After making the Curious George pillow and quilt I decided Adam needed a pair of pajamas or a shirt with George on it. I did some looking around couldn’t find anything that I liked that fit my price range. So I decided to make him a George shirt. I bought him a plain yellow long-sleeved tee shirt for $3.50. I also had to pick up some brown, tan, and white fabric. I probably have plain white in my stash, but forgot to check before we went to the store so I got 6 inches of it to be safe. I already had the thread, fusible web (used to iron the fabric to the shirt), and black fabric marker. I found a Curious George coloring page online, printed it out, and was ready to go.

There are a few things I would do differently if I were to make this shirt again. But overall, I am really pleased with how it turned out.

That picture was taken right after I put the shirt on Adam. He is trying to feed George some dry cereal. It’s wet around bottom because before I could get Adam to wear the shirt he was carrying it around and chewing on it.

And here is my model again, right after lunch and naptime. You can see that George is sporting a few new decorations from lunch. I think he likes his new shirt though – and I do too.

Last weekend while shopping with my mom, I saw Curious George fabric on clearance ($3.50/yd). Adam loves George and was in need of a new pillow.  He’s been sleeping on a baseball pillow – but it’s white and not the friendliest thing to wash. So I bought a yard of fabric and a pillow form and made him a removable (and easily washable) pillow case for it.

I still had about 1/2 a yard left, so I decided on a whim that he needed a quilt to go with it. I’ve always felt bad that I never sewed the quilt I planned on making him before he was born. Once he got here though, all of the “gender-neutral” fabric I had picked out seemed too girly (and I was a little busy).

I spent a little bit of time online looking up quilt patterns and figuring out how much fabric I would need. I raided my mom’s stash of fabric leftover from other projects and was able to find everything I needed. On Monday, I started cutting at about 2 in the afternoon and worked on it on and off until 9:30. I spent about an hour on it the next day, finishing up a few final touches and that was it.

So here it is, Adam’s $1.75 George Quilt.

I am really proud of how it turned out – especially since it was a spur of the moment project. Adam really likes it too, which is best part. He loves pointing at all the little pictures of Curious George and saying, “There’s George”, over and over.  Here’s picture of it with the much less impressive pillow.

The blanket is about 33 x 43 inches. So it’s the perfect size for him to sit on, cover up with, or drag around Linus-style.