Baby-Gami!

I was recently browsing at a local shop and came across the cutest book. It's called Baby-Gami, and it shows you different ways of swaddling a newborn and how to make a variety of baby slings out of a piece of fabric. The photos are hilarious. I had to buy two copies. One for myself and one as a gift. That is, if someone I know becomes pregnant and can appreciate this book as much as I do. Then and only then will I part with my second copy.

And because it's such a terrible waste of all the fossil fuels used for shipping to order just one (or two of one) thing on Amazon*, I ordered up a bunch of other books, including Folk Mittens, which I've had my eye on for a while.

Oh, that reminds me, I saw a gorgeous baby blanket pattern on Knitty that would make a great swaddler. Here's a photo:



*If it's such a waste of fossil fuels to have things shipped, why didn't I just purchase the book at the shop where I originally saw it, you ask? Because they only had the one well-handled copy.