Making gift for baby

I don't know the first thing about sewing or knitting, but I'd love to learn at least enough to make something for my new born . I'm only 7 wks along, so I have time to learn & practice (of course  ).

Maybe you guys have some creative & original ideas for me?

love to hear your thoughts on this!

I just relearned to crochet...over Christmas... my mom tried to teach me as a teen, but I never finished anything...I  started this time with a scarf and mom made the hat (showing my how).. I am now working on another scarf for hubby in a simple single sitch and a baby blanet in yellow and white zig zags.  (The blanket needs counting as you have to add a stick and skip a stich every .  It is fairly simple to do and relaxing. 

I highly recommend it as a starting point. 

I still have my blanket my mom made me.  She made it quite huge though so even until I was a teen I used it.

i made a scrapbook of my pregnancy for both girls.  complete w/photos of me as a beached whale.

Oh I'll definately being to the scrapbooking...my SIL got me hooked. I did one for my son when he graduated H.S & he loves it!

I recall a bit of crocheting with my "meemaw" when i was a little, but that's all left me now. I'd love to do something like a unique baby sweater/hat/scarf set, or blanket. Guess I could do cross stitching for a picture or something...I just hope I can come up with something creative.

I started knitting a blanket when I was pregnant with my first, until my mom clued me in to just how many other people were knitting blankets for my baby!  I ended up getting about 5 handknit/crocheted blankets!   

Instead I made her a tag blanket, like a Taggie:  http://www.taggies.com/cgi-bin/estore/show_entry?index=1

I bought some fleece, cut it in two squares (about the size of a handkerchief).  I then bought ten different kinds of ribbon, with all different kinds of textures (something furry, something woven, something silky, something velvet, etc.) in bright colors and patterns.  I was careful not to get anything that would unravel or come apart.  I cut two lengths of about 3-4 inches from each ribbon and folded them in half.  I arranged them equally around one of the fleece squares, five loops on each side, then pinned the loops so that they were facing the inside of the square.  I pinned the second fleece square on top and sewed all the way around, close to the edge, leaving a space of an inch or two unsewed.  I turned it right-side out, so that all of the ribbon loops were sticking out of the square, sewed up the little gap left, and then did a top stitch all the way around again to reinforce it and guarantee that the loops wouldn't be pulled out.  I was using a sewing machine and I got the whole thing done during the commercial breaks of a one-hour TV show! 

My daughter loved feeling and chewing on the tags as a baby and it was a portable size.  I could toss the whole thing in the washing machine (and I did this before I gave it to her the first time, by the way). 

Another thing that I made for her when she was a few months old was a nursing necklace (don't know if you are planning to breastfeed).  This helped when she was getting a little older and easily distracted when nursing!  Now that she's older, it's a dress-up necklace.  I got a heavy piece of cording that wouldn't break and threaded some big, colorful plastic beads on it.  I had beads that spelled out her name at the very end and some cute animal-shaped beads.  It is long enough that, while nursing, she could grab onto it with a free hand.

I can knit and sew, but don't really have the patience for either, so I was looking for quick crafts that would be unique!  Good luck!

I learned how to knit when I was pregnant and like you I didn't have any one to show.  So I did what everyone does when they need something.  I googled it.  I google free videos on how to knit.  There are mostly little clips, but enough to get you started on the basics.  I knitted my son 2 cardigans, a pair of mittens, and a pair of booties.  And I learned it free on the internet.  Although and did take me a while.