Baby Bunting, Simplicity 1565

I recently made a bunting as a gift for a co-worker who's expecting a little boy any day now.  I usually ask my mom to crochet something, but she's busy hand sewing a quilt, and I wanted to sew something myself. Mom said baby buntings were easy, and since she sewed many of my baby clothes, I figured she knew what she was talking about..  I picked out some no pill fleece, iron on monkeys, a zipper,  thread and, of course, a pattern (I made the view the baby in the picture is wearing).  Here are the raw materials:  

This was so easy I was tempted to make nothing but baby clothes from now on, but I don't know that many babies.  I made the six months size because every infant I've ever known never fit into their clothing size in months.  Even if this baby is the exception, it won't get really cold here until he's almost six months anyway, so win-win.

I had some feline assistance, as I usually do:

Once Slinky helped me check the hat seams, I sewed on the band, which Slinky was wearing as a stole.  Ed looks jealous.

The finished product:

This sewed up very fast, it took about four hours altogether.  The most challenging part was sewing in the zipper, and that wasn't all that hard.  The baby shower is on Friday. I'm going to print out Slinky's picture and include it with the gift. Along with assurances that I washed everything after I let my cat model it.  And it was just the hat. Not the bunting.  I did not put any of the cats in the bunting.  I'm not that far gone.