A Bear for Aden.

My nephew Aden LOVES his blanket. One day I was finishing up some memory bears for hospice and Aden thought it was really cool that I was using old clothes to make bears. As he was watching me with his blanket in his lap I thought, "hey that would be a really good idea". So I asked him if he would like to make his blanket into a bear, he did not even need to speak because the smile on his face said it all. So after him asking me about it just about every time I would see him for over a month, I finally worked on it yesterday. I got it all put together and then had him come over to help me stuff it. I really wanted to take more pictures of the actual bear but he would not give it up. I used an old baby shirt of his to make a t-shirt for the bear.

Here is the blanket before
Just your basic kids blanket.

The pattern is a Simplicity pattern, and because I use it often I glued the pattern pieces to some light cardboard ( cereal boxes, cracker boxes, ect... ) I then traced it on to the blanket like this.

I then cut it all out, whipped it up and made my Aden a VERY happy boy.


He already has plans on me making his 2 brothers bears also out of their blankets, but like I told him that is really up to them.