Today I quilted my great-niece Dorothy's Curious George quilt, which she made for one of her little boys. Eight of the blocks are machine-embroidered. The backing is minky. I used white 40-wt. Omni thread on top and pale blue 60-wt. Bottom Line in the bobbin. The batting is Soft & Bright cotton.
I reworked a pantograph of a baby long-tailed spider monkey into Curious George, who is more likely either a baby chimpanzee or a baby barbary macaque, neither of which have tails. I added in a loop with a leaf under the monkey to fill in the place where a tail used to be.
When our son Caleb, now 29, was about 2 years old, he had a hard time wrapping his tongue around the word ‘curious’. After a few attempts that got his two giggly older sisters giggling at him, he called his stuffed toy ‘George Monkey’. (They went on giggling, but Caleb apparently felt it better to be giggled at for the name he’d come up with than for the pronunciation difficulties. 😄)
It was somewhat novel to start and complete the quilting on this twin-sized (53" x 79") quilt in just half a day, after spending 167 hours on the quilting of that king-sized-plus Birds of Colorwash Patch quilt!
