Anywho.
I've been making some stuff for the newborn, which is always fun. The main thing I wanted to whip up was a 'newborn cocoon'.
Waz that?
Well, it's that thing in newborn photos that kind of looks like you stuffed the baby into a crocheted hat. Because newborn legs are sort of weird looking and skinny, so it tucks them in nicely and hides their junk. They sell on Etsy for anywhere from $20-$40.
I'm pretty confident at crochet so.. no. Gonna go buy some yarn on sale (this was hoops and thread, or threads and loops? ah! LOOPS AND THREADS ringspun yarn. It was on sale for $4.) And I managed to finish most of it while waiting at my doctors office.
As an aside, every pregnant person should take up crochet for doctors offices. It's portable and a good way to waste time when you're just sitting there waiting so somebody can tell you to pee in a cup.
The trouble was, how big do you make it? How big is a newborn child? The internet tells me 'it depends'. Which is.. sort of unhelpful. And it turns out googling 'size of average newborn torso' might put you on a watchlist so maybe don't do that.
Which is how my gf struck on the ingenious idea of using a newborn onesie. AH HA! Brilliant. I stuffed the onesie with yarn and then added another yarn head. It looks insane but seems to work???
We'll find out in a couple of weeks (!!) if it fits!
Now to make a tiny newborn couch...