Diaper Baby

During the spring, my husband's cousin was having a baby shower for her first child, a little girl.  I wanted to make something special...as I would not be able to attend.

I came across this pin: http://pinterest.com/pin/186547609534794481/

However, when I clicked on the pin, it resulted in a website that sells them.  I, of course, felt.."Challenge Accepted" and began thinking about how to make one like it...but a girl one instead.

So, I made this little girl:

She is made an entire small bag of newborn diapers.  You begin with the head.  I started with the first diaper rolled up and then began wrapping the other diapers around it...kinda like you are making a diaper rose (if that makes sense).  The body I stuffed with the remainder of the diapers.  The arms are made from a flannel receiving blanket that is stuffed into the shirt and onesie like the arms.  Same for the legs.  

SUGGESTION: When you purchase the items for this baby, you may find it cheaper or find that it is only possible to purchase the items in packages of more then 1.  For instance, when I bought the baby cap, it came in a package of 3.  I used the other 2 caps to stuff into the mittens as hands or the socks as feet.

Total items in this baby: 1 pkg of newborn diapers, 1 long-sleeved onesie, 1 short-sleeved onesie, 1 pant, 1 pair of socks, 1 pair of mittens (the kind used for newborns to prevent them from scratching themselves), 1 binkie, 1 cap, 1 fleece receiving blanket, at least 2 flannel receiving blankets, and 1 scrapbook.  I used the fleece receiving blanket to cover the scrapbook to use as a base for the baby.

HOWEVER, although this was a huge hit at the shower, my OCD did NOT like the fact that this newborn baby looked to be about 6-9 months old once she was stuffed an made.  So when my BFF was having her baby shower, I made sure to try and do it better.  

This time I did the following:

1.  I only used about 6-10 diapers for the head.  I used 2 receiving blankets to make the arms and just put the mittens on the end to cover them up.  The body was made round with 2 other flannel receiving blankets stuffed with a few more diapers, the extra caps, and extra binkie.  The pants are stuffed with walmart bags (to make them flexible enough to tuck them under the baby).  And the feet...I used the packaged that came with the small socks.  They were purchased with small plastic like feet in them already...so I just kept that.  Because I used a scrapbook as a part of one of our activities at the shower, I just used some leftover foam board I had around the house to use as the base.