A year ago, I threw my friend a baby shower. I was so busy with prepping, coordinating, and trying to figure out the perfect glassware for non-alcoholic cocktails, I ended up buying her a gift off of her registry — a baby monitor.
It was fine and came in handy, like it did for these parents these parents, who caught their son engaging in some hilarious activities — but it wasn’t an intimate gift.
Another friend made her unborn baby girl a gorgeous quilt. It was dusty pink, gray, and apple green covered in tiny rose buds and pandas. I regretted not making her baby — my future goddaughter — something from the heart.
I recently found one dad who baked up something really special for his baby boy — a Cookie Monster blanket! It's a great gift for baby showers, or kids — and it's surprisingly easy to make too!
If I had made this for the baby shower, I could have impressed everyone, including my new goddaughter!
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First he had to pick out just the right fabric.
He chose a yard of fuzzy blue fur (sold in a 6' width).
He started the project by tracing his hand on a piece of blank paper. He sketched around the trace until he had a hand shape that had shorter and wider fingers. Once done, he cut out the hand shape out with scissors.
He folded the fur in half, keeping the fur on the inside of the fold.
Next, he used the paper hand cutout as a stencil on the fur.
Then he drew the rest of the shape. Since the fabric was folded in half, he only needed to sketch out half the design.
He then used a sharp hobby knife to carefully cut through the top layer of fabric, taking his time around the details like the fingers.
After he cut out one side of the design, he flipped the fur over. This time the fur was on the outside of the fold as he cut it.
The piece of fur was unfolded. He checked the shape to make sure it was exactly what he wanted.
He wanted to make his creation kiddie-proof, so he used regular white yarn for the next step. He started by bunching up one end of the yarn, then wrapping the bunched yarn with tight winds and working the windings into a ball-like shape.
Once he had two yarn balls, a needle and white thread were used to sew a few stitches through the yarn eyes to ensure the yarn stayed securely wound.
He added two black, plastic, glossy buttons for the pupils.
He then attached the eyes to the head.
To add structure to the final product, he used dense flexible foam.
He then created a head out of the foam. He did the same for the rest of the body.
The foam discs were then glued to the underside using spray-on adhesive.
Once your Cookie Monster is complete, fluff his fur and get ready to make a fun accessory.
To create the monster’s most important accessory, he used some soft beige fabric and traced the shape of a large dinner plate on it.
Then he cut out two identical circles from the trace.
With the underside facing out, the fabric circles were placed on top of each other and sewn together along the edge. He stopped sewing when he'd sewn almost all the way around, leaving a tiny opening.
He then added some chocolate chip circles to this plush cookie. He used a darker plush fabric and cut irregular square shapes.
The chips were then glued on to the cookie with fabric glue and stitched on for extra security.
He used pillow batting to stuff the cookies.
Then he stitched up the opening.
The final result is a Cookie Monster rug with plush chocolate chip cookie pillows.
It's a plush, fun rug that any baby would adore.
It's cookie time!
Watch the video below to see how much babies love playing on this rug.
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