Stuffed Bear Pillow from Old T-shirts

My brother-in-law is in the military, so he and his family move around often. I wanted to make my baby niece and nephew something they could use that reminded them of me, so I decided to take a bunch of old shirts I had laying around and sew them into a pillow bear.

Step 1 Materials

For this project, you will need the following supplies:

Old t-shirts... I used five.

Stuffing... Can be whatever you choose. I used a combination of the t-shirt scraps and fiberfill.

Sewing machine, unless you choose to sew the whole thing by hand.

Hand sewing needles

Fusible interfacing... Not absolutely necessary, but I drew my pattern pieces out on my interfacing instead of on pattern paper. I also find t-shirt material easier to work with when it's been reinforced.

Scissors

An iron

Sewing pins

Thread

Permanent marker or buttons