It all started on Regretsy, a wonderful blog about some of the tragic, tragic things people make and post on Etsy for sale. Someone at some point had made a fugly, hot-pink fetus in a jar and that item got posted on the oh-so-awesome Regretsy. While I'm pretty sure Regretsy wasn't started to inspire crochet projects, inspire me it did. So, with my lovely friend Kory chillin with me on the couch (as I am actually teaching her to crochet, and she was working on some scarves), I set out, sans-pattern, to create a yarn fetus. My only regret is that I didn't immediately write down the pattern as I was going, because the first one (known as Bofrida Fetus, the light pink one in the picture) was AWESOME! Complete with umbilical cord, Bofrida Fetus first got carted around in a recycled Mayo jar, and then (because of the cloudiness of the plastic) was upgraded to a glass Ragu jar.
I posted the first picture via AT&T mobile share to my Facebook, and indeed got some interesting reactions. People thought it was some kind of statement on abortion, or stem-cell research, or whatever it is people do with feti anymore. Some people even thought it was Katie-jealousy of not having her own real babies, which is the silliest of all of the initial reactions. (Cats, not kids, folks, cats not kids). Yarn feti are much MUCH cheaper and hassle-free than real ones! However, there were a few friends who "got it." The only message, if there is any at all - LIGHTEN UP! IT'S JUST YARN! SO what if it looks like a fetus. It's not THAT serious! So, brief shout-out to those of you who got it - most notably Krystal and Chad, who met Bofrida Fetus on her birthday.
So, of course, one fetus is NEVER enough, just ask the octo-mom. So, with Bernat Baby Clouds "Mint" and the same F-hook, fetus #2 was begun. With a new-and-improved twisted-braid umbilical cord, which I once again failed to document a pattern for, FrankenFetus was born! FrankenFetus is also shown in the attached photos for this blog.
The next night, once again while hangin' with Krystal and Chad, I started Blue Fetus, who I think may get a name upgrade soon. As we speak, Blue Fetus is in Tennessee, at Vanderbilt University, with my kick-ass boyfriend Steve, who is humoring my Fetus Adventures quite admirably. A full upload of BlueFetus's Tennessee adventures will be posted probably Monday.
After madly digging through my yarn stash (literally, plastic buckets and tubs of yarn), I found some very fetus-suitable colors. There are several more feti in-progress, and a pattern in the works as well! Be excited, world, be excited.
Cats not kids? Will you marry me?
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