white rectangle into a little ear. Make two.
Sew the ears between blue squares, blue strips beside the face, and blue top and bottom so neighbours never touch.
Nine polar bears and a navy border make a frosty wall hanging.
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About this quilt
A friendly polar bear face from squares: round ears, a cream snout and a black nose, white on glacier blue, with no curves or templates. 12½″ unfinished (12″ finished).
CUT • Glacier blue: two 2″ squares, two 3″ squares, four 1½″ squares, three 2½″ squares, two 1½ × 8½″, two 12½ × 1½″ • White: four 1½″ squares, two 3 × 1½″, one 3½ × 1½″, two 3½″ squares, two 10½ × 2½″, two 3½ × 2½″ • Cream: two 1″ squares, two 1½″ squares, one 4½ × 2½″ • Black: one 2½ × 1½″, two 1½″ squares
MAKE • Nose: cream 1″ squares on the bottom corners of the black 2½ × 1½″; a cream 1½″ each side • Snout: cream 4½ × 2½″ below the nose; white 1½″ squares on all four corners • Eyes: white 3 × 1½″, black 1½″, white 3½ × 1½″, black 1½″, white 3 × 1½″ • Face: white 3½″ each side of the snout; then white 10½ × 2½″, the eye row, the snout row, white 10½ × 2½″ • Blue 2″ squares on the top corners of the face, 3″ on the bottom corners • Ears: blue 1½″ squares on the top corners of each white 3½ × 2½″; sew blue 2½″, ear, blue 2½″, ear, blue 2½″ • Blue 1½ × 8½″ each side of the face, the ears on top, then blue 12½ × 1½″ top and bottom
TIP: press the blue corners out toward the blue, so the seams don't shadow through the white.
OTHER SIZES: for a 24″ bear, cut every piece at twice its size less ½″ (a 2½″ square becomes 4½″).
Polar bear or penguin: which one would you sew first? 🐻❄️
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